Have you ever walked out off a job?

[pecanpie24]

Been at my current firm 7 months. I get treated like shit. I'm on the verge of walking out. Curious to know if anyone's actually done it?

I quit on the spot once but didn't walk out. I worked my notice period.

Yes, once as a stroppy teenager.

In my twenties I quit a horrible job without another one to go to, but this was the late 80s, there were lots of jobs around, and I had a much better one within a week.

I did, got on the phone to an agency and walked into a new job the next day.

Worked in a warehouse that had no heating and insisted roller doors remained open all day every day whilst the mangers sat in central heated offices.
I told them that the HSE recommends temps no colder than 13c in physical work areas.
They said if I didn't like it, I was free to leave.
I left there and then and reported them to the councils environment health team. I don't know if they did anything about tbh, but a month later I was told by an ex colleague the company had installed heating and started to keep their doors closed.

I’ve worked in a few jobs where it’s been terrible eg not getting paid or the situation was hostile. I’ve covered my back by letting manager/client know there were problems and waited for a response. No response = walk out. Do your prep first, if poss raise concerns, maybe worth signing up for an agency or apply for roles and then get out asap.

Oh and ASDA.
I worked there as an Xmas temp with a promise of a job in the new year.
They rotad me on to work the 22nd, 23rd & 24th December until 10pm each night.
On the 21st they told me that there was no job for me in the new year.
5.30pm on the 24th I had a chat to the manager during the team talk, he had promised me the job but he denied it in front of the 13 people on shift. we had a bit of a 'discussion'..
I was home for my 8month olds first Xmas Eve by 5.45pm..

I did it once. Reality of the job was very different to what I was told in the interview. let them know in my probation period I wouldn't be staying beyond the 3 months (gave them one months notice when contract said a week either way). Then I got offered a new job elsewhere by a friend of a friend, but they needed me to start before the end of my 1 month notice was up. Asked the boss, he got really shitty about it, so I ended up walking out there and then. Still remember thinking OMG what have I done sat on the bus going home and it was over 30 years ago. the friend of a friend job turned out to be great thankfully.

Only twice. The first time was quite literal, as in I fell off the balcony outside of the hotel room I was cleaning. Only 17years old and a part time holiday job as a chamber maid, cleaning rooms.
Went out on the balcony of one of the most expensive rooms after blinding myself with bathroom cleaner for the tenth time. It was windy and the door closed firmly behind me and inexplicably had no door handle on the outside. After struggling with it for a while, (I was on the second floor and couldn't climb or jump down) i leaned over to ask for help to get back into the room from the people partying below, but they couldn’t hear me because of the music and wind. So i leaned out further and the balcony shook/cracked and i fell surprisingly slowly due to the heavy foliage underneath that my hair and shirt painfully comnected to and saved my life. Got sacked for unprofessional conduct despite the wedding party finding a bedraggled member of staff climbing through the topiary next to the cocktails table hilarious and forgivable. I walked out first though because the supervisor didn’t give s sh?t about how bruised and bleeding I was.

I did. I refused to to some (non-compulsory), overtime after spending the previous weeks doing a shed-load as they were so short staffed. When I asked if they had asked anyone else I got told "yes but no-one will do it so you'll have to". I told them no and questioned why everyone else was able to refuse but I was being told I had to. I was accused of not being a team player and if I didn't like it I "know where the door is". My reply was "yes I do and I'm walking through it" and left. I was the final straw in a long list episodes of me being treated like a mug. I rang the next day and told them that as I was owed holiday I was taking it there and then and wouldn't be returning afterwards.

Was this in the UK? Did you report it? That could have been fatal!!

Yes, once. Completely burned the bridge with them too. No regrets. One manager did apologise months later. Should have done it sooner before I got to the bridge burning stage.

Yes when I first left uni I had a 9-5 job as a waitress in a sort of private club. It was really quiet and if any customers came in me and the other waitress would race each other to serve them as we were so bored. The only other thing to do was fold napkins into fan shapes (it was 1990!)

The other waitress was often slightly late due to problems with public transport and regularly got told off by our manager. One day the manager told her she was fired (no formal warning or anything). Realising she wouldn’t be replaced and the job would be unbearable without company I decided to go too and told the boss ‘If she goes I go’. We both just left and went to her house and drank wine! Looking back I was unreasonable and a bit dramatic.

Had to go back to collect my wages 2 weeks later which was awkward. I took a friend for moral support. Got another job straight away and never saw the other waitress again. Pre social media etc!

