Have you ever walked out of a job/not returned?

KittyLane1 · 31/01/2020 14:52

Retail, working with 2 older men, I didnt know what sexual harassment was but I knew I felt so uncomfortable with them, I was only 15.
I walked out one Sunday and never went back. Got a massive telling off from my mum.

EssentialHummus · 31/01/2020 14:58

Not exactly the same thing but I'm a freelancer and twice have had clients reveal themselves early on to be massive, massive pains in the arse, nitpicky, quibbling etc, and it's been wonderful to say "Ever so sorry, I don't think I'm the right person for your project, here's your money back off you fuck".

Bluntness100 · 31/01/2020 14:59

Yes, I was 21, I was in tele sales for a small company . The boss was an alcoholic. He sold me for a bottle of vodka to the man who owned the bar opposite, said man then came into the office the next day to claim his payment.

was like "oh shit, pub owner fancies you so boss said he could have you for s bottle of vodka". Boss looked mortified. Pub owner fuming when I told him to fuck off whilst everyone laughed at the situation and pub owner left..

I picked my coat up, walked out and never returned.

Titective · 31/01/2020 15:01

Retail job. Boss was vile. I was paid weekly and was the end of the week. She went off on a rant at me so I walked out. Turns out she's vile to everyone so the staff turnover is high. Can understand why.

Woollycardi · 31/01/2020 15:02

Yes, and I hugely regret it.

Pilot12 · 31/01/2020 15:02

A temporary Christmas job in a large big city Next, on my first day I was taken onto the shop floor and just left. Nobody told me what I was supposed to be doing and when my shift ended nobody told me that I could leave. Back of house was a maze of corridors, it took me 20 minutes to find the locker where I'd left my things and another 10 to find the exit. I never went back.

Gertie75 · 31/01/2020 15:06

Dog kennels, owner was and still is vile and doesn't treat the dogs well, I called her an evil witch and walked out.
I did report her to the RSPCA but they did nothing and are still trading 25 years later and horror stories still come out from ex employees.

I've never boarded any of my dogs and never will after seeing what can go on behind the scenes of what looks to be a caring, dog loving boarding Kennels.

JuanSheetIsPlenty · 31/01/2020 15:07

Yep. waitress, my first real job at 16. Manager was a sleaze, owner was a nasty condescending git and took our tips. I knew they’d put me and the other youngest waitress on to work NYE alone and lo and behold they did so I told her I wasn’t doing it, it wasn’t fair, we’d both only been working there a few months, we couldn’t manage a restaurant alone without a manager and just a chef and dishwasher there. And they would still take half our tips even though none of them worked it. She agreed so we both just didn’t turn up and turned our phones off. I still laugh about that now owner ran the business into the ground a few years later and fled the country leaving masses of debt.

ThisIsBigMoon · 31/01/2020 15:08

Yes. In my mid twenties. I was an accountant. I took a completely new path and thirty years later have no regrets.

Katinski · 31/01/2020 15:11

Yes, years ago, working for Social Services in Birmingham in their head offices. Walked out at lunchtime on the first day, emailed them my resignation, the reasons why,and how they might improve their services to their clients, from the pub afterwards.
Wonder if they took it all on board?Nah!

Gingerkittykat · 31/01/2020 15:12

Yes, job in a nightclub when I was a student.

I was contracted to work Fri and Sat nights, but soon they were demanding I work 40-50 hours.

I just never turned up again after a nasty phone call from the shitty manager. Probably not the most mature move, but I was very young and felt no loyalty for them.

TheReef · 31/01/2020 15:14

I was on my 3 month probation period and had a two week holiday booked. They agreed to honour the holiday and I resigned half way through the holiday as I only had to give them a weeks notice, so never actually went back

Everythingmagnolia · 31/01/2020 15:14

Yes, barmaid/waitress in a hotel. All the other staff where constantly messing around in the kitchen with the chefs. The bar was busy, I asked for help, non cw so I got my bag and left.

I had complained previously to the manager about this several times and was ignored so I went.

