What’s the most diabolical exit you or a colleague has had from a company? For context, I’m not talking necessarily on bad terms - just a savage exit that’s all

Probably not that savage, but I made myself so invaluable that it took four new employees to fill/handle my position. And within a month of my departure, 5 out of the 7 employees that I referred to company quit and came to work with me. The company struggled for months to fill the additional vacancies.

I was burned out and totally over the previous job. I very actively looked for something else. After a couple weeks quiet, one company reached out to see if I was still available. The very next day, I was told my position was being eliminated. Signed a new contract within days.

The old company paid out 16 weeks of severance, vacation balance, and subsidized 6 weeks of COBRA. I would have given notice within days, but now was free immediately, got a few weeks of stress-free downtime, and walked away with a big chunk of their cash.

I was asked to return to the office on April 4 and interviewed got an offer and gave my two weeks so that my last day was April 1. I got an entire month of benefits, two weeks off and am happier than ever at my new job. Grass is greener where you water it 🤷🏻‍♀️

A woman I sourced and essentially hired for a VP of Marketing role eliminated my entire position two weeks after becoming my boss. I’m pretty sure I went through all five stages of grief in an hour and may or may not have called her “a fucking cunt” in front of the entire office and told her “karma’s a bitch.” I did apologize via email, but definitely the most legend move ever and she deserved it. The karma remark? She was laid off 6 months later.

Not diabolical but pretty amazing.

My father used to work in investing banking upper echelons. At one point they asked for volunteer redundancies before it would be forced layoffs. Benefits were pretty good including a 1 month pay out for every year you’ve been with company.

Anyway there was a senior executive assistant who had been with the company for aaaaaages (like 30 years). She took the 2.5 year payout of her decent salary too!

I was 8 weeks into a new job and was meant to joining a joint review with the ECD and as I joined he blocked me from the call and sent an email seconds later telling me that the creative department didn’t want me in there. I quit the next day.

I know someone who had a crowd of over 200 people show up outside their office building. They built a business outside their regular job and she was walking away from corporate America at age 30. The crowd was people she and her husband were either friends with or had helped. The crowd was all dressed up in crazy outfits chanting, cheering, and carrying on so much in their celebration that she said the people in the building were starting to get concerned because they could feel the walls and floors vibrating from all the noise.

I also heard from a mutual friend about a similar event that happened years ago. They actually broke the sidewalk in front of the office building. It wasn’t intentional, and I have no clue what they did to cause it, but they wrote a check to cover the repairs then walked off into the “sunset”.

Not long after highly publicized layoffs a coworker gave public internal notice in a group Slack. “I am not comfortable in this toxic environment. Not sure who will take over my duties but XXXXXXX is my manager and aware I’m leaving. They can figure it out”.

Pure gold.

A coworker was very senior within the team and her technical skills heavily relied upon. The day she put in notice, a junior team member asked her a question, and she said she had to get to a meeting but would help afterward. It turns out that meeting was her putting in notice, and afterward, when she was accompanied by the head of operations to pack up her desk and get walked out, she made the guy wait while she went over to the junior staff’s desk and thoroughly answered the question. I’m talking 30 min.

I was honest in the exit interview. I feel like that’s as brutal as you can be for a toxic work environment

Retaliated against and lost my job. Sued the agency. Can’t disclose details, but can say I’m super proud of what I did.

You gotta see the William Hung cameo that someone paid for. Best funniest peace out message ever. Bonus points for posting it to Slack 🤣🤣🤣

When I was younger, I was an Assistant Manager at a fast food franchise. The GM heard I was moving and hired a replacement and demoted me until I left. Issue was, I wasn’t moving. I worked that day until the evening with another Manager sent everyone on break except her and I. Then a rush of customers came in. I decided at that moment to toss my keys on the desk and leave. I also took them to the state to pay my unemployment. It’s not easy to get unemployment when you quit but I had supporting documentation, he didn’t. I won but got another job too quickly so I never needed it.

I used to referee high school basketball on the weekends. I’d drive an hr up, do 3 or 4 games then head home and we were supposed to get paid for the previous week each Saturday. 3 or 4 weeks go by and me and a few other people still had not received any payment yet. I asked the owner of the red sourcing company about our pay and he insisted the checks were in the mail…for 2 weeks straight. After getting the runaround for a few weeks, we had this all day tournament or something, I volunteered to take 4 of the earliest games and no-showed them, essentially ruining the whole tournament. He called me like 15 mins before the first game freaking out, begging me to show up and promising to pay me. He overnighted me my checks and had to return whatever money he was paid for that tournament.

Received my pay check, which bounced while in my bank account. Walked in to work, told my boss I had a short, short notice for him. Then said flat out I Quit! And walked away

My mom was a HS teacher. For years, the principal had fired teacher after teacher with little cause. Eventually it was my mom's turn to get the axe. Not only did she win a wrongful termination suit, the board fired the principal and the president shortly after. The principal suffered a heart attack in the midst of it all.

Worked as an applications engineer, in a company with diabolically shitty management. Put up with it long enough, and then I started encouraging my colleagues to leave in 2011 as the economy improved. My idiot manager then went to a very close colleague of mine and asked him, "Is there any relation to people getting friendly with X (me that is) and leaving a few weeks after?" My colleague just smiled and came and told me.

When I had left, I was the 6th to go, leaving the company with a gaping hole. Now before you shed a tear for them, understand, that they underpaid us, overworked us, showed nepotism, laughed in our faces when we asked for raises...

They were relieved to see me go yes, but I pushed the best they had out first, before launching my own parachute out the door. To give you a hint of how low we were paid, by the 10-year mark, I am making 3X what I made then, and yet, I don't make much...

Once heard of an intern who was talented, but very defensive when it came to critique of her work. After receiving some feedback one day, she just walked off, taking the hard drive with her work files on it.

Years later, the dept was still looking for workarounds to hide the fact they'd lost the files whenever one of her projects needed an update.

There's pretty explicit rules and consequences around what she did. Not sure why no one enforced them.

I was up for a “promotion” which would have changed my title decreased my pay and rely heavily on commission. The biggest issue was I had already been doing the job plus some so the pay structure was a slap in the face as the commission percentage wasn’t promising. My boss basically said take it or leave it and gave me a week to get him an answer. Welp I interviewed elsewhere got an offer immediately and waited to tell him the day he wanted to meet with me to know if I’d accept. The look on his face was priceless.

Negotiated 16 weeks severance with 1 year tenure.

Not really savage, but I used to work at Circle K and while I was out for sick time with COVID I put my two weeks in and moved out of the county .