Some workplace exits get forgotten by Friday. Others get told over coffee for fifteen years. These 14 workplace exit stories are exactly the second kind — the resignations, firings, and one-of-a-kind goodbyes so memorable they slipped permanently into the company’s unofficial history. The most memorable thing about any job almost never appears in the job description. It’s the way it ends.
1. I got a job in the big city, my new manager said that she wanted to give me a 2-week trial period because she just wasn’t sure about me. This manager was difficult. Constantly yelling, expecting us to work through lunch and work late and come in early, sessions in her office about how awful we were.
I was miserable, the job was hell. The Friday of the end of my trial period, my manager called me into her office. She said she was pleasantly surprised at how good I was and she definitely wanted to keep me on.
I told her that unfortunately she had not passed her trial period and I would not be staying. Then I walked out. The best elevator ride down to the lobby ever.
2. Worked for a difficult attorney for 10 years. For most of that time, we got along very well, to the point that the other admins were like “How do you do it?”
Had a big falling out because he said I slighted his wife once on a random visit she made to the office while he was out (it did not go down like that at all). Took me 2 years to find another good paying job, but during that time I still worked all the overtime I could get (single mom), etc.
One Sunday I worked 13 hours to meet a deadline for a major client. While there, my daughter called to tell me a job I had interviewed for had called… and I got it. Monday morning when I came in, he called me into his office to thank me for working all day Sunday, and I said, “Thanks, but I am leaving.” Ah, priceless!
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