I worked as a graphic designer for a huge online print company that was ran so poorly that I could write a few novels from stories. But quitting was my favorite moment.
I got pulled aside by my manager because my numbers weren’t great recently according to her, as far as how many jobs I completely, which I pointed out how people go for the under $200 jobs cause it’s the least stressful if something is done wrong. I made a habit of not touching anything under $1k, on that day I had been working on a $150k job and even though the client didn’t request it I sent proofs and confirmed they were happy with the mock ups over the phone, they were ecstatic with service, especially since their logo as is wouldn’t have looked great on the thick thread material it was going on, so I tweaked it to make sure it showed well and would hold up to use over time. In the last 48 hours I had done over $200k in job values, most people would do like $2-5k a day at best, cause we did tons of small jobs. I liked the big ones cause yeah I might take twice as long than I would on a quick wedding job but the company was making exponentially more money on the jobs I’d grab and almost all were big corporations so I saw it as building a returning customer relationship.
Back to getting pulled aside, she proceeded to show me the number of jobs I had done in the last few hours and I told her to open each and look at the size of them, she looked, nodded, and told me my numbers needed to improve by the end of the day. So I smiled, nodded, and walked away. Lunch had just started so I walked straight to HR to ask if I needed to fill anything out to quit, she did her job and asked what was wrong and if anything could change my decision, I told her the story of the day, she smiled and handed me paperwork and said I could just leave if I didn’t want to waste more time there, I told her I’d have more fun making sure my exit was documented. She was super nice. I assume she was used to these talks. So after I walk back in planning to finish the day off. Happened to run into her who asked if I had improved(during lunch?? Lol) and I smiled and told her I had quit but planned to finish up the jobs I had been working on before I left, she was fuming and attempted to create a few sentences to tell me I could just leave right now. I smiled and thanked her for the opportunity to work there and everyone was now watching(room had like 30 designers at desks working in it with 2 managers in the back looking over everyone’s shoulders), I mockingly did the Jerry Maguire “freak out” speech to break the awkward silence, and grabbed my things, and got a bunch of hugs, and went to my favorite pool hall for a celebratory 1 pm drink and enjoyed the rest of my day.