What's the dumbest reason you have for quitting a job?

[Slumbag]

I wanna quit my job. I work at a hotel, and I wanna quit because I don't really like dealing with some of the people that stay here. It's an easy gig, and I get paid well, but little meaningless things annoy me. And I know it sounds ignorant to have a job that involves something you don't like, but I do it anyways.

This wouldn't be the dumbest reason I have for quitting a job, either. When I was about 19, I was working at this sandwich place. Every day at noon, that Sheryl Crow song "Soak Up the Sun" would come on, and I can't put into words how much I dislike it. Then one day, the song came on, I took off my work shirt and walked out.

Please tell me someone has a worse reason than that.

[PanterA]

I never had the privilage of actually quitting a job, but one summer I was fired for renting out a paddle boat to a couple in Flushing Meadow Park that had a hole in it. About 25 yards out the boat was under water and these poor people had to swim back in that filthy polluted lake.

The girl had a white dress that quickly turned green.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Fired for Cursing in Restaurant in Hotel I worked at after the collapse for the NYG in the playoffs against San Fran in 2002

some bitch ratted me out and HR fired me

I quit my other job because I had a gun pulled on me




Fired for a Dumb Reason

Quit because I valued my life

[PapaBear]

When I was about 19, a buddy and I got a job at KFC. One day, they brought in a new fryer for the extra crispy chicken. We were standing there looking at it and talking about how nice it looked. The next day, I realized that I had just been admiring a deep fat fryer. I walked out of the store, and walked to my buddy's house. I knock on his window to wake him up.

Me: "Hey George. Wake up"

George (groggy): "Yeah? What's up?

Me: "Don't go to work today. We quit."

George: "OK"

[Sue_Bender]

While working as a Cheese Sprayer (I handled butter topping as well) for a well-known popcorn producer, I was reprimanded for eating an ice cream sandwich on the factory floor.

I promptly quit.

[PanterA]

When I was about 19, a buddy and I got a job at KFC. One day, they brought in a new fryer for the extra crispy chicken. We were standing there looking at it and talking about how nice it looked. The next day, I realized that I had just been admiring a deep fat fryer. I walked out of the store, and walked to my buddy's house. I knock on his window to wake him up.

Me: "Hey George. Wake up"

George (groggy): "Yeah? What's up?

Me: "Don't go to work today. We quit."

George: "OK"Holy shit, that just reminded me that I worked at McDonalds for 1 day. I went to the interview, got showed around, and was supposed to start the next day. I remember now that when they gave me the uniform all the tags said made by McDonalds. Then it hit me...Am I really going to work at McDonalds???

I never showed up for day 2.

[Reynolds]

While working as a Cheese Sprayer (I handled butter topping as well) for a well-known popcorn producer, I was reprimanded for eating an ice cream sandwich on the factory floor.

I promptly quit.

If I was a "cheese sprayer" when asked why I quit my job, I would say "Because I was a cheese sprayer"

I think it would be more degrading to list "anal whore" than "cheese sprayer" under job history

[Chigworthy]

This thread would be hella epic if we could talk about dumb reasons for getting fired.

[Gmann]

When I was about 19, a buddy and I got a job at KFC. One day, they brought in a new fryer for the extra crispy chicken. We were standing there looking at it and talking about how nice it looked. The next day, I realized that I had just been admiring a deep fat fryer. I walked out of the store, and walked to my buddy's house. I knock on his window to wake him up.

Me: "Hey George. Wake up"

George (groggy): "Yeah? What's up?

Me: "Don't go to work today. We quit."

George: "OK"



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[PanterA]

Shit, maybe I did quit some jobs. Now that the ol' memory is starting to kick in, I worked at a movie theater in Queens for 4 years. I quit to become a mailman.

How fucking stupid is that?

[PapaBear]

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Holy shit! That's exactly how he sounded!!! He's got a PHD in chemical engineering or something now.

EDIT: I just looked him up online. Note the part I put in bold. Something tells me he was thinking of KFC when he wrote that!

"I took a nontraditional route through my education. After high school I attempted college at Syracuse University, but I just did not have the proper attitude to succeed academically. I bounced around at various dead-end jobs until I was 25 years old. Then I finally realized how important it was to have a college education. Since I was virtually destitute, I began my academic career at a local community college. There I developed my interest in chemistry. This carried me to the University of Virginia to complete my undergraduate studies. It became apparent to me that I was not going to be satisfied with the level of research I could do with a bachelor's degree, so I knew I had to go to graduate school. After weighing the options, I chose to pursue graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
George received a Master of Science degree in Chemistry, and later a PhD Physical Chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill.

[Sue_Bender]

If I was a "cheese sprayer" when asked why I quit my job, I would say "Because I was a cheese sprayer"

I think it would be more degrading to list "anal whore" than "cheese sprayer" under job history

Wow! What brought that on?

I'm no anal whore, but I'm certainly not "ass shy".

[Reynolds]

Wow! What brought that on?

I'm no anal whore, but I'm certainly not "ass shy".

I'm not saying you're an anal whore, I'm just saying that holding the job title of "cheese sprayer" extremely depressed me.

[Sue_Bender]

I'm not saying you're an anal whore, I'm just saying that holding the job title of "cheese sprayer" extremely depressed me.

Well, I said that I quit!

[Reynolds]

Well, I said that I quit!

