See title.

I might write about the job/industry and circumstance later, but I'd like to hear some stories from people who have done this.

I've been fired from a restaurant for drinking there underage. I didn't get notice as I had been doing it for a while. Does that count.

I tried once but the company offered me 1.5 my salary to stay three weeks and I accepted. I was leaving due to a personal thing, nothing wrong with the company.

I called 10 minutes before my graveyard shift at a convenience store to tell them I was quitting.

I took my break at a telemarketing job, walked out the back door and never came back. Apparently someone used the wrong code to log in their hours everyday after that, because I ended up getting a 40 hour paycheck a short time later for a pay period that was after I quit. Maye it was severance, heh.

I quit my job at a mall kiosk selling calendars when the manager who was on her day off came over from the food court where she had been spying on me and told me I can't just stand there I need to find something to do. This was like 30 minutes before closing and the mall was dead, and every calendar was organized and in place, so there was literally nothing I could be doing.

I quit my job as a waiter at a tourist trap restaurant when they fired my best friend for fighting, because one of the cooks got high on crack and sucker punched him in the face for no reason. That one was funny cuz it happened on my day off, and I drove the 30 miles out there the next day to tell them I was quitting, and they were so happy to see me when I walked through the door because they were sure I was going to quit and not show up, and they were short staffed and ****ed as it was, I still remember the look on the managers face when I told her "naw, I'm here to quit".

I quit after the first day at my job as an airport screener (this was pre 9/11, so it wasnt TSA) because it sucked so bad.

I've probably up and quit a few other jobs that I just can't remember right now, I've had a whole host of meaningless jobs. I'm sure these aren't the kind of examples you are looking for though, heh

Detective work isn't what it used to be Dick Tracy?

I'm in for the stories.

Closest I've come is when I retired in mid 2020. Company staffed with aggressively dumb (but nice) people, hated WFH. After ~3 months of WFH, I told the boss I thought I should retire.

When he asked how long I'd be around, I said that I should probably just go, knowing I wasn't going to do **** in any period from then on. We agreed on a week. I think the only thing I did was spend ~1.5 hours on the phone with another guy explaining where some projects I was working on were at, the philosophy behind the software, and a couple of 'looking back, I should've done this different' design decisions.

Alobar has had some shitty jobs.

Did the same thing, but maybe told them I wasn't coming back. Was yours also your first shift?

Closest I came...in college had a job going into a beer distribution warehouse for 2 hours every morning cleaning the offices and sweeping the warehouse. One day they had several pallets of canned beer fall over so they asked me and another guy to clean it up which entailed picking up about 6,000 cans, making sure they had no leaks, cutting 6-pack rings of plastic off a huge roll and remaking six packs.

After about 4 hours it was noon and we had barely made a dent in the pile, I went to lunch and didn't go back that day. Decided to go in the next day and quit if they told me to continue working on this mess, and the guy I was working with told me all was good, they were union and the manager who told me to work on the task the day before got in trouble for using me and not some of the union members

When I was 20 I went to Vegas to stay with my dad for the summer and take improv classes at Second City, which had just opened.

I got a job working at Little Caesar's and worked there for maybe 6 weeks. I had an improv show as part of the final for the class coming up and had a shift scheduled, so I asked my boss if I could get that night off. He said no, I explained that I had to be at this show, so I shrugged and said well I guess I have to quit then.

He said "you're quitting right now?" I said yeah, I guess. Then he said "Well ok then, you're fired." I was thoroughly confused. Had no idea that I needed to give two weeks notice. Blew my mind.

Turned out great though, like a week later I got a job through a connection at Second City to work as a pirate in an interactive virtual reality attraction at the Adventuredome at Circus Circus. It paid $20/hr and was a total ****ing blast.

Tell us more about this.

Yeah, how often do pirates get laid?

Might as well drop some names DD I have friends down there that wouldn't want to be name dropped on a degen site, but do it.

Nobody is going to one up that flight attendant who quit while on the tarmac, chugged a beer, and then exited the plane via the emergency slide.

