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Quitting in Style
Syphyre
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Disgruntled worker bulldozes building where he works.
This man quit in style. He also got arrested for too much style.
My quitting stories are less memorable. Likely the most interesting thing I've done is quitting a certain online game I used to play. I gave away all my goods, and there was a mad rush that ensued to get all my top notch items and gear. (Frenzy, while amusing to architect, doesn't make for a great story.) More interesting is the gentleman I saw quitting college by burning his collection of schoolbooks in one of our BBQ pits. While I admired the flames, I did not particularly enjoy the smell, and I would have happily accepted the $100 I could have gotten by selling them back.
How have you quit in style? Your job. A game. A relationship. A friendship. School. Something you needed to quit. Something you shouldn't have quit. Preferably through more legal methods than the man in the article.
A man drove a bulldozer into the northeast Houston building where he worked, causing more than $1 million in damages, police said.
Lynn Benson, 52, was arrested about 9 p.m. Monday after Houston police said he intentionally plowed through the front of Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers, 15500 Eastex Freeway.
The bulldozer also broke a water line in the building that flooded the ground floor, damaging computers and office equipment, Houston police said.
Company officials said the disgruntled employee caused about $1.5 million in total damages. No injuries were reported, Houston police said.
Benson was arrested at the scene and later charged with felony criminal mischief.
He remains at the Harris County Jail with bail set at $50,000.
This man quit in style. He also got arrested for too much style.
My quitting stories are less memorable. Likely the most interesting thing I've done is quitting a certain online game I used to play. I gave away all my goods, and there was a mad rush that ensued to get all my top notch items and gear. (Frenzy, while amusing to architect, doesn't make for a great story.) More interesting is the gentleman I saw quitting college by burning his collection of schoolbooks in one of our BBQ pits. While I admired the flames, I did not particularly enjoy the smell, and I would have happily accepted the $100 I could have gotten by selling them back.
How have you quit in style? Your job. A game. A relationship. A friendship. School. Something you needed to quit. Something you shouldn't have quit. Preferably through more legal methods than the man in the article.
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but i didn't give two weeks for my first job
i called my boss and told him i was quitting on the phone, he told me to turn in my nametag and bow tie
(i worked in a movie theater)
(i wanted to shit on the counter)
Most depressing for Rank is "Turn in your badge and gun." Unless it is also followed by "You're a loose cannon!"
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That's all I got.
(I don't count smoking the occasional pipe once a month or so)
If the thread ends here, I am happy, because I that particular line was posted.
I sent in a letter
I had a dishwashing job at a local bar that served food and one day, after staying up till 10 am I basically didn't feel like going in for my 4 pm shift. I called in with a grandma death story and I never got a shift to work again.
The worst part is that he can no longer tell people about their fried pickles.
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That is how I quit the only job I ever quit.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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It was fun for a year or so, when my best friend was still working there, and we had really cool asst. manager and the store manager was pretty cool too. This was just before they really started making signups and preorders a damn-near-mandatory thing, so we'd have cool incentives for highest signups for cool game swag.
Then my best friend in HS left, the other managers moved or quit, and the pressure to sell the shitty magazine, preorders, etc got bad.
Then we had a new asst. manager start. They felt they were hot shit because they'd worked as a stage manager in some theater troupe, and was very nasty and snarky toward the other employees.
This came to a head when one day a coworker came in on their day off to trade in some games (a pretty common thing.) We went through the trade-in process, gave him his credit slip like any other customer. The asst. manager comes over and demands to see the traded in games and the receipt, then got on the phone with the manager.
Over heard the asst manager telling the manager that we were trying to run some kind of scam on the store, where I was double-scanning or scanning the higher-value games in place of the low value ones. Then she told the off-duty guy not to leave the store until the manager arrived.
We waited around, as I triple-checked the receipt and the games, showing that nothing was wrong, while the asst. manager continued to insist on waiting for the manager to get there.
Manager finally arrives, looks over everything, says nothing is wrong, gives a half apology to the off-duty guy.
Guy says 'I haven't been happy working here for a while, and now you're accusing me of ripping the place off?"
Quits on the spot.
A month or two later, and things there just plain suck. I'm working an early morning job, going to school, going to another internship, then going to work ~40 miles round trip to work the closing shift at Gamestop. Something had to give.
I stopped by my mom's house, really bummed about having to go in to work, how the money I was making there was basically going to pay for the gas to go back and forth there every week, and how little sleep I was getting, etc.
"So quit."
I thought about it, called them, and told'em that I wouldn't be coming in that night, or ever again. They weren't too happy, and I'm not terribly proud of how I did it, but fuck that awful store.
after working there for maybe 6 months or so, we got randomly "asked" to come in on a Saturday to do a storewide inventory check, meaning that it was really mandatory.
i asked my boss after they announced the inventory check whether she would have allowed for pre-existing schedule conflicts (i had promised to help some friends with a project that Saturday), and the boss said no, we all had to come in.
i didn't bother showing up that Saturday. that was the only job i've ever just walked out from. i don't mind retail, but that place was retail hell wrapped up in spiteful boss.
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They told me the same thing when I stopped being a black Muslim.
Alt post: when I quit the tucker Carlson fan club.
But, at 17, I did quit my very first job with a resignation letter that ended with "peace out."
So I told her off very loudly and eloquently that morning when I showed up, handled the party I was catering flawlessly, stole my time card and bailed in time to attend my family's party.
She dropped the database because it didn't meet her naming standards (presentation is abbreviated PRES, not PRS), and she didn't realize that it would drop the schemas and tables in it as well. She's a java dev that has strayed too far from her crappy frontend struts home.
I flipped the fuck out when I came in this morning, because this may actually make me miss PAX, unless I quit beforehand. The problem is, I don't want to quit before finding a new job, since I basically have no support net.
So, if I do quit, should I dress in a cocktail dress and serenade the team?
@Mysst If I do need to miss PAX I'll let you know and I'll send you money for the room. I fucking hope not, though. I'll know tomorrow.
he declared in his final status that 'facebook should be renamed FAKEBOOK cuz you guys are all LIARS'
and then deleted his account
I just stopped showing up for work after that.
In retrospect this was horrible on so many different levels but I was like 19 years old at the time.
Later geeeeeeeeese
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That's fucking terrible. I kept my 20ish year-old activities to the break room and the park down the road! That'll show 'em
It is this
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The company wins this contract to scrape and cart mineral sands from a minesite in a place called Eneabba and this guy is told that he'll be driving the scraper out there. When the guy is told this, he flies into a rage and starts yelling that he won't go and that the company can't make him. This stalemate goes on for a few more weeks right up until we're due for mobilisation to this mine. We wake up one morning and we find that our camp (we were living for a few weeks in a fly camp on a remote farm) has been robbed of all the food, water and bunch of other gear. Turns out this guy had flown the coup early that morning and stolen all of our gear. The supervisor reports it in town and it comes out in the wash that this guy was wanted in the state over for a string of assault, rape and buglary offences so basically he didn't want to go to this minesite because he knew he would have to submit to a background check
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Backing up dev servers when someone blows it away because of naming standards? Highly dubious.
Probably lupus.
No. They don't backup development databases whatsoever (like 100gig of data uncompressed). Also, our prod database is less powerful than my laptop (dual core, 4 gigs). Also, they won't supply me with standard database dev tools, such as Toad or Erwin.
Who has that desk flippy emoticon?