Still... Thanks for ruining my day

[Sue_Bender]

Still... Thanks for ruining my day

Welcome.

[jauble]

I worked in home theater at best buy when that FUCKING SONG came out in westfield/carmel indiana. I think I bleed internally a bit when I hear that song. Fuck Sheryl Crow I hate her because of the loop that played. I have never wished diabetes
more on a person that walked in and enjoyed the song.


6 years of rage hidden has now been released.

[Reynolds]

I worked in home theater at best buy when that FUCKING SONG came out in westfield/carmel indiana. I think I bleed internally a bit when I hear that song. Fuck Sheryl Crow I hate her because of the loop that played. I have never wished diabetes
more on a person that walked in and enjoyed the song.


6 years of rage hidden has now been released.

Hmmm? what song?

[Sue_Bender]

I worked in home theater at best buy when that FUCKING SONG came out in westfield/carmel indiana. I think I bleed internally a bit when I hear that song. Fuck Sheryl Crow I hate her because of the loop that played. I have never wished diabetes
more on a person that walked in and enjoyed the song.


6 years of rage hidden has now been released.

I have diabetes...and I don't even know who Sherry Crole is.

[Slumbag]

I worked in home theater at best buy when that FUCKING SONG came out in westfield/carmel indiana. I think I bleed internally a bit when I hear that song. Fuck Sheryl Crow I hate her because of the loop that played. I have never wished diabetes
more on a person that walked in and enjoyed the song.


6 years of rage hidden has now been released.

It must be an Indy thing. I was working right up the road. I really, really can't get deep enough into how much I hate that song.

[jauble]

It must be an Indy thing. I was working right up the road. I really, really can't get deep enough into how much I hate that song.

It is in my soul

[cougarjake13]

i guess it depends on the person one person may think its stupid and another doesnt

anyway i quit a retail job because it interferred with me watching football on sundays

[Hottub]

I quit my job because I had to fly to New York to go to a Birthday Party being thrown for me by people I had never met.:blink:

[JPMNICK]

i quit once just for the reason that i had to share a small office with 2 other people, and i just did not feel like making small talk anymore. i hated the annoying morning banter so much i stopped going. i tried to work from home, but they told me to come in the office, so i just quit.

[AngelAmy]

when i worked at burlington coat factory instead of working 5 days that i had worked for almost a year they put me down to 1 day a week so i really wasnt making that much money...i asked for more time more than once and they never gave me more time so i just stopped showing up at all

so for a year i got paid for no days instead of 1 day before i got another job...........i guess it wasnt that stupid to quit...it was more stupid to not have gotten a new job afterwards.

[WhistlePig]

I quit my job at a local newspaper because there was hardly any work to do and they were too laid back--and I was bored shitless! This probably would have been a dream job for a lot of folks. Previously I worked at a printer that wouldn't give me a proper raise so I quit but I loved the work there--fast paced, stressful. This new job was the complete opposite--people would say "Hey, let's go for some ice cream" and you could just leave and come back in the middle of a shift. I couldn't stand it! I worked there a week then gave my 2 weeks notice. By then my old job had come up with a decent raise and begged me to come back and I couldn't wait to be busy again!

[utriculus!]

I quit a job because I wanted to spend the week at a friends cottage at a lake instead of work.


I quit by writing an I QUIT note on a napkin and leaving it in the break room.


Then again that was a retarded job.

[CambriaBurning]

I quit my job at Creative Labs because we had to work mandatory overtime, 12 hour shifts. I couldnt do it because of college classes... Which I ended up failing anyway. I could have made a bunch of money.... God dammit.

[LaBoob]

I was working two jobs at two different health food stores at one point and I was beginning to hate the non-dominant, non-main-bills-paying job because I had to drive for an hour only one day a week, and the owner decided she wanted me to clean out the nuts and seeds bulk bins all day that day, every week (because I did it best, yech) ... there was no sink available other than the one in the bathroom, so this amounted to me spending my Sunday in a dirty bathroom cleaning out bins that were 3 times the size of the sink, water splashing everywhere. Remember, this is a health food store, so one of these horrid days a customer came in, spent about an hour in the bathroom dropping an atomic bomb, and then I had to go back in and continue working in there in this gentleman's stink... I promptly walked out of the bathroom and quit. I'd worked there for 5 years before that.

Stupid reason to quit a job, but I firmly stand by the decision today.

[Fezticle98]

I never really had a dumb reason.

I quit once to get another, better job when it was clear I wasn't going to get a raise and got dicked out of a bonus that was owed me.

Quit the next job after getting in to grad school.

Quit the following job because it sucked and I was depressed, so I just stopped going in.

[Freitag]

Did I ever share the story of when I quit Fridays?

If I didn't, I will when I get home.

[RAAMONE]

one time i found a better job that payed more money...

so i put in my 2 week notice...and left 2 weeks later

IT WAS CRAZY!

[LaBoob]

one time i found a better job that payed more money...

so i put in my 2 week notice...and left 2 weeks later

IT WAS CRAZY!

You're a little bit too crazy for me. I don't think I can handle it.

[duderino]

My first job out of college was covering high school sports for a local newspaper. After posting what seemed like my 10,000th article about a 19-12 high school girls basketball game with an insightful lead on the high scorer (5 points, 3 rebounds with strong post-up ability and a knack for finding the ball in traffic) I called my editor and told him that I was quitting to become a REAL sports writer.

I'm an attorney.