Ever considered quiting your job? Have you ever actually done it?

Question

If so, how did you go about the decision? What did you do to make it a reality?

If not, why do you what to quit & what would you do it you did?

Answer 1

I have quit three jobs.

I resigned the first right after I was told to sign a document that I knew to be a falsification. My honesty and integrity is important to me. Others also valued it and on at least one occasion, my word of secrecy was accepted whereas the signatures from my company's lawyers needed countersigning by the company president. Until that happened, I could not discuss some technical work I was doing with the other company with anyone in mine.

I resigned the second when I overheard the division chief describe me as "a good engineer but a little too Jewish". I do not work with bigots.

I resigned the third after finding out that I was hired under false pretenses. I was promised leadership over a small department once I completed some calculations. It took me three days to complete them whereas the person previously working on them had hit total failure after 13 months. When I asked for my group, I was told that I was to be placed under the person who had failed in the calculations. As a bit of irony, shortly after leaving that company, they had to make a presentation to my new place. The person leading the delegation was the vice president who had lied to me. There were three people that he had to impress and I was one of them. Every time that he faltered in the presentation, I would remind him of another good aspect of his company. He kept waiting for the shoe to drop and I kept treating him with the utmost of respect. By the time he finished, his hands were shaking so much that he had given up trying to drink his coffee.

Answer 2

I thought about it once, but never told anybody, And the reason why i did not quit was because i did not have enough money to keep me before i get a new job, Soo i kept on going to my work day after day, I cant quit my job , there is no work around, The only way i would quit is if i had enough money to keep me alive for maybe like 6 months without working then i would quit, other then that i keep working

Answer 3

I had an abusive boss. Seems he was having side effects from a medicine he was taking and going bi-polar. Nobody would listen when I mentioned it, so I signed up for another job. I should've waited until I got it, but I quit during my vacation so that 1 of the 2 weeks notice was while I was out. He was really unhappy and threatened me. I had to call his boss. In the end I got an unscheduled 7 month unpaid vacation and got the new job. Lucky I guess.

My boss and his flunky quit in a couple of years. They couldn't get me back and nobody else would work with them except this guy they hated.

Answer 4

Looking back, there was this job I had as a teen, washing dishes. It sucked. As I waded through the piles of regular dishes, the pots & pans would stack up, and as I was wading through those, the dishes would pile up. When I drug the 500 pounds of trash to the dumpster in the frigged cold and ice, everything would pile up. It wouldn't have mattered if I quit or not. I was living at home, and I could have easily gotten another job somewhere else. I wish I could go back in time and just walk the f**k out on that job.

Answer 5

I have quit many jobs in the past and I hate my current job but can not quit it as their are no good jobs in my state.

Answer 6

ive quit two jobs in the past. i just called them and said "hey im not coming in today.... im quitting." of course i couldve been nice and put in a two weeks notice like i should have... but if i want to quit a job, i dont want another two weeks of work that i hate. oh well.

Answer 7

when i was 17, i worked in a restaurant, and it snowed one day, so i called off, and he said I would be fired if i didn't come into work, said it wasn't snowing there, but i lived in a different part of the county, and we had quite a bit. I told him I quit and he begged me to come in.
they ended up closing early because of snow.

long story short, i quit and told him to shove it where the sun don't shine, and i handed the phone to my dad, who said didn't you hear her buddy? she quit and hung up on him.

my best friends dad was the district manager, and the guy who threatened to fire me had to ask me back, because his actions were uncalled for (we were under state of emergency). i declined to go back, i had two other jobs, and didn't need the hastle.
BTW, a couple days later that guy who threatened me, got fired for sleeping with a married waitress in the parking lot.

Answer 8

I quit all the time, either because I have a better offer or I just don't feel like working any more.

Answer 9

sometimes its an easy choice
i've quit a few jobs cause I hated them