Been a long time lurker and thought this could be interesting. I'll share mine first.
I was working for a hotel that had an on sight resteraunt. I worked in front of house as a waiter/barman and later I also worked in the kitchen on the kids meals.
The place wasn't well run, shift leaders dating the staff, people constantly disappeared to go smoke for up to 30 minutes, I'd get spoke down to for “not covering enough” while they did this. This is just for context.
So anyway I had a holiday booked and cleared but unfortunately the kitchen manager apparently did not get this note. So there I am enjoying my holiday and I get text “where are you, you were supposed to be here at 9am!” (It was no more than 9.05 BTW). I tell them I'm on holiday and it was cleared and where they should check.
I thought that was the end of it until later that day I get another message “you're in tomorrow so we'll see you at 9am.” Now I'm still on holiday tomorrow but I tried to compromise and state I can't get back that fast, but I could get back in time for the evening service rush. “Not good enough. See you at 9”.
Well, that was the straw that broke the camels back. “If that's not good enough, how about you shove this job up your ass. I quit.”
Que frantic phone calls and texts, that wasn't me one of the other kitchen staff had my phone. Tye manager called me a few days later. “I'm really disappointed I expected you in on monday,” told him I was really disappointed he didn't know what quitting meant and hung up.
It felt great to be done with that place. I was out of work for 6 months, but things worked out in the end.