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I walked out on my job tonight!

237 replies

MegaMoon · 06/03/2021 20:18

Literally that. I can't believe it really. Half way through my shift I literally walked out. Phoned my supervisor to explain why. I was so angry at my colleagues I just couldn't stay so I walked out. Phoned my supervisor driving home and explained everything. She said she'd speak to my colleagues and call me on Monday. But as far as I'm concerned now, especially after tonight, I can't go back. I can't work with them anymore. Especially after bloody walking out and complaining to our supervisor about them. If I go back, it'll just be ten times worse. I can't. But I need a job. Can't get my head around it.

OP posts:
GloGirl · 06/03/2021 21:16

@helpfulperson

Honestly if you are a cleaner you will always get a job. Life is too short for this shit.
Absolutely this - you've had a breakdown and it sounds like you're trying to do the work of 3 people.

I'd start looking for another job tomorrow but unless you live very rural I would expect you will find something quickly.

Original poster
MegaMoon · 06/03/2021 21:17

@Seventytwo

I'm really shocked at the posts implying OP is "unwell"/on the wrong dose/medication, etc, just because she walked out mid-shift! The colleagues sound insufferable and most of us have reached a point in our lives where we simply think "enough is enough, I'm not putting up with this shit any longer". No reason to question OP's sanity!

Honestly if you are a cleaner you will always get a job. Life is too short for this shit.

^ Agree with this.

Hope you're OK OP Flowers

That's pretty much it, I just finally got to that point tonight where I thought enough is enough. No more. Thank you. I just hope I can find something else.
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XingMing · 06/03/2021 21:18

More fool you. Many jobs are shitty and require lots of crap you don't enjoy, but you booting it into touch and putting it on MN means that you have just made yourself unemployable. As an employer, you would be off my "consider" list instantly. If you want to work again, you need to review everything, starting with your attitude.

Original poster
MegaMoon · 06/03/2021 21:18

Thank you. Not rural, in a town thankfully. My biggest obstacle will be finding something else that fits around looking after a toddler!

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Livelovebehappy · 06/03/2021 21:19

I think I would probably have got today out of the way then just got stuck into finding and applying for a new job before properly resigning. I know you’d reached your limit today and snapped, but leaving the way you have means it might limit your ability to get another job if references are needed. life is too short to be in the situation you’re in, so hopefully you will find other employment quickly. Don’t beat yourself up about it. It’s done now.

JellyBabiesFan · 06/03/2021 21:19

It blows my mind that several have said op 'did the right thing'. Are there really so many people that will act like stroppy children when things do not go their way?

The correct way to deal with this would have been asking for a meeting with management and explain the situation. The bosses are hardly going to be happy if various members of the team are doing things that dont need doing.

Original poster
MegaMoon · 06/03/2021 21:19

@XingMing

More fool you. Many jobs are shitty and require lots of crap you don't enjoy, but you booting it into touch and putting it on MN means that you have just made yourself unemployable. As an employer, you would be off my "consider" list instantly. If you want to work again, you need to review everything, starting with your attitude.
Aw, that's a shame, I was hoping you'd be my next employer! :(
OP posts:
XingMing · 06/03/2021 21:21

So sorry.............

Ontheroadtorecovery · 06/03/2021 21:22

'Aw, that's a shame, I was hoping you'd be my next employer! Sad

😂😂

shggg245 · 06/03/2021 21:23

Op ignore the above unemployable comment - absolute nonsense. I've walked out of two rubbish jobs and it's never been a problem for me at all.

Life's too short and there's plenty of jobs out there - especially for good cleaners. Flowers

catherineofarrogance80 · 06/03/2021 21:23

I don't know if those saying the OP will find another job easy enough really know what the world of employment is like out there right now. 1000 applicants per job type bad.

catherineofarrogance80 · 06/03/2021 21:24

@shggg245

Op ignore the above unemployable comment - absolute nonsense. I've walked out of two rubbish jobs and it's never been a problem for me at all.

Life's too short and there's plenty of jobs out there - especially for good cleaners. Flowers

In the midst of a pandemic with thousands of job losses already?
ilovesooty · 06/03/2021 21:25

If you'd raised the issue and tried to resolve it earlier you might have had a point, but you've just walked out without raising any concerns through official channels. It just isn't the way to address problems in the workplace.

buckeejit · 06/03/2021 21:26

It's done now whether right or wrong. I recently read on here that advice that includes time travel isn't helpful & that's true so you should have... won't help you.

