Have you ever handed in your notice, then packed your stuff and...

[TLSnell1981]

Never.

 

[lustergirl]

Years ago when I was a teenager. Left at lunch and never came back.

 

[nene0182]

Not really. But last year I did put my two weeks notice in on a Friday morning. It was an absolute horrendous day and I was treated poorly by both coworkers and my supervisor. I went home that weekend and thought about it and figured since I had 3 weeks vacation I was going to get paid for, that I was done. I went in that Sunday, packed my desk and left a letter with my key fob on my supervisors desk. That two weeks before starting my current job was wonderful.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Yep. Was hired by a temp company to work at a college in the customer service dept answering the phone. Day one. I was told to report at 8:00 since the office was down the road from my DH office we road in together. It's an hour ride from home and it made prefect since to ride together. Well I waited and waited and no one came. Finally I got a hold of someone at the temp agency who said "Oh you were suppose to start at 9:00 and the college said they would call and tell you". Starting at 9:00 meant I would have to wait around 1 1/2 hrs before my shift started. Then when they finally showed up the task they had me do was sit with someone else and she was to train me on the position. All the girl had me do all morning long was listen to her talk on the phone to the customer/student and my job was to press the transfer button if they needed to be transferred. At lunch I called DH and said I am not going back. I walked down to his office and sat in the car till his shift ended.

 

[Kitty 34]

Hardee's. I worked with a lot of teen age idiots all lead by a just out of teen age idiot. I had enough of the BS walked back at to the manager and quit. Grabbed my things and walked out.

Not acceptable behavior at 15, not acceptable at any age barring safety or illegal activity.

I had to chuckle at your reply as my brother worked at a Hardee's years ago at 15.

 

[jen0610]

OP Here. Thanks for all your stories.

and although it's not official yet our receptionist has indicated to other employees that she's not coming back from maternity leave (this will be up in a couple of days).

OP, if you are friends, or at least on good terms with the receptionist, please have her check into her maternity leave pay requirements. I had a co-worker do the same thing and had to repay all of the pay she received while out on maternity leave. If she had even come back for 1 day, she would have been cleared from having to repay. But by not returning at all, that cost her big time.

 

[MickeySP]

Yes. I had given my 2 weeks notice because I was leaving for my current job. My boss was nice the first day but soon started to get nasty. She started dumping loads of work from others on me. Final straw was when she gathered paperwork due at the end of the year,thus was June. I made sure everyone got covered for lunch & breaks. Dropped my keys on her desk, may have mentioned that I now knew why she was 56 & never been married.

Years later I got the pleasure of another interaction with her. Let's just say I love karma

 

[NewRVLady]

Several weeks after being let go due to downsizing I got my satisfaction. The boss calls up asking if would help straighten something out. My reply was

" remember you let me go". I then hung up on him.

I really fell on the floor laughing 6 months later. The boss was let go and ended up being a used car salesman. This was back in 1995.

6 months after I was l go due to "downsizing"-they needed me -I went back but named my price -They gave me couple of dollars more an hour

 

[3boymthr]

OP, if you are friends, or at least on good terms with the receptionist, please have her check into her maternity leave pay requirements. I had a co-worker do the same thing and had to repay all of the pay she received while out on maternity leave. If she had even come back for 1 day, she would have been cleared from having to repay. But by not returning at all, that cost her big time.

She's out on short term disability for the maternity leave. Insurance is paying her benefits. I'm not sure how that would work. We're not friends nor even friendly acquaintances. She is young enough to be my child (only older than my son by a few months). Young enough that before her pregnancy she was majorly in to partying and all that - so not in the same planet on a social level. Add to that she is Columbian and prefers to talk in Spanish only with co-workers who are also Hispanic. She doesn't talk with anyone else unless forced. I don't think her English is very good. English speaking clients used to complain that they couldn't understand her, but they hired her because they have a lot of Spanish speaking clients.

 

[marmalade]

Yes, and I am still getting calls to come back 2 years later.

 

[E-P-C-O-T]

Yes, did it 3 years ago after working for the company for 22 years. I was so miserable, it was time to go. No regrets, best decision ever!

 

[sasywtch]

I had always worked for the government but when my now exH got transferred to OK, I went to work for AAFEES on the base. My 1st manager for a year was great, she loved me because we opened at 5am and I got everyone in/out which left her to do her work in the back (truth be known, I hate managers working with me so would hurry so as not to call her up to help). This was the shoppette/gas station/liquor store/auto store so busy busy busy. They transferred this new manager in who hated me and a few others. I was told she was transferred because she couldn't get along with anyone at the other facility (no surprise). One day she started screaming at me because I asked if I could have a break to eat (dr's note on file with hypoglycemia, it was 11am and I had been there since 4:30am). Unknown to me, I was waiting on a colonel at the time. He went over to headquarters to complain about her. I get called into the main manager's office with this manager and my original nice manager asking me if I sent my customer over to headquarters. First I'd heard about it. I told the big manager what happened, the dr's note, etc. She asked the nice manager about the note and nice manager shook her head yes. The big manager's mood changed so quickly, they certainly don't want to have any type of suit brought on them on the base so of course, take your break when you need to. LOL

