If you have ever walked out of a job?

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Thought this would be an interesting thread as I was very nearly tempted today!

Have you ever walked out off a job and what was it that made you walk out?

I walked.
I'd been there for about 6 years. They'd refused to give me a wage rise or even to adjust my job title to the more demanding title that I was actually doing on the day to day.

Then despite excellent appraisals and exceeding everything possible, they recruited someone not even the industry to be my line manager. I walked. It was so insulting. I'm not training someone to manage me.

Yes. They underpaid me (the legal min wage required by law was increased) they kept saying they would fix it.

After around 20 weekly wages STILL being under I eventually asked the big boss she knew nothing of it and apologised saying she would sort it.

When I received my wage that should have been altered - nothing had changed.

I did not return.

Yes! I was a shelf stacker in a big supermarket. One day I overheard the fruit and veg manager talking to the Colgate-Palmolive rep and telling him that all the floor staff were nothing but stupid cunts. I walked out and never went back.

Should've reported him on the way out but I was sick to death of the place and the general attitude to staff, and figured they'd rather chuck me out than deal with him anyway.

I worked for a store where the management had recently changed, when the new manager started she brought staff with her from her previous store. She was clearly unhappy with the staff already working there. We were all hardworking, but it was a fashion store and all the staff were more alternative in their fashions (I was a Goth for example).

So she started to just make it difficult for us, she'd give the unpleasant jobs to us and the way jobs to her new staff. There was a customer feedback book when she started, but she got rid of it when her staff failed to get any positive feedback. He plan worked and loads of my colleagues quit. I was still hanging on stubbornly though.

On one of my rota'd days off I got a phone call from her to ask why I wasn't in, I pointed out it was my day off, and she rolled that she'd changed it (but not told me) and demanded I come in. I refused because she was clearly being unreasonable.

The next day I went in with my notice typed up, first thing she said to me was "you bothered to come in then". So I handed her my notice, told her I was taking all my remaining holiday days and she wouldn't see me again, then left.

Never regretted it at all.

I did once, when I was 19. I went for an interview with a small local company who sold the role to me as some sort of high flying exciting sales exec thing, rewards were high (bonuses were, but basic was well below NMW for the time) and you even got to use the company Audi for a month if you were top sales person (I couldn't actually drive).

I was very naive.

Started work, it was THE MOST tedious position in existence and impossible to do. It was selling advertising space in a recruitment magazine. Not a big one, a little paper leaflet type thing that went through local letterboxes.

In order to 'sell' we had to go through local papers, cut out the job advertisements and then cold call each company, try to speak to the person that placed the ad and convince them to then buy an advert in our leaflet (when they had already just bought advertising space in a newspaper!).

In order to get any sort of bonus we had to sell something like 500 spaces a week. Yeah, ok. In the time I was there I never saw anyone sell anything despite the manager leaping around like a hot frog bellowing 'motivational' bullshit all day long. Oh and also the first hour of the day and hour after lunch we were not permitted to sit at our desks. It made you 'lack energy and focus' so we were all made to stand. Boss was also an old perv who stared at my chest constantly with rancid breath.

I did about three days, then decided at lunchtime one day to go and get a sandwich. I sat down in a cafe and just didn't go back! I walked to a recruitment company instead and signed up for a proper job. The ad company went bust a few months later.

Luckily it didn't hinder my career too badly and I found a better job the next week. I've been a reliable employee ever since!

Yes. And I never looked back

Yep. Issues with not paying correct wage just one too many times. I actually sprinted across the car park - felt ace!!!

I worked in a call centre where we would call people for surveys. There was supervisor who listened in to your calls and if you went off script by one word they would yell at you from the their table. It was a Sunday afternoon, calling these people who just wanted to enjoy time with their families - asking them to complete a 20 min survey - and I was being yelled at. I just got up and went home. No one even checked or asked, just got my p45 in the post 2 weeks later.

