Has anyone.....

[witch]

I have too - I was living in Brighton - and then in the space of a couple of weeks my partner went back home to the West Indies and I and got made redundant. So it was all change for me - I found a job as a Test Engineer (which is what I was in those days) down the coast in Hastings and uprooted myself to take it.

The very first morning, by 10.30 I knew that it wasn't for me - the people were unfriendly, and the job wasn't anything like I had been told it was in the interview.

I hadnt yet gone and done the 'personal information' bit with personnel, so I figured that if I left there and then there would be no record that I had ever worked there and I could look for something else without that 'stain on my character'. So I just walked out. I even left my jacket behind.

Even now, I don't really regret it. It was completely out of character then, and now, but it was actually the right thing to do. Maybe I should have told them though!

Edited July 18, 2010 by witch

[Little-Miss]

I kinda have. At my last job I had handed my notice in anyway but just couldnt take it anymore so went home and never went back.

[Soulfish]

So it was all change for me - I found a job as a Test Engineer (which is what I was in those days) down the coast in Hastings and uprooted myself to take it.

The very first morning, by 10.30 I knew that it wasn't for me - the people were unfriendly, and the job wasn't anything like I had been told it was in the interview.

 

Down in sunny old Hastings? Not surprised you left to be fair!

[36Degrees]

Sort of. When I worked here last time I got sick and tired of being asked to do more and more with less resources - the head seemed to think that everything cost £5 and could be done in 5 minutes - despite money being wasted in other areas. They knew that the technician was leaving at the end of term (July) but did nothing about it and at the end of Sptember still hadn't placed an advert for his replacement.

 

Then one morning I was in very late as my father had fallen out of bed during the night, hit the bedside cabinet on his way down and made a mess of his face around the mouth. On arrival at work my boss asked me how I was, etc. and then the HT arrived. Straight away he asked if I could cope on my own until April. When I said no he said "We just don't have the money Michael". I've always been known as Mike, that's how I introduce myself, so found that very patronising. I simply said "well you won't have a Network Manager for long as there is too much work now" and told him I was going for a walk. I started job hunting that night, got an interview about 2 weeks later and the day after that handed in my resignation. In the interim they had advertised for a technician and he started 1 week before I left.

[SpuffMonkey]

Yes - when I was a young lad - and its a great feeling - until you realise that you have to find another one. Not sure I'd do it now - what with all the responsibilities that middle age brings.

 

Also been "black bagged" after a resignation - which is a horrible feeling...

[aerospacemango]

Almost 2 years ago, I walked out of my last job! It felt great!

 

I was working in one of the poshest casinos, in Mayfair, and I had already given my notice in. When it came to my last shift, I had already decided that there was no way I could do it all. I had spent 18 years in that business, being treated like carp, from all sides. Anyway, the shift started at 9PM.....and at 12.30, I stood up from my inspector's chair, took off my bow-tie, and Tux jacket, walked up to the manager and said "That's your lot! I cannot do this any longer!"

 

I then proceeded to wander around the casino saying goodbye to all my mates, shaking hands, and generally getting a bit emotional!!! Then, I went to the staff area, got changed, and walked out the door with my head held high! Never have I been more grateful to leave a place!

 

I had no job, in the offing, as my partner, our son and I were moving to Suffolk. Best move I ever made!!

[Sarconia]

I went for a job once, it was one of those crappy door to door sales jobs. I quickly realised that it was a load of crap and I would have walked off sooner if I could... we spent 8hrs walking round houses in the middle of London (which was 30+ miles from where home was at the time) harassing people into buying crap which they didn't want. Needless to say, I simply didn't go back the next day.

 

I was really tempted to walk out on my previous job, the only reason I didn't was because it was my first job and it would look weird if a) I'd been unemployed for 2yrs and b) I'd suddenly just applied for another job and claimed to have the knowledge to do the job without any previous experience.

[korifugi]

I went for a job once, it was one of those crappy door to door sales jobs. I quickly realised that it was a load of crap and I would have walked off sooner if I could... we spent 8hrs walking round houses in the middle of London (which was 30+ miles from where home was at the time) harassing people into buying crap which they didn't want. Needless to say, I simply didn't go back the next day.

 

I did walk away from this type of job once - I was only about half a mile away from home and was getting carp because people weren't in... I handed my stuff to the supervisor, told him to shove it (the long version) and walked home.

 

After a brew to sort myself out I felt alot better and got on dealing with temporary unemployment.

 

Funny thing was - they arrived to try and pick me up for work the next day! I explained the meaning of my previous comments to them and asked which part of that they didn't understand.

[Rydra]

I sorta left a job, but they will decide it happened otherwise.

 

I'd worked in a PC repair centre (based in the retail/EPOS industry) for 2 years, when they decided that they wanted the centre to move to shift work.

While earning 12k a year, working 9-5, they were planning to change to 3 days 8-6, 3 nights 2-10, with 3 days off, plus oweing them 50 extra hours of overtime above those hours, which I did not control, and the 'compensation' was about £550 a year.

 

I refused the change in contracts, so they made my redundant, with no redundancy pay. But, they did tell me to leave at the end of the week, and continue to pay me for 3 more, and 6 weeks after than I got a job earning more as a contractor. Earn about the same money now as I was contracting then, the difference is I no longer have a boss who I had a mutual hatred with. I get offered jobs in that industry about once a month, but refuse to listen beyond the word "EPOS". It's an awful line of work, fixing computers that have ciggie burns in, half a pint of guiness poured down the back, and at least twice, filled with beer + cement dust, working all hours of the day, for little money, and often involves a load of travelling.

[tmcd35]

I've done it three times! (but never to a school or in IT).

 

The first was a paperround (does that even count?), I'd left the shop and then came back on a different route. I wanted my old route back so when it became available I agreed to do both routes until they found someone to take over the one I didn't want. I was doing two route for too long and thought the manager was taking the preverbial - so I dump too full sacks of papers outside the store (out of site) and just walked away.

 

The second was at a cinema. I was a trainee projectionist. The job was pretty dead end and low paid, but enjoyable. My parents had moved to another part of the country so I had my own council flat (13 floor, in London). Any way, one day some local hoodlum kicked down my front door, expecting it to be empty, to rob the place. I phoned my parents that night and arranged to move back home. I turned up at work the next morning and handed in my set of keys and just turned round and walked out.

 

The last time was at a petrol station. I was at uni and worked nights over the weekend. It's surprising how streesfull the job is. The awful noise the pumps make when they need activating, the rudeness of the customers and never having even 2 seconds to think. One morning, mid shift, I snapped and called the boss in tears. I refused to work a second longer and threatened to just walk away unless they got someone to relieve me ASAP. I held out until someone got the the garage to take over, and then I walked.

 

I must say - all three times it felt good and was the right decision. Not sure I could ever do it again though (mortgage, et al). Besides I've actually liked the schools I've worked at so far and couldn't actually (morally) do that to them.