Mechanic at a commuter airline. Boss wanted me to sign off a plane pre-flight inspection. I refused to sign because the plane was not airworthy. He told me if I wished to continue working, then I'd better sign. My response: then I guess I don’t work here anymore. I picked up my tool box and left. -Griffie

Working retail I quit at the register on Black Friday. I had recently gotten another full-time job and was keeping this retail gig because I liked the employee discount and due to my other job this check was pure fun money, all that is to say I didn't need the retail job.

My store manager comes over at hour 7 of my shift, with chaos and a line 100 people long, and has the nerve to tell me my up-sales (fishing for promo signups, i.e. rewards, credit cards etc) weren't cutting it for how much traffic I was seeing. In front of the customers! I already couldn't stand this B so I said, "You know what you do it, I'm done" and then I apologized to my coworkers on the way out. -GreedoInASpeedo

On my last day at the bowling alley, I sent an email to head office detailing all the shit he’d been up to but everyone was too afraid to report (inc. trying to fire someone when he found out she was pregnant - a big no no in my country).

I heard later that the next day regional manager and a couple of executives turned up for a surprise inspection. He’s found in the office, having backed a 16 year old female colleague in the corner, screaming at the top of his lungs, with his big red vein-throbbing face touching hers. She was distraught and obviously crying her eyes out. Manager was escorted off premises there and then and never heard from again. -FrostyBallBag

I worked hard over the course of a year to get all my former coworkers I cared about new jobs. -stebuu

I quit. They begged, so I agreed to stay while they hired someone for me to train up. I figured it might be a month or two - the local talent pool was not a deep one. Months pass, no interviewees, and I ask coworkers if I'd they'd seen people being interviewed for my spot, and it turns out no one was being interviewed for it.

I don't know what possessed management to disregard the gift I had offered, but long story short, I quit that Friday with no further warning, sent the email at end of day, and I guarantee that ruined several people's weekends - probably right up to the CIO level since he was the one who convinced me to stay on "while they hired a replacement".

Scroll forward a year, and they had hired three people to try to keep up with the workload I was managing, were still falling behind with lower quality work, various departments were pissed at management, and the coworkers I knew from the place had been told by management to ask me if I'd come back, if they ran into me in town. A few folks did run into me, obviously, which is how I found all that out. We had a good laugh. -Iamaleafinthewind

My mom was in the final stages of cancer and wanted to be around my parents as much as possible. Tried to ask for leave by FMLA and the sheriff and chief basically said that’s life and declined the leave plan. I quit and found another job and was able to have a good final 6 months with her before she passed. -Icesick03

My co-worker bought cake and ice cream for the office. Someone asked what we were celebrating.. and he said his last day. -garethrory

I taped a piece of fish to the back of his desk which was up against a wall. I heard later on that it wasn't found for almost a month... f**k you Darren. -starforce1616

Well, I mean, it was an actual “f**k you.” He had just realized he was getting terminated for some pretty egregious safety-related ignorance that I and several others had reported. He was going through that “sob story” period while HR was investigating and came in for his shift one day and HR had, accidentally, terminated him early - which he found out trying to use our work portal and his logins didn’t work for anything.

So while he’s sob storying me (he was unaware of who had reported him) I basically go: “So this is your last day?” “Yeah man, I’m terminated in the system.” “Wow. That sucks for you. I just want to take this opportunity to tell you ‘f**k you’ and ‘f**k you for endangering our safety here.’ You were, by far, the worst manager I have ever seen.” And then I just walked away. -Vader_Means_Daddy

Worked in China in a language training center. Left the country without informing anyone at work. Once I was out of China, I posted all the info I had about the benefits foreign workers were supposed to have but never had (tax reimbursement, pension savings, etc.) and how HR & Finance appropriated them in regional and local WeChat groups both in English and Chinese.

