20+ Quitting employees who left their jobs as quickly as possible: 'No call no show for me'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 31, 2024 11:00 AM EST

Instead of tolerating work environments that didn't fit them, these employees decided to head for the door. 

There's no point in staying at a job you despise: as long as you can find something in the same salary range, it's best to find a job you don't dread going to each day. But in this economy, that's way easier said than done. Although there are plenty of people seeking new jobs, employers still have the upper hand. 

That's why it's so satisfying that these folks managed to quit their bad jobs. Some didn't have another job lined up, but they still walked out the door, letting management know they weren't happy with the way things went down. Others just departed in silence. A "no call no show" is a good way to get back at a manager you can't stand! It leaves them to fill the spot you left, and most likely means they'll have a stressful shift at work instead of a peaceful day in the back office sipping coffee. Check out a bunch of great quitting stories below to motivate you as you head to work today! 

Up next, read about gifts that were worse than receiving nothing at all, like one person who shared, "My mother-in-law bought me a dust broom and she deducted the cost of it."

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    Which job did you quit fastest?
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    birds-and-dogs I applied to several jobs and missed out on my dream job so took a grunt-work job. Dream job called back to offer me a position, so I quit the grunt work job after 2 days. Felt bad but I was also thrilled at the new position.
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    neophanweb I was 19, in college. Responded to an ad "Make $1800+ per week. Fun and exciting. No experience required. We will train." Went to 3 separate interviews in a fancy office. 3rd interview they told me to wear a suit. They told me how much they liked me and not many people make it to the 3rd interview.
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    Nailed the interview and got the job. Must wear a suit. I thought this was an important job. Day 1. We meet in a warehouse. Everyone dressed in business attire. Suddenly they start shouting and chanting. It's their morning hype routine. They're now practicing their sales pitches. I still don't know what my job is at this point.
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    We break into groups of 5 with one team leader. We're going to meet at a different location but we're told to leave our cars here. We can ride with our team leader. They drove us 40 miles away to a shopping center. I still don't know is going on. We start walking and go right into a barber shop. The team leader busts out some Mountain Mike's pizza coupons and starts making
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    his pitch. "Do you like pizza?" Blah Blah Blah. $20 to buy this coupon book. In it contains 20 free pizzas. Buy one pizza get one free. It still doesn't click. Why is our team leader trying to sell a Mountain Mike's coupon book to this barber shop owner? We continue to the next shop. Again, he repeats his pitch. The 4 of us new guys follow along until he finishes the entire strip. He
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    sold one coupon. We go back to his car where he pops the trunk and hands us 5 coupons each. He brings out a map of the city and tells us which blocks we are going to go through and to knock on doors and try to sell these coupons. It finally hit me. We're door to door salesmen and these coupons are our product.
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    Zero pay. Commission only. We get to keep $7 per coupon sold. We're 40 miles away from my car so I can't leave. I might as well try my luck and knocked on doors for 10 hrs. I'm exhausted and managed to sell one coupon, earning $7 for the day. No call no show for me. I was gone the next day and didn't answer their calls.
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    llamallama92 Dunkin Donuts. A customer threw their donuts and Hot Coffee at me (I dodged). My manager apologized to Them and gave them a discount. Couldn't leave that job fast enough.
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    TenaciousDzNuts I worked for 2 hours at a Burger King before I quit. I was only shceduled 11 hours of work after being promised at least 25, and they cut me half way through my first shift because it was slow.
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    Sometimes, when you know, you know. If your hours are being cut on day one, when you've barely had a chance to even get a feel for the job, maybe it's best to find employment elsewhere. 

