Irish goodbyes

[BravoNovember]

Anyone ever Irish goodbye a toxic workplace?

I just 1/2 Irish goodbyed a toxic workplace 1/2. Day early today. Picking my daughter up early, taking her to the beach. Life is too short to be unhappy or be around insufferable people.

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone!

 

[Schnee]

Never a job, but that's my signature move at social functions.

 

[CorbLand]

Went on a week long vacation between Christmas and New Years. Realized how much happier I was not having to go into that place. Walked in on the 1st of January, which nobody was there. Left my keys and badge on the bosses desk, walked out. No words exchanged.

Sad thing is it wasnt even my boss, it was all the other people in charge of other crews. They all tried to be every ones boss and it got to the point that one couldnt do anything without 3 people watching you and telling you how you should or shouldnt do it. Everyone spent more time bitching about other crews than doing their own damn job. The straw that broke the back was getting yelled out for leaving black marks on the concrete while moving pallets of salt with a skidsteer.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Had to google what an irish goodbye was. Was figuring you beat someone's ass. I am disappointed

 

[IdahoBeav]

Two-week notices really need to be a thing of the past. Terminations/layoffs from the employer are typically immediate. It should be a 2-way street or not at all.

 

[mtnwrunner]

Ha! Didn't know what an Irish goodbye was till now.
That is what usually happens when my brother and I hunt together.......we get his animal, we pack it out, then we get mine and viola.....im alone.

Randy

 

[BravoNovember]

Had to google what an irish goodbye was. Was figuring you beat someone's ass. I am disappointed

Sorry to disappoint! Some people are in need of that treatment, by those days are luckily far behind me

 

[signing off]

I bailed on 20 year gig with 2 days notice.
They said go to night shift next week.
My response was "No, not even coming back next week".
I needed to move to my country cabin and was waiting for the answer of when to fall in my lap. Ha, they gave it to me.
Also.... Dropkick Murphys song "Going out in style" is fun Irish song

 

[Jbehredt]

Irish (ish) goodbye at my last job. Cleared out my PTO and showed up Monday with the trailer to load my tools. Felt good. Maybe next time I’ll go for the Letterkenny leave.

 

[Steve300xcw]

Two-week notices really need to be a thing of the past. Terminations/layoffs from the employer are typically immediate. It should be a 2-way street or not at all.

Iast place I was at, I gave em about 3 weeks notice. I've also left in the middle of the day. Just kinda depends on the place.

 

[Duckhunterbrad]

In banking they walk you out the day you submit your notice, so hard to give them the ol Irish good bye. I did refuse to answer questions a few days later after they walked me out. I was no longer on the payroll, so I didn't find my knowledge relevant to their request. I do think for the most part, one should give an honest 2-week notice.

 

[ODB]

Good on ya. I worked for a place of about 100 people, over my time there (10 years) we had (by headcount) about a 125% turnover. Those that were “let go” were done with immediate effect. I had zero sympathy when others did the same back to them.

I once watched 12 people taken into a conference room and fired. They all walked out, numbed, got their stuff from their offices, shook a few hands, then walked out the door.

Anyone who says to me: “it’s nothing personal, it’s just business” can go suck it.

 

[dylanvb]

The sweet relief of an Irish goodbye. Some places just aren't worth the headaches.

 

[Dos Perros]

When I was 15 I worked for a pool construction company during the summer. Most of the time we were building shitty above ground pools in the summer heat, and that was bad enough. Then one day we had to remove/replace the liner to someone's neglected decrepit pool. The first step was to fish the dead bloated racoon out of it. Then we pumped the algae sludge into the street. Then slice the old liner into strips with a box cutter and roll it up and throw it on your back and haul it to the truck, with rotting racoon algae juice running down your back into your hot ass crack. That was the low point of my life up that point (which I now realize wasn't that low compared to farming/ranch kids). Never showed up the next day, never called in, didn't even go retrieve my last check. It is as if I pretended the job never existed in the first place.

 

[Customweld]

In banking they walk you out the day you submit your notice, so hard to give them the ol Irish good bye.

I used to do the same with guys on my pipe crews. I appreciate the 2 weeks notice, but I didn't want someone in a box 20 feet deep laying sewer pipe that knew he was leaving.

 

[Decker9]

Iv quit 3 jobs (I guess Irish’ed 2 of them) for not approving my sheep hunting holidays. Mountain time comes before work.

 

[Steve300xcw]

I do think for the most part, one should give an honest 2-week notice.

Why? How many times have you seen an employer give somebody a 2 week notice?

 

[ben h]

I've done the "Irish goodbye" twice. One, I wished I would have done it sooner, the other I have mixed feelings about. I think it is situational and if you do want a reference, or possibly return, I'd give the customary two weeks notice. Most of the time, if you're considering doing this, you're probably not coming back, so that's of little relevance, but some industries can have smaller circles than you think.

 

[CorbLand]

Iv quit 3 jobs (I guess Irish’ed 2 of them) for not approving my sheep hunting holidays. Mountain time comes before work.

Worked with a guy that lived to deer hunt. Would take 2 weeks off every fall to hunt them. We got a new boss about a month before season. He submitted his time off and she said he couldnt take that much time off in a row and she only approved time for one week. He says ok. Leaves for his deer hunt and never came back. She was complaining to one of the other guys there and he looked at her and said "the dude works 50 weeks a year to be able do the one thing he wants to for 2. You took that away from him and expected him to come back?" She was a special kind of stupid.

 

[Pony Soldier]

I chose the last day of the year to retire. I was the only person in the office. I guess that is an Irish goodbye. I had to search for somebody to give my keys to.