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| 7 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_quit.jpg]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:Now that's what I call a resignation ''notice''!]] |
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| 10 | ->''"Ya'll better not try to stand in my way\ |
| 11 | As I'm walking out the door\ |
| 12 | Take this job and shove it!\ |
| 13 | I ain't workin' here no more!"'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Johnny Paycheck''', "[[TropeNamers Take This Job and Shove It]]" |
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| 16 | A character is in a job that's making them more and more miserable by the day. Never mind that it's their (probably only) source of income; the plain and simple of it is, the job sucks and is draining them of their energy and patience. |
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| 18 | Maybe it's a DangerousWorkplace they're employed to. Maybe they're working for IncompetenceInc Very possibly, there's NoSuchThingAsHR; or there ''is'', but [[InhumanResources they sure wish there wasn't]]. Perhaps they have perpetual [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity insecurity about how safe their job is,]] and it's not helped by the [[BadBoss overbearing supervisor or office manager they've got.]] Maybe they just recently got PromotedToScapegoat or have to put up with an [[PointyHairedBoss incompetent boss.]] It could be that they're the BeleagueredAssistant, or the OnlySaneEmployee in an office populated by those who should rightly be certified insane. Or, chances are good they've been subjected to the DelegationRelay one time too many. Or perhaps the boss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and the character's morals can't allow them to stick around that kind of environment. |
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| 20 | The reasons vary, but the result is the same. [[TheResenter Resentment]] builds... TranquilFury is fostered... and then [[BewareTheNiceOnes the character's patience goes]] [[TheLastStraw flying out the window.]] |
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| 22 | "You know what? [[TitleDrop TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT!"]] |
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| 24 | The recipient may be a {{jerkass}} who [[LaserGuidedKarma thoroughly deserved it]]. The employer/supervisor may also be [[WellDoneSonGuy a parent or relative]] or [[WhatTheHellHero somebody who's SUPPOSED to be a good guy.]] |
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| 26 | Note that it doesn't have to be the word-for-word line of this trope's title that is said; the manner of RageQuit displayed against the supervisor/boss is essentially the heart of the trope. |
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| 28 | Be careful, though; if done too often, it may lead others to query why you always leave one job after another (in which case, it might be ''you'' who has the real problem). If the person goes on a violent rampage instead of simply quitting, that's GoingPostal. If they have to return humbly, that's CrossingTheBurntBridge. |
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| 30 | Compare ScrewThisImOuttaHere (for a range of situations that may or may not involve one's job), RageQuit (for angrily quitting a game rather than a job) and InsigniaRipOffRitual (for examples of quitting or being fired that are symbolized by destroying an icon related to the job). May involve a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]]. A subtrope is ResignInProtest, where a specific action or decision by their organization leaves someone feeling unable to continue doing the job in good conscience and leaving as a form of protest. If the person is forbidden from leaving or is forced back in not of their own accord, it's ResignationsNotAccepted or MandatoryUnretirement. |
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| 32 | Not related to ToHellWithThisInfernalJob, though the subject of that trope may very well be feeling this way when they quit their own job. |
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| 35 | !!Examples: |
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| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 40 | * ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'': In the anime adaptation, Shinichi Kodaka angrily tells his father that he's quitting when he learns that his father not only intends to develop land that was destroyed in [[HumongousMecha Zearth's]] previous battle, but intends to make it into a golf course so he can profit off of it. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'': In the sequel ''Bubblegum Crash'', Priss, a successful rock singer, is offered a recording contract by a major label, and rejects it in no uncertain terms when she discovers they want to turn her into an IdolSinger. |
| 42 | * ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'': Aila quits her role as representative of Team Nemesis after Reiji gives her a long-awaited opportunity to leave by promising her a spot in Sei's house; she then proceeds to call out everyone on her former team in the process. |
| 43 | * 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 Kosuke 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. |
| 44 | * In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'', the [[spoiler:real]] Elan Ceres gives the Peil Technologies [=CEOs=] a letter in the final episode, tired of being used by them. It's part of the HumiliationConga those old hags are put through. |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is why the ocean-going restaurant Baratie has no waiters; the wait staff got sick of the constant fights between pirates and the cooks, and left. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/PowerOfHopePrecureFullBloom'', after spending the entire series working as a secretary for a manager who overworked and underpaid her, Kurumi, finally finds the strength to tell him she quits. When he mockingly asks what she's going to do, she plainly tells him she's going to be Prime Minister of the Palmer Kingdom, leaving the man completely dumbfounded at her answer. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Annihilators}}'', Characters/RocketRaccoon already hates working for Timely Inc. as a mail clerk, especially after his boss admits that he was only hired to make the other employees feel better by being a RidiculouslyCuteCritter. So when said boss fires Rocket for the crime of defending himself from a killer clown, Rocket responds by shoving a trashcan onto his boss's head and declaring that he quits. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanVsBigbyAWolfInGotham'': At the end of the story, Alfred is furious when Batman returns to the batcave injured. Batman just tells Alfred he'll patch him up again like always, only for Alfred to state otherwise. He states that Bruce pushed him too far this time, and then storms away shouting "I Quit!". [[spoiler:Robin is worried, only for Batman to assure him it's okay, and that Alfred does that from time to time.]] |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy:'' In the aftermath of defeating the Badoon, the Guardians go their separate ways. Charlie-27 takes up a job helping rebuild Earth, but the foreman continuously bullies him (even knowing who Charlie is and what he's done. The guy just ''doesn't care''). After a short while, Charlie gets fed up and uses his SuperStrength to wrap the foreman up in girders, and takes a permanent lunch break. Judging by the expressions on the other workers' faces (unabashed glee), they're not going to make any effort to help the foreman either. |
