Im just curious to know...how many of you out there have quit a job, but left the job on a "bad foot" with your boss?
as far as me....every job ive had it always ended up turning sour at the last minute...
you know.... the exchanging of 4 letter words, the clinched teeth, the balled up fist, even the occasional throwing of stuff in the office before the final depart. EVEN the death threats!!! hehehehe
DO YOU HAVE A GOODBYE BOSS STORY??? LETS HERE IT!!!
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godofuq
September 14th, 2001, 12:35 PM
I worked at Wal-Mart for 2.5 years. Of course it's going to end harshly. I was a manager overnight and the store manager didn't really dislike me, he just hated the fact he had a worker that was male that had hair down to the middle of his back. So it comes right up before the time I'm about to quit (didn't know it at the time) and I told him I was going to get my hair cut that weekend. Not for him but for myself. He didn't believe me. So I cut my hair that weekend right after I'm offered a new job. Unfortunately, I had to start immediately and couldn't give a notice. I agreed to work that next Saturday just so they wouldn't be too short handed. Conversation:
Wayne - "Hey you cut your hair"
Me - "Yea, I told you I was going to"
Wayne - "Yes but you didn't tell me you were getting a new job"
Me - "Oh sh*t did I forget to tell you? That must mean you're an @$$hole if I didn't tell you"
Wayne - "WHAT!... WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY"
Me - "I said if you want these cokes on the shelf you can do it yourself... I don't work for you no mo."
He got so upset and I was so far away once he became unstunned that he ended up punching the manager that was still standing next to him. Needless to say he doesn't work for Wal-Mart anymore after attacking and physically abusing a customer, a garden center associate and a Frito Lay Vendor
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MacGyver
September 14th, 2001, 01:19 PM
Fortunately, I have never had to quit on bad circumstances. However, my mom worked for a florist while I was still living at home and the owner accused her of stealing from the store. My mom busted her butt because the owner was so lazy, and she was the only reason the store stayed afloat. She came home in tears. Well, when my dad found out, man he was steamed. I have never seen my dad that mad, ever. He went down to the store and reamed out the owner, and said that my mom was never going to set foot in there again. The owner was a b**** and she got what she deserved.
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Deity
September 14th, 2001, 02:18 PM
The first job I quit was a bad situation. I worked for a retail store for about 4 years. Started as a grunt tech when I was sixteen. Snot-nosed kid who barely knew how to work a computer. After a couple of years I made my way to head tech and another year later, store manager. About 4 months after being named manager, the company decided to close my branch because of financial reasons. It was between Christmas and New Years. None of us knew this was going to happen. At 8:00am I opened the store(Friday). At 8:30am one of the general company managers showed up for a supposed inspection. He and I went to get some coffee and he told me the store was closing. 5:00pm the store locked its doors and employees were informed they were all out of a job. 5:10pm a large truck showed up and cleaned out all the expensive equipment. 5:15pm the CEO offered me a job on the corporate level doing MIS work. All my employees, and good friends, were fired. He told me that if I wanted the job he wanted an answer by 5:00 the next day. WTF!
I put my heart and soul into that company for 4 years, made many friends, and business contacts and within one day they totally tear it all down! And he wants me to come stay with them and give him an answer in less than 24 hours. This would also involve a major move to Seattle from where I'm at.
Just to give you an idea of how close my employees and I were...after the store closed, they kept me working for a couple weeks, cleaning up the last of what they didn't take, finishing work orders, contacting customers, etc. The day after all this happened, I showed up at the store to do the dirty work. I had been there for about three minutes, staring at the remains of what used to be my store, my pride. Suddenly I heard a knock on the front doors. I looked through the door to see ALL of my employees standing outside. Each and every one of them came to help me clean up. They weren't being paid, they weren't asked to help. But every last employee came with a smile on their face. I tell you I broke down in tears right there and hugged every one of them. Later that day I called my former boss and told him to take his job, shine it up real nice, turn it sideways and shove it straight up his candy-a$$!!!
