10+ Employees reveal their "final straw" moments: 'Manager would put me on the schedule and not tell me about it'

Author image for Remy Millisky
Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2026 3:00 PM EDT

You can only hold onto your patience for so long before you walk out of your workplace, never to return. 

When workers quit on the spot, it's rarely over a single incident. Usually, there's been a pattern of managers not listening to them, customers saying anything they want to them and getting away with it, and sometimes the long hours of the job really take a toll, too. Not to mention that a lot of managers seem to think their employees have no life outside of work, and that they should be dropping everything at a moment's notice to take on someone else's shift. 

Advertisement
  • Employee holds items while marching away from job she quit.
    via A.C.

    Employee holds items while marching away from job she quit.

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • Like one person shared that their manager had a bad habit. He was constantly putting up the schedule, and later on, penciling them in for shifts. Since they'd already made plans around the original schedule, this worker had 0 idea that they were expected to be at work. 

    Now, this is the kind of mistake you'd think a manager would make once or twice, but this was a recurring issue! 

  • Hefty-Confusion... Manager would put me on the schedule and not tell me about it. We'd get it a week before, I would take a picture of it, then put my days to work on my calendar in my phone. Then I would write it on the calendar that was in my bedroom. Maybe two days later, I would get a call from her asking why I wasn't at work. I'd say I'm not scheduled, and she'd say "Well it was adjusted. It's your responsibility to keep up to date." That went on for like four weeks and I kept getting writt
    via Hefty-Confusion6810
  • One day I came in after she literally yelled at me over the phone and she said hi like nothing happened. I ignored her and the Asst. Manager said "You're just going to act like that because you messed up?" I ignored her too and went to clock in. Maybe ten minutes later they pull me into the back office and ganged up on me saying I was ride and disrespectful and dishonest and irresponsible and I do this wrong and I do that wrong. I kept bringing up they change the schedule, only MY days, and don'
    via Hefty-Confusion6810
  • Maybe five days later the manager called asking if I was going to come in. I said "I don't work there anymore." Then the Asst. Manager got on the line and said they were under staffed and really need. me. I hung up and blocked the number and that was our final conversation.
    via Hefty-Confusion6810
  • EntireCakeEater Quitting a call center job midday. I had my last screaming customer, threw a headset across the room, and stormed out. It was immature, but exhilirating.
    via EntireCakeEater

  • Other people, like this person, left because the clients and customers were so bad. 

    Truly, when it comes to working at cold calling jobs, or any phone-related customer service rep jobs, people either stay for 3 days or a lifetime. No inbetween. Some people just have the patience required to deal with cranky Karens and entitled grandpas all day long. For most of us, we'd rather do, um, literally any other job in existence. 

  • Independent-Sn... Worked at a horrible company. Higher ups were micromanagers and misleading to employees and customers. Had a job already lined up and planned to quit the following week. They "let go" one of my coworkers I really liked (in the same role as me) and were going to pile all her work onto me. I quit 30 min after. Their faces were priceless
    via Independent-Sn
  • Defiant-Scholar-793 Started working at a hotel. First week on the job, after receiving basically non- training (videos), I was just starting to get a handle on standard things. I helped a guest, everything seemed fine. They were nice, they went off to their room.
    via Defiant-Scholar-793
  • My boss was sitting behind the door, spying on my interaction. She comes out after the guest leaves and dressed me down on nearly every part of it. She started going into the "standards", telling me why the interaction went badly and that she would note it. I remember thinking of walking out there and then, but I just said ok and let it
    via Defiant-Scholar-793
  • go. After a good sleep, headed to my job with my uniform in a grocery bag, and the first resignation letter that included "do not contact me ever again".
    via Defiant-Scholar-793
  • Workers celebrate an employee who's quitting.
    via Getty Images

    Workers celebrate an employee who's quitting.

  • arcsilencer Mine was when I caught myself mentally drafting a reply to a work email while brushing my teeth. That's when I realized work was living rent free in my head and I needed a hard reset.
    via arcsilencer
  • jam... 4 days into a managerial job at one of the biggest banks in the US/world (but based in the UK) being screamed at by some pillock from one of their US offices demanding to know why there were so many people off the week running up to Christmas.
    via jambideooiad
  • I hadn't even applied for the job when it was agreed - I was told to 'fix it' and start cancelling leave. I did not. Add that to the absolutely horrendous work environment, rampant Sual h ssment of women straight out of university and i'd seen enough.
    via jambideooiad
  • Started Monday, updated my CV Friday, I was out of there in 5 months and only because my background checks took 3 months to complete at my next (and current) employer.
    via jambideooiad
  • Cheezburger Image 10615110912
    via Remarkable-Air1628
  • Cheezburger Image 10615111424
    via silverpotato5955
  • Cheezburger Image 10615111936
    via ivylass
  • Cheezburger Image 10615112192
    via ivylass
  • Cheezburger Image 10615110656
    via ivylass
  • Cheezburger Image 10615111168
    via arcsilencer

  • For some employees, being overworked factored into their decision to leave. If you're working 15 hour days, and/or working like 6 days a week, it can feel like you never escape work. You start to have dreams about working, you think about it while you brush your teeth or eat your breakfast, and you barely have time for your actual life outside of your job. It's just not sustainable to live that way for a long time, and a good employer knows that. A bad employer will simply work their employees to the bone, wait for them to quit, then hire a new squad. 

  • Cheezburger Image 10615111680
    via xstell132
  • Cheezburger Image 10615112448
    via xstell132
  • Cheezburger Image 10615112704
    via xstell132
  • Cheezburger Image 10615113984
    via itzbetter
  • week before, he knew the plan. Called me while at the airport asked what I was doing. I reminded him. He sharply and with disgust asked me why I would go there, and shamed me (So many stories about this of a man). Flew home, contacted a different customer in my city, they
    via itzbetter
  • Cheezburger Image 10615114240
    via itzbetter
  • MrWiltErving Worked at a job for 7 years and I found myself being irritated by an old lady for being rode and we got into a screaming match, told her to call her grandson or her son up here. That's when I realised I had to get out because every little thing. bothered me.
    via MrWiltErving
  • Cheezburger Image 10615113472
    via jimfish98
  • Cheezburger Image 10615113216
    via jimfish98
  • Cheezburger Image 10615114496
    via jimfish98
  • About 5 hours in corporate calls up, asks how its going and I say falling behind, cannot keep up with it as I am doing 99.9% of the work and I am the only one who showed up. Manager comes in 45 minutes later p ed to all h I that she was busted, told me the work load is what it is and to accept it or leave........pulled the office keys out of my pocket and walked out the door.
    via jimfish98
  • Cashier looks irritated as she rings up customer.
    via Christiann Koepke

    Cashier looks irritated as she rings up customer.

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

manager satisfying quitting story
Scroll Down For The Next Article