I just quit my job with no notice (Page 3 of 4)
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Originally Posted By PGAEMU: Congratulations! You will pick something else up. Everyone likes Hot Dogs. |
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Originally Posted By megalon: I'm glad to see young people not falling into the get married have kids work and die trap. Life is short. Make good choices. Save your money and retire. I guess different people have different priorities in life. I hope nothing but the best for you, and hope for your sake that at the end of your life you still feel the same way. |
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: Changing over while idol. So they don't have to pay full regular hourly rate, for sitting. I still have to sit in the vehicle though.  Originally Posted By DKUltra: Originally Posted By nottooslow: what were the new clock in rules? I still have to sit in the vehicle though. While idol?, sir are you a god, if someone asked if you are god, the answer is always yes? |
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: I have most of the equipment needed in storage. And have been researching permits, insurance, etc. If I can pull it off, it's still a good six months away. Would be nice to relax and do my own thing. Please name it “Larry Hotdogs” in honor of the meme |
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I've quit 3 jobs with no notice. 2 were at the end of the day and I told the foreman I'll be back on Friday to get my check. The last one I just dropped my paint gun on the floor and walked out . The idiot owner had decided to change the color of this metal frame without telling anyone but me and the foreman through a fucking fit and would not listen to reason. I hope that epoxy paint set up in the gun, hoses and pressure pot before anyone did anything about it. |
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Originally Posted By TontoGoldstein: For five years it was $600/week. Then they cut it. There were absolutely zero benefits. I had a gal bladder attack that sent me to the ER. I wasn’t paid for sick leave. I was spending $10 a day in commuting costs. I was paying $20 a day in taxes. So my gross per day was down to $70 as we had four day work weeks. I spent 8 hours a day teaching, grading, and doing lesson plans. As such I was pocketing $8.75 an hour. That’s not enough to be treated disrespectfully. I had to laugh at this, because I did this same exercise the other night. I figured out around $8.79 an hour based on your same scenario. Don't worry people, I am teaching your kids for $8.79 an hour. 
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Originally Posted By bullsi191145: Uhh… got a link? Originally Posted By bullsi191145: Originally Posted By Explorer225: Chick on YouTube making decent money slinging wieners. Good luck with your future endeavors. Also she's got big tits and ass so her numbers may be a little skewed. Uhh… got a link? Sunshines hotdogs |
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: Think I am going to open a HotDog Cart. Lol watch out, the illegals will call cops on you, if you interfere w/ their cart 
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: After 13 years basically doing the same job, I done upped and quit this morning. I have been dealing with unbelievable amounts of stress, after a new company took over in 2024. Has been really bad the last few weeks. Got an ass chewing yesterday for something that was not related to me. Then today they called an emergency mandatory meeting, and announced new clock in rules that will reduce my pay, by a sizable amount. I handed them my keys and said "See Ya"! Think I am going to open a HotDog Cart. Lol The fear and uncertainty that comes with telling your boss “i’m outta here” when you don’t have another job lined up is NOTHING compared to the shame and humiliation that comes with sucking up and eating his/her shit. Well done, DKIltra, well done. You’ll sleep well tonight. |
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Originally Posted By dustinf: Rage quitting is the best feeling in the World. Something about making people realize “Your money means nothing to me.” Is really ultra satisfying. I’m not making light of your situation. It does . I once quit a job 100 miles away from home , had to call my wife to come get me . Had no idea what I would do for money . Good luck to the OP . |
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Originally Posted By megalon: I'm glad to see young people not falling into the get married have kids work and die trap. Life is short. Make good choices. Save your money and retire. Wut? Not having kids is one of my biggest mistakes. You can be broke or rich. We all die the same at roughly the same ages, and none of us are taking shit with us. The make good choices bit I agree with, but without a few bad ones, you won't know when you're making the good ones. |