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bryan_the_tech
September 14th, 2001, 03:55 PM
My first job was at a dounut shop. The owners wife was my sub-teacher. The owner hates kids but I got the job anyways (at the age of 15). Well after 6 months of busting my butt at 3:00am to 10:00 am he decides that I am no longer a good employee. Well after the "I a F'ing loser and I hate my life for being a dounut shop owner" he fires me. I walk into the lobby area and scream "Freedom", I scared the living crap out of some old lady a who spilled her drink over the counter which startles the owners son so he jumps backs right into his dad who then smack face first into the dounut racks causing them all to fall over. The MF chased me up the shopping center and I was yelling "petifle". Anyways some cop stops him and I manage to lose him. That was back from my brat days, I have come up with much better was to lose a job now :-)
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StevePorter
September 14th, 2001, 03:58 PM
Not me...
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Garak
September 14th, 2001, 06:27 PM
never quit my job, ive told my boss where to go on many occsassions but always seem to get away with it. must just be luck http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/smile.gif
over & out
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Blehboy
September 15th, 2001, 02:18 PM
Before I became a tech-head, I managed pizza delivery restaurants. I was working for a large national chain (franchised) and I was managing two stores. I reported to the operating partner of the franchise. He was a "my-way-or-the-highway" top of guy. A real JERK!
Anyways, I was closing the store one thursday night (getting off around 2AM). He called me around 9PM that night to tell me he needed me to come in at 7AM the next morning to prepare a 300-pie order going to a local high school for lunch. I reluctantly agreed to come in. I was exhausted and could barely stay awake. After finishing the 300 pies I was getting ready to go home and back to sleep when the A#@-wipe boss tells me he needs me to stay and open the store. I was livid! He left and I was stuck there until 5 or 6. I waited for the closing shift manager to come in and I was ready to split. 6PM came and went, no relief. 7PM...8PM...no dice. I called the guy and got his answering machine. 9PM...10PM...no call/no show. Then I get a message from the boss that he expected me to come in the next morning and open the store. That was the last straw!
I was a complete no-show Sat morning. The store did not open until 4PM. I came by later that night when I knew the boss would be gone and turned in my keys to my assistant manager.
I knew payday was one week away so I held my uniforms and other stuff to make sure that I got paid for the time I worked. Came back next week and jerk-off boss says he is not going to pay me. I immediately went to FL dept of labor and got him investigated. Got a call one hour later from investigator instructing me to go to the store and get my paycheck. Got there and turned in my uniforms and boss gave me the check. I had been crumbled and had a spot of pizza sauce on it (HMMMM!). Found out a few months later that dept of labor further investigated the franchise and found numerous wage and payroll violations and complaints. The owner sold the franchise 6 months later.
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3faze
September 17th, 2001, 03:35 AM
Second job I ever did (16) stuck it for two years (though resigned several times), left following a robbery (no, not like that).
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amcfreek
September 17th, 2001, 07:58 AM
I worked for a temp servise once and i was sent into a plant hat i had freinds in the matenance dept, i had worked here before , but wont go their i was hired to move the warehouse, i knew a ton of ppl their includeing a few bosses ,and was very good freinds with the head of maitenance, like knew his phone number by heart before the it was a union dive , any way i was always elected to go for materials equiptment, drill bits ect, to go to the maitenance dept, i was often bothered by a man that really had no respect for any one their,, always bustin my humps like i wasnt working, i actually hurt my back , nothin big a pulled muscle, so i descided i had enough and wanted to go home early, so i went into the bosses office , he was out to lunch, i needed my tyme slipped sighned, so he came back from lunch,, told him i didnt want to get hurt any more, and i was calliing this one quits, much to my suprise is that idiot that kept bothering me and says im calling the temp servise and telling him to never send you here again , my comeback was really youlle do that for me and save ,me the trouble of tellin em i dont ever want to come back here again, at least you didnt threaten me with a full time job here,, the real boss was laughin, shook my hand and said boy it was nice havein you here
me it was nice bein back,, while the jerk turned another color of red!!!!!
