What is the most 'legendary' way you’ve seen someone quit their job?

my coworker at the ice cream shop literally handed her apron to a customer who was complaining about prices and said "you try making minimum wage dealing with this" and just walked out.

In about 1999 I was working as a carpenter framing houses. I was about 24, the foreman was about 23 and one the other kids was about 20. The foreman would just yell at the younger dudes and berate them. He never did to me because he knew I wouldn't put up with it cause I could have kicked his ass. One day we were sheeting the roof of a two story house and the foreman was just reading this kid off. There was a big extension ladder tied off to the roof that was the only way up or down. The younger kid walked over to the ladder and the foreman kept yelling at him. Kid untied the ladder from the roof, quickly climbed down and pushed the ladder over. The rest of us were stuck on the roof watching him. He walked over to the foremans truck and yelled up at the foreman "Hey Steve! F*** you now this is happening!" Opened Steve's truck door, pissed all over the front seat, gave Steve the finger hopped in his car and drove off while we were all stuck on the roof. This was before anyone had a cellphone. We were stuck on the roof for about two hours until we could flag down some other guys who were building near us to put the ladder back up. F****** awesome, Steve learned a hard lesson about teaching people as opposed to yelling at people. Never saw that kid again, think about him often.

I was a temp making low pay for a Desktop IT job and had just got a new job paying double what I was making. I was in charge of a Windows 10 to Windows 11 conversion and in a meeting talking about the next steps. I just finished 300 computers in 3 months and they were talking about me taking over another 400 to do in 5 months since the last group of people weren’t working fast enough. As soon as they made all the plans and told me the work load, I asked to be full time and have a pay raise. They told me, “At the end of the 5 months if you perform well we will consider it.” I told them, “Then I am not willing to do the job anymore.” And walked out and never returned.

The video of the guy quitting with a brass band playing him out of the building is one of my favorite things ever. 

Team meeting. Icebreaker. Two truths and a lie. One guy's truth was 'I'm quitting today.' I knew he wasn't happy in the job, but he said afterwards it was spur of the moment. He had no regrets!

Dude went to the bathroom, never saw him again. All his stuff still at his desk. Manager tried to get ahold of him return it, but he never responded.

That southwest employee who left the plane through emergency exit slide. I did not "see" him, but dang, I remember thinking what a way to quit.

Guy said he would stay if they bought him an extremely expensive bottle of (can't remember but I think it was bourbon, ballpark of $10k+) so they did and he quit anyway. walked out with his bottle and said I still quit and never came back lol. Boss was so steaming mad.

Dude mooned the office and walked out

Not legendary in the sense you are asking but we still talk about it years later. Local delivery driver worked for the company for a few weeks. One day just never shows back up at the end of the day. Other employees do a bit of looking around and find the company van in an empty lot like half a mile away. Front seat absolutely covered in shit. Poor guy shit himself and just decided, I'm not dealing with that. Made no attempt to clean it up or return the van, just took off. Never collected his last paycheck or anything, just disappeared lol.

First restaurant I worked in one of the servers who got left a $1 bill as a tip on a $200 tab walked back to the table lit it on fire dropped it on the table and left. The people at the table then insisted the manager refund their tab. Manager refused, cops were called. It was glorious.

A cook tossed a half cooked omelet into the face of the owner 's unpopular son and walked out for good

We were dining in a nice restaurant where we could see and hear the chef pitch a huge fit over something in the kitchen, pack up his knives and storm out through the front door with the owner in tow trying to quiet him down.

I came in 20 min early and the manager was "oh good you are here go ahead and take your break. " and I said "Im here early and I haven't even clocked in yet" so she says "Ok clock in and then clock out and take you break we're gonna be busy tonight." So I said "thats not a break thats illegal" "Don't argue with me!" So I clocked in. Made a huge meal for myself. Didn't clock out. And went home. I was supposed to be doing all the prep in-between dishes and what not. They didn't realize I wasn't there for hours, until they realized nothing was prepared all the food was still frozen and the dishes were dirty in the sink. They were super f****** pissed it was great.

Guy didn't say anything. Manager was making demands. Ruddi gave a firm "no" and manager went off. Ruddi took off his work id, set it the desk and walked out. Manager chased him to the door begging him to not quit. Ruddi was in full control from that moment on. The bereavement card method is great as well. "Sorry for your loss...."

Heard an old co worker had access to everyone’s salary. His last day he sent it to everyone. His brother was my future boss who still works there.

