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

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InTheAbyss · 22/01/2019 17:48

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?

OP posts:
Mixedupmummy · 22/01/2019 22:22

some of these are great. in particular @RolandDeschainsGilly bravo 👏
sadly no exciting tale to tell of my own. Will be more creative next time I leave a job I don't like.

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InTheAbyss · 22/01/2019 22:22

RussellSprout

Can you go over her head by resigning on email to her boss? Makes her look shit and they hate that crap.

I could I suppose, but he makes my skin crawl.

OP posts:
waitingforthenextbus · 22/01/2019 22:23

Nah, leave with your head held high and dignity intact. You’ll be glad you did later when you have a bit of distance.

Opheliasgoldenwine · 22/01/2019 22:29

FollowingGrin

HerRoyalNotness · 22/01/2019 22:34

I emailed at 4pm on a Friday and said it was the worst place I’d ever worked and I’d rather be in the gutter than ever work for them again. Then walked out and never went back.

Bit awkward as DH still worked there Grin. He left a few months later as he finally realised they were taking the piss with his salary (after months of me telling him)

The HR person wondered why I’d ever gone to work for them in the first place being a youngish woman, they were the biggest bunch of misogynist wankers I’d ever encountered. When I asked why she was still there she said it was too late for her and she put up with it, but was happy to send my p4 (?) to me and wished me the best

Maelstrop · 22/01/2019 22:54

I took everything I’d ever done for them, all resources, physical and digital. I had messages from mates saying the line manager had asked what had happened to all my files. I told them to be honest and say that there was no way I was making her life any easier by leaving her a fucking scrap. Felt good.

deste · 22/01/2019 23:08

We had a boss who was awfull, three of us from the same area resigned on the same day. It felt great. She went on long term sick the following week.

deste · 22/01/2019 23:14

Another boss , different job decided to cut my hourly rate for an evening class by about a third. I refused so they had to pay another member of staff the full rate anyway. Tthey asked if they could have my notes and paperwork for the class so I said they could help themselves however I was one step ahead and had taken them home. They never did find them.

HereBeFuckery · 22/01/2019 23:32

Walked out of a bar job with the classic and immortal line 'fuck you and fuck your shitty job' while flinging my apron at her head.

Sooooooo good. Company went under 18 months later. That was even better.

Fuck you, Balls Brothers. I'm glad you folded.

sirmione16 · 22/01/2019 23:36

Was general manager of a store. Many reasons for leaving. Company was hideous. I have my notice when my operations manager was on annual leave and I knew the person in charge of looking at his emails wouldn't bother, still stands though - not my fault it wasn't acknowledged - I addressed it to both of them! My notice ended literally t day he came back. So he came back from holiday to realise he had a store with no one running it from that exact day. Grin the phone call I received grovelling filled me with joy.

SneakyGremlins · 23/01/2019 00:05

These are great Grin

magoria · 23/01/2019 00:09

I got offered a job week before Christmas so left my resignation on my bosses desk Christmas eve. I had 2 weeks leave owing and the Christmas holiday so only had to work a week and left them with pretty much no time to get a replacement for me to show the ropes.

becauseimpetty · 23/01/2019 01:27

I left my job with a proper resignation and acted all nice about it. I had a work iPad that used to be the bosses and had all her old personal photos on it and text messages. She was a horrendous, compulsive lying bitch.

I gave the work items back including said iPad. Then I went home and remotely wiped it, while she was sitting there showing colleagues her photos (was told later I'd timed it perfectly). She was furious. Ah well.

unexpectedgifts · 23/01/2019 03:49

Decades ago a friend worked for a big electronics company. He had his own team and they worked very well together.

However, one of the newly appointed higher managers took a real dislike to him. We don't know the reason. Made his life unbearable.

Gradually reduced hours and funding until my friend lost his team one by one. It was then just him running his department. He hated it, he was so stressed by this person who was making his life hell.

A few years later he decided to let my friend go. He got superb redundancy as he'd work there for 25 years.

On his last day this higher manger asked him to transfer all his working files over. My friend has a photographic memory, and his files were brief to say the least. So nothing of substance could be handed over.

The icing on the cake was, no one else could do the work. This higher manger ended up begging him to go back and paying him an extortionate consultancy rate so he could cover their international clients.

It was to the tune of several million over the years, so not an insignificant amount.

He felt valued. Grin

39Suzy · 23/01/2019 04:13

I deleted instructions and anything of any use (although IT were probably able to reinstate it if you knew what you were looking for) but putting passwords on everything is good! Or keep the files just delete all the content / save under something stupid like 'Draft Budget 2002' that she will skim over.

