Have you ever just left a job and not gone back?

[Stickystickgazing]

Just that really. Have you ever just though I’ve had enough of a job, and not worked a notice or handed a notice in with a sick note therefore meaning you didn’t have to return? What were your reasons, and how did your employer react and how did you feel after doing it?

Yes . Started working in a care home . The way they treated the residents was beyond shocking so I left and reported the place

Yes three times over the last 20 years. First time I spent lunch hour crying and walked in to big bosses office and said I wasn’t enjoying it, left there and then. Second time I rang my boss as I WFH and said the job was no longer for me, no hard feelings. They paid me for what I had worked. Pretty much same happened the third time. No hard feelings on either side and it never got nasty or rude. But the relief I felt was huge. I’m fortunate that I save and I’m never living month to month. I refuse to be at the mercy of someone else if I’m miserable in a job.

Just once. It was a temp job through an agency. As I worked through the morning I felt worse and worse. At lunch I realized I had a high fever. I called, but did not return for the rest of my shift.

the doctor confirmed the flu and I was severely ill for 3 weeks.

it burned my relationship with the temp agency. They wouldn’t place me again.

Yes, sent her a message saying I won't be returning next week and blocked the bitch! The end! I felt like the whole world had been lifted off of my shoulders after!

First you need to consider whether you will need to rely on them for a reference.

Yes, once. I stuck it for two days then just didn't go back. Three weeks later they rang me, they hadn't noticed I'd gone up until that point 😂

Someone from the 1950s always pops up on these threads.

I am barred from sharing all of the detail, but I left a 12 year employment last summer, due to an appalling manager, and a complete breakdown of trust.
I went off sick, and then resigned. We came to an agreement to pay me my notice. I am really sad about it, but my position was no longer workable.

Yeah, loads when I was younger 🫢🤭

Yes. My first job at 15 ( you could leave school at 15 in the olden days) After two days sat on a stool in a freezing cold room wiring greenery for funeral wreaths I went off for lunch on day 3 and never went back. Didn’t get paid of course.
Got another, much happier job the following day.

Unfortunately had to resign from being on sick leave as I couldn’t face proceedings on not being capable due to depression . In some ways it was a relief. However it was horrible getting my desk stuff post including patch with a couple of tissues and paper clips. I did get a card a week later but never forgot that box.

Or someone with a professional job that requires a trail of references.

What do you mean by professional job exactly?

@Andthereyougo if your birthdays later in the year you can still leave school at 15 to this day.

Only a temp job. Still got placements from the agency after walking out!

Yes! I was with a temp agency, got a position cold calling for health insurance for a massive firm. Did 5.5 weeks and then woke up, went into temp office and said I quit! I got a round of applause for lasting that long!

Yes. When I was about 17 I got a job at an opticians helping people choose glasses. I don’t remember having any training and was just told to get on with it on that first day and I absolutely hated it, being the shy unconfident girl that I was. I just didn’t go back the next day, didn’t call in or anything and they never chased me up. So bizarre. Sometimes I wonder if I imagined it 😂

A job where I have to have a registration with a professional body and bi-annual portfolio with evidence of CPD in order to renew my registration. Also a clean driving and criminal history and a trail of references from previous employers showing good character and reliability.

Honestly why bother?
A professional job that requires references isn’t hard to understand.

Yes you can be in a professional job and work for yourself so no references required. Or be in a non professional job that requires references ( my supermarket job required two).

Yes I did. A company of young creatives in an advertising agency in London. The senior partner had an affair with an admin person. Left his wife. Admin person then went on a power trip and acted as if she owned the place because she was shagging the boss. She bullied me relentlessly and humiliated me in front of clients. She clearly hated me or saw me as a threat because I was young and pretty back then and got on well with her boyfriend. Foul woman. I was so anxious I'd be sick before I went in. After one particularly humiliating episode, I got up and walked out and never went back. No regrets. Heard from others a while down the line that they had lost loads of staff because of her. The man was an idiot allowing this to happen because it ruined his business 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes, twice.

First time, we all had to have our picture taken for some reason, I can't remember what now. Some manager took mine, asked me to look after taking a couple. I said it doesn't matter which is used, I'll look just as bad in each, meaning I'm.not photogenic is at all etc.

The next day, I get called into the office, the manager is there, my manager and maybe someone else.

Said manager is apoplectic, going how she's never been spoken to like that in her life etc.

I cant remember the outcome of the meeting, but I called an agency and set up a job for the next day and walked out early.

The next time, I had 4 sites I covered and had to split my time between them all. I'd visit each one in order each day finishing up at the busiest one, where I spent the rest of the day.

All was well, until a girl, whose site had finished came to bide time on mine. Her dad worked in the company. That should have been my cue to start looking, as once a perm member of staff arrives, you on contract will be shunted out.

So, she arrived, then another woman from HO started coming to site, then started making an issue out of the number of hours I was billing for each week, as I wasn't on site for all of those.

Now this must have been deliberate because no one is that thick that they don't understand the hours I'm not at that site, I'm one of the others or travelling between them.

So, she creates such a fuss, they wanted to cut my money, so I walked that day, got something else lined up for the next day and never went back.

And that was at a pretty big, well respected, South East company.

Oh and another one, when I was about 17 I started an NQV in retail. It was organised by some company above shops on Oxford St, and the placement was in a shop along there.

Anyway, it was 80pw, I had to pay my own travel card, and full time hours, so worked out £2ph.

When I finished my section, after closing, these hours weren't included in the time we were paid for, they then expected me to help other sections tidy and sort etc, rather than leave, which I thought was a pisstake too far, so left one day and never went back, thank fuck, I wouldn't want a career in retail for love nor money.

Yup. New restaurant owners took over. Standards took a dive. One night I had a very unhappy customer ( and rightly so ) very upset as he was given a meat lasagna instead of the one that I promised him I would make sure that he got. I even went into the new chef and told him to make sure it was non meat.
At the point where me , a 23 year old was being shouted at in the middle of the floor by said customer the manager refused to come out and intervene and apologise I walked out and never went back.

No, but I once lived with a woman who had. I was a lodger in her one bed flat. She moved out of her own bedroom for me to rent, and slept in the living room.

She had worked in finance and walked out one day as she hated her manager. She hadn’t been able to find another job in her in years ( ( I suspect due to her reputation because she walked out of her job) and was fast running out of her savings she had been living on, hence needing to get a lodger.

It taught me to get a job before you leave a job. Never flounce

Teenager working behind the bar in a steak house - separate to the restaurant.

Lovely older man at the bar who I was chatting to.

Manager comes in and berates me for not dusting (!) the shelves.....

Walked out there and then.

I'm not your fucking skivvy!