Have you ever Rage Quit a job?

Greg

I run a tight ship... wreck
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Rage Quitting... do you have any stories to share?

I have a few "Eff this place, I QUIT!" stories from when I was younger... from 18 - 21 yrs old, I bounced around jobs and dealt with some super shitty conditions and things eventually blew up.

First one... I worked at Jacks Tire & Oil in Orem for a couple years. Worked my way into the OTR/commercial tire side, running a service truck.

I worked a long day one Friday mid-Summer with several difficult service calls and was a couple hours late coming back to the shop, well after business hours (after 8 pm). I was exhausted, sweaty and tired... couldn't wait to go home and rest.

I pull the service truck into the yard and see 3 semi trucks with trailers all lined up... 2 needing new tires, one flat repair and only ONE guy working on them.

I park the truck and the guy working tells me that the manager told him I'd help once I was back from the service calls. I was so pissed... everyone else had been sent home for the night and there were a few more hours of work. I apologized to Travis (who was a super nice guy and a hard worker) and told him I was done... "This is total bull$hit, I f**king QUIT!" Told him to call the manager in to help with all the work he'd scheduled well into the night.

I walked to my Jeep smiling and felt a massive weight off my shoulders as I hauled ass away from that shitty job!

Sorry to have left you hanging Travis!! Felt bad about leaving him, it wasn't his fault... the manager had pulled shit like that in the past. I hated that company, managers and how shitty they treated the employees. Even though I didn't have a backup plan, I was happy to walk away from that joke of a job.



Another story from my time at Jacks Tire and Oil... they had a contract to maintain a fleet of 150 belly dump trailers at a company in Spanish Fork. The heat reflecting off aluminum belly dumps was crazy in the Summer. Every other Saturday 2 of us got dropped off for 8+ hours with a tire maintenance utility trailer. It had a compressor, tools, etc. We had to check every single tire on all the trailers and fix any problems.

We had no food, water or access to a bathroom... one really hot day in July I got sick, bad... heat stress. Felt like I was dieing... massive migrane headache, dizzy, nausea, etc. I laid under a trailer trying not to pass out the rest of the day. Had to wait it out until they came to pick us up, beg the manager to let me get some water and Gatorade on the way back to the shop. 🙄
 

Greg

I run a tight ship... wreck
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Another one... about 19 yrs old at the time. I got hired by a small machine shop, about 20 guys working there. The pay was minimum wage, like $4.75 an hour. I spent 2 hours getting trained on running a CNC machine, then 2 hours working on my own. It was incredibly monotonous production work, you'd check tolerances of the parts with a mic every 5 completed parts and make adjustments, if needed.

Lunch time rolls around and I walk to the parking lot and notice nobody else is leaving, they're all hanging out around the business. I find my trainer and told him I was going to get lunch. He tells me it's company policy that employees stay on site for lunch, but it was unpaid. I didn't have any food with me (because nothing was said at any point before) and was pretty hungry.

Told him at that point I wasn't interested in working there, if I couldn't leave to get lunch. Said I didn't care for the job either and I was quitting... He asked about paying me for the first 4 hours of the day. I told him I didn't care, it wasn't worth the shitty under $20 paycheck anyhow. 😆
 

Thursty

Well-Known Member
Location
Green River
No cool rage quit stories to tell, but there were plenty of days in the LE world where I would have loved to throw my badge on the boss’ desk and tell him to come get his patrol truck out of my driveway before I set it on fire. 😂
 

shortstraw8

Well-Known Member
Never rage quite but remember sitting 200' on a tower in ~20° getting the call that I the job I interviewed for in tech and yelling down to the ground foreman telling him I quit. He responded and said he can't allow it in more colorful language and getting the same response from the boss.

Wanted to rage quit when I worked at bigO as a teen but just gave 2wks, horrible management with one that would blame his laziness on techs.
 

Medsker

2024 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 392
Location
Herriman, UT
When I was in college full time I was working 3 jobs. Two part time and one full time. I was like a tea kettle ready to explode from lack of sleep and too much work and school. The full time gig was at Smith's ice cream plant in Layton. I worked nights and one night the maintenance man did something really stupid that effected my work. I grabbed him by the collar and threw him up against the wall and walked out. It felt so good to be rid of that job!
 

The_Lobbster

Well-Known Member
As much as I’ve wanted to, my dad always taught me to never quit a job until I had another lined up.

Closest I’ve got though was on the last day of my two weeks, got drug into the office for some BS. Once I explained my side and they understood I was in the right, they asked me to go complete the job I was pulled off of. Thankfully I was smart enough to pack my tools all up before heading to the office, so I politely told them I was done and that they could find somebody else to do it.

Was a nice Friday afternoon break at least til I started at UVU the following Monday.
 

Johnny Quest

Web Wheeler
Location
West Jordan
I quit a job during my annual review. It was a fun job that paid horribly, had a very inconsistent schedule, and the commute was a rough. I already had something else lined up and was planning on giving my notice, so when I asked my boss (who was not my favorite person) to sit down for a few minutes, she said something along the lines of “oh perfect, we need to do your review anyway”. The scene was set.

She went first. She talked about all the things I was doing, and actually had a pretty positive reflection on my performance. She then said she was going to bump me up to $X/hr, which was like a $0.23 raise or something insulting like that.

So I thanked her, signed the paperwork, and the review was over.

“Ok, what was it that you wanted to talk about?”

“I’m quitting.”

[stunned awkward beautiful confused silence]

“I found A better job, with better pay, better hours, and a better commute. This is my notice.”

The last two weeks were very relaxed, and I pretty much came and went as I pleased. I don't think she said a single word to me the whole time, and I finished out my last shift, dropped my stuff at the front desk, and left with a huge smile on my face.
 
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