Has anyone on here just upped and walked out of their job?

yyy said:
I worked off a six month work placement when I was student.

It just wasn't going to work out and health issues at the time contributed to my decision. The bloke I was working for was okay in retrospect, but we just managed without fail to rib each other up the wrong way. It happens.

Amazingly, the people running course bent over backwards for me and I was placed with a different company with more straight forward people to work with.
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Is that the same as having a joke at someone else's expense?
 


First job after uni. Did 15 months, but was starting to think of excuses not to go every morning in my head. My boss was a compete sociopath as well. Just got up and walked out. They even paid me gardening leave for 2 months. Felt amazing.
 
Well, the interview went okay yesterday I think? Just a case of sitting and waiting now.

As per the theme of the thread I have walked out of a few jobs back in my youth. The first one was when I was 18, I moved out of home after a fall out with my old man and went to live in Peterborough for a few months and found work in the McCains Frozen Chips factory, shift work at £5 p/h and double for nights over time.... I thought it was a shit load at the time, the job basically entailed standing next to a huge vibrating machine picking out bad chips as they went down the production line.... you can not fathom boredom until you have experienced that for up to 12 hours a day. I knew that I was going to University the following summer so I managed to somehow stick it out for 9 months, that was until the France 98 World Cup started. I had missed the first game against Tunisia due to work and because of how the shifts fell I was also due to miss the next game against Romania. I was giving a temporay agency lad a life to work and between as we were driving in we convinced each other that we weren't missing the game for love nor money so even though we'd clocked on, we both sacked it off and watched the footy instead.
 
Kevsgreat said:
Worked in the SoL kiosks after leaving school. Actually enjoyed it, mostly other people the same age who it was also a first job for and it was a good laugh sometimes. Was there a few month before it got to the point the usual suspects were taking the piss every time, sat about doing nowt, and the supervisor would let them because it was easier to just ask someone else to do stuff. I'd been cleaning counters or something while some daft twat sat on his arse and the supervisor tells me to start mopping the floor. I says "no, he's doing nowt", then she starts having a go at me.

Fuck that, I went to the office and complained about her to her boss, said I was packing in, then got escorted from the ground. :lol:

Completely different situation like 'cos it was only £13 a fortnight and my mam covered the shortfall.
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These days they escort you straight into the first team
 
Yes I've done it twice. First time with nowhere to go and a mortgage, ended up selling and moving back in with parents. Second time was best when I got offered a new job around lunchtime so stuck my coat on and told old manager to fuck off and drove to new job to work the afternoon.

Old manger was fuming.
 
spoony said:
Did it years ago from Barclays call centre at Doxy. I was really ill with a chest infection on boxing day. We were warned not to be off. I walked in sat down, was sick at my desk and then walked out. Got a call from the boss half an hour later saying they dont do colds at Barclays.

Did it a couple of years ago whilst teaching. Decided the stress of working 7-7 at school and then until 11 at home each night was too much. Was also pretty much working every weekend. Not seeing my own kids and feeling out of control of anything was too much. Final straw was when the head of department found me photocopying some worksheets and told me off in front of other staff members for wasting department resources. I'd spent 10p ffs and it was a one off. Decided that wasn't the environment for me and off I went. Had a 4 year old, pregnant wife and mortgage at the time. It was a risk but its paid off.
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What did you do after you packed in the teaching job?
 
yep...

i resigned via a post it note which i handed to my boss halfway through a team meeting on a monday morning. i'd already been offered a job but had not signed the contract so it was relatively 'safe' to do it but still it was a great feeling.
 
Nearly twice. Anyone worked at the co-op on chain Bridge Road, Blaydon. What a depressing shithole. Wall to wall dickheads. Lasted a year.
 
I’ve done it a few times - the most memorable being leaving my company car on a small secluded beach on the South Coast and dropping off the keys and a letter or resignation through the letterbox of the nearest local branch that night - it’s still talked about today 20 odd years later - very liberating it was too ;)
 
EcosseMackem said:
I’ve done it a few times - the most memorable being leaving my company car on a small secluded beach on the South Coast and dropping off the keys and a letter or resignation through the letterbox of the nearest local branch that night - it’s still talked about today 20 odd years later - very liberating it was too ;)
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Haway man you’ve got to give us the back story and how you came to this.

Mind nowt to do with walking off the job but reminds me of a story I read in National Geographic by a bloke who lived and worked in Manhattan doing a travelogue on his adventures in the shetlands. When Ben was leaving a small island to get the ferry over town slightly larger island where he could fly to Glasgow new en route home he called to ask where to leave the rented car. The woman said just leave it with the keys in. Someone will known it's ours and put it on the ferry. She was the car rental woman, also the postie and worked in the pub.
 
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Tex said:
Haway man you’ve got to give us the back story and how you came to this.

Mind nowt to do with walking off the job but reminds me of a story I read in National Geographic by a bloke who lived and worked in Manhattan doing a travelogue on his adventures in the shetlands. When Ben was leaving a small island to get the ferry over town slightly larger island where he could fly to Glasgow new en route home he called to ask where to leave the rented car. The woman said just leave it with the keys in. Someone will known it's ours and put it on the ferry. She was the car rental woman, also the postie and worked in the pub.
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Are you thinking of Miss Rabbit?
 
Jelly Belly said:
Well, the interview went okay yesterday I think? Just a case of sitting and waiting now.

As per the theme of the thread I have walked out of a few jobs back in my youth. The first one was when I was 18, I moved out of home after a fall out with my old man and went to live in Peterborough for a few months and found work in the McCains Frozen Chips factory, shift work at £5 p/h and double for nights over time.... I thought it was a shit load at the time, the job basically entailed standing next to a huge vibrating machine picking out bad chips as they went down the production line.... you can not fathom boredom until you have experienced that for up to 12 hours a day. I knew that I was going to University the following summer so I managed to somehow stick it out for 9 months, that was until the France 98 World Cup started. I had missed the first game against Tunisia due to work and because of how the shifts fell I was also due to miss the next game against Romania. I was giving a temporay agency lad a life to work and between as we were driving in we convinced each other that we weren't missing the game for love nor money so even though we'd clocked on, we both sacked it off and watched the footy instead.
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did u get sacked
 
Tex said:
Haway man you’ve got to give us the back story and how you came to this.

Mind nowt to do with walking off the job but reminds me of a story I read in National Geographic by a bloke who lived and worked in Manhattan doing a travelogue on his adventures in the shetlands. When Ben was leaving a small island to get the ferry over town slightly larger island where he could fly to Glasgow new en route home he called to ask where to leave the rented car. The woman said just leave it with the keys in. Someone will known it's ours and put it on the ferry. She was the car rental woman, also the postie and worked in the pub.
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The back story was that I either did something like this or otherwise I might have been a real life Michael Douglas in Falling Down - I was in the middle of a brutal marriage breakup and I had been conned into a job which I hated and I was at rock bottom - I took a few days off to clear my head and drove down to the south coast where I had relatives - I sat on a beach for a few hours when I got there and decided to tell them all to get to f**k so I did - I locked up the car on the beach , walked a mile or so to a branch of the company I was working for - put the keys and a note telling them to ring my branch and tell them to come and pick their car up then went to stay at my Aunts house in Lancing for a few days - got the train back up the road, chucked the wife out of the flat that we shared and started divorce proceedings - on all counts it was the best thing I ever did
 

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