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

So I was working as a first year plumber apprentice for a large plumbing company doing new construction multi story buildings. As a first year apprentice you're pretty much just a laborer, which is fine by me. One of the jobs required was to cut in wall hoods for bathroom fans, range hoods and dryers. This job in particular required a man lift ticket with safety harness training.

Using a grinder to cut into this "belly band" they called it, it's like some kind of soft concrete or some shit that created a ton of dust when cut through, which can cause serious breathing problems. And then using a sawzall to cut through the rim boards of the building, sometimes 4.5-6 inches thick. Between the dust covering you head to toe, and the 10 hours of using a vibrating sawzall with dull blades, this job sucked hard. Not to mention it didn't matter if it was -40, +40, raining, snowing or 80 km/h winds, I was up there cutting in wall hoods. One particularily rainy day, whenever I would touch the man lift with my arm while using a sawzall, I'd ground myself and get shocked. It was fun.

So the company only train 5 guys in the man lift, 2 of which quit, and the other 2 which were journeyman ticketed plumbers, there's no way they'll pay these guys $36 an hour for this job. So here I was stuck doing this job. Each building had around 200 wall hoods to cut in, and I was on my 8th building. I was getting really tired and my wrists felt like they were going to break. The foreman of the site kept telling me that they were gonna train more people and get me off this job and I believed him. Until one day he tells me that there's 4 more buildings going up on the south side and 1 building left to do on this site, and that I had to do all of them. So I got off my man lift, told him I couldn't do this anymore and that I'm gonna go fill in my time sheet and need my blue book signed and that I quit. He followed me for the rest of the day as I gathered my tools and filled out the paperwork begging me not to quit. But I had enough and it felt pretty good to just walk out. Soon after that I heard, like magic, that they were training new people. Awesome.

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