Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.

After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.

Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.

Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.

But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.

This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.

Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.

We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.

Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.

Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.

The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.

The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.

The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.

I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.

So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.

He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.

Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.

So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.

He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.

So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.

When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.

Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.

Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.

Are we posting quit stories?

Here’s one of my favorites. I used to work in a metal fabrication shop running a specialized piece of equipment. Another person was hired to run the same machine on another shift. I had to come in several times when I was supposed to be not working, just to help this new guy run the machine or fix some problem it was having. I come to find out, our nearly helpless new guy is being paid more than I am.

I took a day off, ignored my phone, and pursued a couple of opportunities. I got lucky and was hired as a draftsman. The next day at work, I gave a two week notice, to great gnashing of teeth. Day two of the two week notice, they decided to just let me go.

So I hit the e-stop, which shut the machine down, requiring a half-hour of time to re-start, and causing the loss of the part it was working on. My now former boss asked what I was working on, and I said “I don’t work here sir. I don’t know what any of this does. I’ll get out of your way.”

I deleted all of my notes. Pages of information I used to run the machine and how to solve various issues. How to set it up. How to take care of it. It was on my phone, because they wouldn’t spring for a notebook and certainly wouldn’t let me use a computer to make nice organized documentation. All of it, gone. New guy gets frustrated and quits a week later.

And now instead of moving heavy things around all day, I sit in a climate-controlled office (in a building I designed) and draw pictures, and some days I fly a drone and take pictures.

Oh gosh, i did that a couple years ago. We had some people leave, including my manager. I was a lead engineer. I was also leaving, I was promised a position at a 27% increase in salary. But it is a big, international company and their HR was painfully slow at getting me an offer letter. It ended up being 3 weeks from interview to offer. In that time, I just had to sit through several rounds of meetings with the COO, restructuring our group. I was a pivotal part of this plan. Finally, he had the plan finalized. And I got my letter. Handed in my two weeks the same day. No regrets. Love the new place.

Also, that COO wad not an insignificant factor in people leaving.

I once handed in my two weeks notice less than a week after finally getting an overdue promotion. Was laughing my ass off internally while saying thanks for the raise, I had to wait a few more days for my 401k to fully vest, then bailed

Someone I worked with had a great rage quit. He worked his ass off for the whole year doing insane overtime and sacrificing way too much for a thankless corporation. When it came to raise time, my boss gave him a 0% raise, citing that he already made more than average/benchmark.

After that meeting he just left. He left all his work stuff on his desk, he didn’t tell anyone he wasn’t coming back from lunch time ish. It took a full month before they stopped paying him, and my boss would come around almost every day to ask if anyone knew where he was or how to contact him. I think they just assumed he was blowing off steam and would come back, meanwhile he moved to another city.

I listened to my boss explain to me that although he was in the meeting of 4 people, he didn’t know what was said. Well, what was said was his boss blaming me for something he did as a way of saving his own job. My boss was being a coward and acting like he didn’t hear anything.

So I went and packed all my stuff and put it in my car. Came back to my boss and said ‘you’re a terrible manager i quit effective immediately’. Then went to his boss, interrupted the meeting he was in to tell him the same thing in front of those people.

I didn’t have any problem getting another job. That company never responded to the new company asking to confirm I worked there, though, but they hired me anyways. I only regret not saving files off my computer before packing.

Here’s my rage quit story. I worked for a Fidelis Care. We got bought out by a large conglomerate, they fired half the staff and forced the extra work load on the rest of us. I took a call from someone that threatened suicide, and not a single manager in the company would help me connect to the crisis line. The caller hung up, and I still couldn’t get a manager to help me. I called local EMS and requested they do a wellness check. The suicidal caller called back to complain and I got written up. Then they started refusing to let me use vacation time and dangling carrots without putting anything in writing.

They were doing other things like denying free covid testing and HIV testing, which was against state law. I spent lots of my time helping people file external appeals and complaints to the state attorney general after Fidelis denied the internal appeal, against state law. The final straw happened during covid. Right before covid hit, a gentleman was approved for pain injections, but couldn’t get into the office before his authorization ran out, because anything non emergent was closed. Once the doctor’s office was open, the doctor submitted a new request, with the same clinical information, and it was denied. I put an appeal together for this man, painstakingly pulling the clinical records from the first authorization, the second authorization, EVERY PAID CLAIM related to his condition, AND EVERY RX CLAIM FOR PAIN MEDS the company paid for to demonstrate medical necessity. 4 hours of work. The appeals team denied it in 15 minutes later, it was absolutely not reviewed.

