QUITTING ON THE SPOT

(January 2024) Reddit asked, “What made you quit without notice?” Some of the responses:
– “Closed a big deal with a nice commission check heading my way. Until they said that the client wasn’t mine, therefore, the check would be going to the correct sales rep. The ‘correct’ sales rep just happened to be related to the boss. I left that day.”
– “Dillards told me to clock out and work all night because regional was coming to inspect the store. So they wanted me to work for 8 hours moving around heavy stuff for free. Quit on the spot.”
– “In high school when I worked at a grocery store I somehow was the only person scheduled to work on a Saturday night. Literally the only person, not a janitor, not a manager, not a bag boy, no one else. I was 16. Never went back.”
– “I used to work at IHOP in high school part time. They were literally scheduling me during school hours and calling me when I wasn’t showing up.”
– “My brother had just died, would have been the first Christmas without him and I was expected to work because ‘it’s not like you have kids.’”
– “I was about to be a Senior in high school, 17 at the time. Boss didn’t give me a raise because ‘you’re a kid, what do you need with money, you gonna buy toys with it?’ I quit on the spot.”
– “Quit because I got cussed out cause they had me telemarketing on valentines day night.”
– “My car got broken into on site – full camera coverage. Company refused to provide the police with the film of the offenders, they were concerned with privacy, so i left.”
– “I was told I could no longer sigh while at work.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What made you quit on the spot? (make sure you specify that you’re looking for SHORT stories. Most of these can go on forever.)