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I just quit my job this morning, but unfortunately it was kind of anti-climactic. I just called in 30 mins before I was supposed to show up and told them I wasnt going to work today or ever again at that place.

This was just for a little waiter gig I got to pass the time while waiting for August to come by...a job as a waiter seemed fitting. It turned out to be a more unpleasant, stressful and unsatisfying experience than I thought it would be, and I have worked as a waiter before. Its not that I cant take the stresses of being a waiter, bc that would be silly, but there was just no incentive to, and no the money just wasnt enough.

I wish I would have done the classic throw the apron on the floor and say "I quit" routine, but anyhow I guess Im back to the "what should I do before med school starts?" dilemma. At least I am back to appreciating my free time, because I was starting to grow tired of it just before I got this job.

Feel free to share any quitting stories, or ways youd like to quit your job... it really feels good to walk out on something you really dont enjoy doing. And it is a shame that many of the other people I worked with would do the same if it only wasnt for the fact that they are strapped for cash. Not that being a waiter is bad, but the atmosphere at this restaurant just sucks.
 
I quit as an ED Tech at a hospital one time because the environment was just too toxic. Some of the employees were a bit d-baggy, I was going to school full-time, and I had a job at the competing hospital as well so I met with my dept's director and thanked her for the opportunity to work there, said I'd love to come back some day, took her card, and walked out a free man. Not particularly climactic but I'd like to keep my options of returning open so a meeting w/ my boss was the best way to go. This way if something happens with my other job, I can always return....
 
At the beginning of this semester, I got a job as an organic chemistry lab assistant that basically involved refilling chemicals in fume hoods, disposing of broken glass, and cleaning up after the orgo labs.

One day my boss, who was a heavy-set Asian lady with a heavy chinese accent, accused me of throwing away one of her bottles that she liked to recycle. I remembered the bottle and commented on the fact that I had asked the other lab manager if we kept those and she had told me we did not, and I therefore had thrown the bottle away.

After weathering her condescending scolding, she subsequently proceeded to speak to me as if I was a fifth grader, to tell me the tasks she desired for me to do that day. Later on, approximately five to ten minutes later, she comes to me and confronts me by stating that she asked the other lab manager whether or not she told me to throw the bottle away and of course the other lab manager told her she hadn't told me to do so. Naturally, the Asian lady thought I was lying.

She again berated me and afterwards gave me a series of half filled bottles from our chemical storage cabinet and told me to fill the bottles. Bear in mind, that my entire job was to refill the bottles under the chemical fume hoods and not those in the storage cabinet. Consequently, I went to go fill up the bottles in the fume hoods with the half-filled bottles she had given me.

After I had refilled about three of the hoods, she accosts me and brings me in the back of the lab, where she then began to rhetorically ask the other student workers why I couldn't understand her directions. Then she told me point blank: "If you mess up again, I am going to have to let you go. There are other people who I can hire. Why are you not getting---"

I left mid sentence. I took my lab coat off, put it on the hanger, and picked up my bag to leave. As I was walking out, she stopped me in the hall and continued to berate me, so I just turned around and left.

All I remember, as I was walking away, was her yelling: "Fine then, go."

It was one of the sweetest moments of my life.
 
I struggle like hell with med school and it gives me massive diarrhea sometimes, but it doesn't compare to the hell of working a menial job without any destination in sight.
 
I quit working in Target's back-room after one month because it was way too dangerous. They wouldn't let me use the really tall ladder that had "manager only" written on it, but they were perfectly ok with me scaling up the shelves (the isles were only 3 feet apart) to take down and remove items. It was obvious that only mangers were allowed to stock items really high up but they passed it on to the regular employees. If you want to know how high items are stocked on shelves in the back-room of Target, just go into a target and look up at the ceiling -- that high. At first I didn't think nothing of it. I love climbing/hiking, but then I allowed myself to realize just how dangerous it was. The shelves were only made of plywood. So I quit. Bringing down someone's foot massager wasn't worth risking paralysis from falling 30 feet. I also ditched them 2 weeks before chistmas; they must've been pissed. LOL.
 