@Georgeskitchen thanks for the supportive outrage! It was in this country and it happened a couple of decades ago(!) Being young, unconfident and typically in the wrong place at the wrong time, I didn’t report it. Hotel staff were absolutely forbidden to go out on the balconies so I had breached a specific rule and that was enough. I caused an elitist hotel major embarrassment disrupting an expensive wedding event the way I did though. I can laugh about it now but it was mortifying at the time.

Yes, more than once. As a younger person I panicked easily.

I did once, ages ago.

Took a job on a switchboard along with three other women and one man, Freddie.

On my first day I was told by a colleague, in a chatty, cheerful manner, that all the women took turns to make tea and once a day to vaccum the carpet in the switchroom, but Freddie didn't, "of course" solely because he was a man.

I was outraged! I stuck it out three days, saw the inequality in action a few times, then resigned.

A few times! However, I was young with no responsibilities and living in London where there was lots of work, so just went temping and got offered other jobs from that.

I've done it once as an adult. I was PA to the chief executive. He appeared nice to everyone but behind the scenes things were very different, ie he told the entire staff there would be NO pay rises whatsoever but gave big rises to a couple of his family members who he'd employed.

I'd been there a few years but I thought to myself that I will walk next time he does something similar. He did, so I did!

Don't regret it.

Once when I was younger. It was a crap holiday job, chargehand swore at me mid-morning. Stayed till lunchtime then left. I explained to the agency what had happened and I even got paid to the end of the week.

Sounds just like someone I worked for 😆😆 displayed awful behaviours after starting to attend Church which was strange

Yes twice, I was a young adult still living with my parents though, now I wouldn't be able to do that without another job to go to

Yes once in my 30s was waitressing of an evening. Got fed up with the rudeness of staff and customers, and left mid shift without telling anyone. More recently i started an office job. Had been there three days, was just getting the hang of it and would have been fine, but woman who was showing me the ropes was micromanaging and very critical. I stood up, said you know what, I'm not doing this any more, and left. Bumped into the boss on my way out and could barely speak trying to hold back tears, and he text me later saying he wished he could have hugged me. So probably I dodged a bullet!
I have found a job that's suits me better now, and i have learnt to breathe and count to three before responding to knobheads. It's working so far!

I was working in a hotel and living in.
The boss was awful, all the staff was so terrified of him that when anything went wrong they instantly turned on each other like a pack of hyenas. The sales figures were down while the boss was away and the day he was due back the manager decided that the best way to avoid his wrath was to try and divert attention by giving me a formal written warning for something I had written evidence to prove didn’t happen. I was called into the bosses office to be given the warning at which point I told them it was all complete bullshit, slammed the evidence on the desk and told them I was leaving with immediate effect. The manager smugly told me that I had an hour to clear my room and get off site but I had actually done that the night before.
The Boss told my Manager to leave and told me if I wanted he would sack her instead of me ( I appreciate this sounds like bullshit but the whole place was nuts and it was the sort of thing that went on) but I knew that even if I said ok he would probably sack me too the week after so I said no thanks and left.
It was a long time ago and was basically a personality cult rather than a business.

Yes and I stayed on afterwards. Completely out of my character but I'd had enough.
Not to blow my own trumpet but they were taking advantage that I was pretty good at my job. It was a manual job, in teams of 4. They put one of the uninterested (i.e did bare minimum despite having excellent training by colleagues) new starts with me and took 2 of my colleagues to work with another team of experienced staff. So there was the two of us, doing the work of 4 and 3 other teams of 5 - 4 experienced and 1 new start each.
I'd complained on that day and so had my colleagues on my behalf but it fell on deaf ears. Really it would have been a health and safety concern in the long run.
I could feel myself burning up with rage and frustration. I got up walked to the office and complained in tears to the deputy manager, went home, came back the next day and said to actual manager xyz situation was a complete disgrace and they should know better. Also contacted corporate HR about situation and manager.
I stayed on for a couple more months and got a new job. I know people say it's a last resort but not always. Sometimes a point has to be made.

Yes I walked out of a nursery, I was pregnant and on probation as I hadn't been there long however I had told them I was pregnant and they were horrid. I rang my partner on lunch break in tears and he came and picked me up and I never went back. It had a very high staff turnover and was not a nice environment anyway. I didn't regret it.

@Newwardrobe Where abouts are you based? I had a candidate do this last year and sounds very similar to you lol!

I'm in Essex, It was a maintenance company.