'My entire team left within a 6 month period': 20+ Moments people realized they had to quit their jobs

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 19, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

These people have quit their jobs… and they have some really good reasons for that big decision! 

It takes a lot of thought and preparation to quit a job… usually. If you want to ensure a smooth transition into a new career (and let's face it, if you want to buy groceries and pay the electric bill), you'll need to job hunt, interview, and then accept a new job you find promising. 

This is easier said than done—it can take months or even years to discover a job worth accepting. It only takes one minute to rage-quit a job, however, as these people below explained. For some, planning their quitting day was elaborate. Others spent months being pushed to their breaking points, like one person who was running an entire laundromat while also being berated constantly. There's also one random person with ADHD who just quit their job because they were "bored at that moment." I mean, that's as chaotic as it gets, but it just goes to show that the only real reason you need to quit a job is to make yourself happy. 

Up next, read about the exact opposite scenario: these employees were fired on day one, for reasons like, "They are literally chasing a beaver around in their golf cart." 

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    What are the reasons that you have quit jobs?
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    obviouslyfakeco... For me, almost every single move has come down to the company culture. No job is worth going home in tears. no matter how much it pays.
    via u/obviouslyfakecozduh
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    mamblepamble I got a promotion. My raise was a nickel. Previously the person who had my role got a 3 dollar raise when she took on the position and its duties. I raised it with HR. They said it was the "calculated amount" for such a position jump. I left.
    via u/mamblepamble
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    TommyBarcelona My boss was the biggest pain in the micromanager you have ever seen.
    via u/TommyBarcelona
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    Gemfyre713 Because I could feel my soul dying.
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    flatstacy They wanted me to lie, bye
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    BigChrisJ13 Employer didn't allow anyone to take vacations during the month of December but I had already booked a flight for a 3 week vacation for Christmas so I told them that I was leaving and never went back to work there.
    via u/BigChrisJ13
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    jwfowler2 I haven't quit jobs, I've quit people I worked for.
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    NutterzUK As a software engineer, they made me wear a suit and tie every day.
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    Mysterious_Cre... Lack of career progression, clash of moral values with team leader, down-turn in industry all different reasons! -
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    Zondahhh I spent two years working as a dispatcher for an Amazon DSP. The owner of the DSP decided to hire 3 new dispatcher that "had experience". Me and the other two tenured dispatchers had to train them like newbies and two weeks later one of the new guys slipped up and told us how much he was being paid.
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    Turns out the new guys were being paid $3/hour more than us and when I questioned the owner during a meeting he flat out refused to discuss the matter. I ended up quitting that day along with another tenured dispatcher. The new guys had no one to learn from and ended up leaving one by one within 2 months of me quitting. No clue how they're doing now
    via u/Zondahhh
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    [deleted] Schedule conflicts. Bad management. Poorly trained. Didn't want this job to be my career.
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    killkrazy Honestly dress code. It was a IT networking job. Wanted business professional dress code in the office for some reason after 2-3 years being there. Tried it for a month but you know that feeling that it just didn't feel right. A lot of people felt the same and quit like me.
    via u/killkrazy
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    Unfortunately the company went under the owner was trying to sell and wanted the image of its doing well
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    MaliceHands This will get buried but mine is pretty wild. I worked as a teller at a bank. Over the 1.5 years that I worked there, I made friends with a few of my regular customers. We weren't allowed to help friends or family at the counter, which is fair. I had made friends with one such customer and continued
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    helping him at the counter, and my managers called me in to a meeting about it. But where it gets crazy is how they decided to approach the topic. They opened with, "You know (customer's name) right, MaliceHands? Well, it's none of our business if you have a secret boyfriend behind your boyfriend's back, but you can't be helping him with his
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    transactions at work." (Edited to add: When I rejected the accusation and said he was just my friend, my manager said "Ooookay....in a "hypothetical universe where you have a secret boyfriend, you can't be helping him at the counter.") My jaw dropped to the floor. The manager and assistant manager blatantly and openly accused me of cheating on
    via u/MaliceHands
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    my boyfriend with this guy. Turns out, the assistant manager is the neighbor of my friend's ex wife. He's a bit older than me and has 2 daughters. One day I was at their house hanging out with them, sitting on the couch with his two daughters, clear across the room from him. His ex wife came over to pick up the kids and she later questioned him about
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    "who was that girl, huh?" And he said something like "that's my friend MaliceHands, I met her at the bank." So his ex-wife told my assistant manager about it and probably exaggerated and said I was his new "thing." I quit about a week later.
    via u/MaliceHands
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    That was just the tipping point, I had already been considering quitting after having an annual review where I received somewhat poor marks in some categories because (I'll quote my ASM as accurately as I can remember:) "You almost never make mistakes and you get things done very quickly. However, you get things done TOO quickly
    via u/MaliceHands
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    and it leaves you with nothing to do. We want you to slow down so that more of your time is spent working." I was flabbergasted.
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    Ohnoherewego13 When one of my managers told me that my dad dying wasn't that big of a deal. I don't remember the exact words I said to him, but one of my coworkers said she'd never heard used so creatively.