Glitterb · 31/01/2020 15:16

Yeah I left a job working for a major commercial vehicle dealership, job was awful with nothing to do and place was full of negative whingy people. Do not regret leaving at all! Job is constantly advertised 3 years on so other people obviously felt the same!

confusedandemployed · 31/01/2020 15:17

Yes, office job in my mid 20s so not a newbie on the job front. Got given a desk and basically left alone with nothing to do. Walked out at lunchtime and didn't go back. Don't regret it for a second.

ComtesseDeSpair · 31/01/2020 15:20

No, but I once line managed a woman who went out for her lunch break as usual one day and then just never came back afterwards. Spent the afternoon trying to get in touch with her thinking she’d been hit by a bus or something only to get a message the following morning saying she quit!

She was a nightmare to work with and in truth I wasn’t sorry to lose her because he was an utter drama queen and I was also having to heavily performance manage her serious underperformance; but I do always wonder whether she really wanted to leave the way she did and if it was the best decision for her.

herbsmokedchicken · 31/01/2020 15:20

Not personally, but in my first job I was told the girl who had had the job before me had gone for lunch on her first day, then just never came back. I quickly realised why, there was literally nothing to do! Stayed for 7 months out of sheer laziness before my mum made me change jobs

Annasgirl · 31/01/2020 15:21

Yes telesales for a small company where I was cold calling - in London, aged 20. Oh and it was 100% commission !!!!!!! I lasted 2 days.

MissKittyFantastico84 · 31/01/2020 15:22

Walked out of a job as a bartender at Browns in Nottingham when I was at uni. The bar was in the trendy part of town and all the staff thought they were minor celebs. One even said to me "the fact that you got a job here means something you know... we don't just hire anyone" It was a fucking bar job!

The managers spent the whole time downstairs in the office doing drugs with interchangeable women and everyone who worked there was up their own bum.

I walked out of my third shift and got a job at Oceana, where I had a right laugh.

CathyorClaire · 31/01/2020 15:25

Not me but ds and not exactly a walk out because he never started.

I got a phone call from someone who'd interviewed him for a job, apparently offered it and was ranting at me wanting to know why he hadn't turned up.
Called ds who told me he wasn't at home to this guy who heard it and started ranting at me to 'tell' ds this that and the other. I calmly told him I wasn't his secretary and put the phone down

NotHereToMakeFriends · 31/01/2020 15:25

Yep John Lewis, went for two days, hated it, left in the evening after my shift, handed my notice in the next day and never returned.

I always wondered why the people who I got talking too hated their job so much.

wherethewavesarehighest · 31/01/2020 15:25

Yes, part time retail assistant in a small specialist (I had minimal knowledge) shop. Got the job and was told I would be manager and that all but one very part time person were leaving and I had to hire some new staff, that the owners were arseholes and the current manager was leaving the next day. Went for lunch and never returned

BarbedBloom · 31/01/2020 15:25

Yes, a nursery. The old assistant had moved on to another room and the lady in charge of the room kept saying how much she missed her and no one else could measure up. She was snappy with me and got angry if I didn't get anything first time. It was my first time working in a nursery too. She did nothing but criticise me from the second I walked in till I went home. After two weeks I was crying in the toilet at lunch time and just thought, I can't do this anymore. I told the woman in charge of the nursery and she said I just needed to be better and the woman would stop shouting at me. I told her I was leaving and walked out. Now when I look back I know this woman was bullying me and it was totally unacceptable.

Interestingly a few years later the nursery was in the paper because it was shutting down due to staff shortage. It was noted that staff had reported a bullying unpleasant atmosphere. I have zero regrets

FrustratedTeddyLamp · 31/01/2020 15:26

Kind of? My friend got me a job interview at a hotel, they gave me a job and signed a contract. I had an induction day and then never heard anything from them as in hours or anything. So not entirely sure what happened. Maybe im technically still employed there thinking about it, which i havent in over a decade so this could actually be important

InOtterNews · 31/01/2020 15:26

My first "proper" job. I say "proper" as it was part of YTS. Worked for family-run firm an admin assistant/receptionist. Basically anyone who was not family was treated appallingly. Walked out when the big boss asked me to clean up the dog-poo that his wife had walked in on the stairs (us mere staff weren't allowed in upstairs office soo it had to be her)