Sort of.
I was booked as supply for a Y6 class, supposedly for 6 weeks.
Got to Wednesday, week one and rang my agency at lunchtime saying no. I offered to work to the end of the week if necessary, but they found someone else for the next day.
One of the huge positives of supply teaching is being able to choose where you work, and to be able to say no thank you. I’m a teacher, nit riot control for children who’d rather fight each other than learn.

Yes, I was twenty one, worked for a small company whose office was above a wine bar, but in a very expensive city Center location. The owner was an alcoholic. One night he got drunk and “sold me” to the bar owner for a bottle of vodka

I, to be clear, simply worked in the office in tele sales, I did not provide sexual services to him or any other dude (😂)

Said creepy as fuck bar owner came up to the office the next lunch time and stood loitering by my desk then went over to speak to the boss. I asked what that was all about, a colleague said oh John was pissed last night, sold you for a bottle of vodka. The bar owner really likes you. Everyone sniggered.

I stood up, put my coat on, picked up my hand bag, and left. With everyone’s mouth gaping open and the boss shouting, blunt blunt come back. . And I never even looked at him, or any of them, I simoly walked out and never returned.

Yep, when about 19. One day into the job and the manager was an absolute pig. He was vile and sexist. He thought being manager allowed him to be disgusting.
Best decision ever. I was really dramatic about it too

I lasted 3.5 hours once. I fancied doing teacher training and got a job as a TA in a primary school. Rather than being a classroom TA for year 3 as advertised, it was a 1:1 role working with a child with additional needs. I spent the morning being screamed at, had chairs thrown at me, he tried to stab me with a pen etc. I then had to run around the school as he wouldn’t sit down.

At lunch time I said I wasn’t going back and went home. Never to mention it again

Yeah, a national chemist chain. The boss wanted to see me at 4:55pm about something (it was something like 9.05 am) so I said 'can't we just discuss it now?'. No, had to be 4:55pm.... So I said fuck this I'm leaving. Not working all day in fear of you firing me /telling me off about some bullshit. I take it that's your notice then, she said, you take it right, I replied.

I was young. Luckily when i got home I had a letter offering me another job!

I left a boarding kennel job after finally having enough of the awful owner, she was vile and gets through so many staff.

She treated the dogs just as bad and I only stayed so long because I knew they would be treated well and have lots of love while I was there.

I rang the rspca and gave them a list of what went on behind the scenes but they never did a thing and the kennels is still open 20 years later and is the reason I will never put any of my own dogs into kennels.

I exited a work meeting last week and kept walking until I was at my own front door. I got a sick line, so I’m not really sure what to do next.

But, yeah, I guess I have walked out - just didn’t have the stones to quit on the spot. Full disclosure - it’s a kind of “managing out” situation and I’m still feeling a bit sad about it.

I was running a tiny charity. Low wage, but I was fine with that, it was very flexible and that suited me. Worked for free one month when they were in difficulties, and was fine with that. Did a lot to help them sort out the finances by going to agencies and past funders and it worked. Then got attacked right at the start of a board meeting because the CEO said I'd undermined her by going direct to the funders. Really, really attacked. I got this amazing, light headed feeling, almost like an out of body experience. Got up, put my papers and pen into my bag and walked out. Just walked out and kept going... to the car park... in my car and home.

The really strange thing was that I never heard from anyone in the charity again. Not even a call from one of the nicer trustees. Goodness knows what they did as I was the one and only member of staff!

I was working evenings shelf-filling at Asda, and had to have right knee replacement. When I went back to work I pointed out that I would have trouble pulling the "cages" of stock onto the shop floor, and was told to ask for help when necessary.
We got a new floor manager, and when I asked for help he said I shouldn't be at work if I couldn't do the job. So I clocked off, put a resignation letter on the office desk and walked out.

