I wanted out of Ohio because they were passing bigoted laws, so I quit my job and moved out west

Things went downhill for a long time.

I did refrigeration at a factory. I found out shortly after I was hired that the factory used to belong to another company, and was phasing out old company's policies. Things got worse, but it wasn't too terrible. I was paid well, worked decent hours, had a lot of freedom. But one of the leads of our team started developing a drug habit. Got addicted to painkillers, and when those started running out, he got addicted to alcohol. Started showing up to work drunk.

One time, on a weekend when he wasn't even scheduled to work, he decided to drive a forklift through the boiler room. He hit a steam pipe, which started leaking. He also hit the deaerator tank and an air compressor. The damage was pretty bad. He was told to get a drug test by the manager on duty that weekend, so he called his own manager to avoid that. For some reason, on Monday, the on duty manager got fired and not the drunk guy who caused all the damage. I reported this all to HR, but they did nothing about it.

Years later. Same guy kept causing incidents (usually on weekends when he wasn't scheduled to work; I suspect he was digging through scrap bins to pay for his drug habit, which were kept in the boiler room) and his manager kept protecting him. Guy did nothing useful, so I have no idea why the manager kept protecting him (maybe sharing money from the scrap?). I figured it was time to go if these two were able to keep fucking things up. We'd eventually have an incident where people died, and I didn't want to be there for it.

Couple years after I quit, the drug addict OD'd, and the manager was forced into early retirement, so I guess the problem is resolved. Not that I'd ever go back.

Left my job 6 months ago because I was burnt out. I went from being a software developer in a team of 4 to being the only developer at the company. Then the IT support guy left so I was also doing IT support for 30 retail stores along with my regular job. I didn’t have a review or pay rise in the 4 years I was with the company. There was some other stuff around data privacy which was the final straw for me so I left. Still unemployed.

They asked me to develop and install a very invasive spyware on computers (both personal and company's) of all employees.

I was burnt out and the company was in the process of merging with two other companies. The leadership shifted to a bunch of people who wanted to be in charge but didn't have a plan on doing what their targets were. All changes were sudden and generally led to conditions worse than they were before.

So I left.

Because the season is over. Yeah, gonna miss the view from my office.

That's alright, I'll be back next year.

Last time I quit was a restaurant job. Most of my shifts were "on call", so I didn't actually know until early afternoon whether I'd be working that day. Tips were meh, there was a required tip out, and credit card tips were held until pay day. The final straw was when management sent out an email one day to all staff reminding us that calling out due to being hung over wasn't acceptable. I gave my notice and they didn't schedule me again until my final day.

It's ironic, in a way. I was in an abusive work environment, with abusive clients, and had to dream up ways to efficiently do the job of three people. It was awful and I was there for over a decade trying to get out, but the methods I invented to make my hellish job easier helped me get hired where I am now.

Two weeks before I left I'm walking into work and I get the call that I've been hired to the job I have now, which has a much better culture and reasonable work load. I was so happy I skipped to work Dick Van Dyke-style and immediately put in my two weeks.

Had a replacement plan done in two days because I already had my tasks inventoried, since I had to keep very close track of my productivity to protect myself from HR and management. I had some tenure and was making more than other employees, and therefore a consistent target for layoffs.

Spent the last week and a half getting paid to do jack shit, though my asshole team did make me take my turn with the on-call pager, even though it made no fucking sense other than spite.

Overall, t'was glorious.

The boss was incompetent and well on the way to driving the company to bankruptcy or worse. I was self-employed.

Crunch got steadily worse and worse, until I just couldn't take it anymore.

I only literally quit once, it was because the men in the same position were paid more than me, but I got the more difficult/busy shifts. Basically I was paid less for doing more, because I was a woman.

The other times I left jobs were layoff (company bought out by another) maternity, and once fired as I was shit at that job, it was also a shit job for me, very bad fit so that's ok.

Because I was on a student contract, and got kicked out of college.

My manager had a meeting with all of us and basically said we're all gonna be fired.

Next week they retracted everything they said and said they misunderstood.

The week after that they left the company.

My employer(s) got sent to jail. They stole 401k money among other things. It was on the news!

I didnt quit persay but I had a job lined up about a week before it all happened.

Because my ex boss blocked me from a promotion because I was her best worker.

I was working support, and was learning full stack in my spare time. Showed the Devs in the company some of my projects, and that's when they wanted me to work with them, since I already knew the system. Since I was rejected, I found a dev job within 2 weeks, and handed in my resignation. My manager was furious and asked why; the look on her face when she realised that it was because of her was great.

