I quit a job on the spot this weekend. I worked at a nursing home at the front desk. There were signs. During my interview, they made fun of the fact that I was resigning from my position church (they called religious people toxic), they told me the hours would be “up to 20” but they weren't even close. During orientation, I was told to just sign the new hire paperwork and don't worry about the fine print, and so on.
Three weeks into the job, I had a visitor regularly come to the desk. He would start screaming profanities directly at me when I wouldn't leave my desk to place him in a wheelchair and wheel him up to see his wife. I was never allowed to touch a visitor, am not a medically certified person, and this violated company policy.
He told me “fuck you” and became belligerent last Saturday so I called my immediate on-call boss. She told me “that's just the way he is” and told me to “deal with it.”.
Last Sunday, he came back in and demanded the same thing. I told him politely I can not assist. He started swearing again and when other visitors intervened, he started swearing at them also. Since I couldn't rely on my boss, I stood there taking the verbal abuse and apologizing.
I wrote up a letter of resignation at my desk after walking to Human Resources to see if anyone was (randomly) there on a weekend. I even completed my shift before I left and locked up.
Yesterday, the Director of the facility calls. I don't answer. She has the nerve to leave a voicemail stating she is sitting in a conference room with the entire staff of Human Resources on speakerphone. If I would have picked up, I would have been in a meeting on a conference call.
She wants to know why I left. I made that clear in my email. I wrote that their management does not support their employees and it's a toxic workplace. She called me 3 times yesterday and demanded answers in voicemails.
I'm not giving them. I owe NOTHING to them. Just a reminder that you are all worth more than this.
Oh, and I was only paid 12.50 an hour.