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Take This Job and Shove it!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Tommy_Dreamer, Dec 9, 2008.

  1. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Tell all your co-workers that you found a bunch of S&M-style pictures of your boss and you're going in to blackmail him. When you leave the office, tell everyone you got fired and you're going to visit a lawyer.
     
  2. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Funny thing is, about half of my department would follow me lol
     
  3. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    Right before you quit, pick a random customer and see if you can work the word meow into a sales pitch 10 times.
     
  4. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    The only job I ever quit, I walked out after my shift, after a heating exchange with a guy pulling a power trip -- they were training him to replace me because I was going to leave in six week. I told him, "Go fist yourself, pal, and have fun filling my shifts. ..."

    Then he walked out after me into the parking lot, hoping to fight me. I laughed at him and drove away. The idiot even punched out his time card for the five minutes we were outside, so the bosses knew he actually went after me.
     
  5. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Update:

    Turned in my resignation yesterday. Just so happens the district manager was in the store that day as well so I didn't get to turn my stuff in to the store manager, but I did interact with my department manager.

    I had the buying guides, lanyard, card and nametag in hand. He comes over and asks me what's wrong (knowing damn well that I had to work that day, in about 15 minutes, and that I was "out of uniform." I proceed to hand him my stuff and tell him I quit. He asks why. For lack of a better way of saying it, I said because from top to bottom the management here sucks. If you guys are worried more about dress code than fixing what's really wrong with this store then I don't want to work here anymore. I left it at that and walked away and left to say goodbye to more of my friends there.

    I was back in the road shop saying bye to one of the car audio installer guys when my former manager comes back there and tells me it's time for me to leave. I was actually surprised at this because I thought I wasn't doing anything wrong, heck I was going to go back in a bit later and buy a new DVD player for my dad's Christmas gift but this changed things.

    I did get a little pissed and little loud because of this treatment. Note that when I told him my feelings about the management I did it quietly and without making a scene. I loudly told my friend who was in digital cameras that "they're kicking me out for no reason" as my former manager is walking behind me, making sure I'm leaving.

    I get outside the door and ask him why they felt the need to kick me out, he said it was because I was telling people the reason I was leaving and it was causing morale problems. Apparenlty he doesn't know that, at least in his department, that morale is lower than his IQ. He doubted my assessment of his area, I said when you start losing more people in about a week or two you'll find out. I also reiterated my feelings about his management style, which I was not the only one to have a problem with and at this point, with cold rain falling on my head and glasses and his dumb, beady eyes staring me down I told him I had something I've been wanting to give him for a long time. So I gave him the double barrelled salute.

    He proceeds to keep watching me as Im' going to my car. I told him you don't need to stand there and that I could assure him they'd never see me again. Nope, he continues to stare me down. At this point, and this is the only part of this I regret, I actually challenged him to come out and make me leave if he was going to stare me down that much. Yeah, I shouldn't have done that, but I wasn't in my right mind at this point.

    The rest of the day consisted of me going to Best Buy and getting my dad's and Secret Santa's gifts and a Blu-Ray copy of The Dark Knight. I also hit the bar and celebrated not having to work there anymore. Oh, and I paid bills as well.

    All in all, I could've handled the end of it a heck of a lot better, but at that point they had any remaining feelings for that place and their style of management coming to them. I do feel better and I'm already picking up shifts at the local rag this weekend and next week.
     
  6. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    Wow. I never did that to my former employer, even though I was definitely tempted to.

    Honestly, I might have just left after I turned my stuff in.
     
  7. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Why didn't you bring a Singapore cane with you? :)

    As long as you don't think you'll ever need them as a reference, I hope you're happy.
     
  8. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    My father was the leasing dept. manager at the biggest Chevy dealership in Mississippi for a number of years. He finally quit after a long, simmering feud with the boss. This was in the early 1980s.

    On quitting day, right around 4:30, he took a portable cassette player with a tape of Paycheck's "Take This Job." He then took the microphone for the dealership's public address system along with the primitive sound board that it plugged into. He took all this stuff into his office, turned everything on and locked the door on the way out.

    I wish I could have seen my dad doing his "victory lap" in a navy-blue '81 Monte Carlo as the dealership's speakers blared "Take This Job And Shove It" while his buddies in the parking lot cheered and waved.

    The old man really wasn't much a role model, though.

    Congrats on quitting, Tommy. Be glad you could afford to quit your piece-of-shit job. Many want to, but can't.
     
  9. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Never will I ask them for a reference.

    Like I said, I sold more than $20,000 in computer equipment and cameras in two months or so and they said it was a slap in the face, despite noone having those kinds of numbers. If only I was making commission.
     
  10. Big Buckin' agate_monkey

    Big Buckin' agate_monkey Active Member

    Why didn't you buy your pop's gift before turning in your notice? No discount for employees?
     
  11. Tommy_Dreamer

    Tommy_Dreamer Well-Known Member

    Oh, I would've done that if I had qualified for an employee's discount at that point. You have to wait 3 months to get it when you're part time, although I was working nearly full-time hours.
     
  12. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    Not to jump on you here, but do you really think you should have been allowed access to employee areas AFTER you turned in your resignation?

    Obviously, the manager was wrong to follow you out to your car, though.

    Any store/company would have escorted you to the door, whether you leave on good terms or not.
     
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