Kymera
September 17th, 2001, 09:09 AM
I worked at SamGoody for about 2 weeks during the summer after I graduated high school so I could get music at a 30% discount. Anyway, I didn't realize that they made you frisk yourself at the front of the store to make sure that you didn't drop a tape in your pocket. The manager would point at places he wanted you to pat and you'd have to do it. I found this very degrading, and told him that. I frisked myself twice, after that I told him that if he wanted me frisked he would have to do it himself, which of course he couldn't. Then I would leave. I dared him to call the cops if he thought I had stolen something. On Saturday, my last day (very busy mall day), the regional manager was in, and my boss and I were having the same discussion, when the RM decides to butt in. He demands that adhere to store policy. I told him I wasn't going to it, and if he thought that I stole something to call the cops. He started raising his voice to attempt to bully me, I began yelling that I didn't know how anyone could work for a company that treated all of its employees like potential thieves. We drew quite a crowd. After about 10 minutes back and forth, I told him to f___ himself and his facist company and that I quit. I started walking out and he grabbed my arm and told me I couldn't leave. I wrenched my arm free and told him that I don't work for your dumbass company any more so go pull that s__t with one of your employees, and if you touch me again I'll kick your a55. Later I found that a week after that incident the frisking policy was done away with at that store. I went and worked for Express, got a whole bunch of clothes at 30% off and traded discounts with the people at SamGoody so I still got my 30% off music. I don't think you can quit any worse than that really.
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Deity
September 17th, 2001, 11:42 AM
Damn Kymera, that sounds like a friendly store. The word lawsuit comes to mind. I actually worked in the Loss Prevention department at ShopKo(its a large store like Wal-Mart in case you haven't heard of it). If the money was better I would have stayed with it. I enjoyed catching little punk thieves and the occasional chase out the front door when the guy was dumb enough to try and run. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/biggrin.gif But I think back on company policy with internal theft and I can't believe that SamGoody got away with any of that crap. If I stopped a person thinking they had stolen something I damn well better be sure. The company and myself could be sued otherwise. Sure there are laws to help us out, but making employees frisk themselves before leaving! Just the thought of that pisses me off. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm23.gif
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RIOT
September 17th, 2001, 02:02 PM
I worked at an Eddie Bauer retail store, and they are very anal about employee theft, too. A manager had to watch you leave if you got off work during the day, and the women had to open their purse to show the contents if they stayed until closing. If the men or women had a sack from another store or EVEN FROM EDDIE BAUER, they would have to open to show the other employees/managers that nothing was stolen. Being a guy this didn't bother me much though. I would think a few women might not like it. Also to prevent employee theft at least two employees had to be in the store all the time. I think twice I couldn't leave the store to get something to eat because only a manager and I were working some nights. I could go to the stock/break room, but I couldn't leave the store http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm23.gif http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm23.gif . That never made any sense to me because unless I'm watching the other employee all the time, they might steal something.
The other thing I didn't care for was the "on call" scheduling. If you were "on call" you HAD to call in before your shift started to see the the store was selling or busy enough for you to come in. If you didn't call in, it was like not showing up to work at all.
When I left, I didn't leave on bad terms though. I rarely go in the store now since I don't have my 40-50% discount.
The previous two stores I worked at provided me with great deals. The first one I worked at (grocery store)gave me deals up to and including the ol' "five finger" discount. I loved it! Everyone, including the night manager, totally ripped off that store. God do I wish I still worked there. Pitty it was one of the jobs that I left on bad terms with.
The other one was at CompUSA. That store's security was the biggest joke, and still is. It's terrible when you can walk right out the store with a printer in-hand and have the store security wish you a "Good night". They never even asked me why I was carrying it. The extended warranty company had recently replaced two HP 2000C printers (both from different customers). Well, I got permission from the tech manager to make one good printer out of them and take it home. I had a note written about the printer just in case someone asked about it. Later that night, I walked out the store, right passed 3 cashiers, the front door security, and customer service without anyone asking me why I was taking the printer home.
Hell, it even got to the point where the floor salesmen would grab a new game off the floor and split the cost of the blank CDs to burn copies in the tech shop. I'd let them do it as long as I got a free copy. Damn do I miss that.
