How to quit?

I've always wanted to do that

 

That's awesome

 

I can't quote the first video for some reason, but I'm not sure it matters if it's nsfw. We can be nsfw just the same! Anyways, this happens to be a personal favorite...

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2 weeks notice is not ever required, but if your job is so bad you can't put up with it for that last two weeks then you either have a really crappy company or really crappy coworkers...2 weeks has always been a courtesy thing but if you liked the company and want another job I would highly suggest giving the notice.

 

When I quit OTR to join the post office, I made sure to give enough notice and I made sure I had the job before I quit. This is what I did:

Requested home time for the job interview and road test. I didn't get home in time, so I had the interview rescheduled. Most local companies understand the OTR life.

I got the interview done and then went back on the road. When I was informed that I got the job, I turned in my 2 week notice. Since I was driving for a smaller outfit, 2 weeks turned into a month. But I stayed with the truck doing what the employer wanted me to do. I returned the truck to the terminal in good condition and left.

I still talk to the owner of that small shop every few months to shoot the breeze with him. Him and I are good friends, even 3 years after I quit. He told me that my old job will always be there if I want it again.

Never burn your bridges. You never know if you're going to need to come back.

 

I never give notice to quit. I always found that when someone gets fired or laid off, you don't always get a notice either. I usually WAIT till I get home to quit there. If you call and give notice while on the road, they can mess with you, like tell you to park the truck and leave. Some companies WILL BURN YOU, even if you give them notice. Some companies will keep you out there, way beyond the 2 weeks, and that pretty much makes you bail out, giving them the opportunity to BURN YOU, as you now are tagged, "abandoning equipment".

It is "generally" desirable to give a 2 week notice, but my opinion for all these years of driving is, "they will NOTICE in 2 weeks that I am gone". When I was laid off at my job, 2 times in fact, because things were slow, each time, I got NO advance warnings of getting laid off, and yet, that nasty mortgage payment was coming due. How was THAT for company loyalty? I show no loyalty to any company, any more, and in fact, haven't in maybe I'd say about the past 20 years of my 25 year career (as a truck driver)

I've been quitting jobs on the spot, for as long as I can remember, BUT at the home terminals, and never got a bad DAC over it. And ALWAYS got a job with NO problems.

 

Hi G, sounds like you've had some bad deals along the way, entirely possible in this business, but I always had a pretty good relationship with most of my jobs. And , except for my union job, which I gave 2 weeks notice, I always gave 1 week, out of courtesy, mostly. Out of the 50 or more jobs, (not all trucking) maybe 1 or 2 I didn't give a notice, but that was because, I had another job that couldn't wait, or when I quit my O/O deal with the company I was leased to, I just called them, and said, "my plate is in the mail, I quit". While it's true, 2 weeks notice can be the longest 2 weeks in history, as you immediately become a "traitor" to the company, and some take it personally. As far as the layoff thing, I think that's a different matter. Nothing is for certain in the business world, and accounts change, and you, the worker, are the 1st to go. Not sure companies plan it that way, it just happens. In Milw. last summer, Cargill, a meat packing co. in town, closed their doors, putting 600 workers out of a job, WITH NO NOTICE!. The workers came in and a chain was around the gate. So it's not just trucking, all jobs are fragile. Generally, 1 week is enough.

 

^^^I agree with G. Anthony^^^

I have been totally messed with before...but I have NEVER considered abandoning a truck---just had to ride out the B.S.
So; after that, if I HATED the company, and didn't mind burning the bridge, I don't even bother expressing my intent or saying anything....I wait until normal home-time and just turn it in then. Some times during business hours, and some times in the dead of the night (depends on how bad they had screwed me and when I got to the terminal).

If I liked them, and they treated me good...but was moving on to greener pastures...they got notice, and appreciated it.

 

I too NEVER abandoned ANY company equipment, as that IS the kiss of death. Which is why I quit, on the spot, no warning whatsoever, on the company property, and never a company drop lot/yard, at the company yard/terminal. I mean after all too, it's where my car is parked, why "cab, or bus, or train, or fly, home, on my dime"?

The only 2 times I literally "flew home" is when the companies were out of state (from my home state), and of course I wanted to get home, which I gladly ponied up my plastic money. One time, I "trained" home, dear God, never take a train ever again! And Greydog, is NO BETTER! (done that too)
You know, as "older guys (some of us that is), we have put up with MORE crap than any of the younger ones ever do. We respected jobs, and company and loyalty. But over time, when as an older person, you see the in-ornate BS that a company throws at you, the time comes when you just gotta say, "F"-it.

 

I've only quit 2 OTR jobs. Both companies I left their truck at their main terminals. The first one I was already there for PM on the truck anyway, the second one I was heading back to the yard to relay my load and go home for the weekend. Told my dispatcher I was going to turn in my truck and part ways with the company and asked what I needed to do to make this happen since it would be the dead of night when I got there.

 

Some of you guys had way too many jobs. Not judging here, but I'm 33 and only had 5 jobs since I was 8. I plan to retire with my current job.