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There are many ways to quit a job, some more professional than others. These text messages capture the raw moments when employees, pushed to their limits, decided to resign via text.
While it might seem unprofessional at first glance, a closer look reveals that these bosses probably had it coming. These screenshots offer a glimpse into the world of workplace frustrations and the bold moves employees make when they’ve had enough.
For more real-life examples, the Facebook page ‘I Quit My Job by Text‘ shares authentic message exchanges between employees and their bosses. Scroll down to explore some of the best posts from this community.
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“Sun 10:15 PM
after a seasonal layoff I got a sudden callback, despite my telling them I needed notice to firm up childcare.
the decided to demote me after I requested the time off.
10 years of my life with this company.”
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“‘So I’m 5 days into my covid positive reading and my boss sends me this because she’s short staffed and I’m still feeling absolutely ill. I’m in Florida for winter break and she’s back in NC meaning I would have to fly while covid positive.’
Context: 2 years ago”
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“I quit my job this week. I had to have a required surgery and biopsy following some health problems i’ve had. I had medical leave covered, I always provided notes and documentation that HR accepted no problem. My (male) boss CONSTANTLY had issues with it the second he found out it had to do with a uterine problem. Telling me that if “I wasn’t dying” I needed to come in. Well I started having complications from surgery and my doctor wanted me in and he argued with me up and down, saying I just wanted time off. After being in pain and exhausted that he was the only one who argued it, I quit.”
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“Kitchen Manager finally quit this awful job. This is how our GM responded.”
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“Quit my shitty Job of Ten Years. I finally quit my shitty job at a non for profit where I and just one other case manager were responsible for 400 clients and the only other employees were outsourced workers from the Philippines. 52k a year and no benefits. The only benefit I had was Fridays off. And they tried to take that away too (unpaid bc they claim that we are salaried exempt tho legally we don’t make enough to be considered exempt in NYC) I’m sad to have to end my ten year career there in this way and they have def been trying to provoke me to quit so they wouldn’t have to pay unemployment and I let them win. But oh well. In a few months, I’ll be in a better spot. ”
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“Walked out mid shift in August because my coworker was being a dick, texted my boss to let him know. It was a decent place to work and bossman was chill. Hadn’t had any issues with my coworker until that night. I asked him to apologize and he refused, so I left. Coworker popped off and said that “I can’t be the only one doing anything here, fucking do something.” When I was literally working side by side with him for the passed 5 hours, sweating my ass off. We were like 15 tickets deep. I was like “What?”, he responded “I’m doing this all by myself.” I asked him for an apology, he said “Fuck no.” We got like 10 tickets out of the way and the rush died down, so he went to smoke without saying anything and left me with the 5 tickets. I finished those 5 tickets, packed up my shit, walked out the back door and he was lighting a 2nd cigarette and talking on the phone. I interrupted him and said “Now your doing everything by yourself.” Got a new job now, part time, a $6/hour pay increase and cut my commute down from a 13 mile bike ride to 2 miles, the boss pays everyone a damn decent wage and everyone is appreciated”
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My job has been a shit show for the past several months but I didn’t want to quit because my store manager and I were friends and I wanted to stay and make sure she didn’t get screwed over by my quitting. And today one of the district managers was there and before our shift started they fired her after she submitted a complaint to the labor board so I handed my dm my store keys grabbed my stuff and left and sent this message to the gm after
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OP added context for why they quit their job via text message:
“I quit a job in May because they were severely underpaying me and missed two years worth of scheduled raises with an excuse popping up every time. Left for a job that paid me double but unfortunately just went out of business Thurs. Got this response to my Instagram story from old job manager today. ”
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OP added context for why they quit their job via text message:
“She feels badly for the younger workers there, they are just starting out and don’t realize that it doesn’t have to be this traumatic going to work every day…Thankfully she can go back to her old job, she just hoped this was a chance to make more $”
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OP added context for why they quit their job via text message:
“There’s more to the story than her refusing to use the scheduling app. On the Tuesday mentioned, she called a meeting where she told me to stop pulling expired food off our shelves “because it counts as shrink,” and I decided that was disgusting enough that I wasn’t going back. It took me until last night to be absolutely sure I wasn’t going back.”
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OP added context for why they quit their job via text message:
So, I’ve been deeling with my grandma being in and out of the hospetal and rehab facilities for the past 2 months. I am her caretaker and have had to call into work to take care of her. I am a shift leader at Taco Bell. Well, was. I was demoted yesterday due to having to deal with family medical emergencies. I have screenshots of text messages with the other managers and how they have acted towards me over the situation. I live in Texas, unfortunately. So I doubt there’s much I can do. But I feel me being demoted is retaliation and unjust punishment.
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OP added context for why they quit their job via text message:
“I worked in an extremely toxic retail store (as all of them are pretty much) and I was specifically targeted by a jerk named Glen. He would tattle on people, talk shit behind there backs, cause drama, and when I first started he absolutely hated the company. But then he got manager and that’s when he got a huge power trip. Would boss people around, acted like he owned the place. He wasn’t even the GM he was the department manager. He would talk down to people or talk to them like children.
I assure you people in my class (not mangers) acted not like kids. We have yelled back and forth before, I got written up but another guy who works there who’s a manager has verbally abused coworkers and customers and never gets written up. So that’s “fair”. Anyway finally he said “get out on the sales floor or leave if your gonna do nothing all day.” (I was taking a break to catch up with a coworker who I know is struggling so I was checking in with him. He’s a good guy who’s down bad but we like to laugh together.
So I said, “ok, I’ll do that then.” Then left. Came back the next day to sign papers for leaving and haven’t been back. The managers fight for the guy who’s verbally abused people and has multiple complaints, but nobody gave a single shit I was leaving. It sounds fake and sounds like I was maybe a bad coworker, but it’s the managers club. If I could show you the opinions of my coworkers you’d see they feel the exact same way. I hope the whole company burns. If you look on Indeed you can see all the stores have manager abuse issues.
When I went home that day I sent only 1 text to my boss and he never even responded. Nobody cares about that place or each other besides the few grunts who work the floor.”
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“I worked for a Head Start program for two years. I did everything, bent over backward, and helped the team whenever possible. I was getting burned out, so I ended up getting another job and put in my two weeks.
My manager just messaged me over text and said that due to staffing changes that my last day was yesterday and that I was unable to complete my 2 weeks. I had written a really nice resignation and had explained it was nothing personal I just wanted to move on into the education career. My company had fired three people two weeks before and had someone quit after being there for 2 months. They don’t treat their employees with respect and my new job was excited to have me early.”
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