" I walked out in the eye of my shift at Olive Garden and take an intact prepped tray of tiramisu with me . "
Have you ever fantasized about leaving a job in a blaze of glory? Like, instead of giving your company a good ol' fashioned two-week notice, doing something that blurs the lines between chaotic and iconic?
Well , if you have , then you ’re not alone . Because when TikTok userkaitb9898askedpeople to apportion the " most unhinged way [ they ’ve ] give up a business , " the result were make full with waste history of the great unwashed slamming the doorway on their way out .
So here are 17 people who left their jobs in wild ways:
1.“I walked out in the middle of my shift at Olive Garden and took an entire prepped tray of tiramisu with me.”
2.“I told my manager I left something in my car and drove off. I called my momma to tell her, and she said, ‘Don’t do it like that.’ So I hung up on her.”
— darealmrs.parker
3.“I told the manager I was leaving and farted as I walked out her office.”
4.“The company sent an email announcing it was my favorite coworker’s last day. I replied all to that email and said, ‘Mine too. I quit.'”
— findingmywey
5.“I worked at Dairy Queen during COVID, and my boss found some loophole to demote my pay down from $17 to $8 an hour. So I filled the fryers with ice and walked out.”
6.“I wrote a very pretty letter with cute handwriting on neon pink paper that said, ‘I’m demoting myself to customer ❤️.'”
— themarvelousmo
7.“I sent documents to the IRS and the FBI outlining the fraud going on at my company. I gave them receipts with time stamps and upper management’s schedules and invoices. When the IRS asked, I gave them the door codes to the building, as well. When the IRS showed up, I smiled and left mid-raid.”
8.“I was told it was ‘my fault’ that a male colleague was harassing me, so I quit and put super glue in the keyholes of the door at 3 am so they wouldn’t be able to open the store. "
— alyssakessler179
9.“I told my boss I was going to Subway (which was across the street) and asked if she wanted anything. She gave me her order and $20. I got Subway and never came back.”
10.“I knew I was getting fired after taking an approved 2-week leave of absence, so when I returned, I deleted every file I had worked on out of the system, including the backups.”
— thejosieabigail
11.“My manager threw a tub of frozen chicken at me across the dining room. I gave her a thumbs down and left.”
12.“I quit [my food service job] 15 minutes before they opened for the day. Before I left, I turned all the ovens off and didn’t prep anything, so they didn’t have an open, ready store on Valentine’s Day, which was busy as f*ck.”
— yo_kenzi
13.“I took off my work shirt, left it on the counter, and said ‘I’m done.’ Then, I left in my bra.”
14.“All my coworkers who didn’t have any kids scheduled me to work on Halloween, so they could party together. But this meant I wouldn’t be able to take my kid out trick-or-treating. They were all drinking, and I quit 30 minutes before my shift.”
— nycaahhhhhh
15.“I wrote ‘Two Weeks Notice’ on a cookie cake and brought it into the office.”
16.“I acted normally the day before I knew I was quitting. When I didn’t show up the next day, my manager messaged me asking where I was. I sent my live location of me in Florida. Our office is in Kentucky.”
— daddylonglegs6990
17.And lastly, “I was five months pregnant and had pneumonia, so I called for the week off, and my boss told me to ‘Just take Tylenol’ and to still come in. I told HR she does snow. We both lost our jobs.”
Note : Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity .
