Top Hilarious Reasons People Gave for Quitting Their Jobs

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Eleonora Bader
Jul 25, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

People often wonder if they should quit, dreaming of greener pastures, or in other words, more money, better work conditions, and nicer coworkers. Also, let's not forget the most important thing of all… a good boss. Quitting your job can be easy, or hard, depending on how much you enjoy it. Once upon a time, I was working as a waitress, and let's just say that it wasn't hard at all to let go of rude customers, not great pay, and long nights cleaning bathrooms. But hey, I had some pretty legitimate reasons to hate it. Of course, every reason is legitimate… but still, some reasons are sort of, well, weird.

This particular Reddit post asks, 'What is the strangest or weirdest reason someone gave for quitting their job?'. Well, as usual, Reddit has a lot of good answers. People gathered to share their own experiences… scroll down to read what they said. For more, here is an employee who got fired after closing the largest deal the company had ever seen.

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    Font - Posted by u/To_dwell 2 days ago What is the strangest or weirdest reason someone gave for quitting their job?
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    Font - rotatingruhnama . 1 day ago Guy worked half a day, looked around, said "you people need lives" and straight up bailed. Was never heard from again. It was weird. Can't say he was wrong, though.
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    Font - Dco777 - 1 day ago We had a guy start a 6 AM. At about 8:30 AM he says he's going to the bathroom, and he leaves. No punch, nor a word (They give you a temporary badge to wander at the door and clock.).
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    Font - Guy training him tells the supervisor, I don't know what happened to this guy. They start looking everywhere (Huge plant, lots of unused machinery spaces because some production had long stopped.) and are very worried.
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    Font - Luckily one of the people from the department near the door stopped to talk to his trainer, and he told him "This is Bob, he works in grinding and polishing".
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    Font - They checked the camera, he jumps in his vehicle and drives off, no goodbye, taking the temporary badge. We had people quit at lunch, quit at the end of the day, call in and say "No way, I quit!" but never before first break.
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    Font - Job was not for the faint of heart or the weak. Yes, we had women in our department quits. too. Still a lot of
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    Font - Bellamy1715 1 day ago Quit an well-paid engineering job. Only hired a week before, and the 9 to 5 made him rethink his life. Wanted to be a jazz saxophone player. Never heard from him again. 7 Reply Share
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    Font - Comfortable_Clerk_60 1 day ago My cousin had quit his job at Red Robin because he had to sing happy birthday every other day 49 Reply Share
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    Font - Behla_Babe_96 - 1 day ago I had an employee quit bc no one from the office went to her birthday party she threw herself in her parents garage. No one was sad she left lol 13 Reply Share ↓
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    Font - Skit55 1 day ago Not quitting but being fired, I was fired about 5 months ago for standing at work. I was a part time tutor working with groups of students and a part time project specialist. Reply Share 12
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    Font - GlizzyGuzzlin69. 1 day ago Not quit but saw someone get fired for calling in saying, "Hey I'm gonna be in late. JUST STARTED this movie and it's really good." I'm not joking Reply Share 18
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    Font - ferddo 1 day ago Had a coworker come in and say he had signed up for the NASA trip to Mars, so he was quitting since he did not intend to come back to Earth.
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    Font - Would not listen when we pointed out that, even if he was selected, the trip wouldn't occur for at least ten years or more. What did he intend to do until then? I think he fully expected to go to the airport that afternoon and step into a rocket to Mars.
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    Font - RavenLunatic512 · 1 day ago We were cashiers in training and in the evening while the store was quiet we had to practice calling for price checks on the loudspeaker. One girl froze as soon as she picked up the
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    Font - microphone, then shouted "FU K THIS" and ran out of the store. She never came back. ↑ 51 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Resident-Internet522 · 1 day ago Around 2010, a former coworker won 10k on a scratch off and quit. I thought it was a poor decision. 75 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Bo-bop 1 day ago Hours at one job were 6am- 12pm. I was about to take a week's holiday and the boss's son told me when I get back, my hours would be 12pm-6pm. I said, if my hours have changed when I get back, I will quit.
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    Font - He didn't believe me. I got back after a week at 6 for my shift, he said...I told you your hours were changing, go home and come back at 12. I said to him...I told you I'd quit. I'm going home, but I ain't coming back. 128 Reply Share
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    Font - thisappisgarbage111 1 day ago Not quitting but the two weirdest excuses to call into work I've heard were: I'm stuck in a gated community and I can't get out. He doesn't drive or own a car.
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