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Anyone here quit their job mid-shift or without some gay 'this is my two week's notice I love the company etc. etc.' way?

Did it today. Felt good man. Not the first time.

Tell me about telling your manager he was a knob or never coming back from a lunch break.


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did it when I was a dishpig in high school. I was too chickenshit to say anything, so I just told them I was taking my lunch break, left and took the bus home. Ignored their calls,messages,emails for 3 days before they got the hint.

Didn't feel great or liberating, I just hated the place and wanted out. The next week i moved on to a glamorous career of stacking shelves at iga.
 
perthblue said:
did it when I was a dishpig in high school. I was too chickenshit to say anything, so I just told them I was taking my lunch break, left and took the bus home. Ignored their calls,messages,emails for 3 days before they got the hint.

Didn't feel great or liberating, I just hated the place and wanted out. The next week i moved on to a glamorous career of stacking shelves at iga.
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I worked with someone who did this except after a couple of weeks just came back like he was never gone. I assume the new job sucked.

Then about a month later he did it again and disappeared. Turned up 6 months later in one of our interstate offices.

No idea why he kept getting allowed back. Maybe the work sucked and they were just happy with anyone doing it.
 
Nah, could never pull the pin mid-shift and go AWOL, too much of a team player/responsible/workhorse type. A dog act to me, regardless of how crappy the workplace/boss is, good to at least see it through to the end of the shift, and be upfront about it. In theory I'd like to think I could, but in practice I'd probably wait for the shift to end and give my notice, it's ingrained. You need to afford them adequate time to react to your exit (rostering, training, projects/workflows/cases, ensuring knowledge continuity/not hoarding and leaving), or in lieu of that have a fantastic excuse.
 
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HairyO said:
I worked with someone who did this except after a couple of weeks just came back like he was never gone. I assume the new job sucked.

Then about a month later he did it again and disappeared. Turned up 6 months later in one of our interstate offices.

No idea why he kept getting allowed back. Maybe the work sucked and they were just happy with anyone doing it.
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Sounds like George Costanza when he rocked up to work on Monday after quitting on Friday and tried to pass it all off as a joke.

 
There was a thread about this a few years ago which i posted in as I have quit a job on the spot.

I had been working for a financial institution for 3 months and never got on with my boss. He liked to belittle staff in front of everyone and just wasn't someone I felt I could work for long term. I was lucky enough to bump into an old boss of mine at my previous employer and he asked how things were going and said I was always welcome back if I was keen.

It now came to the stage where I had my 3 month probation sign off meeting with my knob head boss late on a friday afternoon. He did most of the talking and said he was happy with my work and asked if I had anything to say. I basically told him that today was going to be last day, handed over my building access pass and walked to my desk grabbed my stuff and walked straight out the door and headed to my car and drove off never to look back. I still remember the look of shock on the manager's face when I walked out.

I did get a call from the General Manager of the company querying my decision and I told him the truth which he seemed quite grateful for.

In all honesty it was a very liberating experience but I was 20 years old and still living at home so being unemployed and out of cash was not a great concern at the time, luckily I walked straight into a job with my former employer.
 
I started a customer service role with a financial services company back when I was young and naive and didn't realise it was basically a call centre job where they timed everything from your phone calls to your toilet breaks.

I did a weeks training with a group of other people and that was enough time to work out that I didn't want to work in a job like that so I told the supervisor on the Friday that I was quitting and just walked out.

She wasn't too happy about it but they would have a high turnover of people in shitty jobs like that so I'm sure I wasn't the first or last person to do that.
 
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Can't say I've ever done a walk out. Left my first and only casual job after many years on good terms. Just said 'yeah I've finished uni and I'm going to get a full time job, I'm out' and that was that. Worked with a couple of other kids who did the whole entitled teenager dramatic quit thing and no one really cared.

Have had plenty of daydreams about desk flipping and quitting real jobs Lester Burnham styles but it's really not worth it in a city like Perth where you'd battle to make it to 3 or 4 degrees of separation.
 
Kind of yes and no. I had worked in a job for a long time. I was getting bored and frustrated with the same 4 walls but there was a bully there who had targeted numerous people. I was the current target, the manager couldn't manage her way out of a wet paper bag so after a big drama with said bully I had a lightbulb moment and thought to myself what am I actually still doing here. Actually grabbed a piece of paper and wrote out my resignation on the spot. Walked into a meeting that my boss was in and handed her the resignation. Still did the two weeks after but I've never resigned on the spot before. Don't regret it either.
 
Did do a runner on a charity mugger job once. An organisation that made news headlines a year ago over their criminal treatment of employees. Had a jacket I bought from Europe stolen by them as well as getting heavily lied to about pay.

As much as I don't like my current job (a hell of a lot better than the one above though) my work colleagues are good blokes and it has gotten me out of a financial rut.
 

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Plugger35 said:
I started a customer service role with a financial services company back when I was young and naive and didn't realise it was basically a call centre job where they timed everything from your phone calls to your toilet breaks.

I did a weeks training with a group of other people and that was enough time to work out that I didn't want to work in a job like that so I told the supervisor on the Friday that I was quitting and just walked out.

She wasn't too happy about it but they would have a high turnover of people in shitty jobs like that so I'm sure I wasn't the first or last person to do that.
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I had a similar experience, only it ended up being door to door sales. I finished the week of training anyway, had one day of actual work and decided it wasn't going to happen. So I called the next morning and said I wouldn't be able to work there again. They were pretty pissed off but like you said, people come and go in those types of places in huge numbers. The drop off in numbers from the beginning of training to the end of it was enough evidence.
 
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I had a similar experience, only it ended up being door to door sales. I finished the week of training anyway, had one day of actual work and decided it wasn't going to happen. So I called the next morning and said I wouldn't be able to work there again. They were pretty pissed off but like you said, people come and go in those types of places in huge numbers. The drop off in numbers from the beginning of training to the end of it was enough evidence.
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Had a similar job. Was selling car maintenance packages for companies like Bridgestone through a third-party provider. Worst job I've ever had. Basically pitching impressionable old people under the proviso you'd "just popped down from Midas" and you had this ridiculously good offer for people to get their cars serviced for a pittance.

After a few days of walking around Endeavour/Sunshine/other working class area getting very few sales, mainly because campaigners weren't home at 3 in the afternoon, and most people seem to have their own mechanics anyway, I started skipping houses with huge gates or huge dogs like Bull Mastiffs. The boss cottoned on, fired me on the spot and left me at Hallam train station without a Myki. Genuine campaigner behaviour.

Telemarketing was another job campaigners would quit on the spot, empty out their lockers and never return. There was always a few who did a big song and dance, would tell the the bosses to go **** themselves and walk out heroically Pursuit of Happyness style.
 
Reynolds Number said:
Did do a runner on a charity mugger job once. An organisation that made news headlines a year ago over their criminal treatment of employees. Had a jacket I bought from Europe stolen by them as well as getting heavily lied to about pay.

As much as I don't like my current job (a hell of a lot better than the one above though) my work colleagues are good blokes and it has gotten me out of a financial rut.
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I door knocked for charity in the UK for three days when I first went over. Halfway through my third shift I got a call for an admin job starting the next week - spent the second half of that shift pretending to knock on doors. Rang them the following Monday to say I got a better offer.
 

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