Even though it probably won't come back to haunt you, shouldn't you not burn your bridges and put in 2-week notices.
 
ILikeDrugs said:
I quit working in Target's back-room after one month because it was way too dangerous. They wouldn't let me use the really tall ladder that had "manager only" written on it, but they were perfectly ok with me scaling up the shelves (the isles were only 3 feet apart) to take down and remove items. It was obvious that only mangers were allowed to stock items really high up but they passed it on to the regular employees. If you want to know how high items are stocked on shelves in the back-room of Target, just go into a target and look up at the ceiling -- that high. At first I didn't think nothing of it. I love climbing/hiking, but then I allowed myself to realize just how dangerous it was. The shelves were only made of plywood. So I quit. Bringing down someone's foot massager wasn't worth risking paralysis from falling 30 feet. I also ditched them 2 weeks before chistmas; they must've been pissed. LOL.
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I had a job like that at K-Mart for a few months. Climbing a 15 foot tall rolling ladder and then trying to walk backwards down it while holding a huge storage bin sure was fun.



I can't wait to quit my other crappy job, maybe this summer? My bosses are cool but 90% of the other "employees" make me want to go insane. Bunch of lazy pieces of human garbage.
 
I would say get another job and stay busy because going from 0-100 in productivity will be hard once med school starts. Also, just hanging out for several months would get anyone ansy, maybe go volunteer a bit. If mommy and daddy can help, which it seems like they can because you can quit your job on the fly without thinking about it twice, then maybe opt for traveling a bit.
 
getright said:
Even though it probably won't come back to haunt you, shouldn't you not burn your bridges and put in 2-week notices.
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There are certain jobs/positions where you quit like that and it won't necessarily come back to haunt you. I quit a job like that but I also had another job lined up and this job wasn't taking me anywhere. My dad had gotten me this job as a "lesson" while I was taking a break for a semester. I was working as a filing/records technician and I was fed up with the co-workers and I abhor the 9-5 routine with no thinking/stupid filing. I was working the friday before my 2 week vacation and I had decided to stay late to finish some things before I went and my boss wasn't happy with that and decided to lecture me for 10 minutes in her office about it and my recent "lack of enthusiasm". I apologized...went on vacation and when I came back that Monday, everyone was basically acting weird around me and asking how I enjoyed my 2 week vacation sarcastically. Not to mention the work load they had planned for me. 🙄 I had enough and just told them I was out.

"Early lunch?"

"No, I quit."
 
ILikeDrugs said:
I also ditched them 2 weeks before chistmas; they must've been pissed. LOL.
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Lol, well yesterday was the day after christmas for which they expected to be really busy, and I was scheduled to work new year's eve and new years all day both days 🙄, and work every single day for 2 weeks...sure its doable but this was supposed to be my past time, not my life. Im sure theyll manage, but they must be pissed.

Anyways, youre definitely your own little hero right after quitting. I enjoyed reading these stories.
 
if you're gonna tell 'da Man to shove it, at least do it with style.

Provides for very self-empowering memories, useful down the road when life inevitably kicks you in the gnads... again.
 
Dbate said:
Then she told me point blank: "If you mess up again, I am going to have to let you go. There are other people who I can hire. Why are you not getting---"

I left mid sentence. I took my lab coat off, put it on the hanger, and picked up my bag to leave. As I was walking out, she stopped me in the hall and continued to berate me, so I just turned around and left.

All I remember, as I was walking away, was her yelling: "Fine then, go."

It was one of the sweetest moments of my life.
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OMG you're so mean, not that I don't see anything wrong with her.
 
I quit working @ Ponderosa Steak House when i was a senior in high school. I signed up for part time. I wanted to make a little money, be able to buy my own movie tickets, gas moey, the usual stuff at that age.

Well, the woman that normally closed had a stroke. They told her to take as much time as she needed, and the job would be waiting when she was ready to return. That's fine, I don't blame them. But they kept scheduling her to close. Which meant someone else had to close. The others insisted they weren't doing it, and I kept getting stuck with the gig. I was 17, hitting 45-50 hours a week, at a crappy restaraunt job. The money was nice, but I didn't want to give up that kind of time a week. I told them twice I wanted less hours, that I didn't want to be the one to close 5 nights a week.

