‘The manager stood [there] in absolute disbelief.’: Employees share the craziest ways they have seen someone quit their job

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 16, 2025 5:00 AM EDT

Employees are flocking to Reddit to share their stories of witnessing now-ex-coworkers quit. But not just quitting with the societally acceptable two-weeks notice. We're talking disgruntle employees quitting in the craziest ways. These go even beyond throwing a tantrum or running out crying. These are people who were way past their last straw at work and felt so disrespected that they decided to completely implode that bridge and never look back. Sometimes your work experience is so soured that you don't even want to work in that industry anymore, so you quit with a show. 

 

Are these experience encouraging? Upsetting? Epic? Inspiring? Petty? Whichever way you think, you have to admit, they are extremely entertaining. 

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  • "Craziest way you’ve seen someone quit?"

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  • When I worked at Maccas (McDonald's) many years ago a fellow employee was getting told off by the manager in the staff room before shift (there were a few of us in there).
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  • Standing just a meter from the manager, he slowly started He took his whole uniform off down to his jocks, as the manager stood in front of him in absolute disbelief.
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  • He then grabbed his wallet and keys, put his shoes back on (lol), walked through the kitchen in his jocks and out into the dining room packed with customers.
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  • He stuffed his uniform in the dining room bin on the way out. Never said a word the entire time.
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  • I was 16 at the time and it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. Never saw him again.
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  • Perhaps not the way you would leave a job, but maybe a way you wish you could've left a job. Unfortunately, you might be too people pleaser or trying to still make it in that industry, just with a different employer. So you have to swallow your pride and just move on. So go ahead and live vicariously through these epic quitters! 

  • BeerisAwesome01 He punched a manager after a "chat" and walked off.
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  • RiMcG Years ago a coworker didn't do anything crazy at first, he put in his two weeks notice, worked his two weeks. The last day he showed me an acrostic he'd made. Called the worker's mantra, it had 7 lines of positive
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  • statements about the work he was doing and the first letter of every line spelled out "FU** (place we worked)". He printed several, laid a stack in one of the break rooms, and left early.
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  • Well, a supervisor found them, didn't catch the hidden message, printed out MORE of them, and had been taping them up around the office and giving copies to people.
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  • Took about 20 minutes before he was scrambling to get them all back to throw them away. I'd share the whole thing (I still have one, work from home so it's on the wall) but the company is very noticeable
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  • lyuch I was fresh out of college working at a bank. The head teller hated our new manager and had soured on the company overall. One day, she didn't show up for work. My manager was trying to get ahold of
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  • her in his office. Then, one of the drive through tubes comes in and makes a loud noise as if there was something heavy in it. Upon opening, we found her keys and badge and the car already gone from the drive-thru. Legendary
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  • mr_pouding I was working in weldkng shop. The new guy on is second day approache our foreman and ask for 20$ for a taxi hone because he his pants. He took the money went home and we never heard of him again.
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  • FwenchFwies... In an office setting and a lady bumped the les miserable song angry men, while she was cleaning out her office
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  • Open-Scienti... There were 2. First one I was in high school working in a kitchen. we had a new kid who absolutely hated it there.
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  • The boss asked him to pickup garbage outside he grabbed a squeeze bottle of ketchup and wrote I QUIT on the side of the building. The second one was years later in an office one of the managers in the IT department had a
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  • reputation for being difficult. One of the nicest girls completely lost it and basically shouted that she would rather rub glass in her eyes than work for her another minute. She was a legend!
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  • Secksualinnu... He flipped a table and yelled at everyone to go f themselves. He was speeding out of the parking lot and hit two cars. Cops picked him up soon after.
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  • FroGrower I used to work in a shop called Matalan when I was 15/16 and one of the other dudes was a loose cannon. James (who was the store manager) and the dude (who's name I've forgotten) started shouting at each other in
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  • front of customers. The dude ended the altercation by saying "no one is afraid of you, James, you're a sad, fat, ugly c**t" Ripped his Matalan shirt off and walked out. I never saw that dude again.
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  • AvailableRes... I worked at firehouse subs for 3 days and when I met the owner and went to go introduce myself he said "I don't talk to new employees until they've stuck around long enough" I just scoffed,
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  • laughed out loud and took my apron off and left. He looked so ped but like you don't care to know me? Why are you mad?
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