If you decide to quit your job, please do the right thing and give appropriate notice. Do not tell your boss at the end of the day that you have an interview for a new job tomorrow and that you'll need to miss work at your current job to make said interview. Do not no call/no show for two days beginning December 26th, ignore phone calls as to your whereabouts, and then finally sheepishly admit that you've decided to quit without notice. Do not show up 15 minutes late (without calling in) after having an "accident" in your pants on the car ride over (without changing those pants), leave the key in the door of the office that was recently burglarized, lie about leaving the key in the door, and then say you're quitting because "things are disorganized around here."
All of these things have been done by my employees. (And yeah, I heartily wish I was lying about the last one.) All of these things have stressed me out, sent me on a tirade, and just generally made me hopping mad. But, in my mind, the most shocking and jaw-dropping aspect of all of these things is that they were done by adults. Not teenagers - not even young, twenty-something whippersnappers - adults. Adults with families and responsibilities. Just take a moment to let that soak in.
Have some courtesy, people. Have some class. Have some dignity, for the love of Mike. But, above all, have some respect for the person who has to clean up after the bridge you just left flaming in your wake.
Unless of course your boss is a jerk-off. Then you have my permission to wet your pants and quit.
