Beauty & Style Quitting

[Smoooothy]

quitting just isn't quitting without some sort of marching band for dramatic effect

 

[perthblue]

quitting just isn't quitting without some sort of marching band for dramatic effect

 

[TheKanga]

I would always just give two weeks.
So they can't delay paying hundreds of hours worth of annual leave.

Definitely thought about walking out though from a couple jobs.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Haven't exactly quit on the spot but have given the head's up 'today will be my last shift'. Always been casual jobs though and I feel as though there's not much benefit in making someone stick around to work shifts when they've got intentions to leave ASAP. Especially in jobs such as hospitality and retail.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Got fired on probation at Woolies after they found a glass pipe and a rock in my locker.

Why were they looking in your locker?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This reminds me of a couple experiences.

Whilst unemployed in 2011 I applied for a "marketing" role. Some days later get a text message saying "You've been chosen blah blah come to 11am interview at 123 Some St, Carlton". Get there and there's about 40 of us. It's not an interview, it's a couple guys telling us their company knocks on doors in the outer suburbs selling Foxtel and Telstra packages. At this point he does the casual "If this isn't what you're looking for we understand and feel free to leave" thing. Of course because we've gotten dressed for an interview and gone out of our way to be there and are unemployed and desperate most of us stay. At some point during the presentation they tell us we'll all need to get an Australian Business Number. Bullshit alerts going overdrive. Door-to-door crap and you don't even really work for them. Glad they didn't follow me up, probably would've ended up dumped in Wyndham Vale after 3 days of not flogging enough.

Fastforward 4 years and I'm looking for a jerb again. Another "marketing" role comes up and I apply. I get a call from them and he talks to me for 15 minutes about my experience and he asks if I can come for an "interview" in a couple days in Port Melbourne. For about half an hour I'm thinking 'Great, got myself an interview'. Then I think 'Hey, this reminds me of the time...'. It occurs to me he didn't at any point say what this "marketing" job involves. I Google the place and it comes up on Whirlpool or somewhere as basically a clone of the first story. It's bullshit and I'm not going but I'm curious so call up and ask the receptionist ("He's in a meeting" = lie) if it's door-to-sale sales. She says "No" and gives some shitty spin on it.

You must have to be an arseh*le to advertise these "jobs" knowing 99% of the people you "interview" are having their time completely wasted.

 

[edgie]

why was SA banned? I wanted to hear his story

He already has a habit here of not expanding on his stories. Remember the 'things that keep you up at night' thread?

 

[edgie]

I'm still kinda shocked that OP went over with as much nonchalance as it did.

 

[Aussie_boy]

This reminds me of a couple experiences.

Whilst unemployed in 2011 I applied for a "marketing" role. Some days later get a text message saying "You've been chosen blah blah come to 11am interview at 123 Some St, Carlton". Get there and there's about 40 of us. It's not an interview, it's a couple guys telling us their company knocks on doors in the outer suburbs selling Foxtel and Telstra packages. At this point he does the casual "If this isn't what you're looking for we understand and feel free to leave" thing. Of course because we've gotten dressed for an interview and gone out of our way to be there and are unemployed and desperate most of us stay. At some point during the presentation they tell us we'll all need to get an Australian Business Number. Bullshit alerts going overdrive. Door-to-door crap and you don't even really work for them. Glad they didn't follow me up, probably would've ended up dumped in Wyndham Vale after 3 days of not flogging enough.

Fastforward 4 years and I'm looking for a jerb again. Another "marketing" role comes up and I apply. I get a call from them and he talks to me for 15 minutes about my experience and he asks if I can come for an "interview" in a couple days in Port Melbourne. For about half an hour I'm thinking 'Great, got myself an interview'. Then I think 'Hey, this reminds me of the time...'. It occurs to me he didn't at any point say what this "marketing" job involves. I Google the place and it comes up on Whirlpool or somewhere as basically a clone of the first story. It's bullshit and I'm not going but I'm curious so call up and ask the receptionist ("He's in a meeting" = lie) if it's door-to-sale sales. She says "No" and gives some shitty spin on it.