I logged of the phone, and prepared the most epic out of office message ever.

I emailed my boss, “I quit effective immediately.” I helped the man file an external appeal through the state department of finances. The state ruled in favor of that customer. Then I helped that man file a complaint against the insurance carrier with the NYS attorney general. The happiest day of 2026 so far was learning that our attorney general, Leticia James, raked them over the fucking coals.

This is a somewhat similar situation to one of my last jobs.

I was long overdue a department transfer. I requested it during a performance review. My boss told me he needed me in my current department, but would keep me in mind if an opportunity came up.

He pulled me into a meeting and told me he was going to transfer me to my desired department.

It was taking a while, so I kept asking. My boss kept giving me the same answer: “I’m still getting things ready”.

9 months went by before I finally got moved. This department tranfer nonsense was the tip of the iceberg of my boss’ BS. I was so frustrated that 1 week later, I handed in my two weeks notice.

My quit stories are never this good.

Did have a team lead that kept blocking me from being promoted into a better team (more prestigious in terms of responsibilities despite actually being less stressful, better team lead that negotiates better raises for his subordinates, etc) by simply failing to hire a replacement for me. So eventually I quit and after a while started doing odd jobs for their clients on the side in addition to my day job. They charge about 200 USD an hour, I charge… Less. But way more than I would get paid by any local companies here in Estonia. And I get things done in 1/10 of the time in terms of turnaround time (not necessarily as huge a diff in hours billed).

now a boss

Isn’t it odd that you can be fired immediately for any reason (in America, anyway) with disastrous financial consequences; but if you don’t give a two-week notice you risk not getting recommended for future jobs?

This is how I left my first job. Literally the day I planned to hand in my notice, I had an email from the secretary of my boss’s boss. Big meeting with lots of management - also a pre-meeting beforehand to chat. I waited until management went over in the big meeting that we were deep in the shit, but Forgottengoldfish is going to go over there and fix everything.

“Um, well - I can do a few things in the next two weeks.”

Next job tripled my salary - never looked back.

I worked at a horrible restaurant almost 30 years ago run by an obnoxious Spanish man who would not let you have butter for bread, and once when a guest sat on his crappy plastic chair and it broke turned around and put it on his bill. He would follow you around and fuss at you for stupid things, and he liked to follow one waiter named Ken around and criticize his table wiping. “Meestar Ken, that ees not how you do it, first you spray, DEN wipe”.

Finally he did this one too many times, and Ken looked at him and said “get fucked you fat Spaniard, I already got a new job”, and left just before the dinner rush.

I was sent to another country overseas for (initially) one month (they made it two in the end, deciding for it a day before I was coming back). They noticed me about it one week before the depart.

While I was abroad, working my ass 14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, I was contacted by a headhunter. I explained them the situation and they understood it. They planned an interview for the first day after my (supposed) return.

When my employer decided to keep me there for another month, I had to contact the headhunter, explain it and they rescheduled without issues.

I came back and, as pissed as I was, went to the interview and nailed it. Few days (and interviews later), I had a new job. By then, my current job knew nothing (yet), I was about to give my notice when something happened:

Right before lunch, my then manager, calls everyone and starts a speech saying there’s “some people” who are lately lacking will and enthusiasm because, and I quote, “they clock in at exactly 8 am and clock out at 5pm without caring if there’s other people still working”. That was directed at me because I was pissed and started to simply follow my shift to the second. He continued rambling about how there’s people who don’t deserve to work there and other indirect attacks that clearly had my name on them.

I was going to give my two weeks notice that day, personally, to my boss, but the “meeting” got me so pissed that I decided to be pety about it:

Here, you can, instead, notify the ministry of employment online about your two weeks notice and they send an official notice to the employer in your place.

The boss found about it the same day he called me to offer me a raise. It goes without saying but he wasn’t happy about the notice. He sent me home and told me to never come back. I took my stuff, went home and enjoyed my free days until I started on my current job.

My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.

On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.

I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.

I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out. That call wasn’t why I quit, but it was the catalyst.

Edit: apparently this posted as a top level comment… it was meant to be a reply to the chain about no notice quitting… my bad