Also posted addresses of local government offices where foreign workers could inquire about the aforementioned benefits or complain about lack thereof. -Gombock

Sent them to the feds for Medicare fraud and they got fined 41.7 mil. -Darwina1226

When I left, he promised to take half what I was making and spread it among the team as raises to cover the extra work. He was trying to stop the exodus as I was the 3rd person to leave in a short time. So when I left I handed my pay stub (minus social security info) to the team and said just in case he tried to lie. This is what I make. He tried to lie. They also realized they were being underpaid by a good chunk. -AlphaTangoFoxtrt

I was a program director developing and piloting a new program, and after a year of being overloaded and telling our exec director I either needed a second person or a smaller caseload, he pulls me into his office and goes “We don’t really think you’re a good fit for this position, but you’re a bright young lady and we’d hate to lose you. I’m giving you the option to stay and be my secretary. You have until 7am tomorrow to decide.”

I took an early lunch, walked to my other job, asked if I could take on more hours, walked back, and told him I had found other employment and would have my stuff cleared out by noon. He asked if I could stay 2 more weeks to train a new person, and I told him no. What if we paid you a consultation fee? No. But you’re the only person in the county certified! Should have thought of that earlier. -Intrepid_Knowledge27

Salary was delayed by 2 weeks and was about told to be lenient because the company is growing and needs our help and cooperation. I waited for another week but I was ignored. I left the job without notice and upon them calling me to sue me, I replied “You have money to sue people but no money to pay employees.” I switched job and I am at a better place right now. -nanoqueen2

My boss and I had butted heads a few times after she took over the office. After finding a much better job I handed her a list of my job responsibilities, which she asked for because she didn't understand what I did there.

"This is too much, we'd have to distribute all this to like 4 different people" and I said "yea" and walked out. Spoiler: she didn't do any of that and was fired less than a year later as the office was falling apart. -ijustcomment

I gave him a two-hour notice when I quit. He had a habit of firing people on the spot when they gave advance notice. -California_Sun1112

I forgot my name tag at my second or third day at work at a supermarket. The manager, Damien, asks me where the name tag was and I was honest, I forgot it. He says to me "how about I forget to pay you?". I wanted to tell him off but needed the job. It was casual hours but they started giving me more and more when they saw how efficient I was.

I had a few runs ins with the guy over a couple months, he was one of those short guys that had a complex about it. Drove a powerful car, belittled people and was just a piece of shit. Eventually I found full time work, so one day I walk in, resigned on the spot and walked out, but it was a weekend and he wasn't there, it was right before Christmas. For some reason that night I get a call from the store asking me to come in to cover a shift the next morning, and I mentioned I had quit. They had no one else to do it and said why not one last shift. I said no and hung up.

About 5 minutes later I got a call from Damien asking me to do the coverage. I repeated to him that I had quit, and he repeated that he needed the coverage and he'd see me in the morning. I said "f**k you" and hung up. He called me back and said that I can't say that and HR will be having a word with me, so I said "f**k off shortass" and blocked his number. Thankfully the new job worked out and I never needed that Damien idiot for a reference. -TheRealReapz

Applied for a full time job at a daycare. Interview was on Friday and the director said she would text me over the weekend to tell me my hours for next week. Yay! I got the job! Monday rolls around and no text or email from her so I am sitting in my pjs at home thinking I’m out of work. At 10am a random number calls me and she asks me to come in for 11. I let it slide thinking she lost track of time or whatever.

By the end of the day I asked for my schedule and she said she’ll contact me tomorrow morning at 9am. The next day is the same thing, except this time she calls at 11am asking to come in for 11:15!!!!! I waited TWO hours for her call. Now I have no car and live 15 minutes away. On top of this the shifts were only 4ish hours long, so the job isn’t even full time. I tell her I need a schedule by the end of the day. Didn’t get one.

The next day she calls at a random time but too late, I’m busy at an interview with a different job! I tell her I’ll stop in to get my cheque by the end of the week because she can’t respect my time and lied on the ad about being full time. Also I am not getting paid to be on call. -dcdcdani

I was thinking about quitting but was holding back. I scheduled a vacation with 3 extra days. It was a once in a lifetime type of trip. He rejected my vacation request. I thought about it for a couple of hours.

Went to his office and told him 'I'm taking the trip no matter what.' The next morning the boss met me at hr and gave me a formal written warning. I responded by giving him my 2 week notice. They apologized and tried to convince me not to leave but it was too late. -likn16

My exit interview when I was asked the reason for leaving, I simply said their name and nothing more. -mixologist998