I was a fairly new starter and heard that someone got spoken to nastily by a customer (we weren’t allowed to hang up irrespective of how vicious and personal they got and would be disciplined if we did) She literally put her headset down, took her bag and coat, said she was going on her break and never returned Lots of us nearly did the same

Buddy who worked at the office I used to work at; He had out in 80 hours a week, when his mom died he scaled back to "only" 60 hours, and started getting bad performance reviews (mind you, 40 hours is considered full time). Around the time they were getting ready to ~~spring the surprise layoffs on everyone~~ announce their exciting new epic growth strategy, he had told a few people he was thinking of putting in his retirement. Few days before Rich put on his lifts and fake tear in his eye for the floor show, one of the few people in HR people liked was constantly pestering him "you really should put in your retirement" (she couldn't actually tell people they were about to basically gut the local office here). He still gets insurance (albeit very, very shitty insurance) as part of his retirement, which pays for his HIV treatment

My buddy and I WAY back were horribly mistreated by the new manager of the grocery store we worked in for a few years. She was rude, hostile, and never ever allowed for time off. By buddy and I had our HS graduation coming and she basically refused to give us the following day off (and he was supposed to work the day of). So... took a damaged McCain Deep and delicious cake (supposed to be thrown out). Ate it in her office .. on camera... when she was on the floor. Let basically a Fuk You note written on her note pad... Stuck a candle in the half eaten cake and lit it and walked out

I worked at a place with 2 crews working 4 days a week, everyone worked Wednesday. 1 crew had 5 people, my crew had 4. They complained a lot about to much work. There were 9 kilns a week, a job that took 4 hours, then 5 hours of cleaning. We worked 10 hour days. We did 5 kilns a week, they did 4, due to all their complaining. We had a person quit on our crew, they weren't replaced. A year later they had someone quit their crew, not replaced. 6 months later they had another person quit, but gave 3 months notice, they didn't replace them. Now we are 2 crews of 3. They let a girl on my crew go on holidays, and the other guy went to his doctor and got stress leave. I had worked on a tour for all our biggest clients and a big lunch for a year. Had tents there, all sorts of stuff. I got cut out and was given all the hard jobs, with the assurance someone would take over and finish. They didn't. I showed up by myself the next day, ready to do a job that takes 2 people 10 hours, while finishing 5 hours of work from the day before. The guy wanting to work overtime on the other crew showed up an hour late. I told him I was pissed off because he didn't take over the job he was supposed to. He told me they did it on purpose cause I had "a bad attitude". For a year and a half, 3 of us did more difficult jobs that the 4 of them, while they complained about us being lazy, and then working too hard the entire time. The "production supervisor" was their supervisor, he was in charge of both crews. Our supervisor was in charge of the product itself. They were complaining about us on days they weren't there, then leaving us half their shit at the end of the week, when we continually got everything done. We never complained, they complained constantly. Since their supervisor was there everyday with them and not us, he just listened to what they had to say, and gave us shit every day. There was no way to actually explain that we were basically doing double the labor, they wouldnt listen, just gave us shit. Finally, on the day that they told me they screwed me on purpose, I quit, right there and then, with a $50,000 dollar job sitting there, needing 2 people to do it. The supervisors had to do it for the first time in years. And they were left with a 0 man crew for 2 days. The other crew had to come in, and probably didn't get a day off for a week or 2 working 10 hour days. They all text me hateful shit. A: they could have f****** hired someone to replace the person that gave 3 months notice. B: they could have done their fair share of work and not talked shit about us the entire time. After I left, that crew stayed together, and the crew I left has just constantly rotated through new employees for years. The supervisors are fucked, cause it's always new employees. It was a difficult job that required a lot of skill and energy, their product has been getting fucked up constantly. They still don't see what that having a favourite crew and screwing the other crew is completely shooting themselves in the foot. I should mention. I was loved when I started there, and I started on their A crew. They told me I was the best guy and put me on the other crew to "get them up to snuff". I was stupid and believed they were useless too. Within 6 months, with the other crew, their "best guy" and "hardest worker" was now lazy and not doing enough.

I was giving a temp a tour at the beginning of his first day. When the dude got near the door, he looked around, and just f****** ran. It wasn’t even that bad of a job, I figured that he saw someone that he didn’t want to deal with for whatever reason.

The boss's office had two doors. A colleague went in through one and out through the other. I never saw her again.

Jaden Ivey

You had to work until a certain day to get a bonus. So that guy worked that day (it was a Saturday) and quit at 5pm. He was starting a new job on Monday. The Boss was so mad.

