| Author | Message | ||
     Milt |
The CEO of Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle, quit his job last week in style: twitter-sun-ceo-resignation-020410.article,http:// www.suntimes.com/technology/2030199,twitter-sun-ce o-resignation-020410.article Of course, it's easier for him than for you or me. | ||
| Ulynut |
Link doesn't work.  | ||
| Brumbear |
I got nuthin | ||
| Nm5150 |
I usually quit my job by asking for my money and then I get in my truck and go home.That is just me though. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Seems like Jonathan Schwartz resigned by posting a haiku on Twitter, or some such nonsense: "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more. I never had the chance to resign from a job myself, I only had a few, and got fired from every one. I always fantasized about just going out to lunch one day, and never coming back. Disconnect the phone, move. Just disappear and leave them wondering. Anyone tried it?  | ||
| Ulynut |
One time I got hired to do some trench work for a construction company. I was 20 years old, and had a real attitude problem. Anyway, it was 90 degrees at 7:00am, I was hung over, and come to find out, the "trench work" was a broken sewage line coming from the YMCA. The YMCA around here is really run like a flop house for the local drunks and junkies. I got within 10 feet of the trench and the smell almost knocked me over. I told the boss I had to get my cigarettes from my truck, got in it and burned rubber all the way to the beach. Never heard from him again. | ||
| Fast1075 |
One once loaded up all my tools while the shop was closed for lunch...everybody was in the break room...they never knew I was going until I was gone.... Was at work on my next job within 1/2 hour...that was 27 years ago...I'm still here. | ||
| Swampy |
A fellow I work with had his "Tool Box Slamming Routine" It consisted of asking for a raise, being told no, going out to his tool box slamming the lid and locking it, storming out of the the garage squealing the car tires and going home, only to have the boss call 3-4 hours later and ask when he was coming back, he would yell into the phone, not till he got a raise and slam the phone down. of course he would get the raise and be back at work the next morning, I don't know how many times he did that......now he is working with me! | ||
| Zane |
I took a job at a software house and from the first day I knew it was a mistake. The first day I went in and all 8 of the programmers spent all day standing around shooting the bull. Turns out our direct supervisor was in Chicago while we were in South Florida. He would not answer his phone or return messages so no one had any direction or in several cases had not been assigned work in weeks. Every week about 10% of the work force gave notice or were fired for cause, real or imagined. To say that the place was run like a Chinese ••••• house would give Chinese ••••• houses a slap in the face. I endured having nothing to do for about 6 weeks when another offer came in. I jumped on it and decided I didn’t owe these clowns any notice. I came to work, typed up and turned in my notice then started to pack up my few belongings. About this time the assistant to the President called me; Mr. Sa------- wanted to speak with me and I should go to his office right now. I go to his office and he and the CFO are there. Both are fall down drunk at 10:00 in the morning. They begin to call me every name in the book using every curse word they knew. I figured these guys no longer had any power over me so I sat there and let them get all worked up and red in the face. Finally after a couple of minutes I raised my hand and asked if I could say something. They grudgingly agreed so I stood up and said: “Goodbye” and walked out of the building. Going back for my last pay check was even better. Remind me to tell you that story some day… | ||
| Whatever |
I worked for a real arsehole once at a motorcycle repair shop. He was a complete moron and yelled at everyone and everything. The day I quit I yelled at him, "You have a personality problem!" I walked out and never went back. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
The best quit I ever did was by far the most satisfying. I was working for a local company pulling powder tankers, total pain when you have to clean them every trip but the money was ok. From day 1 they'd jerked my string, as the only foreigner on the firm I'd expected that but they never stopped & after a couple of months of it I'd got something else lined up (I'm still there). I'd started on a 3 month fixed term contract, which is normal for France from which I would have progressed to a full open ended contract if they'd asked me, which they hadn't, they'd just assumed I was staying. My contract was due to expire at midnight on a sunday, so when the transport manager (tosser) told me on the friday evening that I was due to go at 10pm on sunday night, I told him no my contract was up & I wasn't staying. He got rather upset & started shouting & swearing at me, but I gave him my best dumb-happy face, at which point he said that I was still under contract & had to take it, I reluctantly said ok & went home. Come Sunday night, I left the yard at 10pm as