On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.
After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective.
Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career.
On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.
He was arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens, a few miles from the airport, and charged with felony counts of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
Mag-fucking-nificent
Everyone secretly wants to do this or something like it, but we rarely do. Attaining mythical hero status amongst your former colleagues does not put food on the table!
Have you ever made a grand exit? What were the consequences? For example, when I was 18 I told my boss off for being a rude asshole (he was) in front of the other employees, and then quit. It felt pretty good but I didn't find another job for three months.
I got fired from a fast food job for calling a customer a bad thing (he heard me, apparently) when he raised a big stink about a 10 cent price discrepancy
I never quit like that, though I always wanted to. I also always figured there's no point in burning bridges, if I had to I could always come back to those shitty jobs.
Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
i quit a job once in a haughty fashion
I was the only one working, out of everyone in the store I was the only one actually doing their job, everyone else was on a smoke break or goofing off or just being generally useless
told them either they help or I'd quit
then I was told that the store was understaffed so I needed to work late that night
I said nuh uh, I have a final exam tomorrow at like 8 am remember
I told you
see here's the piece of paper where you agreed to me having exams, signed by you over 2 months ago
see there's your signature, mister owner slash manager
nope Rane you have to work
welp
and right then
I did quit
telling several people to go fuck themselves before quitting on the spot and walking out of the place, rendering it unable to deal with the rush of customers. They had to close up for the day because they couldn't deal. The place was woefully badly run to begin with and the only person that actually WORKED leaving without notice made them seize up and shut down
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When I saw the thread title I absolutely thought it would end in this person omitting suicide ala
did you know PBF updated? that comic is gone forever
our employee handbook specifically forbids "feats of strength"
I don't know what I'm going to do, but these two elements are going to come together in a grandiose way
you are hereby charged with a TV-PG rating
so no not really
That is an alright post, I'm laughing here Shank.
That doesn't work for me, here's my two weeks.
I have been invited over several times.
It's terrifying over there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7atLDcVUg
They were watching this...
I wanted to be polite so me and my friend watched the whole thing.
Part of me wanted to scream and run around tearing my eyes out.
I was the only one working, out of everyone in the store I was the only one actually doing their job, everyone else was on a smoke break or goofing off or just being generally useless
told them either they help or I'd quit
then I was told that the store was understaffed so I needed to work late that night
I said nuh uh, I have a final exam tomorrow at like 8 am remember
I told you
see here's the piece of paper where you agreed to me having exams, signed by you over 2 months ago
see there's your signature, mister owner slash manager
nope Rane you have to work
welp
and right then
I did quit
telling several people to go fuck themselves before quitting on the spot and walking out of the place, rendering it unable to deal with the rush of customers. They had to close up for the day because they couldn't deal. The place was woefully badly run to begin with and the only person that actually WORKED leaving without notice made them seize up and shut down
8-) I cost them a shitload of money, bam
Thank you, Uriel. You have made my d. . . no, wait, I watched the Flukeman episode of The X-Files today. But, it's the top five finds of this day.
Last job I quit, most people only knew I quit after not seeing me for a week.
I don't talk to them anymore because I watched the trailer.
i quit
not if I fire you first
oh my
usually I'm real good about 2 weeks' notice and all that but man this place was poop from a butt
"You'll be fired."
"That doesn't sound so bad..."
"Out of a cannon. Into the sun."
but really that was less me doing anything and more a "final straw" kind of thing
That must have cost a lot of money.
you're Hitler
yesssss I love that one