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AbSoLuTeZeR0
September 17th, 2001, 05:13 PM
you evil people ...LOL
i use to work for wards (to bad the went out of business)
but i got all kinds of deals from them, i purchased, dvd players,tv, mini systems, recivers,mini disk, etc at half price or less. i even purchased a 32" sony for 150.00 bucks, i got a 230.00 computer desk for 20 bucks, got i loved working there.
to bad the managers that originally worked there quit and found better jobs and we got a bunch of JERKS for managers. i was in sales and they would take me off the sales floor to do stock work, if im off the floor i dont make money i worked of comminsion, but they didnt care, then i volunteered to help the store in moving around some merchandise, they told me there where going to pay me more money hourly to do it. it turned out i got paid like 8.00 an hour to do that B*LLSH*T. i kept asking the store manager constantly how much am i getting paid and he said he didnt know. till finally when he got two weeks of work out of me he told me i was ticked, then they tried to fire me becuase i nocked off 10.00 bucks off of a 13" tv. i did that to please the customer because some dumb sales men sold two customer these tv's and we only had one left. so i found another that was a different model but had same feartures but it was 10 dollers more. so i nocked it off and told the supvisor , that happened like a long time ago, when the los prevention brought it up to me the incident happened like a couple of months ago, but basically the company was going down and wanted to get rid of alot of people so they would look for some BS on people and get them fired for it. well it turned out i didnt get fired becuse they sucked and i was awsome. they fired everyone else, so since im such a kool jerk i found a new job and quit when they needed me. whats funny is like a month later the company went chapter 11 and went out of business.
MWAWHAAHAHAHAHHA i got the last laugh.
especially since i kept some souveneers from the store.
WMAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA I AM THE PUNKIN KING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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derrick
September 17th, 2001, 06:11 PM
Well I worked for this company that felt the Linux Department doesnt need to go any further in life. (I was manager of there Linux R&D department) Any ways they came to me (the Tech support manager) and told me that I was being laid off. He told me not to say anything about the lost of money and the real reason for the closing of the Linux Department (They went bankrupt) anyways this pissed me off so bad I wrote a 2 page email about how the Linux Department is going under and how they went bankrupt etc.. and sent it to everyone in the building.
Yeah I know this was stupid..But having a tech support manager come tell you this because your boss was to scared to say it in your face comon. I did somthing very small I could have done somthing biger.
Well im over it, making more money for the government gee who would of thoght..
Oh I just got a new G4 woohoooo! (had to put it in sorry im very excited)
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Hippie_Techs
September 18th, 2001, 10:54 AM
I didn't exactly leave my last job under the best of terms from my end of things. I worked at a store for 6 1/2 years and was the head tech. I had a fairly good relationship with the owner and his new partner, and if anyone needed to know anything about something I was the one they would ask. They had offered me a piece of the store for a certain amount of money, but my financial situation was a little tight so I was unable to accept their offer to buy in. The part that got me really upset was that another tech was offered the same deal. This was a tech who had been there for barely a year, had quit the store half way through his year to pursue a better job (which turned out to be a pipe dream), and had returned back to the store for several months when he was offered a buy-in. When I tendered my Letter of Resignation, I put in it that I thought I should have at least been in on the decision or discussion of letting the other tech buy in. I was basically told that it wouldn't have mattered what I said because it was their decision to make. I think they offered it to him because they were nervous about his leaving again, since when he left the first time I was the only tech and things were difficult without another tech on staff at the time. There was no way that I could even consider working for the tech that I had trained. When I left I gave them a months notice and even went back in to help them work on printers since no one there knew how. Now I've started my own service business and am currently "stealing"(I'm sure that's how they see it) a lot of their clients. It's not my fault that they now can't support their client's needs with two techs that have less ability than I have in my little finger (possibly the middle one, hehe).
Hippie_Techs
September 18th, 2001, 11:16 AM
Update: I forgot to mention that I also stole the other good tech from my former bosses. The tech/owner had to hire his friend who has zero experience (unless you include building his own computer and tinkering with Linux as experience). They still have no one with printer experience and the calls here keep coming in. I have heard from a little birdie that the store is deeply in debt and their future is uncertain. It's too bad that they didn't see my leaving as a problem until I had actually left.
To all you bosses out there: make sure you keep your experienced techs happy!
Kendall
September 19th, 2001, 12:26 PM
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by Hippie_Techs:
Update: I forgot to mention that I also stole the other good tech from my former bosses. The tech/owner had to hire his friend who has zero experience (unless you include building his own computer and tinkering with Linux as experience). They still have no one with printer experience and the calls here keep coming in. I have heard from a little birdie that the store is deeply in debt and their future is uncertain. It's too bad that they didn't see my leaving as a problem until I had actually left.
To all you bosses out there: make sure you keep your experienced techs happy!</font>