You must have to be an arseh*le to advertise these "jobs" knowing 99% of the people you "interview" are having their time completely wasted.

I've fallen for this trap before as have a lot of people straight out of school or unemployed I would've thought.

Luckily I was wise enough to research the company before attending.

 

[JW Frogen]

I have quit a lot of jobs , I cannot work at something I do not care about.

But my all time record was as a receiving supervisor at Office Works in Fremantle.

I worked the first half of the shift, it was a misery festival, they would not even let you keep the roller doors open so you could look at the sea, and I went to a pub at lunch and I never went back.

I did not even resign, I just never went back.

Life is short, love what you do or do not do it.

 

[Lebbo73]

I have quit a lot of jobs , I cannot work at something I do not care about.

But my all time record was as a receiving supervisor at Office Works in Fremantle.

I worked the first half of the shift, it was a misery festival, they would not even let you keep the roller doors open so you could look at the sea, and I went to a pub at lunch and I never went back.

I did not even resign, I just never went back.

Life is short, love what you do or do not do it.

I never turned up for a shift at Dominos Pizza on a public holiday and never went back. I was there for three weeks all up. It was in 1999 and I was basically getting three two hour shifts per week. They usually started at 6pm and finished at 8pm. I did about two deliveries a shift and spent the other 80mins being a dish pig for $6 per hour. Go and get ****ed is what I thought about that!

 

[Aussie_boy]

I never turned up for a shift at Dominos Pizza on a public holiday and never went back. I was there for three weeks all up. It was in 1999 and I was basically getting three two hour shifts per week. They usually started at 6pm and finished at 8pm. I did about two deliveries a shift and spent the other 80mins being a dish pig for $6 per hour. Go and get ****** is what I thought about that!

When I was desperate for a job straight out of school I had an interview for a delivery driver at Pizza Hut. Couldn't believe it when it was $4 a delivery with no base rate at all, when I asked how many deliveries an hour there would be they said anywhere from 0 to 6... This was only about 4 years ago as well.

 

[JG22]

Was desperately looking for any work during the holidays a couple of years ago, ran into some bad gigs.

Did a call centre job for a day and then just didn’t show up the next day

Did training for a door to door job and didn’t show up for the final training session. Company sold itself as some sort of advanced sports marketing organisation, was grim sales.

 

[ioppolo]

Silent Alarm what made you quit this time? This isn't your first time doing this, and given you're mid 20s I wouldn't be making a habit of leaving jobs like this

 

[perthblue]

Silent Alarm what made you quit this time? This isn't your first time doing this, and given you're mid 20s I wouldn't be making a habit of leaving jobs like this

Yeah seems impulsive. Doing it when you're a shitkicking teen is one thing, when you're a mid 20's uni graduate you really shouldn't be burning bridges like that.

 

[Reynolds Number]

I worked with a Maori woman in a warehouse. Quit her work in a similar fashion to the OP after just spending the shift firing shots at the supervisors.

She was 40 and living with her father.

 

[iDon]

I'm surprised SA didn't sneak into the OP that he has a gf again. "off to ride into the sunsent with my GF"

 

[Bomberboyokay]

He was working at Liquorland I believe.

 

[ioppolo]

He was working at Liquorland I believe.

That was an old job he quit in exactly the same manner iirc

 

[Scotland]

Is SA really mid 20s?

 

[perthblue]

Is SA really mid 20s?

yes

 

[Bomberboyokay]

That was an old job he quit in exactly the same manner iirc

I think he was back at a liquor store.

 

[Feraligatr]

I have always quit properly. Better not to be an idiot and show some maturity.

Walking out mid shift and stuff like that seems incredibly childish.

 

[Scotland]

I remember going to school a with a kid who worked as a dish pig. He was so proud to tell us how he quit and 'I don't need people telling me what to do'. So few ****s were given by everyone.

 

[GreyCrow]

I remember going to school a with a kid who worked as a dish pig. He was so proud to tell us how he quit and 'I don't need people telling me what to do'. So few ****s were given by everyone.

I heard of a lawyer that quit his high paying job and lifestyle to become a dish-pig