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    itsfish20 Famous Footwear...I was hired in August 2005 right before back to school sales started to happen and was told I'd be there from 4pm- 8pm and no later. Well my very first day the store was destroyed by kids, there were hundreds of shoe boxes on the floor and every aisle was in complete chaos. At 755 my manager said that we were going to have to
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    stay until the store is clean and that sometimes takes hours. Well I was 16, my dad had dropped me off and was now outside in the lot waiting for me to get off and I let her know that. She told me to go tell my dad to leave and that I could call back when it was time to go home. I said sure and then made an excuse to use the restroom in the back.
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    It being August I only had a few things with me in the locker so I grabbed those, punched my time card out and walked out the backroom door. When I got to my dad the manager was just walking into the back and I told him what I had done and he smiled and laughed. Said something about managers abusing under age workers and she deserved it and we went home.
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    I did get a few angry voicemails from her but that was my first and last day working at Famous Footwear
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    Bob_12_Pack When I was 17, I made it 3 days (about 12 hours total) at a restaurant that one of my mom's friends had just opened. I already had a day job that I liked, and I had done restaurant work before, it was summertime so I had the time, and it was for my mom's friend, so f it I jumped in for some extra cash. It turns out my mom's friend was a complete crazy
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    I nasty b I had been working since I was 12 and no employer had ever treated me like that. I left after my shift and never returned or called to say I was quitting. I didn't even pickup my paycheck because it probably would just cover my uniform which we had to reimburse them for (minimum wage was $3.35/hour).
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    Hickspy A temp job at Wells Fargo, the worst company in the world. I was 3rd string Quality Assurance for their mortgage branch. So what that means is I call people, and ask them to verify their personal information for the THIRD time in order to confirm the first two people got it right.
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    My day involved a lot of people yelling at me for my job being a pointless waste of time. I agreed. When my manager informed me he'd been doing it for 2 years and did the same thing as me despite being the manager, I noped out of there real fast. Went back to being a teacher's aide at a special needs school.
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    BamaBuffSeattle This is probably slower than most people, but at one point I was working four part time jobs and one of them was a large men's clothing. store. I was technically a keyholder but they didn't hire anyone beneath me so I was basically a glorified cashier/clerk. Alright whatever.
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    The assistant manager though. Holy smokes she was awful in the worst way. Said she'd dated an NFL player and had his kids but didn't know the team he played for when pressed for info. Would ruin my work I did after I closed and she opened just to criticize me. Lied to the manager that I told her I wanted to do things with her. Denied she ever said that to me. Would take my sales so she could
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    get any bonuses. It took me two months before I snapped. On a day I was supposed to work, I drove up in my street clothes, put my keys on the desk, looked her in the eyes. and said "Have fun" before leaving and never returning.
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    slfnflctd Cold calling senior citizens to sell them overpriced insurance who had already been cold called previously.
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    JasperDyne Graveyard shift at a 7-11 in a seedy neighborhood. Lasted one night. It was a store full of nope, especially at 3 am.
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    clubberin An ISP helpdesk job that I quit after 4 hours. My resume got passed along by another place, I got offered the job, I took it and was told to show up on Monday at 9. Monday at 9 rolls around, I'm standing outside the ISP, which is closed. Around 9:30 someone finally comes
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    up, unlocks the door, and asks if I'm there to drop off a payment. I explain that I was hired by the general manager. The guy barely says a word and I just kind of blindly follow him in. I start doing the new hire paperwork and stuff, and he says "That'll be your desk" and points to one of two stations in the office. He then asks me a few scenario questions about users
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    having issues. I go into in depth troubleshooting mode and he says "NO! We use these settings. If it doesn't work, it's not our problem." Y'know what... fine. I'm already tired of this. He says I have some more paperwork to fill out and the other tech comes in. She's already kind of snippy with me. She makes a point of saying that the guy I've been dealing with his her dad,
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    who runs the ISP side, and her mom is the manager who runs the business side. She says "Things in this office stay in this office, and the other way around." Apparently there is a divorce in progress. I'm whelmed. I notice the last piece of paperwork is a 90-days non-compete clause, meaning if I leave or get fired I can't work in the computer tech industry
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    (broadly construed) for three months. The daughter says "We all have to sign them. Even I had to sign one." I take it back to the guy, say I'm not signing it, and he doesn't give a sh. The daughter is p ed. By this time it's like 11 and I start taking some calls and the customers are all ped off because there's things. that can be done to fix their connection issues in general
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    that go beyond 2-3 settings, and every other ISP in the area offers better support. At lunch I just left and didn't come back. I e-mailed the manager and told her I was embarrassed to have been there.
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    elting44 Not me, but a buddy of mine got a job blowing insulation into attics of commercial buildings. It was mid-july in the Midwest, so the attics. were like 105 degrees. Buddy shows up and is told he'd be getting paid $14 an hour instead of the $19 that was agreed upon. He didn't come back after lunch on day 1.
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    TheCervus I worked as a cashier for three weeks when I was 18. That was over 20 years ago and it scarred me so much, I will never work retail again. I saw a side of humanity I never knew existed.
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    Good for this person who managed to get out of cashier duty before it got worse! Many people have had poor experiences in retail, and the faster they get out of those jobs, the better. 

