Current Events > Have you ever burnt a bridge with an employer and just quit on the spot?

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so for the first time ever ive pretty much just quit on the spot. i was working in a pretty shitty workplace, where everyone hated the management, people were constantly quitting/being fired, and even though i had good rapport one day enough was enough.

i just got a letter of 'non compliance' for not attending some mandatory training day that i wasnt allowed to attend at the time because they needed me so badly on the floor because of a lack of staff. this non compliance letter threatened disciplinary action if i couldnt give an acceptable reason why i didnt show up to this training day. i emailed them back saying my acceptable reason was i was at work and wasnt allowed to leave(our manager that day didnt staff us properly to cover for this situation and said i was too important to leave the floor) and the threat of disciplinary aciton made me feel like a child being threatened with detention from the principal.

i resigned immediatly and am now at home instead of attending my final 2 shifts this week. feels like a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders. i know its fucking stupid to burn bridges because references are sacred but oh well.

financially i have more than enough money to cover rent for the next 4-5 months so i should be okay


what about you CE?
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No but I've felt like it. Someone did that at work once but I wasn't there.
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Yes, first job before I knew that Reference is needed. But people are still an asshole.
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Felt like it many times.
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haloiscoolisbak posted...

financially i have more than enough money to cover rent for the next 4-5 months so i should be okay

what about you CE?

lol getting hired somewhere can take years in this economy probably more without good references

ChrisHanson24 posted...

haloiscoolisbak posted...

financially i have more than enough money to cover rent for the next 4-5 months so i should be okay

what about you CE?

lol getting hired somewhere can take years in this economy probably more without good references

well i'll just have to search extra hard haha
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I tell myself the catharsis I get from blowing up at a job and quitting would be orgasmic, but I know it's wholly unpractical.

Hell, I've been rehired at a place and gotten two different people jobs because I kept my ties to a certain person/corporation.

It's helpful, regardless of how I felt at the job.
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Nope. Was always my fault.

I didn't burn the bridge, I lied about why I had to quit without notice and they gave me a sympathy card instead of a bad reference
sucks but I was a dumb kid
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first job I worked was super shit as a grocery store clerk

got offered a second job but it started like a week after i got the notice

quit on the spot because a) a reference from a grocery store isn't ever going to benefit me, b) I didn't want to work two jobs, c) I was still within the 3-month period wherein I'm given the right to quit on the spot without penalty, and d) seriously fuck grocery store work
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Never like a ragequit situation, but I have been fired for no call/no shows in the past when I woke up late after wild nights of partying. This was in high school, so I didn't care. They asked me back later anyway
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