At this point it's worth mentioning this lady and I had ship swapped a couple of times. I asked her to cover for me, and promised to pay her back. We did this a number of times, with the other person having the option to pull the card at any given time, unless the off person had already made plans. It was a decent understanding. Well I'd covered for her, I was up 1 if you will.

At this point, I hadn't picked up the check from last week. I put off all of my AP class crap (hard to get everything done with all the closing business). I of course got stuck with the closing gig. So I politely told her I had alot I had to get done for school, and really needed her to close for me. I

"Oh, well...um...you didn't say I had to pay you back."

Being sick of the workload, and just how much it sucks to close a buffet place, and having that pulled on me when I was stressed about school...

I went to the assistant manager and asked if she could get my check. Said thanks for the job, and walked out the door.


I also quit McDonalds. The managers chill in the office until it gets slammed. They proceed to yell at you if it gets slammed and you don't tell them pronto. I was the only cashier person, and the brand new assistant manager was running things. A rush hit, so I went and told him. About 10 minutes pass, and the rush is still ugly, so I go to remind him, and I get "I said I'll deal with it in a minute" very smart alecy. I said ok, just making sure you guys know. Then he got smarter and asked if I wanted to go home. I did, and I told him so. He then clocked me out, and told me he'd see to it I was suspended. The store manager then told me I could call Monday to let her know if I wanted my job or not. I didn't need the money terribly, but I wasn't going to quit without having another job. So I talked to her, swallowed my pride, Worked a few more shifts.

The chem dept. at my university was hiring tutors, and I wasn't the greatest chemistry student ever, but I was going to annoy the hell out of some people until I got that job. And, that's how I finished out college working. I got the "you're hired" e-mail, and went to McDonalds, and gave my 2 weeks. They called me a few days later when I was "late." I guess it was kind of stupid to give a 2 weeks if I was going to bail, but whatever.
 
When I was 15 I worked at this burger joint across from school. My boss was an alcoholic and a pervert. He would just sit, eat, smoke, and get the shakes if he hadn't had his drink. I would have felt bad for him if he wasn't such a horrible person. He would make all sorts of inappropriate comments about the girls at my school, for the sake of keeping it PG I won't elaborate. He even got sued by one of the employees for sexual harassment.

Anyways, he was gone for much of the time, probably at the bar, so the job was tolerable for a while. However, the owner caught on to this and made him start to stay for the whole day. He would give me some really ridiculous jobs..So one day, he decides that I need to remove graffiti from a wall. He hands me some rubber gloves and a chemical and says, "be careful with this, it is acid." I didn't think it was that strong. Well, it was. It was some sort of very strong acid, I'm not sure what (hadn't taken chem yet), but I poured it on the brick and it sizzled releasing an odor in the air that sent me in to a coughing fit. A customer walked up to me and told me to drop it and tell my boss to get a professional to do that before I burnt my skin and lungs. So I told my drunken boss this. He proceeded to tell me that I, "better get the job done." I left him with some choice words, and quit on the spot. I later found out that he died a short time after.
 
I <3 this thread!

When I quit to start my post-bacc my boss laughed and said "Ok sure, see you on Monday"

Took a 30 minute convo to convince her I was serious.
 
I once worked for this old Austrian couple (thick accents and everything) in their vineyard hired to be the guy who bottles the wine. Well It was their son who was supposed to be making the wine, but go figure he was one of the worst alcoholics I have ever met. Literally never saw this guy sober. This was a summer gig over my junior year of high school so naturally the pay and the hours were horrible.

About a month into this the son doesn't show up for work because he got himself nabbed for a DUI the night before. So his father (my boss) who I never really spoke to runs me through on how to make the wine which was a rather simple (yet messy) process that I picked up rather fast. A day or two goes by and then the prodigal son returns after making bail, already drunk and then explodes in a drunken rage at me when he finds out that I was making the wine in his absence. He picks up this huge wine bottle and hurls it at me, I dodge and flee up to the office where his Mother tells me that I have to work it out with him and make amends.