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    [deleted] Worked one week at a movie theater. The pay was minimum wage. They promised you could also watch movies for free and get free popcorn. The free popcorn turned out to be a tiny cup full of popcorn. We had to count all of the cups and popcorn buckets at both the start and end of every shift.
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    usmarine7041 I took a job that gave me pretty decent stock incentives if I stayed. Wasn't a fan of the work and the stock value was in free fall, so I left
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    anfla56 Toys R' Us I needed a part time job, and they sent me home early on my first day because they hadn't met the sales goals for the previous day. They told me they didn't make enough to pay me. I asked them if money was that tight, then why did they post that job and hire me? I quit on the spot.
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    The store isn't even there anymore, but it closed a while before the company itself fell apart.
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    Pixel131211 I worked in logistics, for a single day. it was the worst job I had ever worked at, and honestly, I feel bad for anyone who works there. imagine wasting the one life you have, doing that sh. so originally, my job was going to be assembling and disassembling printers, computers, and other
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    hardware which is something I quite like doing. you'd basically be given a full printer/PC/whatever, accompanied with a task on your computer that said "take this part, and this part" and then you'd get to work on taking the devices apart and grabbing whichever part you needed. and the rest got recycled. this wasnt so bad, especially considering I got almost 20. euro's an hour for it (and for
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    19 year old me, that was awesome). but, last minute, the guy who needed to train me was sick.. so they told me I had to work on another station for a month. not so bad, I thought. but I was wrong.. in this station I now worked we had 6 bins in a rectangle shape, and in the middle of those we had a pallet full of boxes. I'm talking a stack of
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    200-500 tiny boxes. the bins were all labeled such as "plastics", "styrofoam", "metal", etc.. now onto my task: I had to • open box • see whats in the box (usually printer parts, which is important to note for later) • toss whatever was in the box into the right
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    container for recycling • once you are done with pallet 1, then comes pallet 2, and repeat. for 8 hours a day. open box, empty box, open box, empty box.. you get the idea. doing this is straight up mental torture for me. it does not help that I have ADHD. there was just no end in sight
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    so, as if that wasnt bad enough, these printer parts. and boxes were often full of printer ink, and printer ink. dust which was just a very colourful fine dust that got everywhere and cant be washed out. I inhaled so much printer dust that day, I feel like I shortened my lifespan by 20 years. I finished my shift, but I quit that job instantly after.
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    f working in logistics. the money is good but that's literally all. I have roughly 30,000 days to live on this earth and I dont exactly intend to spend them like that.
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    Soclothesminded HR intern. They were devastated that I left for an actual paying job
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    The68Guns Old Navy, one shift. It wasn't even out of anything bad, but it was just too chaotic. I loved the brand at the time (mid 00's) and thought it would be heaven on earth. They even hired me on the spot. The earphone things were distracting, I was told they'd be there until 2:00 am sometimes, just not me.
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    CatboyInAMaid... Telemarketer, walked out first day. There was a job I quit quicker than that but it was because the company straight up lied about the position. They clearly said warehouse work with forklift experience and even insisted you bring steel toe safety shoes. When I get there I find out leave your
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    shoes off, you're going to work on the must miserable assembly line I've ever seen. Apparently you have to work your way up to warehouse work. It was obvious they had to lie to get people to come in because the job was just minimum wage misery.
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    barefootshinji Got a job at my country's. version of Dollar Tree. I quitted on my 10th day there. Went home during lunch break and never came back till this day. Toxic evil supervisors treated me like sh and the store had no working toilet.
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