'F*ck That' – 8 Final Straws That Made People Rage-Quit Their Jobs

Lockdown’s “great resignation,” which saw workers leave their place of employment en masse, seems to be over; it’s been replaced by the “big stay,” People Management writes.

But if a Reddit thread shared to r/AskReddit is anything to go by, many of us are still leaving bad jobs behind when faced with treatment we find unbearable. 

“What was the final straw that made you quit a job?”, site user u/True_Education_313 asked. 

Here are some of the most-upvoted responses: 

1) “I was told I should have managed my time off better.” 

“My mum was found dead in her apartment. The coroner couldn’t even guess the day she died. I had to clean her apartment, go to court hearings on her behalf, and was relentlessly harassed by another family that thought she had any kind of money. I also had to go to the police.

I took four days off. I needed to get out of work like two hours early to pick up her ashes, and got hit with that. I was hired at a different company the next day. I came in to have lunch with my coworkers and clean out my things, and just left. Management or HR never bothered to call me. They knew.” 

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2) “I realised I cared more about the work than the people paying me did.”

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3) “After years of no raises due to budget constraints, I learned that a newly hired coworker was making like 30% more than me.” 

“Didn’t help that he absolutely sucked.” 

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4) “The absolute dread I felt waking up in the morning.”

“I have felt basically zero anxiety since I moved to a different job. I can’t believe put up with that horrible manager for nearly a year.”

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5) “The boss said, ‘We expect you to go above and beyond without extra pay, extra respect or even extra coffee.’”

“I went above and beyond straight out the door.”

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6) “When they let go of the cleaning staff and expected us to clean the bathrooms.” 

“And this was halfway into 2020. It’s bad enough to clean a bathroom, but during a pandemic? Fuck that.”

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7) “Being moved from a cubicle to a table because I was a contractor and the cubicles were for full-time employees.” 

“This was during COVID when most of the company’s full-time employees were working remotely.”

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8) “They were blowing up my phone while I was on vacation at Disney, with something that could’ve easily waited.”

“I quit within a month of returning.” 

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