I quit there and then and two days later they get shut down by the health inspectors after a "concerned citizen" gives them some insight to some less then hygienic processes they used.

I now work summers as Camp Staff for a Scout camp, doesn't pay well but its a ton of fun.
 
When I told my boss I was quitting, it was about 2.5 weeks before Christmas, and she freaked out and told me I couldn't leave, that she would call my boss and tell him I couldn't come work for them yet, and they wouldn't even be doing any work there anyway (I guess because it's an academic setting?). I told her I was sorry, but HR at my new job told me I needed to start by this date, etc. The discussion ends, I go about the rest of the day, and then she comes back and corners me in the middle of my workstation and tells me that I "can't" leave until after Christmas, sometime in January, because "other people have PTO scheduled." She bullied me and told me that she would give me bad references for future jobs (even though HR policy doesn't allow any information to be given other than confirmation of employment). It was insane. I talked it over with my family (business owners) and got the information I needed about at-will employment, and ended up going to HR and telling them about her crazed and inappropriate behavior. Then I left as scheduled, not working the extra 2 weeks that she had tried to get me to commit to. It was awful and made me physically sick for awhile. I hope she got some professional management training after that and familiarized herself with HR policies. That job also forever turned me off to shift work.
 
DrYoda said:
I've only quit one job, and I was nice enough to give a 4 week notice.
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You are really nice... I thought the professional courtesy was 2 weeks, which the crazy woman in startswithhb's story thought was a requirement.
 
addo said:
You are really nice... I thought the professional courtesy was 2 weeks, which the crazy woman in startswithhb's story thought was a requirement.
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Lol, yes! She absolutely thought it was law that I stay for at least two weeks.
 
i have only quit one job without notice because i knew no one would have to cover it as my job was to cover others. i was driving over the road and i got selected for jury duty on a murder trial so it lasted about 2 1/2 weeks and when i was home during those weeks my kids kept saying they didn't want me to go back on the road. classes were about to start so i walked in, handed in my truck keys, and said, "sorry, i can't do this anymore." the supervisor said he understood but he thought i was making a mistake. 3 weeks later i heard he quit.
 
HD2490 said:
Is it bad to quit without notice? I have been working at CVS and although my boss already put me on the schedule for this week and next week, I don't feel like coming to work anymore. I have told her 3 days ago however that I can't stand that place anymore and asked her to stop putting me on schedule.

Should I just stop showing up? I don't think it really matters anyway since I only have like 3-6 days of work left.
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Kids these days... Yes, it is bad. No, you should not just stop showing up. Yes, it matters.
 
TooMuchResearch said:
Kids these days... Yes, it is bad. No, you should not just stop showing up. Yes, it matters.
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I didn't think was actually ever a question. Com'on would YOU hire someone who had previously quit a job w/o sufficient notice and left coworkers hanging like this?!
 
HD2490 said:
Is it bad to quit without notice? I have been working at CVS and although my boss already put me on the schedule for this week and next week, I don't feel like coming to work anymore. I have told her 3 days ago however that I can't stand that place anymore and asked her to stop putting me on schedule.

Should I just stop showing up? I don't think it really matters anyway since I only have like 3-6 days of work left.
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It depends on the job and if you ever want to list it as previous experience.

$7.50/hour job flipping hamburgers where everyone treats you like crap? Who cares.

Research assistant at a lab that you want to put on your med school app? Bad idea.
 
TooMuchResearch said:
Kids these days... Yes, it is bad. No, you should not just stop showing up. Yes, it matters.
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apumic said:
I didn't think was actually ever a question. Com'on would YOU hire someone who had previously quit a job w/o sufficient notice and left coworkers hanging like this?!
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Of course you should always give notice. However, as I think this thread can attest to, there are situations when it is better just to leave, ie safety, etc.
 
circulus vitios said:
It depends on the job and if you ever want to list it as previous experience.

$7.50/hour job flipping hamburgers where everyone treats you like crap? Who cares.