I tried delivering for Dominos back in college, when they still had the "get your pizza delivered in 30 minutes or it's free" rule. I got my first pizza to deliver, and I couldn't find the address and it took over an hour. Guy got his pizza free and I drove straight home. Never went back lol.

lol that's pretty funny

Worked at a shitty little camera store for some extra cash when I was freelancing. Boss tried to cancel some vacation time that had been approved several months earlier, almost exactly 2 weeks before the vacation date.

When he wouldn't budge, I said this is my two weeks notice. The next day, he told me I was fired. Unemployment lady laughed so hard at his dumb ass as I detailed the story. That was my only time collecting unemployment, and I enjoyed receiving every penny of it. Vacation was awesome.

I quit my first job putting some plastic hangers together when I was a teenager. That same night, my boss came to our house, had a dinner with us and then ****ed my mom.

I don't think I've ever quit the job without giving notice after that

Poor Alobar.

A lot of people work for their dad. It's no biggie.

It was called "Pirate Adventure" or something, and the audience sat in an amphitheater of like 50 seats, each with a VR helmet and a keypad. About 20 feet away in the fake plastic rocks was a hidden camera. Behind the seats was a booth where I sat wearing standard pirate garb and a screen and a keyboard, and we could see each other and I would interact with them.

The animation they'd look at during the "experience" which lasted about 7 or 8 minutes was some Lolterrible year 2000 era amateur computer graphics and I would create games out of what was happening on the screen, like during a segments with a bunch of sea monsters, I'd tell everyone to kill them with their swords. And I would randomly push buttons on the keyboard to arbitrarily award points to them, which had no meaning or consequence. Or during the "pirate party" scene with animation of pirates drinking and singing, I'd tell them whoever let's out the biggest "argghhh" or dies the best seated dancing gets points. Or here come the evil pirates, quick push the buttons on your keypad to shoot the cannons! And the tourists wild furiously mash the keypad while I'd hit the button to begin the animated sequence of cannons firing, while continuing to award points.

The experience was incredibly lame, so I would just do my best to be entertaining and be funny on the spot, and also the littler kids would have their minds blown when I'd interact with them and know their names, etc.

The first couple weeks on the job, I was just a barker at a booth trying to sell passersby on the experience and sign them up, and then one day when another actor called in sick, I got my big break, and for the rest of the summer I was better known as Cap'n Crustybum.

The irony is that what really got people to sign up for the experience wasn't my barking, but seeing a bunch of tourists in helmets swinging around invisible swords or mime-cheersing a beer glass. It looked like those people were having a ****ing blast. So the present group of suckers was the best possible advertisement for the next group.

The boss even explained it to me as such when training me (not in such a dickish jaded way of course) and emphasized to me just how important it was to have the audience be as animated as possible. Whenever I'm at some live show at an amusement park or something and the warm up guy is like "Now let's hear how loudly THIS half of the audience can scream!" or some ****, I always think of the Simon Says nonsense I'd put those tourists through.

Good times. Good times.

No one of consequence on the pirate job, but a young Jason Sudeikis was part of the Second City company that taught us classes and performed at the Flamingo at night. Sudeikis is a genius improv actor, one of the best I've ever witnessed. But I'll also say this, he definitely knows it.

Another great member of the company, Mike Lukas, taught a stand up class that summer as well that I enrolled in which was a blast. Mike had a very left brained way of teaching stand up, which is that he would break down the structure of a bit to show how to craft a joke. Really interesting stuff, and a method I'll still occasionally revisit when writing new material (I'm a stand up comic).

He would often play audio of bits from one of his best friends who was an up and coming comic, that he felt exemplified the structure of what he was trying to teach us. Some guy named Louis CK.

Great stories Double Down! You did not disappoint!

Jason Sudiekis is the ****ing man and the Apple Original Show Ted Lasso is ****ing amazing. It's so good in fact that if you haven't see it you should and it's alone worth the price of paying for Apple TV!

Edit: It's currently in its 2nd season and they're releasing one episode every week on Friday (2 episodes have been released so far S2) so if you want to wait and see S2 in its entirety with just paying for one month of Apple TV access then you could just wait til they're all released.

Lol that was actually my plan!!