The next day cranky manager's little side kick friend who worked up front with me. we were side by side and I put my hand on her shoulder to ask her something (she was facing a different way)...this woman stood away, arms up screaming...ALERT I'M BEING THREATENED to the entire store (we had just had a class on this subject). I just shook my head, a couple other employees snickered because they knew what she was doing. My lunch time I walk back to the break room where cranky manager and her sidekick were stuffing their faces, put my keys down and said I quit. They clapped LOL Then the manager tells me to be sure to leave my ID so I can never get on the base again. Okie dokie, ding dong. I rolled my eyes and told her I didn't have one of their tacky badges. I was the only employee that had a military ID as my now exH was retired military. All the women there were single and hoping to nab a husband I told her You all can go straight to this job after entering this gate but I can go and shop the commissary, the clubs, buy the liquor, keep your ID.

On any government jobs, always required to give notice and expected to stay. If it's lateral transfer or just separating from state service, it's 30 days notice, if it's a promotional transfer, 2 weeks notice.

 

[xlxo]

When young one needs to build up a good job history and references. If you are not sure where you want to spend 7 or more years of your life in an office.... consider temp jobs try out various companies to build up your experience and test employers out. You can always politely decline as your contract expires.

 

[Rence]

Back in my younger days I had gotten a job at a supper club as an assistant chef. It was terrible - the owners were just nasty. There was a lot of turnover and when people gave notice they were treated like dirt ..... "Oh, you're too good for us, you think you can do better elsewhere?" type comments. They would get on the person but about little detail of their job - constant reprimands, yelling etc. and then whomever had given notice was given the crappiest, nastiest, dirtiest work to do during their remaining days there. After a few months I couldn't take it anymore and figured that if they treated folks so bad after giving notice, that they must not really want people giving notice. So I typed up a letter that said - I quit and I was not coming back. I dropped it off on the owners desk as I left. I did do this right before my two days off so that they had a few days to replace me, but there was no way I was going to go through the hell that they put others through once they have notice.

 

[usd2bmd]

I was 23 or 24. I worked in the same office as my brother and he had quit a few weeks previously. I went in one morning and they called me into a meeting to ask me to go home and talk my brother into coming back. I knew at that moment that I would never be taken seriously there so I gave notice and walked out... I didn't even pack my stuff.

 

[mnrose]

When I was very young, I had a job for exactly one night. It was as a cocktail waitress in a seedy bar. I was grabbed and pawed and treated badly by the patrons. I was 19 years old (back when legal drinking age was 18). I quit at the end of my shift and never went back, not even to get my paycheck for the shift I worked. It was THAT bad. Worst 5 hour period of employment ever.

 

[Jaya]

I once started a job as the secretary to a construction manager. We sat in an office with a large glass window that looked out onto the rest of the floor. On my first day, right before lunch, he got a phone call with some news that made him very, very unhappy. He picked up the phone and threw it through the window. I said I was going to lunch and didn't come back. I didn't want to be the next person who made him very, very unhappy.....

 

[WDWBarb]

I didn't bother packing up my stuff. Picked up my purse, walked out and quit via email while sitting in my car in a parking lot. I had been there for 10 years so that last straw took awhile to come along, but come along it did.

 

[Planogirl]

Some of you are making me so jealous. I would love to just walk out but I can't afford to. Plus the hours and vacation are great but is that worth staying?

 

[gotomu212]

Once- I had been working for 2.5 years on an intense project team. Averged 12 hr days and traveled 3.5 weeks a month (the first year of my marriage I saw my husband 35 days). Poured my heart into that project and Sacrificed a lot. At the end of the 2.5 frustrating years had a meeting with our senior leader who just trashed us for a really slight issue. We were all shocked, mouths hanging open, when she said "you don't like it there's a line around the building of people wanting your job" (no there wasn't; NOBODY in the company wanted these jobs). I was an outstanding employee, but after giving over 2 years of my life to the project I snapped. I just picked up my purse and walked out of the meeting.

I think I was just on autopilot to get some air, maybe walk around the block, when I saw a taxi. Before I realized I hailed it, got in, and said "airport please". My friend and coworker called about 30 minutes later right as I got to the airport and asked where I was. I said um not coming back and sent a resignation right from my blackberry. My friend ended up checking me out of the hotel and flying my clothes home- I just literally left everything.

The BEST part is when I went to the ticket counter and told the, I needed to change my ticket because I just walked out, the agent high fived me, got me on the next flight with no change fees, and upgrade me to first class! She said I gave her hope haha.