I would book in leave, once approved hand my notice in (i have got away with giving less than the contracted amount of time by citing 'personal circumstances' to HR - they are unlikely to make you work the contracted notice if they think you will be disruptive plus it is more hassle than it is worth and if they do, just get a sick note for work related stress).

Send all this in writing to HR on a Friday at 4.55pm and copy her in (preferably when she won't pick up emails for a few days /hours). And specifically request an exit interview with HR (that will really wind her up).

Finish at 5pm 😁

I actually gave a weeks' notice but with leave only had to work two or three days (when my horrible bully boss wasnt there mostly). He came back on my 'last day' realised what had happened and begged me to stay an extra week as they were so short. I said no 😊 but i knew that i had another job to go to and that references issued by HR were standard 'this person did work here'.

Good luck

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 23/01/2019 04:18

I have a couple of good ones from my student days back in the dark ages. I waitressed in a pub/wine bar that mostly attracted a bunch of utter wankers chasing after the nurses who also went there. It wasn't my only job, and I used to get more and more annoyed by the shitty behaviour of the clientele. One night a particularly rude arsehole started clicked his fingers in my face as I was attempting to serve him his pint. I picked it up again and walked away saying I wasn't serving him. He grabbed my arse, and without a thought I turned round and threw the pint in his face. Saw the boss coming towards me so took my apron off, said I quit, and walked out. It was very satisfying.

I also was a dishwasher for a fancy restaurant. The chef was hideous and a total sex pest. Then they told me they wanted me to clean the toilets even though I was already overworked. Then they said they were cutting my hours. So I waited until mid shift on Saturday night and walked out through the full restaurant telling everyone the kitchen was over run with cockroaches (it was!). The restaurant closed down soon after.

But my most satisfying was when I was much older and quit a proper job that I bitterly hated. My manager was a bullying cow and I took great delight in telling her, no I don't have a new job. I have a new life, we're off to Australia to live, we go next month! The look on her miserable face was priceless!

daisychain01 · 23/01/2019 04:48

I gave the work items back including said iPad. Then I went home and remotely wiped it, while she was sitting there showing colleagues her photos (was told later I'd timed it perfectly). She was furious. Ah well

It isn't technically possible to 'remotely wipe' or access an iPad, not that I'm aware anyway. iOS security wouldn't enable that. But would love to be corrected on that ....

SneakyGremlins · 23/01/2019 04:50

I assume items in the cloud were deleted?

Patroclus · 23/01/2019 05:12

One job was horrible and I was dicked around, I made it pretty obvious I wasnt coming back. But when I didnt go back in they for some reason rang my landlord and got them involved. Its just isnt worth the hassle.

becauseimpetty · 23/01/2019 05:13

@daisychain01 I did through the 'find my iphone' thingy. It wiped the whole thing.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 23/01/2019 05:49

I honestly think it's a lot more dignified to just write a 1 line resignation letter.

AJPTaylor · 23/01/2019 06:02

My best friend back in the day where jobs were plenty and the world was low tech.
Worked for a TV company on the switchboard. There was a knob of a senior manager who every time he called in complained that she hasn't prioritised his call. Even though the switchboard was out of the ark and it was impossible to tell who was calling until it was answered.
Unfortunately he did it on a lovely sunny Friday just before lunch. So she reprogrammed the switch board, randomly redesigning extension numbers and shredded the instruction booklet.

isitthehormones · 23/01/2019 06:08

Years ago I started my first day at a job and was told I needed to read the FIFO folder. It was a new industry for me and I was young, I had no idea what the abbreviation meant until I started reading... Fit in or f**k off.

I tried to brush it off but it was pretty awful, it was also then I realised that all employees were white British and my new manager and his superiors were really quite racist. They had a huge issue when I casually mentioned that my boyfriend at the time was Indian, they thought he was Irish because of his name; they questioned me, said my parents must be ashamed Hmm

After a few days of this and some inappropriate comments I emailed my new boss one morning from home with “I didn’t fit in so I have f*ed off” Nothing morning,
nothing less! And I’ve never once felt bad about it.

Looking back now I should have taken it further somehow but I was young and just wanted out of the place.

Balaboosteh · 23/01/2019 07:02

Sorry to be a funsucker but just be the bigger person and leave gracefully, in the normal fashion, with your head held high.

ForalltheSaints · 23/01/2019 07:06

Very unfortunate to have a boss and a boss's boss who are awful. Given this I am inclined to suggest the 4.55pm option with as minimal notice as possible.

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