To ask for the worst way to resign? (Petty)

[InTheAbyss]

After almost a year of working for a bitchy, micro-managing boss, I'm within tasting distance of a new job and am fantasising about ways I can get her back for months of nit-picking and holding annual leave requests over my head by making my resignation as annoying and inconvenient as I can.

I'm thinking of sending the email:

• before a long meeting she has to chair
• 4.55 on a Friday
• the morning of her going away on holiday when I know she'll need working from home that day

I know I'm being silly and petty and I'll probably do a boring old resignation instead, but thinking up petty ways to ruin her day with my resignation is giving me so much glee.

What's the worst ways you've ever resigned? or thought about but chickened out?

As a 'young un' my friend walked out of a restaurant job after setting all the tables - and super gluing all the cutlery to the tables.

@Aprilshowersarecomingsoon

There was a disgruntled employee destroying a Travelodge with a digger on the news this morning?

I'm useless though, even when I was being bullied by my boss I still felt guilty when I resigned

A temp at my old job got sacked. Before she left, she sent to every printer on every floor, her boss’ outlook calendar to print. Tbf, not the whole calendar - just the Botox and hair plugs appointments.

Respect.

I once left a job by writing my resignation on a napkin in red pen. Says more about me than them in all honesty. I was a cheeky mare. They took me back on a year and a half later .

Wait til she asks you to do something, refuse and then let her know why

I used to work in a service garage run by an absolute loony, staff turnover was really high due to his innate unreasonableness..

The premises weren’t fit for purpose and he used to park all the customer vehicles illegally in the diy store car park next door.

The workshop manager reached the end of his rope one day and wrecked loads of the cars (scratched paintwork etc) and then walked out.

There was no cctv so no proof he’d done it, cost awful boss thousands to rectify.

When I left I waited till his nasty, controlling secretary went off to Canada for 3 weeks. He expected me to do all her work plus my own for half the wages. I took great pleasure in leaving him in the lurch and knowing she’d have to come back to a massive pile of undone crap.

Depends what your job is.

I walked out on my last manager when we were short staffed, just after a group of 30 people walked in and two days before she was booked for annual leave which she didn't get because there wasn't enough staff to cover after I walked out.

Don't regret a thing, she was a nasty bitch and it was a horrible company to work for.

Hand it to her in plenty of time with a smile on your face and kill her with kindness. Project happiness and lust for life and moving forward. It’ll kill her slower!

Loving the giving her notice...
The cake everyday for everyone, super happy idea...

I’m quite partial to this farewell email...

gawker.com/5943837/departing-employee-burns-every-last-bridge-with-f-word-heavy-farewell-email

How long is your notice period? Agree with waiting until she gives you a big piece of work to do or until someone else has leave booked and you are expected to provide cover.......

I just didn’t bother turning up for my next shift and blocked their number so they couldn’t get in touch. All they had was my address and I did get a letter a few weeks later requesting me to formally resign by writing back which I did. They asked for reasons why I had chosen to resign and boy oh boy did I...

That was the worst job I ever had back in my student days. I sormhow stuck it out for ten months because it was when the recession was in full swing and I needed the money but Jesus, I couldn’t handle it anymore.

I teach now and always tell people it’s far easier than retail.

A lady I used to work with changed her email signature before she left and wrote on it ‘if you still work here, you are worse than daft’

Our IT department are slow as shit so it took forever for her email to disappear.

I’ve just left the same company, emailed my notice on Saturday night, deleted the email address I sent it from and posted a sick note to cover my notice on Monday. They really are a shower of shit

We’ve had a fair few just not return

My sister fantasised about this often when she worked in retail. Her favourite plan was to send the manager a "sorry for your loss" card, with the note inside explaining she was the loss because she was quitting. She never went through with it though and just resigned normally.

As a teen working at a garden centre, I just walked out mid shift.

Even though I was 18, they rang my mum to tell her 😂

Many years ago I worked (mercifully briefly) for a hideous sociopath of a woman, she was a total bitch. Before I left I did a lot of 'rearranging' of her Outlook calendar (moving meetings, deleting appointments, changing deadlines).

I've never done anything like it before or since but I hope it really fucking inconvenienced the evil bag.

English they were prob concerned for your safety and I’m guessing your mum was down as your emergency contact?

I resigned properly. My 50 odd colleagues did me a big, big card.It wasn't until I got home that I noticed it wasn't a 'sorry you're leaving card' it was a 'Congratulations!' card.

I certainly didn't poach any of those colleagues or approach any of their clients and steal them, because that would be very unprofessional. I also didn't spend my last day putting passwords on my hideous, technophobe managers unprotected files. I knew she couldn't report it as she should have already password protected them and could have been disciplined for failing to.

I also didn't spend my last day putting passwords on my hideous, technophobe managers unprotected files.

@Weezol I like your style

I worked in a cafe once for a day and I hated it. No help from anyone and it was a big place like a garden centre. No-one told me where anything was so when asked for whipped cream I asked the customer to bear with me while I went to find it then simply kept walking.

If the place is bad enough it's gratifying to get everyone to resign on the same day.

Done that twice.

I resigned from the worst job ever. Went in as normal, took all the notes I had made for the last month or so to the shredder and just walked out.

Must have been such a PITA trying to piece together all the info I had destroyed but they were so awful I just didn't care.

@Weezol that is genius

I must add, there was nothing life or death about my job.