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: Changing over while idol. So they don't have to pay full regular hourly rate, for sitting. I still have to sit in the vehicle though. Somebody probably already posted something similar, but there is such a thing as “deminimus time”. The original court case is probably from 100 years ago with coal miners. The actual punch in / punch out clock was down in the mine. The miners had to ride slow ass elevator down and then clock in. At the end of the shift, they had to clock out first down in the mine, and then ride that same slow ass elevator up to the surface. The latest court case was during covid and it was a bunch of Amazon workers at one of their fulfillment centers. I think they had to enter the front of one of their “fulfillment centers” warehouses. Then they had to go all the way to the back, probably hot their temperatures taken, and then they clocked in. Whatever happened to that court case….I have no idea. |
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Originally Posted By cayman_shen: I am so jealous of people who have the nerve and resources to quit their crap jobs. I literally have no idea what I would do if I left my appalling, soul-crushing career. I could live about two months and then...well, I'd be in a pickle. But boy do I ever dream... Same here. But OP is a CDL driver so I’m sure he can find something else, probably within a few days. That’s 90 percent of the jobs I see posted on Indeed. Must be a real shortage right now. |
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Originally Posted By heavy260: My wife’s current employer requires 3 months! Who the fuck does that? They will be lucky if she doesn’t leave for the day and not come back. She started clearing off her desk this week. Originally Posted By heavy260: Originally Posted By 58Eldorado: Congrats, OP. The practice of giving two weeks notice to quit a job is 1950's Boomer horseshit and needs to stop. Common courtesy has no place in the modern world. Your employer will gladly get rid of you without any notice whatsoever. My wife’s current employer requires 3 months! Who the fuck does that? They will be lucky if she doesn’t leave for the day and not come back. She started clearing off her desk this week. Who are they, the fucking CIA? Tell them they can require deez nuts. |
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Originally Posted By cayman_shen: I am so jealous of people who have the nerve and resources to quit their crap jobs. I literally have no idea what I would do if I left my appalling, soul-crushing career. I could live about two months and then...well, I'd be in a pickle. But boy do I ever dream... I was catching up with a former co-worker in July (I've been retired for 5 years) and he goes "You remember Ardis?" yeah, how's he doing? "he quit about 6 months ago"..... Guy quit a $120K+ job due to all the bs (and there was a lot of bs, dei bs, etc, etc) and opened up a chicken wing restaurant. By July he had opened his second one! I knew a family that ran a hot dog stand for over 20 years out of a little carnival trailer. Hot dogs, corn dogs, fresh squeezed lemonade with the good, flaked ice. The elderly grandmother ran it 90% of the time (no A/C!). The last several years they built a larger take-out stand with a large porch and several picnic tables offering burgers, snowballs, etc. |
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If I really liked my co-workers and they had to pick up the slack I'd give notice. Otherwise I'd do what the OP did. |
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Originally Posted By 58Eldorado: Congrats, OP. The practice of giving two weeks notice to quit a job is 1950's Boomer horseshit and needs to stop. Common courtesy has no place in the modern world. Your employer will gladly get rid of you without any notice whatsoever. Some of y'all must be the most pathetic employees out there. Constantly angry that you have a job and can't remotely fathom that not every employer is constantly trying to fuck over their employees. |
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Originally Posted By hammer1995: Some of y'all must be the most pathetic employees out there. Constantly angry that you have a job and can't remotely fathom that not every employer is constantly trying to fuck over their employees. Depends on the employer. Most of the time it's the managers. |
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Originally Posted By hammer1995: Some of y'all must be the most pathetic employees out there. Constantly angry that you have a job and can't remotely fathom that not every employer is constantly trying to fuck over their employees. It’s not a black and white thing. It’s still good to give two weeks notice. But it’s also valid not to, if they have created a situation where you don’t want to |
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Originally Posted By fishbit: I quit mine with a wife that was 2 months pregnant without having any plan. Found a better company and its been 25 yrs and I'm happy! I got a shitty job to Kay me off when my wife was pregnant . I stayed home with her for a few months; when she said she had it covered I base a few calls and found something. |
I had the payroll ladies all confused when I demanded to paid for the hour I was on the clock when daylight savings time ended basically making work the “same” hour twice. It too two of them to understand that we had some employees in LE that work after dark very often. The first one was wanting to know who authorized me to work when the clocks changed. 