I walked out of two jobs

First when I was a university student I was temping during a break. Some times it would be a day here, a day there, all different type of secretarial work in an array of industries/offices

I had an offer of a few weeks at a doctors office in reception. Then they asked and to do a few more things. Then they asked me to wear a white coat, sit with patients and take information. Then they asked me to take blood! I walked out and reported them. (By the way, this was not NHS).

The other was my regular job that I had for a few years. It was years ago when word processing was fairly new - 1980s. I worked at night transcribing medical treatment plans in a hospital. My manager worked in the day time and we (night shift) didn’t see her that often and when we did, it was only for a few minutes. This also was not in the UK

I did this because I was a single mother. Child care at night was available by family members and as my child would be asleep, it didn’t impinge my time with my D.C.

After a year or so, I started to take some university classes in the day time so I could get a better job (eventually). So I did two years at a local university snd got really good grades so my professor suggested I apply to another university to transfer, much better known for the subject. So I did and I then got accepted to this very prestigious university, where having a degree from there would really open doors. As a single parent in low income, plus excellent grades, they also offered me help with the tuition fees from two different grants. However, it was some distance from my home/work and one night a week I might be a little late into the office so I asked if one night a week I could come in 15 to 20 minutes later and stay longer or take a shorter break.

My manager threw such a fit and went really nasty saying that she should tell her daughters to have a baby so they could go to this university at a discount. Why should I get this place and this help and not other people. I got to upset, I walked out. I’d worked there 4 years, trained up so many other people because no one wanted to stay typing up these horrible, distressing, reports through the night plus the little we saw of the manager, she only ever complained about her life and generally a miserable person so people didn’t stay long. After I was done being upset, I got angry. I wanted to tell HR at my exit interview exactly why I was leaving but I didn’t as my mother advised me I’d need a reference and not sure how it would be taken if I reported my manager’s behaviour.

I walked from a lab job about 50 years ago. My boss was just horrible and I just couldn't get one particular experiment to work. I packed my bag and walked....I had to get my mum to pick me up as it was miles from anywhere.

I once worked in a interior design store part time. Had been there for 18 months or so, school summer hols were coming up again. Told I would have to do extra to cover colleagues holidays, fine, just same as previously. BUT was then told I would be full time for all of the school holidays. No chance of any fewer hours at all. I put my keys on the table and walked. I was the only person there who had a school age child.

I walked out of a job after 4 years of being told I would be made permanent and taking on more and more work in my contracting position. It got to the point I had a higher title and wage than any of the perm staff on my department and I finally thought it was going to happen. Being made permanent would have meant I finally got all the perks and bonuses the rest of my team got and I’d been promised it was in the pipeline.

All contractors were called into a meeting one day and we were told that due to another location closing, all perm staff were being located to our office and that meant all contractors were to leave by a certain date (about 3 months time so as we could do our handover and train our replacements).

I walked out of the meeting, cleared my desk and got in my car never to return. Much to the shock of my manager who was trying to chase me to come back. I was glad to of been a hard worker who was placed in charge of many areas that no one else knew how to pick up....must have been a fun few weeks for my manager and team leader picking up the slack for once!

Yes I walked out of two posts to greener pastures

Also walked out of a temp teaching job. The children were horrendous. Picked up my bag and told the head of year I was out

I walked out of a temp job at at interior design firm. It was such a toxic office - people just screamed at eachother all the time, and one day I just knew that I'd be next for a public dressing down...so I walked out and never came back.

Two jobs
One good place at a shopping centre, long queue, Christmas time, owner started shouting at me, I said 'don't shout at me and deal with it yourself' and left, should of gold him what a fat Bayard he was but I was a native 19 year old.

Second, supply TA at an autistic school (£45 a day when I was 21) Almost all staff were agency and the constant staff changes upset the kids. A student whacked me one to many times, I told the front office and agency after each time, so one day he hit me and I waited till another member of staff was with him so I could go on my break, went down the the front office and said I was going, never went back.