WATCH > Is This the Best Way to Quit a Job?
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2011/10/18 19:41:17
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Here's proof that a simple two-weeks notice just doesn't cut it anymore. Joey, who had been working at the Marriott Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island for more than three years, decided it was time to quit his job -- and he wanted to go out with a bang. Quite literally.
With the help of 19 of his friends -- who just happen to be members in a marching band, mind you -- Joey walked right in to the hotel entrance, handed his boss a resignation letter and firmly yelled "I quit!"
Then, the amazing stuff happened. The marching band let out quite a performance. Trumpets roared, drums banged and cymbals smashed as the band loudly made its way out of the hotel. All in a day's work, we guess.
You'll have to watch the video for the full effect. But with the Jet Blue guy's epic "I quit" moment and now this, we see a trend surfacing among disgruntled employees.
Do you think this is one of the best ways to quit a job?
With the help of 19 of his friends -- who just happen to be members in a marching band, mind you -- Joey walked right in to the hotel entrance, handed his boss a resignation letter and firmly yelled "I quit!"
Then, the amazing stuff happened. The marching band let out quite a performance. Trumpets roared, drums banged and cymbals smashed as the band loudly made its way out of the hotel. All in a day's work, we guess.
You'll have to watch the video for the full effect. But with the Jet Blue guy's epic "I quit" moment and now this, we see a trend surfacing among disgruntled employees.
Do you think this is one of the best ways to quit a job?
Is this not a site for that?
Was this question not asked? which in turn did they ask for a response?
Im sorry but they DO NOT. When you treat your employees like crap, you will have a revolving door of employees and that costs companies MONEY. It costs to hire and to train. Companies shoot themselves in the foot when they mistreat their employees.
Oh and who needs a reference to work in a low-level hotel job? He obviously wasnt a manager or something like that, where his next employer would really care about a reference. The guy seemed like a nice enough kid, who was just fed up, he can get another job.
Now take that same senario: You have a loud mouthed egotistical kid (saying this by his actions) working in the service industry. People use hotels like this not out of need but out of a luxury (there are cheeper hotels). Now I'm speculating so no this might not of happened, but if a customer came up to him while he was on "break" (another term I hate, but another topic) he would instruct that paying customer to ask someone else. This can be construed as rude and a potential loss of a future paying customer (which since this is a business, what would they rather: a paying customer where profits are increasing hence more money to employ more people or give raises or keep a cranky worker decrease in profits to pay his salary).
Now from a personal front, my dad is a small business owner, he owns his own electrical business. He has 3 full time employees who he pays $18 a hour with full medical so they can take care of their families (NY is expensive). During the summer he employs college kids to clean up, do a...
Now take that same senario: You have a loud mouthed egotistical kid (saying this by his actions) working in the service industry. People use hotels like this not out of need but out of a luxury (there are cheeper hotels). Now I'm speculating so no this might not of happened, but if a customer came up to him while he was on "break" (another term I hate, but another topic) he would instruct that paying customer to ask someone else. This can be construed as rude and a potential loss of a future paying customer (which since this is a business, what would they rather: a paying customer where profits are increasing hence more money to employ more people or give raises or keep a cranky worker decrease in profits to pay his salary).
Now from a personal front, my dad is a small business owner, he owns his own electrical business. He has 3 full time employees who he pays $18 a hour with full medical so they can take care of their families (NY is expensive). During the summer he employs college kids to clean up, do a couple of small jobs and learn the basics of a trade which might help them later on in life if they ever need a good second job (fixing electrical) or for their own houses.
With the President's new medical bill he now is taxed on all summer employees as if he offered them health insurance (that means he can't afford to hire them anymore).
To top it off he had a kid that he employed part time who he had to let go, after paying him around $17 an hour and giving him a month paid time off when his grandfather died. The kid collected unemployment from my dad for 8 months, during that time he did side jobs under my dad's license behind his back (double dipping). My dad was then responsible for all jobs that he didn't even know exsisted that he didn't check or sign off on. If that kid made a spectacle out of leaving, I would have had a huge issue.
Now think of it this way, your employer pays your unemployment.... if you write a book during that time and make a ton of money.... does your previous employer who is supporting you get any of the cut?
He had been there for like 10 years or more, so I think it was my e-mail to the CEO that eventually got him fired. Some times the little guys win.
How much was your companies' goal that year? Was your division behind in production from previous years? Did your division get a raise in either monetary, or benefits if production was above the goal (which could of included more employees hired, raises, etc). They gave you two weeks vacation... that's really nice for a tech position.
Did you have room in your previous career for advancement?
Could your postion improved by paying your dues, working hard, then applying to a managers postion later?
Were these options available to you?
I did quit, and really should never had to work as a damn pharmacy tech but was forced to because of the economy. I have a Bsc. in Biology so Im on to bigger and better things now....but I know exactly how the corporate world is a crappy place to have to work.
The CEO must also worry about their employees if you feel your letter got a manager fired. A disgruntled employee makes for a non consumer, no corporation wants that.
Also when you said before that "it was a big secret", many companies keep legality on a need to know basis, it keeps from information being leaked out.
But also like you said, "times were tough", so they gave you a job with a salary coming in, which in turn allowed you to pay your bills. If you had offer after offer coming in for other employment you wouldn't of hated going to work so much because you would have alternate means of employment.
The kid is young.. in 10 years the place wont even be worth placing on a resume.. when I think of the jobs I had 20 years ago, my loyalty to them has absolutely no baring on any present day employment opportunities.. I remember spending three years working for total tyrants, and allowing myself to be treated like crap because of my work ethic (job's always right).. but had I walked out- it would have had no effect on my resume right now.
Who is to say this guy wasn't already hired somewhere else?