Write down what happened & also your previous events & email it on Monday. You can apologise & ask manager what will happen. Explain you want to keep the job & ask to email your info through so there's something for them to refer to. Perhaps a policy of order of duties is needed for everyone to refer to. They may not agree that the unused area didn't need to be cleaned though. Good luck

AnotherKrampus · 06/03/2021 21:26

Well done OP! You were in an unsustainable, toxic environment that is immensely harmful to your overall health. Depending on where you are based, especially if not too rural, there tends to be quite a high demand for good cleaners, so I would not worry too much.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/03/2021 21:29

Many years ago I was in a similar position OP - I. too was a cleaner working with two others (we worked in a hospital). I was very young (19) the other two were older women (40's). Effectively they ganged up on me and made my life a misery, dumping all the sh*tty parts of the job on me, and taking fag breaks while leaving me working (they wouldn't even tell me they'd buggered off - just disappeared and I would only find out when I needed to ask see about something). They took frequent breaks and I often overheard them talking and laughing about me - and it was never good.

I stopped there because I needed the money (never occurred to me to complain ( young and easily bullied) - and I doubt I'd have got anywhere if I had as they would have lied through their teeth and presented a united front - but I wish I'd just walked like you did, and said why. they were a pair of absolute cows and destroyed what little confidence I had.

People don't realise how depressing and undermining it can be when this happens.

Sentry70 · 06/03/2021 21:29

@XingMing you are confusing opinion with fact. The OP has absolutely not made herself unemployable and that is an inflammatory and hyperbolic statement. OP, I too have walked out on a job half way through the day, because I was being bullied relentlessly and I chose to do it for my own mental health and self respect. It might reassure you to know that it had no impact whatsoever on my procuring another job, which I did almost immediately.

Tittyfilarious · 06/03/2021 21:30

@MegaMoon I know how this feels op , i've been in a cleaning job years ago where there would be jobs that must be done before finishing and additional only if there is time jobs and I would be running myself into the ground trying to complete my work whilst the other cleaner faffed around with what wasn't required, truth be told they were just not arsed. I walked away from that job too after finding the other cleaners dusting shelves when floors hadn't been touched. For the people saying she was in the wrong being in that situation is unbelievably frustrating if it goes on and on and you are under pressure.

shggg245 · 06/03/2021 21:30

Depends where you live. In my area there loads of cleaning / care jobs going. They're struggling to recruit. I know of several care homes worth vacancies. I guess op will have to be flexible. I just don't think it all doom. My company is very busy at present and we have vacancies.

FaceyRomford · 06/03/2021 21:31

DW did this once. Looking back on it, she said it was the best thing she could have done. She was out of it and, if there was a disaster at some time in the future, she was well out of it.

Peterbear · 06/03/2021 21:33

@seventytwo - my sentiments exactly!
Happy new life OP it takes balls to stand up for yourself. You’ll find something else - don’t listen to the fear mongers.
I really think people have the piss taken far too often at work and are too scared to move on because of fear.

FaceyRomford · 06/03/2021 21:33

@XingMing

More fool you. Many jobs are shitty and require lots of crap you don't enjoy, but you booting it into touch and putting it on MN means that you have just made yourself unemployable. As an employer, you would be off my "consider" list instantly. If you want to work again, you need to review everything, starting with your attitude.
@XingMing See my post above. I doubt if it will have any effect on the OP. What's her (now) former employer going to say "Our working practices were so shit she walked out on us"? Doubtful.
XingMing · 06/03/2021 21:34

Good cleaners, with sensible approaches to cleaning AND to the customer who pays the wages out of taxed income, who are in the chair when deciding who to hire, do pick who they will work for. I've never not had a choice of applicants, who have their choice of employers, but mine have generally found me very fair.

PearlescentIridescent · 06/03/2021 21:35

Maybe I've worked in very different environments but in my previous job in a quite high stress finance/admin role, people frequently lost their tempers or walked out. Not one of them have ever been sacked or even disciplined - people lose it sometimes especially in high stress/high stakes environments.

My point is - OP are you sure this is automatically the end? If you need the job and it fits around your childcare needs in this climate I'd not give up so easily. I'm thinking if you explained that your were feeling a lot of pressure, everyone is stressed in COVID times etc etc that you might be fine.

Who cares about seeing two other twats again. If you do go back though, I would just not care about what they do. If you have done your share of the work I'd be leaving. Is it possible going forward to have a preset list of tasks or areas to work on?

You do need to let go of holding grudges against people like that though. In work there are always people at both the extreme ends of the spectrum - people who find every opportunity to do as little as possible and insufferable busy bodies who get involved in everyone's goings on. The key is to focus on your own performance.

Hope everything works out okay, if this is out of character I really do think your manager will understand xx

BRB2021 · 06/03/2021 21:35

Have the other cleaners contacted you? I presume they have your number as I remember the lift thread

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