10 People Whose Jobs Ended in Total Chaos

Most people expect to leave a job with a farewell email and maybe a slice of cake, but not these employees. From dramatic resignations to jaw-dropping firings, these 10 workplace exits were anything but ordinary. Buckle up for stories about jobs that didn’t just end—they turned into chaos.

• My wife worked for a certain chain coffee shop a few years back. She got another job, so requested reduced hours. This didn’t happen for 3 straight weeks. During that third week, she had a soccer mom try to get her attention, by throwing snowballs at her through the drive-thru window.
  My wife then stopped what she was doing and tossed this soccer mom’s iced tea at her (which exploded everywhere) and slammed the window. 5 minutes later, she had written her letter of resignation, with the only things she could find: a purple crayon and a sticky note. The_MonBear / Reddit
• My boss was never in the office and wasn’t even there for me to turn in my resignation. So I took a video of me dancing on his desk and singing about how he’s never there and sent it to his boss. AnotherCleverGuy / Reddit
• During my exit interview, I told HR the real reason I was leaving was due to the quality of the office chairs. I said they were an eyesore, uncomfortable, and made me ashamed to come to work, resulting in sub-par job satisfaction. Two weeks later I was told by previous co-workers everyone got brand new, top-of-the-line office chairs. jphiz / Reddit

• My boss was obsessed with micromanaging everything. He would freak out if even the tiniest thing was not up to his expectations and make me work extra hours at night.
  One day he freaked out over nothing and yelled at me like I was an animal. It was my last straw. Immediately, I took my stuff and left the office. I never went back or replied to any emails or calls.
• I used to work as a cashier. The front-end manager would ask me to help train a couple of new cashiers then I could move. When I would get done with training then something else will come up for a reason I couldn’t go.
  I got fed up with it and waited until the busiest Sunday in the store’s history and quit right after my lunch break. Just handed my best and till keys to her and said, “I quit, bye.” MattHicks2010 / Reddit
• After a family member of mine had died who I was close to, my boss wouldn’t let me attend the funeral, saying, “No one cares about your problems in the real world.” His son with whom I have been friends with since grade school called in sick and when the boss called me to tell me to come in for him, I politely responded, “No one cares about your problems in the real world.” And quit.
  I can make sandwiches for someone else for minimum wage and be treated a little more compassionately. Long**ngSilver3** / Reddit

• I worked IT at a huge law firm. One night, while updating the servers, I got bored and decided to prank my coworkers. I remotely shut down the managing partner’s computer just before his big case presentation. He went ballistic.
  Laughing, I leaned back in my chair... and accidentally yanked the wrong cord. Every system in the office crashed—emails, files, everything. They called it “The Great Blackout.” By morning, I was escorted out with my things in a box.
• I was beyond fed up with my boss. She piled work on me, took credit for my ideas, and made my life miserable. One day, I typed out a ranting email about her—full of frustration, sarcasm, and a few choice words. I meant to send it to my work bestie.
  Instead... I hit “Reply All.” It went to the entire company. The silence that followed was deafening. My inbox exploded, HR called me in. Yeah, that was my last day.

• I used to work for my dad. He treated me like garbage, paid me next to nothing, and forced me to work 70 hours/week. Then he pushed all limits and forced me to work a brutal night shift, 6 PM to 6:30 AM.
  I told him it was unfair, and he called me “weak” and asked me to “grow up”. Frustrated, I looked him in the eye and said, “If a grown man looks like you, I’m better off being weak.” I quit immediately and never went back.
  Losing his most hard-working employee shook my dad and his business to the core, so much so that he later begged me to come back and promised better hours. But well, I’m already at my new job that not only pays me thrice the amount, but also treats me like a human being.
• I worked as an assistant. Once, I took my husband to our office party. He’s usually shy, but I caught him being “too friendly” with my boss. I brushed it off.
  But the next day, when I was looking through my boss’ phone to fix a meeting, it rang—it was my husband. When I opened their chats, my stomach dropped to see they had been texting for a while, and mostly it was my boss trying to flirt with him and him replying awkwardly.
  I confronted her, and she flat out told me that she has a “casual crush” on my husband, it “doesn’t mean anything.” It made my blood boil. I slammed her phone to the ground and made it very clear that she shouldn’t contact my husband again in any way, I would report her. And also, I quit.

A woman revealed she got fired for simply asking her colleague to stop working barefoot. Read all about it here.