Research assistant at a lab that you want to put on your med school app? Bad idea.
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I agree, it definitely depends on the job, not just on the importance of the job, but also how they treat you and working conditions. Even if its a min. wage job where they treat their employees right, then I would be nice enough to give notice. If I am quitting because of the employer in the first place, then why should I have the courtesy of giving notice? Unless, of course, if you want to list it in the future as previous employment, but if you are not even planning on doing this, then what do you have to worry about? and who would be making judgment calls of whether it is bad or not?
 
addo said:
I agree, it definitely depends on the job, not just on the importance of the job, but also how they treat you and working conditions. Even if its a min. wage job where they treat their employees right, then I would be nice enough to give notice. If I am quitting because of the employer in the first place, then why should I have the courtesy of giving notice? Unless, of course, if you want to list it in the future as previous employment, but if you are not even planning on doing this, then what do you have to worry about? and who would be making judgment calls of whether it is bad or not?
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But, in reality, it doesn't impact your employer nearly as much as your coworkers. When I've worked in management and someone decided to call in "I quit," it wasn't my boss or the executives who felt the sting; it was my team -- the grunts, the just-above-minimum-wagers. In other words, you're not really hurting the executives' pockets (in med/large businesses where you are treated poorly, they usually couldn't care less). You're hurting the people who are treated poorly, just like you.
 
if you have a job where people will have to cover your workload in some way, then it definitely matters that you quit without notice. it really does screw everyone else and it is a good way to make future employers very hesitant about hiring you. when i quit without notice it didn't effect any of my coworkers and my employer knew it was coming (because they knew the effed me pretty hard) but i still felt bad and still do.
 
DrYoda said:
I've only quit one job, and I was nice enough to give a 4 week notice.
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Same here. Yesterday was my last day at that job, actually. I worked retail and told them I'd be there through the Christmas rush, but after that I was gone. The manager was really grateful that I agreed to stay through Christmas. Man, my story is way lame compared to some of these.
 
Dbate said:
At the beginning of this semester, I got a job as an organic chemistry lab assistant that basically involved refilling chemicals in fume hoods, disposing of broken glass, and cleaning up after the orgo labs.

One day my boss, who was a heavy-set Asian lady with a heavy chinese accent, accused me of throwing away one of her bottles that she liked to recycle. I remembered the bottle and commented on the fact that I had asked the other lab manager if we kept those and she had told me we did not, and I therefore had thrown the bottle away.

After weathering her condescending scolding, she subsequently proceeded to speak to me as if I was a fifth grader, to tell me the tasks she desired for me to do that day. Later on, approximately five to ten minutes later, she comes to me and confronts me by stating that she asked the other lab manager whether or not she told me to throw the bottle away and of course the other lab manager told her she hadn't told me to do so. Naturally, the Asian lady thought I was lying.

She again berated me and afterwards gave me a series of half filled bottles from our chemical storage cabinet and told me to fill the bottles. Bear in mind, that my entire job was to refill the bottles under the chemical fume hoods and not those in the storage cabinet. Consequently, I went to go fill up the bottles in the fume hoods with the half-filled bottles she had given me.

After I had refilled about three of the hoods, she accosts me and brings me in the back of the lab, where she then began to rhetorically ask the other student workers why I couldn't understand her directions. Then she told me point blank: "If you mess up again, I am going to have to let you go. There are other people who I can hire. Why are you not getting---"

I left mid sentence. I took my lab coat off, put it on the hanger, and picked up my bag to leave. As I was walking out, she stopped me in the hall and continued to berate me, so I just turned around and left.

All I remember, as I was walking away, was her yelling: "Fine then, go."

It was one of the sweetest moments of my life.
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I enjoyed reading this! 👍

I quit a research lab where I was awarded an undergraduate research fellowship for a project I was interested in (this was an Evo/Eco lab). Finished the project and, upon boss review (she was an EXTREMELY pretentious graduate student, the type who brings up her ethnicity every 5 minutes, from Michigan State who claimed she was accepted into UPenn for MD but didn't want to go because she didn't want to go?) she said my presentation lacked creativity and I shouldn't have gotten the fellowship and this (the presentation) shows why.
I just started laughing, took my laptop, said I quit, and walked out.
I did eventually have to present (per URF requirements) but she wasn't there, nor was I affiliated with the lab after that point.