    via u/Ohnoherewego13
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    arrakchrome Greener Grass usually. One job though, I asked for a performance review for 6 months. Weekly. Never got one. As I was about to give. my notice they said they would do a performance review on x date, which was about a week before my last day. I told them to nevermind, and gave my notice.
    via u/arrakchrome
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    One gave me weird cult vibes. Nice people to work with though. But truly I left. because of greener grass (and it was).
    via u/arrakchrome
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    FilthyBlegh Once the group punishments started. No. way in am i getting disciplined for another mans incompetence. Deuces
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    Ok-Bit6037 A new plant manager was hired and was the most arrogant and stupid man I've ever had the misfortune to meet. The man would berate my autistic Co-worker just to wind him up for a sadistic kick. He installed iPads at our workstations "not as a time tracker, just streamlining the workflow" Wouldn't you know it a week In to his job he started riding
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    me for my time working on a project twice the size that took twice as long, had me reprimanded. He stood at an intimidating 6'6" and would totally take up your personal space. He'd ask what you were doing and would walk away mid sentence when he couldn't grasp your explanation. Eventually I told him to get 1. Infront of the entire shift. And walked off the floor. He followed ne
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    into the changeroom accusing me of letting my family down. I told him to never mention my family and he had no place talking to me ever again. I told him how much he destroyed the moral of the entire company and that I personally thought he was a look on his face. So The • worth it. I landed on my feet and was employed a week later.
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    thefluffyparrot I got out of the military right at the start of Covid (lockdowns were announced the same day). Finding a job. was difficult. I had experience driving flat bed tow trucks and enjoyed it a lot. I got hired by a local roadside service company that was pretty well known. Over the course of the first week red flags were constantly popping up.
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    Day1, they expected people to come in for "training" on Saturdays. It was not paid time. An employee quit on day two because they claimed. he caused $8,000 in damage. They refused to prove that it the item was damaged and intended to take it out of his pay. He quit that day.
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    Day 3, a self proclaimed "manager" tried to fight me because I took his special parking spot. There was no assigned parking. Day 4 the owner and his son announced they were cutting everyone's pay due to "covid hardships" Day 5 the owner and his son show up to work in their brand new matching 2020
    via u/thefluffyparrot
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    model pickup trucks. Covid hardships. After that I went and told the hiring manager I was done. I offered two stay for two weeks out of courtesy as he was an ok guy. He told me to just head home. I don't care how hard financial issues became, that place was trouble.
    via u/thefluffyparrot
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    A year and a half later the owner and his son got arrested for fraud. They stole A LOT of money from customers and insurance companies.
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    proffesionalpro... I worked at a laundromat for a year. I basically ran it. I worked 7 days a week, 9 hours a day, and got no overtime. I did the invoices, the receiving, any and all customer relations, all yhe cleaning and maintenance inside and outside the building, I did the general washing, the folding, the bookkeeping, the reception, the steaming/pressing, and
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    the packaging. Daily my boss would belittle me, calling me a dumb accuse me of ruining his business, call me a I a wimp, and many many more derogatory names that I don't want to repeat. One time he called me a weak because I opted to close safety pins before putting them in a box full of them so I don't get poked.
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    He said I was ruining his business for taking not even a second to close a safety pin (that could do one handed). One time my dad came in and started talking to me casually. My boss. came up and told him he didn't have to humor me and that he would handle his clothes because I'm too incompetent. My dad obviously didn't like that. My boss would frequently dock my pay if I made a mistake.
    via u/proffesionalproblem
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    If I booked in a coat as a "winter coat" instead of "light winter coat" or "car coat", he would take the difference off my paycheck. I was frequently shorted at least $50-$100 every paycheck.
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    Anyways. I texted that I quit one day and blocked him. He showed up at my house telling me he was going to bring me to work. My boyfriend went and yelled at him and threatened to call the cops.
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    Charming-Lilly26 Last job I left was a small consultancy which had a lot of problems. I used to get screamed at by the managing director and spoken down to. In the end my entire team left within a 6 month period - a senior colleague and I left on the same day and that essentially ended that department in the company.
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    [deleted] Out of impulsivity, I just one day without any planning what to do next wrote an email telling my boss I will quit. I have no idea why I did it; just felt bored at that moment and wanted something new in my life. Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with ADHD, so it makes sense now.
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    WitchyBroom Boring. I want to quit my job as it's so boring and messing with me mentally. It pays well, no weekends, no one bothers me Week off at Xmas Everyone is nice except Amanda that
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    But I'm staring at a screen all day. It's so boring We even get yearly 401k for 3-5k all pros here But the boringness of it is getting to me.
    via u/WitchyBroom
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    Loreo1964 I quit a job once because my supervisor would assume I was doing a job and just yell at me without looking up. She'd be working, looking down and scream my name, || you're not moving fast enough! Christ! !" Or, "-- ---you done yet... For sake you're slow!"
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    So one day I stood right behind her and she started with " you're not moving fast enough!" And I said really loud in her ear WATCH ME WALK REALLY FAST OUT THE DOOR.
    via u/Loreo1964

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