ordered & drove til midnight, parked & locked the rig at the side of the road in a lay-by & a mate who'd followed me in his car drove me back to the yard where I put the keys through the letter box. My mobile rang around midday on the Monday as I was going up the road in my new employer's truck & it was my old manager wanting to know where I was, I told him none of his business as I didn't work for him any more & hung up. He called me back, spitting blood, & demanded where the rig was, I told him the keys were in the letter box & he should have found them with the morning mail & the wagon was 2 hours up the road, then I rang off laughing. Next morning, I was in the yard at my new job, and the owners of both the old & the new companies were waiting for me along with the old transport manager, when I'd told both owners the full story, my new patron was crying with laughter & telling his mate from the old company "Boy he f****d you good" & the old boss was ripping a new arsehole in his manager. Revenge is sweet. | ||
| Nevrenuf |
nothing like a happy ending. i've quit more jobs because of stupid bs than i'd care to admit to. i like what i do right now and wanted to be here for the past 30 years so if i quit this job, it will be to go back on the road and make better money. i like being on the road(not a truck driver) | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I'm going to miss my lunch bucket if "that day" ever happens.Told the HR guy that he will know when I'm gone when he see's my lunch bucket smashed to bits from being ran over on the front apron.(I've had it since 93) | ||
| Teeps |
I've had 5 jobs (so far.) The first two I followed the the lyrics of the song and righteously burned the bridge back. I've been blessed and lucky as, here I am 40 years later... been at the current job 24 years. I can see the last lap flag off in the distance. | ||
| Dwardo |
When I quit my first software job, during the "exit interview" my boss told me, "you are impossible to manage because you're crazy". I think he intended that to impart some wisdom but I took it as a complement. | ||
| Whatever |
I have been called immature because if I don't like something you have done I am gonna tell you to your face. I prefer the word direct, but my bluntness has cost some. Oh, that, and if someone is being a real ar$ehole and pushes me too far they will know that too. | ||
| Dentguy |
I haven't been fired from any employer in the past and I have always given a few weeks notice to every employer who treated me right. That said, I've had a few "walk out" moments when I was younger. First day at one job and I knew it wasn't for me and didn't want to waste any time. Lunch time came and they said to take an hour. I said I won't be back. Got a check for 4 hours work. At another place I was a tech and had been getting all the crap work for a long time. I tried to sort it out and it just wasn't happening. Went in one day, got another crap job and I guess I had enough of it. I said something about it and was told, I'll give you every crap job that comes through the door. I gave him back the repair ticket and said I'm done. Told him I would be back for my last check, loaded up my tools and was gone by 10 AM. Went back a few weeks later and he said he wouldn't pay me. I said, no problem I'll have the Department of Labor get it for me. He said to go ahead and try, but I won't pay. They got my money for me and made sure everything else was in order while they were there. I did have one boss ask if I thought he was an a$$hole. I asked if he had a problem with my work and he said no, it's great. I said, yes I think you are an a$$hole, but I'm here to work. He said OK. | ||
| 12x9sl |
I've had two jobs-the one I have now and the 5-year hiatus I took working as a carpenter. I started working full-time in the summers for my Dad at age 13. You know how 13-year-olds are....all mouth and a strong back, but no brains-got fired 3 or 4 times in one day  . Now that same guy and I still work together, but with a lot more equal footing. | ||
| Dbird29 |
I wore this shirt on my last day on my Salt Lake City job. New owners were coming, I already got my severance check and was moving on.  | ||
| 86129squids |
Keep on with the inspirational stuff. I'm planning a dissertation on how many ways my bosses suck goat balls. I'm a purty good writer. Gotta rent "A Clockwork Orange" soon. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I'm one of the people politicians had in mind when they coined the term "Flexible Labour Force" so I was in & out of jobs all the time for many years. Of course the fact that I was a cocksure gobshite had nothing to do with it at all, I've since learned some diplomacy skills. If you work for any employer for more than a year or so, you get to know where they cross the line & also where the bodies are buried. If you get fired there's nothing to stop you dropping a dime, to the relevant govt dept. Except, the people you used to work with are still there, it can be an awful dilemma. The other thing to bear in mind is that "The Grand Gesture" will be talked about forever & go round the industry too, so you may find yourself at interview for another job being asked "Hey aren't you the guy that.....when you left.....?" |
