People who quit a job in the heat of the moment, what chaos did you leave them to handle?

I didn't get a bonus because they felt the overtime I did paid me more than the bonus they gave to everyone else.

I didn't know what to say after that, so after a few hours, I offered to get coffee for everyone.

I left and never came back or contacted them again.

I keep thinking that I should go back with coffee now that I've been gone for 10 years and just act normal.

When I was a programmer at an insurance company, one of the longtime programmers had been with the company for nearly 20 years.

This guy originally wrote most of the financial system himself from scratch, and it maintained it with the help of a couple

other people. Every month, he did the month-end processing, and every quarter he did the quarter-end

processing. Every year-end? Yep, it was him. There was a change in management a couple of times,

and he kept getting treated worse and worse. He was being treated unfairly, asked to do

unreasonably more work than he was already

doing, getting thrown under the bus, that kind of thing. He finally had enough, and one morning he

came in, walked to the manager's office, and quit, then walked out the door. In the aftermath,

it took a team of four other people, months and months to get things back together and to a point where things were serviceable.

I got stabbed in the shoulder while working as a bookmaker, or betting shop manager.

I was the only keyholder and while the paramedics were tending to me, the area manager was on the phone asking me to open the store the next day.

I closed shop for the day.

Came back once I got out of the

hospital, put my keys in the safe, and left my notice on the desk. The store didn't open for three

days while they sorted a field manager. I worked for a landscape company doing new installs. Our owner

was cheap, with a bad habit of constantly biting off more than he could chew. One year, he asked

if we wanted any part of a school project in a city we didn't live in,

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