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'Stick your job up your a**e!': How to not quit your job

'Stick your job up your a**e!': How to not quit your job

Quitting your job is an exchange fraught with feelings of discomfort. Employees often feel guilty that they’re letting the team down, and so downplay how ecstatic they are to be moving on to greener pastures.

On the other hand, a toxic workplace can just push an already disgruntled worker over the edge, with pent up anger being released in an all office email or a scathing Glassdoor review.

One disgruntled employee literally marked his disdain for his boss, by vandalising his car with graffiti, which read: "up yours, I quit" and "worse boss ever" and “stick ur job up ur arse” [sic].

A white Mercedes parked near Leeds train station was found with the black lettering emblazoned across it - and it soon went viral, receiving over 7,000 likes on Twitter. Whilst some Twitter users believed it was a marketing stunt, others lauded the individual’s unique resignation tactic.

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