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I Quit!! - Tell me about Jobs you have quit. How and Why.
Posted by dcg123 • 7/23/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Cash, employment, entreprenuer, job, money, motivate, quit, work
I went to work at a job for a short time. It was a real eye opener. I recently quit.
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Tell me about Jobs you have quit and how you done it.
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I've quit nearly every job I had that I no longer have. Meaning, I was never fired. I did get left behind when our newspaper merged with another.
I usually just gave notice and left when my time was up. -
I just haven't found my nich yet.
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I've always said....."I'm a loyal, dedicated employee, my loyalty and dedication extends to the full length of my pay check."
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I used to work with this crazy dude at a supermarket. One day, he decided to quit. He announced his decision by getting on the PA (speaker) and saying "Attention customers. Suck my ____.-
That's funny!
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thats awesome
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I once worked 12 hrs in a fish processing plant, when I first left school, it was the most miserable 12 hrs of my life. -
I quit a restaurant job when the manager turned all aggro aggressive on me, after I had busted my ass in over 100 degree heat for a piddly $6 per hour.
(Without a customer in sight, because the restaurant sucked).
Most of my other jobs however - all but one - I left amicably, giving the proper notice.-
which was the sword to his throat.
(cough) ... just felt like I had to make that clear to the readers. -
You know me too well
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I quit a waitressing job when I was in high school -- because I barely made enough money to cover my gas expenses & it was just a terrible work environment. My managers were having inappropriate relations with about half of the staff. They were in their 40s and most of the other workers in the restaurant were in my high school classes... It was just a very weird place to work and it seemed as if no one had any ethics. The adults, who should have been setting a good example were spitting in people's drinks, having sex in the manager's office, and overall doing a very poor job. I was highly disturbed by what I saw there and it just wasn't for me.-
That type of information can sometimes carry monetary value if placed in the right hands.
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Most jobs I've quit to take another job or because I'd never intended to stay (for instance, summer jobs or school-year jobs while in college). There was only one job that I "walked out on" quit, and that was an office job that I took on a temporary basis in the lag time after I moved states and before I could take the new state's bar exam. My stepchildren's mother had a crisis and I unexpectedly ended up with them (aged 3 and 5). I had a half-hour gap in child care in the morning and asked the office manager if I could start half an hour later for a week or two while I tried to sort that out. She said no, that it would put too much burden on the other people in the office. Amazingly, she was stunned when I called her the next morning and told her that I hadn't resolved my child care issues overnight so I wouldn't be back. Apparently she thought I was going to leave my kids home alone in order to get to work on time?-
Some employers don't factor the children of employees into the equation.....
It's like one of the military sayings that I remember from years ago, "if the army would have wanted me to have a family, they would have issued me one at the time of my intitial enlistment."
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My ex wife worked me like a slave. That was the first job I quit.-
Georgiagetaways, I like your name! My daughter and I recently returned from a trip to your fair state.
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I've quit every job I had, and I'm not going to get another one. Over the last eight years I've quit the following jobs:
-Warehouse manager
-Hotel security
-Bartender
-Sales person
-Sales manager
-Sales coach
-Financial advisor
I hated working for others, hated being an employee. Never again. It wasn't ALL bad, of course, and I did learn a lot of valuable stuff in the different jobs I had. I wasn't content, though, and should have realized ithat a lot earlier.
There is nothing WRONG with being employed, though. Most people like it. It just wasn't well suited for me.-
I know how you feel. The last person I worked for thought I was joking when I told him that his organization couldn't afford my services.
We can decide to put whatever value on our own time that we desire.
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I'm sure you enjoyed it. Our state has a variety of fun things to do. Good day!
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I quit my first job at Burger King by writing my notice on the back of a bag with the red grease pen we used to write what people wanted on their Whopper (seemed appropriate).
The last job I had before my current one I debated how much notice I should give and decided on a week (mostly in deference to my clients; I really didn't like my boss). At the end of the week, I went downtown with my wife on the train. I dropped off my key at the office while she looked for things to steal (sadly nothing worth taking) and we celebrated my deliverance from evil with a steak dinner. -
I used to work on this worm farm that was basically just these two brothers who wanted to capitalize on the nightcrawler business in my area. They always fought over what to feed the worms (one wanted to feed them leftovers, the other thought fertilizing the soil would make the soil more nutritious) and it was a really tough work environment. They tried different things with new worms (Imported Scottish) a total of six times, but they couldn't get past their differences. For some reason, they were determined to work together (I think they were trying to prove something to their father?). I was fed up with the lack of progress and tired of the drama so I quit, which ended up ruining the company but probably saved their relationship as brothers.
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Wow! A worm farm...that's kinda cool! (We used to pull giant night crawlers from my grandmother's lawn the night before my grandfather went fishing...it was fun! My grandfather swore by coffee grounds for his worms...even took them on the fishing trip in a can of coffee grounds.)
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I have always been scrupulous about giving two weeks written notice before leaving a job, even a temporary job. New employers tend to appreciate knowing you are the kind of person who gives notice of your intent to leave in sufficient time to secure and train at least a temp replacement or to parcel out your work assignments to others.
