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Worker quits their job by walking out without saying anything: 'I had zero intention of doing a two-week notice'

People don't quit their jobs—they quit their bosses… And there's no better way to get back at a terrible manager than to be the one pulling the string that unravels their entire working world—just as this worker did to their terrible boss.

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  • Their boss had a laundry list of bad management behavior, including not paying overtime and spying on workers in their homes… While many managers feel a sense of doubt and distrust when their workers call out sick, this boss's habit of leaving work to embark on covert outings—spying on the workers in their homes to make sure they were really sick at home—is another level of insane management practice. 

    Behavior such as this from their boss prompted this worker to stage a strategic exit. First, as a point of personal and professional courtesy, they warned their benevolent assistant manager, who also hated their boss for her terrible practices and offenses against him personally—this was the only person they would tell of their impending departure. They then offered to stay late at the office in order to field phone calls—but really so they could be left in the office alone—before staging their exit. 

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    r/pettyrevenge u/Vilehaust 4h ● The petty revenge I got on the worst manager I ever had My first job after graduating high school in 2008 was as an office employee in the distribution center in my hometown for one of the state-wide newspapers. In retrospect it was actually fun for the most part. My scheduled hours were 12am-6:30am, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays off, which worked for me because I enjoy night time and even today I still work mid-shift. The
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    Assistant Manager, Aaron, and I got along well and the other two people in the office, Doug and Scott, were good guys too. The only problem we had was our manager, Barb. Looking back on it she could've gotten in trouble for a bunch of the stuff she pulled. Forcing us who were hourly employees to put only 40 hours max per week on our timesheets (when we were actually working 55+ hours a week), downgrading Aaron from salary-based Assistant Manager
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    position to an hourly position (while still working as the AM), and even driving by our houses to see if our cars were in our driveway if we called in sick (yes she actually did this to me). When she wasn't doing illegal/invasive stuff like that she was just being annoying as . On Mondays, Aaron and I were usually the only ones scheduled to work. Simple nights and small papers so it was an easy day. A few times, for whatever reason, Barb showed up just out of the blue. We'd ask her why she was t
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    So what led to and what was my petty revenge? In early 2011, after over a year of constant overtime hours not getting counted, route carriers coming and going (of which meant us office employees had to deliver those down routes), and one day Doug just never showed up again (which I truly don't blame him) I had enough and actively started searching for a new job. It was on a Friday in March I got a call that I was hired by a company and they asked when I could start. I told them just let me tie u
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    notice. But as a courtesy I did at least get together with Aaron for dinner and I told him what was going to happen so he would know for the following Monday. He had been on leave at the time. On that Sunday, we had four down routes which we had been dealing with for over a month already. As mentioned earlier there was another office employee, Scott, but he couldn't deliver routes due to some medical conditions he had. So Barb and myself had to each deliver two whole routes by
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    ourselves. I told her that I would go ahead and work to the later time (10am) after delivering my routes in order to handle any calls for redeliveries (papers accidentally missed by carriers) to give to our redelivery carrier. Of course I did this specifically so I could close everything up and leave my key. As 9:50am came I typed up my resignation letter that I later taped onto Barb's office door. In that letter I specifically stated "I will no longer answer any phone calls from anyone associat
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    residence they will have the police called on them." At 10am I taped it onto her door, locked all the doors, put my key into her office letterbox, and left out a door that locked from the inside and never went or looked back leaving Barb to be down another office employee. The absolute cherry on top of everything was Aaron quit two weeks after I quit.
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    daniell321 4h ● Did Barb try any of the drive-by again after you started at the new job? She seems like the type of psycho who would try to stalk you at almost all hours, begging and screaming out the car window for you to come back. It reminds me of that one story where the manager had the gall to accuse the OP of holding the project up at ransom because the OP resigned (and made it clear he resigned more than once) over being denied a holiday. Reply 49
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    FOREVER Vilehaust OP • 3h Surprisingly no. I literally never heard from her again after that last day. I did happen to run into one of the carriers a week later as I was getting gas on my way into work and she told me that Barb was full-on fuming after reading my letter. Slamming stuff and everything. It put such a smile on my face. 477 ↓ DynkoFromTheNorth 2h Reminds me of this story I read recently about someone who was constantly overworked and trampled on and suddenly quit, forcing his manage
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    Jolly Horror2778 . 3h That's good petty revenge, but don't you really need justice for the wage theft? Reply FOREVER Vilehaust OP . 3h 分 12 凸 I thought about it on and off. Especially years after when I actually researched that kind of stuff. I was 18-21 when I worked there and my priorities weren't all in proper order in a sense. Aaron and I talked about it many years ago too. But at the time we were just happy as to be done with it. Now a days, I just wouldn't care to go through the hassle. 4
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