Will post more later, but where did I say it was a female coworker?

hah, you got me!

This just raises even more questions tho!

I assumed that coworker was his second wife.

+1

Me too. I was convinced that would be the gotcha moment.

FWIW, I did the exact opposite of “resigning immediately” at my college job. I worked as a systems admin in the support center of a large email provider for almost 5 years. The head of support and I decided on my projects and I was able to do them on my own schedule. When that guy left, his replacement was an older female who had no idea about anything computer related. The next two months I kept showing up 20-30 hours a week to play online poker and surf the web. Then she finally approached me for the first time to ask what my job was exactly.

He never said second wife just that he’s been divorced once and had a new life partner.

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I can't remember how to FF to a point in time. 0:53

Wall St it is the norm to resign and use your unused vaca as your two weeks notice. If you're client-facing they don't want around anyway.

Nobody ever did it while requesting a raise?

I used to run the student snack bar at my college. It was one of those deals where the vendor was a large food service company and offering the snack bar was part of the contract, but it was a crappy facility, only open evenings and the school was small so no volume. They basically just put as little effort into it as possible.

To me it was a lot of fun, I really needed the money and I got to mostly just hang out with my friends and hit on girls. I got the job my sophomore year and by junior year I was working six nights a week and doing all the ordering and scheduling and whatnot. The place was mostly staffed by kids but they had this one burnout old dude my first year, he eventually left and so I was just kind of de facto in charge.

However, I was also still making pretty much minimum wage and at a certain point the non-financial perks of the job started wearing kind of thin. The company had a new GM who had only been there for about a month or so. Towards the end of junior year I was living off campus and already had a local restaurant gig lined up for the summer, so I decided to ask for a raise. I expected to get strung along but to my surprise this lady just flatly turned me down and said she would only consider it for a "high performer." I hadn't planned to walk off on the spot, but when she said that I literally did the take off your apron and quit thing, LOL. She asked me if I would at least work that night and I said nope and sauntered out.

^Not a bad story but was expecting more from a guy with such an awesome screen name and avatar.

I do love a good toasted rye sandwich triple decker with fresh turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo.

Sub Ciabatta on mine dude.

You got it!

This is sort-of the plot to The Internship; it's just that instead of abusing the job they discovered they liked it and stayed there (unless they're planning a sequel?)

Back in about 2009 I was working for one of the larger poker sites. One morning at about 8:30am (shift started at 7:30am) one of the guys in my department just stood up and said something to the effect of “right lads, have a good one” and just walked out the door. Never saw him again

I think that’s my only experience of a walkout like that

I have done some contract work where one company overnight replaced everyone in their dev team (bar the CTO). Left on a Monday with one team in the office only to come in on Tuesday with a brand new team starting that day. That was a pretty strange experience, but apparently not new to this particular company

About 3 years ago I had applied for an internal position (not direct promotion) that paid about $5/hr more than I was making at the time. When I was told I didn't get it the main reason given was, "you're too valuable in your current role". Ok I'm gonna ask for an equivalent raise at my review in 2 months.

Guy didn't even have the balls to do the review himself when the time came. Hr read it to me and informed me I was getting the standard 3.5%. I demanded a meeting said, "Is this your final decision?" after some back and forth. Went to my desk and shredded all my my hand written notes and drawings that weren't proprietary information. Said goodbye to a few people and walked back into his office and said "**** you I quit".

Fun fact they called me about a month later and asked me to do some contract work for them. Lol no. One of the best decisions I ever made. I make quite a bit more money now and actually feel appreciated

Just a bump.

I went through with this last week. Pretty interesting that I unintentionally did it one year exactly after I made this thread (~5 day difference!?!?!).

I'll probably post more details later, but please add more stories if you have any in the meantime. I did this pretty degen style, but quitting for philosophical reasons will do that to a man.

I was a finance analyst for a company and after a year we had new management who were terrible. Making us work stupidly long hours and at the time we had a really young family.

Was a brave move but at lunchtime one day I went to pop out to get a sandwich and just never went back. Ignored all the calls I was getting that day only to tell them I would not be going back in the next day.

I had a telemarketing job for a couple of hours until I went to the restroom and never came back

Can't give too many details, but something that happened at a business we're in the process of acquiring: Founder of that business hired his brother in law last year and apparently there had been tension brewing over the last couple months. Last week they got into a verbal altercation at the production facility that ended with the employee throwing an open container of some kind of acid at his boss before storming out. The container landed at his feet and destroyed shoes and pants but didn't cause any injuries.

Wife's brother or sister's husband? If it doesn't reveal too much.

Wife's brother. According to him the situation didn’t cause any tension between him and his wife though. Also most of his wife's family lives in South America, so no awkward family gatherings.

In 2010, I was offered a job that I accepted after a few months worth of interviews. It involved a move to another state. Signed a 1 year lease on a house.

It is Friday morning and I am due to start the following Monday. VP asks if I would call into their weekly meeting and allow him to introduce me to the team of engineers. I agree.

After the meeting, and to this day I cannot put my finger on exactly why, I realized I could not work there.

Called the guy at 4:55 Friday afternoon to let him know I would not be showing up Monday. Hung up on him after about his third sentence as he was ripping into me pretty hard.

Cost me $6K to buy myself out of the lease. Negotiating with the moving company to bring my stuff back was fun too.

It was a shameful thing to do but it was the correct move even if I didn’t know why. Especially with what I know now about what the company went through over the next couple of years.

Still at my same job knocking on the door of my 25th year anniversary.

I guess I had something similar to pokeraz a long time ago. Interviewed with a company out here (Denver), where I knew I wanted to be eventually. This job was to be something continuing on with the technology I was in at the time (COBOL, I think). That company knew the future was coming, and had people starting work on replacement systems.

At some point before getting the offer, my company back in the midwest told me they wanted me to move into the "new system", which was C. When Denver guys called, I told them of thiat development. Said al they had to do was promise me an opportunity to get on their new systems team at some point.

Manager-type got irate, started yelling at me. May have dodged a bullet there, as getting into C gave me an opportunity in a couple more years to more into interweb development, which turned out to be a good career, mostly. Plus, a couple years after that, I did get to Denver, and was able to work with a really great bunch of people.