Redditors who quit their jobs in a blaze of glory, what's your story?

Worked for a Hi-fi store where I was paid a measly base wage plus commission. I really enjoyed the job but the boss was a tight arse and always screwed me over on commission with some excuse or another and with bullshit tax lingo which at that point of time made went straight over my head.

Came to end of month and I'd had my best month yet and was looking forward to my commission bonus. I should have gotten about $700. I got $200.

I went in to his office and asked about it, he started the same talk about taxes but before he could finish something inside me full on snapped. I said 'Fuck it, I quit. This is bullshit and I've had enough.'

We both kinda stood there in silence for a few seconds and then he mumbles a bit not knowing what to say. I broke the silence saying 'So, uhhhhh, I guess that's that. Seeya'

Another was when I worked at Flight Centre (fuck that cunt of a company, I seriously hope it burns to the ground). I had an oppressive manager that liked to micro manage everything you did. It was a retail office store dealing with clients that walk in off the street so sometimes it was busy, other times you wouldn't see a person all day.

When it was quiet I'd surf the web and read reddit or something as long as I had nothing else I needed to do. Given that on the busy days I often had to skip my 30 min lunch break and my one 10 minute break we got (law states we are entitled to 1 x 30 a 2 x 15) I figured it wasn't a big deal to kill a few minutes here and there.

I'm sitting there reading reddit and my team leader who was sitting right next to me EMAILS me CCing in the area leader telling me that its against store policy to surf the web during work hours. I told my manager to piss off, ignored them and kept doing what I was doing.

About 2 days later I'm dragged into a meeting with the area leader and they start trying to tear into me about the rules. I pull out a page I'd printed from fairwork.gov.au detailing our rights to the breaks and that I read a few websites in lieu of those entitlements while not affecting my work. They disagreed still so I told them I quit. They were both stunned and didn't really know what to say.

I bumped into an ex co-worker a few months later and he told me it's now store policy to get 1 x 30 min and 2 x 15 min.

Victory!

Oh I just remembered as well, they used to try and make me wash dishes at work because there was a communal sink. I NEVER used it once and never used dishes at work so I told them to stick that as well.

Not a victory for leaving a job either but I went head to head with some fuckwit named Xavier at Deloitte who were overseeing the sale of a company I had worked for and got over $100k reimbursed to workers.

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