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People Reveal The Real Reason They Quit Their Job On The Spot

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Nearly everyone has worked a job that they don't love.

Monotonous or soul-sucking as these jobs may be, people put up with them nonetheless, mainly because they need the money or to hold themselves over until a better job comes along.

In some cases, people find their new jobs so unbearable that they can't even wait to give their two weeks' notice.

Sometimes making their first day on the job their last... or even barely even make it through an hour of work before handing in their notice.


Redditor Adventurous-Low9922 was curious to hear what led people to make the seemingly extreme decision to quit their job on the first day, leading them to ask:
"People who quit their job on the spot, why?"

You Can't Fire Me, I Quit!

"I got fired from a pizza delivery job once and told I had to finish my shift on a Friday night."

"They said I was a no call no show the previous day."

"I wasn't scheduled."

"They wrote me in but didn't call me."

"The ink wasn't even the same color as the rest of the schedule."

"So when I showed up for work the next day they told me I was fired for no call no show, but I had to stay and work."

"I said f*ck that, and walked two doors over to the Chinese place and asked if they needed a delivery guy."

"Hired on the spot."

"Plus free egg rolls."- Artisanal_Sh*tposter

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Something Tells Me He Didn't Get It...

"Not me but the weirdest one I have ever seen."

"I am the electronics guy at Walmart."

"One night they drop someone new on me."

"He had gone through all the onboarding and training videos and sh*t which takes a few days."

"They tell me to point him at something to do."

"I take him to the ink aisle and show him how to zone it."

"Put everything in order line it up against the edge of the shelf, sh*t like that."

"He says he's cool he gets it so I'm like great and walk away."

"Like not even 10 f*cking minutes later I go to see how he's doing and dude is f*cking gone."

"We never saw him again."- TimeTravelMishap

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Unsafe Work Environment

"I had the owner of a restaurant I was managing spill literally boiling fresh made chicken noodle soup on my middle torso all the way down."

"So hot and painful to the point I had to strip my soaking boiling shoes."

"My reaction was to run and swear."

"He told me If I swore so vocally again he would let me go."


"I then needed medical attention, to which he refused."

"I went to the hospital anyway, came to work the next day with bandages, and was told I would work today's shift as repayment for missing my previous one."

"I explained that was illegal and gave him an ultimatum, either he fix it with him paying my medical bills or I walk."

"He laughed saying I had no control over it."

"So I walked."

"3 months later after filing suit, I supplied all the information needed to indict him on tax fraud, failure to properly insure, failure to maintain a safe work place, and he and his other businesses had to be sold for him to afford the legal costs, my medical bills and the mandatory restitution payments."

"Stupid b*tch is still paying me out, and now that he's fulfilled his sentenced time, lives in a relatively medium sized town and we frequent the same locations."

"I consistently remind him of what his next payment is owed and due."- Bigjerr2007

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Not Part Of The Job Description...

"Quit a job on the first day."

"I was hired as an IT tech, however this company did not know what IT techs were."

"They thought 'IT does everything', including making sure their lights were replaced."

"I had one lady complain about me not changing her lightbulb fast enough because the burned out one shatterd on me and cut my hand open."

"I dropped the box of flourescents, shattering literally all of them, and walked out."

"Told my supervisor he needs to hire actual maintenance cause IT fixes computers."- TheLightningCount1

Passed Over For A Job They Were already Working!

"I walked away from a job in management once because they passed me up for a promotion for a role I was doing anyways due to it being vacant but needing to be done."

"When they passed me up I started looking."

"When they asked ME to train the guy who got it who was now my boss, I left."- SUTATSDOG·

Time Wasn't Valued

"Was brought in for a tryout shift and when I arrived I was told it wouldn't be paid since this was for them to see if they wanted to hire me and not the other way around."- picnic-boy·

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Enough Is Enough

"Large corporation kept 'downsizing' the workforce but not the workload."

"Those of us who were left (team of 15 reduced to 2) felt so lucky to have a job that we didn’t complain about taking on the jobs of three people and working 60+ hours per week."

"Company hires a new department head and a couple months later I have my annual review where he says 'we just need you to do more' to which I replied 'no'."

"No forethought."

"No plan."

"I just knew I couldn’t take on more."

"I definitely caught him off guard."

"And I couldn’t believe 'no' came out of my mouth."

"We were both stunned."

"But that was effectively my two week's notice."- NewUserNameIsDumb

Fed Up With Greed

"I was working as an engineer for a big corporation."

"I was supposed to get a promotion to senior engineer at the start of covid lockdowns, so they told me I wouldn’t get one because of covid."

"Fair enough."

"But a couple weeks later they told me our salaries would be reduced because the company wasn’t doing well."

"Not nice but nothing I could do."

"A couple months later, the company promoted two vice presidents to senior vice presidents, and gave them a huge bonus."

"I then asked for my promotion and they told me that no promotions would take place under Covid."

"I waited a few more months until they finally gave me my promotion."

"And the salary increase was £100 A YEAR."

"Which is much smaller than what my salary was reduced because of Covid."

"I took home the letter indicating I had a promotion, gave my notice and began looking for a senior engineer role somewhere else."

"F*ck greedy corporations."

"I forgot to mention that they removed all our bonuses during this time period, but management got it all."- AnheruKira

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It's understandable to bear with a job you hate for the money.

But money can't buy back your dignity and self-worth.

If either of those are being threatened at your place of employment, it's probably time to move on.

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