Not as good of a story as the guy I quoted.. one day! hahaha 🙂
 
Fakesmile said:
This thread makes me sad. Amazing how some kids these days can be so spoiled!
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Quitting a job is not about being spoiled. I think it is about standing up for yourself if you dont agree with the working conditions, and the compensation isnt enough to keep on doing it.

The point about your workload falling on your coworkers is valid, and at the very least should be given consideration to. In my specific case I dont think this would be too much of an issue as there were about 3 other waiters that had just finished training and werent on the schedule yet.

Right now I am in the mindset that I will find something better, and I have had plenty of previous working experience to use as reference.
 
addo said:
Quitting a job is not about being spoiled. I think it is about standing up for yourself if you dont agree with the working conditions, and the compensation isnt enough to keep on doing it.

The point about your workload falling on your coworkers is valid, and at the very least should be given consideration to. In my specific case I dont think this would be too much of an issue as there were about 3 other waiters that had just finished training and werent on the schedule yet.

Right now I am in the mindset that I will find something better, and I have had plenty of previous working experience to use as reference.
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Sure it is. The fact that you think it's okay to call in at the beginning of your shift to let them know you're never coming in again is just plain rude. The fact that they had other servers hired and trained who were not yet scheduled is irrelevant for several reasons: 1) chances are good they would not have been able to work on such late notice; 2) not giving your boss enough notices means your boss is scrambling to get things covered; 3) many/most clinical jobs in healthcare require ALL previous employment and will call your employer and a "no" on the "would you rehire X?" question is a pretty quick way to get an offer of employment rescinded; and so forth. Basically, it's not a pretty thing. Regardless of how you felt treated, you still owe them some common courtesy. You should have given notice ahead, even if it wasn't a formal, written 2 weeks notice.
 
Well darn it for acting on an impulse. It felt right, and it still does. If down the road after going through 4 years of med school I cant do anything with my MD because I quit a $2.13/hour + tips job in the past, then i guess ill regret my recklessness.
 
apumic said:
Sure it is. The fact that you think it's okay to call in at the beginning of your shift to let them know you're never coming in again is just plain rude. The fact that they had other servers hired and trained who were not yet scheduled is irrelevant for several reasons: 1) chances are good they would not have been able to work on such late notice; 2) not giving your boss enough notices means your boss is scrambling to get things covered; 3) many/most clinical jobs in healthcare require ALL previous employment and will call your employer and a "no" on the "would you rehire X?" question is a pretty quick way to get an offer of employment rescinded; and so forth. Basically, it's not a pretty thing. Regardless of how you felt treated, you still owe them some common courtesy. You should have given notice ahead, even if it wasn't a formal, written 2 weeks notice.
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I can't wait until I have people like you working under me. I'll abuse the hell out of you and you'll still give me 2 weeks notice. :laugh:
 
I've never quit without a notice... even my 5.50 an hour gigs in college, so sadly I have nothing to contribute to this thread.

/however, if someone wants to start ones about dealing with terrible, fat, white-trash customers and 12 year old fake gang members while working behind a cash register, just let me know.

//(edit)though looking back now, some of the passive agressive **** that we did at my first job at the mini-golf course was probably worse than quitting.
 
gujuDoc said:
yeah but quitting right before your shift? You should've told them in enough time. its kinda of a jerkish thing to quit the day you are supposed to work and leave everyone else to cut the slack for you.
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Not even. These jobs are menial and pointless. There isn't a requirement for professional standards, especially if one is in an environment in which one's boss fails to conform to standards of basic decency.

I would even extrapolate this situation to more professional jobs, albeit with the caveat that one should not quit a professional job until they have another commensurate job secured.
 
addo said:
Quitting a job is not about being spoiled. I think it is about standing up for yourself if you dont agree with the working conditions, and the compensation isnt enough to keep on doing it.
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Short of something extreme like working in sweatshop-like conditions, it's hard to use "standing up for oneself" as a justification for not giving some measure of notice before quitting. Most working conditions aren't terrible to that degree.

