People who have quit their jobs on the spot, what was the moment when you finally snapped?

A few years back I worked at a manufacturing company. We had a multi-step production process, and I operated a complex, unreliable machine that produced the finished product. The company was terribly managed, and the whole place was held together by 1 shop foreman, who was the only person who knew how the machinery worked.

6 difficult months later, I've learned to finesse the machine and things are good. Then the foreman quits, but isn't replaced. And we get a huge order. So, we start pre-production and predictably run into all sorts of problems. After a stressful day of this, the manager pulls me aside. He told me I needed to really needed to step up my game, because millions of dollars and a dozen people's jobs relied on me, since no one else could operate the equipment.

Me. An employee being paid $16 an hour.

At this point, the absurdity of the situation hit me. I started laughing, turned to him and told him that it sounded like it was about time they gave me a raise. He scoffed at the very suggestion, so I shut down the machine and walked out.

He called me the next day and offered me $17 an hour. I hung up. Last I heard the company went under a few years later, and got folded back into the parent corporation. Good riddance!

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