'[The restaurant] lost 4 cooks on Super Bowl Sunday': 20 Workplaces whose employees banded together and quit en masse

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Jul 30, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

These workplaces found out the hard way that you can only push your employees so far before they snap. People can only take so much poor treatment before they decide, "I'm out of here." And in the case of these people, their coworkers quitting created a domino effect that led to numerous walkouts.

When workplaces become toxic, it feels like it's every worker for themself. It seems like no one has your back, because everyone has their own agendas. Some people will start gossiping behind everyone else's backs, which is also bad for morale. Other employees take a different approach, and will try to suck up to the management team. So by the time all these employees band together to abandon a company, it's probably been months of misery and discontent.

However, going through difficult times can really bring people together — you might even look back on those times and laugh at the hilarity of it all. These people told their stories of the incident in their workplace that made everyone quit all at once. Scroll down to check out these 20 great stories from people across various industries. Then, this employee was incredibly dedicated to their nonprofit job, until the organization turned on them.