Now working as a fullstack developer for 4 years.

Fuck you, Lena!

I became the target of company president who wanted me gone and they started scrutinizing my every move, put me on a PiP, made up rumors about my work performance all the bullshit they do before firing you. So I left on my own terms instead of getting fired. Had work lined up before I left, so it worked out.

I got poached by my current employer. I was looking for excuse to turn them down, so I responded with a list of demands, and they said yes to everything. The demands were mostly reasonable, with a couple of hilights. Off the top of my head:

• 40% pay increase
• Any flight over 4 hours will be business class if available
• I don't hand in meal receipts for travel days. Flat sum per day no matter what. Cuts down on the paperwork.

The commute was too far already (about 1h 10m driving each way), and they wanted me to transfer to another location which would require a full-on move, which I wasn't up for.

In retrospect, after I left they got bought out, had a leadership changeover and rebranding, and closed several facilities. So I think I might've dodged something.

Was in temporarily in a country that has a deranged pedo as a leader. Moved back home. No regrets.

My boss was fired because she was made the weekend supervisor of a different department (together with already being in charge of my department the rest of the time) by complete surprise on a Friday and something went wrong on Sunday which she was blamed for and then fired Monday morning.

Shortly after the interim boss decided that my department needed to work weekend call for the other one, so I jumped ship to a similar company that paid better.

I liked my original boss, and she was very good at her job, so I was already pissed about her being fired (or really set up to be fired). Putting me on call for a department I don't even work at when I specifically took this job in the first place because there was no call was the final straw.

My current boss is incompetent, but also too busy with other things to bother me, so I keep my numbers higher than anyone else in my department to keep her away from me.

I joined a company to work on building out the software stack for their solar power systems for humanitarian aid in Africa. A few months after I started they pivoted to making solar powered mobile surveillance towers for the US border patrol.

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way to skip past the real story here.

so? what happn next? you all get married or what?

do you work at the paper? how is cincinnati?

Literally waiting for January. New employer won’t have an opening until then. Current job doesn’t know yet.

I haven’t had a cost of living increase in 3 years.

Because everyone else was getting promoted over me. (While I had more experience, better performance reviews, etc etc…)

I have not really quit anything in my professional career. One nice thing about contracts is you just sorta don't renew it and most full time jobs end after a few projects. Sorta the curse of getting things done. then like in college I worked the dishroom but like you just sorta don't come back the next year or semester. It just does not feel like quitting. Felt more like not reupping a contract. I guess I did leave this job at my first college to go work in the dish room because it payed and extra dollar over minimum wage and then all the food service paid an extra dollar on weekends. So it was like 50% more to work the dishroom on weekends.

Worked at AutoZone for 8 years. They started cutting everyone's hours and raises were getting smaller and smaller. Business was just as busy as it'd always been. I'm friends with the store manager they were trying to make him work even more hours because he's salaried so they wouldn't have to pay employees. He was already working around 60 hours a week. That's going on company-wide while they constantly raise prices on everything. A one year warranty battery went from 79.99 to 120.99 and as far as I know is still going up. You were lucky if you made more than $15 an hour as a full-time employee. I don't see the auto parts stores sticking around much longer if that keeps up because they don't care who they hire anymore. They just want whoever will work for bare-minimum wages.

I had a new full time job and was just continuing the old job on the weekends for extra cash. When I got a significant raise due to moving up positions I chose free weekends.

because i didn't want to live the rest of my life broke, working 80 hour weeks, and be subjected to political bullshit beliefs.

I started getting unintentionally involved in the workplace politics and used as a pawn for different departments to screw other ones over. My managers didn't care and thought I wouldn't quit

Laid off. I worked in a manufacturing industry that is very boom-bust and the executives made some dumbass risky decisions that didn't pay off, so of course the rank-and-file paid the price.

It's been a couple years and they're hiring again but the amount I'd need to overcome that trauma isn't justifiable.

Got fired for asking why we put a peperoncini on a burger.

Also that's a weird reason to quit a job imo.

My employer said he liked Farage. i quit instantly. Freelance gig tho so nothing life changing

I had an intimate video of me maliciously shared with my employer and their biggest client

The irony is that in trying to destroy me, whoever it was actually fuelled my fire to do something I'd wanted to do for many years, so I walked out of my job and followed my dream

I've never looked back, funnily enough it took someone being a cunt to break my golden handcuffs