I had only quit one job out of anger. I was the Front End Lead at Kmart and my boss and HR lady met with me to explain how the current PM Supervisor was performing terribly, and offered me her position. I accepted. They must have spoken to her about it and then changed their minds or something, because a couple of days later she came in all slimy and confronted me at the counter, saying she heard I met with them and was gunning to take her job, etc. Obviously she had not been removed from the position and now there was this fucked up dynamic between us. I was livid that they put me in that position at all. I went to speak with the HR lady and she said my boss had apparently dropped the ball on the whole ordeal, so I found him in the store and quit. Told him they did me fucking dirty and walked out.

A week or so later I finally answered their calls, and they had demoted her and gave me her position, along with a decent pay raise. I probably shouldn’t have taken it, but I did. Outside of that incident they had always treated me pretty well and were accommodating of my time off requests throughout the years. Taking that job set into motion the next decade of managing at every single business I applied to – only leaving jobs due to one closing, and two others due to moving away. I’m still managing now, but I work in the grocery industry rather than straight retail.