Friend of mine was working as a security guard at a summer camp on a lake and just had enough ... of everything. He carefully drove his patrol car out as far as he could on the dock, carefully maneuvered it so that it was sideways...and threw the only set of keys as far as he could into the water.

An Asian dude left his laptop at the desk with a sticky note on it saying “I am going to Mexico”.

On my first day of work at a very popular steak house chain, a bartender was talking to me and showing me the ropes. Turns out it was his last day there after several years and he was very stoked to be getting out. He was well liked amongst the staff there, who was sad to see him leave, but he told us he a big surprise for us all before he bounced. A little back story, one of the managers there was incredibly insufferable (was able to corroborate after many years on the job there) and she was particularly shitty to the previously mentioned bartender for whatever reason, but it was well known amongst the staff. She somehow was able to make every single person there miserable at some point and was just generally an unhappy person. So as the bartender was closing out his duties, he was making his rounds to everyone saying good bye, then right at peak dinner rush, he goes to said manager and says a long sweet “bury the hatchet” kind of farewell to her which seemed to work as she was smiling during the end of it. He then proceeds to dump an entire beer stein of beer ontop of her head. It turns out through the shift, he had been collecting remaining backwash from in finished beers and collecting it in that very glass (this was at least a liter of volume). He let her know that too as she was drenched and seething with rage, in front of the entire shocked staff and dining clientele. Dude laughs and sprints out the side ToGo door of the restaurant (where I was currently working) and she was so furious she picks up the glass and throws it at him across the restaurant. She missed by like 10 feet and the glass basically explodes over a 6 top of people that was eating their dinner. Nobody could believe what they just saw. He was talked about basically on a weekly basis for the years I continued to work there. To this day this was the most epic shit I’ve ever seen.

When I was an Amazon driver, someone loaded up his van in the morning, drove straight from the loading dock to the parking lot, got in his car, and went home.

A waitress at a bar I worked at was pissed about her 25 dollar christmas bonus and put her cigarette put in the cheesy potatoes on the way put the door from the (potluck) Christmas party and told the (tip theiving) owner to shove it.

Call center doing tech support. The place was famous for waiting till the last minute before denying someone days off. People would have to call in sick for funerals, birthdays, exams. It was shit. So someone finally snapped. He had a vacation to Mexico with a bunch of his friends that was planned 6 or more months in advance. It came down to 2 weeks before he was leaving and they approved 90% of it denying two separate days right in the middle. He just stood up next me and yelled "what the mother f****** f*** is this bullshit!". Then he grabbed his bag, stormed over to the emergency exit, which was a bit of a ways away, then he kicked the door open so the alarm started going off. He didn't go out that door though. Instead he slowly walked out the main entrance. Before he left he flipped off a couple of the stunned floor supervisors and screamed "I'm a f****** person not a god damn number!!!" It was pretty epic.

Saw someone submit their own termination ticket in the system and that was the notice.

Not quite a quitting, but legendary, An officer manger with 40 years of service, stood up at 4.55pm on a Friday, and said... "Well, that's it. This is my last day in the job, and I retire at 5.00. Bob X takes over from me, and yes, it's all been cleared with him and HR. No offense, but I hate the usual ceremony involved, so I just want to say that it's been a delight, sometimes, to work with some of you. I know you'll do well without me. Thank you all, and Good-Bye." And with that, he put on his coat, walked out and retired. I really want to do that when I go.

I knew I was getting laid off because I was paid out before I went in. So I went in with a mug of whiskey straight up. I also volunteered to go first and as I walked in, I raised my mug and said, "I already know im laid off" my old CFO was like, how do you know? Im like im paid hourly (this was at a pharma which was very rare) and I check my paycheck at midnight the day we get paid. I knew I got paid for my vacation time. Anyways, I spent 2k on my FSA funds in 10 minutes which they couldn't come after me for. I then got a severance of about 15k and had two other jobs the next day (I used to work multiple jobs) to go to, so I didnt care.

OK I’m 13 caddying at the country club. Stole a golf cart and loaded maybe 10-11 caddies in and on it.. drove donuts in the grass until maybe 2 caddies were left “unflung” from the cart.. fired on the spot, no regrets - well, I didn’t get the scholarship..

Una escena de Wanted. Creo que es algo que todos, en algún momento de nuestra vida, hemos deseado hacer.

There was a story on listnook by a guy who quit like an engineering job on an oil rig, and took the entire team with him, ghosting their abusive boss, who ended up taking a huge hit to his career because of it. One of my favorite stories I read on here, if anyone can find it.

whole threads about this at [askamanager.com](http://askamanager.com)