Maybe in your case, there are details you're leaving out that would probably make people understand and sympathize with you. But without those, well... yeah, it's bad form to not give some kind of notice.

Slightly more on topic: in the time I've worked at my present position, there's been at least one instance where a co-worker accepted a job with a competitor. In those situations, there's no possibility for "two weeks' notice"; you get escorted out promptly by security. 🙂
 
Dbate said:
Not even. These jobs are menial and pointless. There isn't a requirement for professional standards, especially if one is in an environment in which one's boss fails to conform to standards of basic decency.
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What do you mean by "basic standards of decency?" If the employee fears for his/her safety going to work...okay, I'll buy it, it might be alright to quit right before a shift. Otherwise, no, it's not okay to screw one's coworkers over, piss off customers etc. And yes, it's almost always a "requirement for professional standards" to give two weeks notice, let alone at least a DAY'S notice. I'm sorry but your post (Dbate's) reeks of entitlement.

I mean jeez, at the very least the OP could have called the night before or something.

I would even extrapolate this situation to more professional jobs, albeit with the caveat that one should not quit a professional job until they have another commensurate job secured.
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Um, have you ever applied to or held a real job before?

Kids these days!! +1👍
 
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come on people... i am talking about a waiter's shift here. Each section is 3 tables and it is surrounded by 3 other sections. It is not hard to pick up an extra table, it is actually really standard to have 4 tables at a restaurant, at least thats what I had in my last restaurant job. In the event that my workload of 3 tables could not be distributed among 3 other waiters, there is also the option of going on a wait. People call in sick all the time, and for the most part there really isnt a difference, just more money for the people who pick up the extra table. I would have told them the previous day, but it was closed because it was Christmas.

There really is no entitlement anywhere here. Giving a 2 weeks notice is not an absolute, especially in these types of jobs, and the decision whether to give it or not comes in a case by case basis, in which many factors, many of which I have not disclosed here come into play.

There were some good stories before all the judging began... we want to hear more.
 
Was enjoying this thread until all the "kids these days" crap.
 
BiochemGirlYay said:
What do you mean by "basic standards of decency?" If the employee fears for his/her safety going to work...okay, I'll buy it, it might be alright to quit right before a shift. Otherwise, no, it's not okay to screw one's coworkers over, piss off customers etc. And yes, it's almost always a "requirement for professional standards" to give two weeks notice, let alone at least a DAY'S notice. I'm sorry but your post (Dbate's) reeks of entitlement.
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I think the stench of entitlement you are noticing is self respect. I would not allow myself to be berated and chidded by someone regardless of the situtation, and especially not for a menial, low wage job of little consquence.

I could care less about how someone else was inconvenienced . At the end of the day, none of those people would care about me and I would be the one who had to live knowing I allowed my self to be disrespected for minimum wage.

For you, your self-respect might be worth $8/hr, but for me, my integrity is priceless.


Um, have you ever applied to or held a real job before?

Kids these days!! +1👍
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Can you read?
 
Dbate said:
I think the stench of entitlement you are noticing is self respect. I would not allow myself to be berated and chidded by someone regardless of the situtation, and especially not for a menial, low wage job of little consquence.

I could care less about how someone else was inconvenienced . At the end of the day, none of those people would care about me and I would be the one who had to live knowing I allowed my self to be disrespected for minimum wage.

For you, your self-respect might be worth $8/hr, but for me, my integrity is priceless.




Can you read?
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Wow. Good luck in medicine. :laugh:

I suspect you'll find it's not much better in healthcare...and no, being a physician doesn't make "them" treat you any better.

Further, you stated that your "integrity is priceless" yet integrity is:

dictionary.com said:
  1. adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
  2. the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished: to preserve the integrity of the empire.
  3. a sound, unimpaired, or perfect condition: the integrity of a ship's hull.
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The first definition is that which is most common and most applicable here. By taking this job AND by not immediately notifying your supervisor of intent to leave when or prior to the schedule coming out for that time period, you gave your word that you would be there. By breaking your promise to be at work, you effectively violated that moral code, thereby losing your integrity in the process.
 
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