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: Didn't even see her today. |
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Originally Posted By Lawless_Flogic: Only place I ever quit was over timeclock shenanigans. I was told no overtime, clock in and out for exactly 8 hours. No big deal until they had to talk to me about clocking in 6 minutes early. I explained i had clocked out 6 minutes early, but then was told I had to clock in and out to the minute for the time scheduled. Came in my usual 5-10 minutes early and was sitting around, waiting for the appointed minute, and boss asks me to do something. I told him I had a few more minutes before I could clock in. He felt this was an "attitude problem" on my part. First payday rolls around and we had to have a sit-down because I had 18 minutes of overtime, due to the after-work meeting on my first day which they had asked for. I was still willing to talk nice about it until boss hit me with "It's my way or the highway". Told him I had to hit the road. Oh well. Dude, might as well just be salaried at that point. WTF 
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Originally Posted By TontoGoldstein: For five years it was $600/week. Then they cut it. There were absolutely zero benefits. I had a gal bladder attack that sent me to the ER. I wasn’t paid for sick leave. I was spending $10 a day in commuting costs. I was paying $20 a day in taxes. So my gross per day was down to $70 as we had four day work weeks. I spent 8 hours a day teaching, grading, and doing lesson plans. As such I was pocketing $8.75 an hour. That’s not enough to be treated disrespectfully. Not enough to be treated disrespectfully? Tonto old buddy that's not enough to put on pants and leave the house.
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Originally Posted By DKUltra: This is the thing though! I did it quietly, politely, and with the biggest unexplained smile on my face. It really was both relieving, and gratifying at the same time. Mid 1980s. One place where I was the car audio tech was very satisfying to walk out of. I worked for a nationally branded electronics retailer. They changed the labor rates, and my percentage take overnight. It would have been a huge pay cut on the commission side. They were also going to lower my base by $500 per month. In all, I would have taken ~ $1250 per month hit, IN THE MID 80s. I found another job, and got my rollaway tool box out of the install bay the night before without them noticing. The company was also using me as their region's (5 city locations) warranty boy. Other store's techs would fuck up a car, fail multiple times to fix it, and send it to zach_. Anyway, here is the fun part. I already had all of my shit out of the install bay. I had scheduled several 'out of store' warranty jobs for a Saturday morning at opening time. I was on time, like always. I walked in and quit in person, dropped my access key on the manager's desk, and walked out. All hell broke loose.  The assistant manager who hated me for having a higher base than he did was the manager on duty at the time. He opened the store 15 minutes late that day, like usual for him. All of the 'out of store' warranty customers were there to drop off their cars, and in his face. Wanna hear the shocker? They screwed me on my last commission check. It was worth it. The original pay scale that they offered, and honored for several months, turned out too good to be true. They went out of business 18 months later. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By SteelonSteel: I had the payroll ladies all confused when I demanded to paid for the hour I was on the clock when daylight savings time ended basically making work the “same” hour twice. It too two of them to understand that we had some employees in LE that work after dark very often. The first one was wanting to know who authorized me to work when the clocks changed. Same here. New payroll clerk couldn’t figure out why guys were getting 25hrs instead of the normal 24hr shift in the FD. This was after the cluster they caused with a new time clock system that would only allow 8hr shifts. Paid thousand for it for all departments only to have to remove the ones from the FD / PD after realizing those departments don’t work 8hr days. |
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Originally Posted By TheJMan1: How can you "require" 3 months notice? Give your two weeks and if they make a peep then it's zero, lol. I would assume it was in the contract she signed. |
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