History Main / TakeThisJobAndShoveIt

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', After the agent suggests using the fire for publicity and showing no concern about Penny almost dying, Penny and her mom quit right away, with [[TranquilFury Penny's mom punching the agent out of the ambulance for good measure]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', [[SecretIdentity Bob's]] patience with his humdrum insurance job and his ObstructiveBureaucrat boss Mr. Huph finally snaps when Mr. Huph threatens to fire Bob [[ChronicHeroSyndrome for wanting to stop a mugging that was happening outside his office.]] Mr. Huph gets PunchedAcrossTheRoom and through several walls and winds up in a full-body cast. [[OhCrap Oops]].

* In ''Fanfic/DragonsAndSwarm'', as Mina explains, she demolishing Sector Security's servers with a virus after Dragon recovered the data she wanted is her telling Goodwin she's done with him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', After the agent suggests using the fire for publicity and showing no concern about Penny almost dying, Penny and her mom quit right away, with [[TranquilFury Penny's mom punching the agent out of the ambulance for good measure]].
-->'''Penny's mother:''' We '''quit'''.

--> '''Bridget:''' Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse. ''(power walks out of the office to Music/ArethaFranklin singing "R E S P E C T")''

-->'''John Spartan:''' "Take this job... and ''shovel'' it."\\
'''Huxley:''' ''[uncertainly]'' Yeah...?\\
'''John Spartan:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' ...close enough.

-->'''Scarface:''' ''[at random co-workers and customers]'' Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg you're cool]], and FUCK YOU! I'm out!

'''Banks:''' Oh yes! It is a word! A perfectly good word! Actually, do you know what there's no such thing as? It turns out, with due respect, when all is said and done, [[NoYou that there's no such thing as YOU!]]

* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'': Jimmy quits the band in the middle of a recording session by ''singing,'' "I quit... I quit... I quit, Mr. White!"

* It's the central plot of ''I... Don't Want to Work Anymore" Literature/IQuitBeingAnAdventurer. Even if You Treat Me Better Now, I Won't Do It. I Will Never Work Again.'' that the horribly exploited Aix, to the point of ''slave like'' conditions quits the adventurer's guild the instant the corrupt yet strangely self-righteous guild-master dares him to, and utterly refuses to return no matter how sweet an offer he's given. They've burned every bridge with him, and he won't go back, even if he has no other prospects, at all.

''[Walt angrily knocks down air fresheners from the wall display]''\\

'''Harriot:''' I quit! ''That felt better''!

* Discussed in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. In "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E15TheChainOfScreaming The Chain of Screaming]]", Marshall is tired of getting screamed at at his SoulCrushingDeskJob. Ted suggests he scream back at him and quit, but Marshall points out that he can't afford to be out of a job. Eventually, Marshall gets fed up and finally screams at his boss that he's quitting. This happens:

* Music/WesleyWillis says this in the song "Fuck You".
-->''Take this job and shove it!\\
I'm not working for you anymore!\\
Stick it up your ass!''
* The Lancashire Hotpot's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jz3bJWVvs Resignation Song]]:
-->''You can stick your job, that's what you can do,\\
You can whistle if you think I'm doing any more for you!\\
You've made my life a misery, now I've had to draw the line,\\
So take your job and stick it, where the sun don't shine!''

--> '''Peter:''' ...you're so cool.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': Conversation with Garrus reveals he nearly did this in the past at C-Sec, after an organ smuggler got away with some hostages, going right to the organisation's head and threatening to quit. He didn't at the time. When he gets an opportunity to quit and go off with Shepard, it's apparently a much quieter affair.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': If you bring Miranda with you to the FinalBoss and chose to destroy the Collector base against the Illusive Man's wishes, Miranda, having developed loyalty to Shepard that supersedes Cerberus, refuses the Illusive Man's orders to stop Shepard and tells him "Consider this my resignation".
* In ''VideoGame/NightOfTheConsumers'', the guy who was supposed to be training you runs into the back room to get away from the ravenous costumers. Once there, he makes it very vocal that he's had enough with the job and quits. He [=DOES=] however hand you notes on what to do.
* This happens offscreen in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}''. After you change the heart of an abusive boss, Mishima, who gave you the request, will text you to inform you that the boss was fired, and while the student working part-time (who'd brought the issue to Mishima's attention) was offered money to stay quiet, he refused and quit his job.

* In ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' episode 8, a bunch of CorruptCorporateExecutive Kosuke Tamura's employees hand in their resignations, saying they can't deal with him anymore. When Yuusuke tells them they won't be getting any severance pay, one of them gives ''him'' severance pay in the form of a fist to the face.