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I Quit!
We’ve all had bad jobs. Some worse than others. Bad bosses, bad working conditions, bad pay, bad food, bad odors, bad everything. Many of us have yearned to quit. Some of us have quit. And some of us have quit spectacularly. Enjoy these best quitting stories from the worst jobs.
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How I Said the Worst Thing Imaginable to the Worst Lawyer Alive
Or: The fungus is no longer among us
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My Letter of Resignation Was an Entire Issue of a National Magazine
I knew I was going to quit and leave my sexist boss behind. I just needed to do it in the biggest way I could.
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How Quitting Writing Made Me a Writer
Sometimes you need to lose your path before you find it
Quitting as a Game of Chess
I didn’t have the luxury to quit my job in a blaze of glory. So I meticulously engineered my exit over several months.
I Quit My Job. At a Dead Run. In the Middle of the Night.
An upstart’s nascent film career takes a turn for the worse.
Losing My Tips, Finding My Voice
A young diner employee discovers that free fro-yo isn’t free when you’re spending all day getting screamed at