My last job, however, was an exception. I had worked for this woman for two years...as a temp! She was a lawyer and knew that state law required her to convert me to a permanent employee with benefits after 6 month, but when she was reminded of this by HR, she told them that if I had a problem with remaining a temp, she would let me go and hire another temp in my place. We were in the post 9/11 recession and jobs were not growing on trees, especially for women over 50, so I just had to put up with it.
This is a woman who had had 8 secretaries in her first six months of employment...and she had not fired any of them, they had all quit, some of them on the first day. I specialized in difficult bosses (I tend not to take things personally so they don't affect me the way they can affect others), but she was by far the worst I have ever worked for. Turnover in her professional staff was more than 100% per year because she sabotaged and undermined the lawyers who worked for her.
She kept me employed on a week-to-week basis, meaning I did not know if I had a job for the following Monday until she signed my timecard on Fridays and checked the box authorizing me to return. During the course of this job I met my husband and became engaged to him. A couple of months before the wedding I began feeling stressed over the job and her behaviour and my then-fiance said "So, quit. I'll send you enough money to keep it together until you move here."
I thought it over for a few days and then one morning she called me (I had to be at my desk at 8:30...not 8:15 but at 8:30 exactly) and began haranguing me about a problem caused by her own neglect...I was being blamed for not "reminding her" to sign invoices (she had literally a million dollars worth of past due invoices in her office that she was "too busy" to review and yelled at me...archly reminding me "who is the boss"...when I reminded her). Apparently one of the vendors, a prominent outside lawfirm, had called our CFO to complain, the CFO had called the CEO, who had called and ragged on her...and she was calling from her car to blame me.
I thought about my fiance's offer after I hung up the phone, then got out a box and collected my few personal possessions. I took a few minutes to say goodbye to my office friends, then stopped by the HR office to tell the rep for my temp agency that I was leaving. Instead of giving me grief, she nodded her head and thanked me for sticking it out for so long. By the time the boss arrived at work, my cube was cleaned out, my badge was turned in, and I was gone.
I heard from a co-worker that a new management team was put into place by the board a few months later and that their first act was to demand her resignation. Seems the company lost an important patent because she failed to authorize an invoice that would pay for renewal of a patent (that her patent counsel had approved but she was such a control freak that she had to "review" all his invoices before they could go to accounting for payment). Nobody ever figured out why the old management team didn't can her, but the new one moved swiftly. Unfortunately, it was too late. That had been a critical patent and the company ended up sold to a competitor, absorbed, and almost everybody losing their jobs.
It was the only time in my life I ever walked off a job, but I don't regret doing it. Not even a little bit. -
Boiler room mortgage loan officer. Quit after Christmas. Told them I wanted to finish school and I couldn't commit fully to the job. My grades had dropped significantly that fall semester and I had a nervous breakdown in which I drove from San Diego to Santa Clarita before deciding it was a bad idea to keep driving. It was the best choice I ever made.-
San Diego? I grew up in San Diego. Are you still there?
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No, I moved away beginning of this year to get away from a dead-end situation. Now I'm back at home helping my step-dad get his general contractor business off the ground. I love San Diego and hope to move back one day, but after I finished college, it was hard finding a decent job down there.
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Yah...I moved to Silicon Valley and was there for 30 years. I grew up in Pacific/Mission Beach. You?
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I'm here in the central valley. It's funny because my whole plan was to move to Sunnyvale and find a job with a tech or web company.
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I quit a security/EmergencyMedical Tech/Firefighter job at a paper mill when the boss said I had to sleep with him to keep my job. No thanks I have better things to do. Now I take care of my children, cook, and farm. I cant quit that job. -
I worked at hooters. I quit because the customers sucked and was horribly managed. I was a bus boy -
I remember quitting a job selling encyclopedias. I only lasted 1/2 a day. I applied because the want add said free training and free lunch.
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
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I remember quitting a job selling encyclopedias. I only lasted 1/2 a day. I applied because the want add said free training and free lunch.....I left after lunch....lol...
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
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I created a group here at BlogCatalog for work-related discussions, but it's still small and has little activity... come by to participate and stir up some discussions, useful or just relaxing
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I quit the hell out of Applebees a few years back. It was in the middle of eating my free employee meal too. That was the best part for me lol. I just sat, took off my work shirt, kept eating and just watched the game on the TV's as the manager stand there in what I can only describe as a sauteed stupor. -
Is it getting fired when you wont sleep with your boss to keep your job or is that something else. He made me sign papers since I wouldnt sleep with him. But it was for the best. i moved to another state and got remarried shortly after wards. That is the only job I havent quit. I have quit alot of job. I get bored really easily. The last one it took me ayear to quit. I kept getting beat up every day by my client. Stabbed, hair pulled out, truck mirrors tore off my truck, the Sheriffs Dept had to pull her off of me at the mental Dr. I want aloud to defend my self at all or she would have been on the floor on several occasions. ( She was Mentally handicapped)
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being a telemarketer for a travel agency that solicited people through a drawing.. couldn't do it!
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