| 53 | -->'''Narration:''' And so ended "The Day Charlie Told Off His Boss". |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': |
| 55 | ** Pre-Crisis Kara had a habit of angrily quitting jobs. In ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'' #424: ''ComicBook/CryptOfTheFrozenGraves'', sick of putting up with a bullying coworker who is being favored by their boss, and feeling her job as a camerawoman is undermining her morals, she hands in her resignation letter and storms out of the premises right away. |
| 56 | --->'''Linda Danvers:''' Meanwhile, I've got something for you-- a little notice stating that I quit as of right now! If you want me to stay the traditional two weeks-- forget it! I'm leaving now!\ |
| 57 | '''Geoffrey Anderson:''' Hunh? But-- Now, wait a minute! You can't just--\ |
| 58 | '''Linda Danvers:''' Oh, yes, I can! I'm sick of the whole rotten news business! My articles and the actions of your favorite camera operator cost a man his life! That's enough for me! I've got better things to do with my life than stay in a business that exploits people. |
| 59 | ** In ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily'' #208, quits her work as a student councilor after a heated argument with her supervisor: |
| 60 | --->'''Linda Danvers:''' This is it! I'm finished! You can take my contract and stuff it up your nose, Pierce! |
| 61 | ** In ''Superman Family'' #222, she cannot put up anymore with the increasing pressures of being a TV star. After one night of soul-searching, Kara realizes she will not be happy again until she quits a job she hates. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 65 | * The titular ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' attempted this once, working alongside Wally in secret on company time to form their own startup, and once the product was ready, revealed this to the Pointy-Haired Boss and began a mockery dance. Then the Boss pointed out that since they used company resources and time for their startup, the COMPANY owned the product. |
| 66 | ** Another strip had Dilbert meet a guy who was taking this trope to such an extreme that he was trying to turn his resignation letter into an off-Broadway musical. |
| 67 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Retail}}'' had an arc where assistant manager Josh lied about a job offer from a competing store in order to get a raise. Marla later found out about this and told this to district manager Stuart. Eventually, Josh figured out that Marla and Stuart knew, so he started looking for a new job before they had a chance to fire him (it was Christmas season, and there was no time to hire and train a replacement). After he got one, he invoked this trope while giving his 2 weeks notice to Marla, bragging about how, in the end, he succeeded with his ploy anyway. Of course, this pissed Marla off, and she promptly fired him on the spot, not letting him work out his notice. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
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| 70 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 71 | * ''Fanfic/BrotherOnBoard'': Ayako was ForcedIntoEvil by her [[EvilUncle Uncle Galdino]], aka Mr. 3. When she joins the Straw Hats, he initially assumes that she's only acting as a spy, only for her to use her hypnotic powers on him and call him out on all his years of manipulation. |
| 72 | * ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'': When Bob Roth tries to force Jagged Stone to change his image or he'll be fired, [[ThreatBackfire Jagged tells him he'll just quit]]. After all, many record labels would be happy to hire the number 2 artist on the chart. |
| 73 | * In ''Fanfic/DragonsAndSwarm'', as Mina explains, her demolishing Sector Security's servers with a virus after Dragon recovered the data she wanted is her way of telling Goodwin she's done with him. |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'' opens with Keitaro quitting his job as the nominal manager of the Hinata Inn, calling out its tenants on how several of them flagrantly abused him while the rest [[AccompliceByInaction stood back and let it happen]]. He also breaks off his relationship with Naru. |
| 75 | * ''Fanfic/JustAnotherOneOfThoseDays'': After being tricked into thinking that Brittas has been having sex with Laura, Julie furiously pours hot coffee over his [[GroinAttack crown jewels]] while announcing that she's quitting. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, she asks for her job back. Brittas [[UltimateJobSecurity happily obliges]], to Laura's dismay. |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/MiraculousLadybugSaltShots'': ''Spots of Change'' follows the fallout of Marinette deciding to give up being Ladybug, as she's tired of everyone [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity taking advantage of her]] in both her superhero and civilian identities. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that she remains the Guardian; however, she transfers to another school in order to get away from her {{False Friend}}s, and her [[ContrastingReplacementCharacter successor Anatis]] makes clear to Chat Noir and Alya that she will ''not'' tolerate any of their bratty, entitled behavior. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/MoralOfTheStoryNyame'': |
| 78 | ** Laurel admits in her SuicideNote that she'd secretly hated working at the DA's office due to how flagrantly corrupt most of her coworkers were. Thanks to some {{Paparazzi}} publishing said note in several {{tabloid|Melodrama}}s, triggering several investigations to be opened. After Laurel is brought BackFromTheDead, they attempt to hire her back in a blatant PublicityStunt; Laurel naturally rejects the offer. |
| 79 | ** After learning the role Oliver played in driving Laurel to kill herself, Felicity quits both her job at Queen Consolidated and Team Arrow, disgusted by her former boss/friend's actions. |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/OriginStory'': After being traumatized by her battle with Alex, Moonstone quits the Thunderbolts, leaving her moonstone and a note that reads "Fuck you, I'm done" on Henry Peter Gyrich's desk. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': In the non-canon story ''Nightmares Yet to Come'', after several months of arguing with Rainbow Dash, Cloud Kicker reaches a breaking point and storms out, after it looks like Rainbow's fired her. [[spoiler:Except Rainbow hasn't fired her, she was just suggesting Kicker take the day off in the ''worst'' way possible, and in fact the only pony who'd know how to fire Kicker is Kicker herself. When Raindrops goes looking for Kicker, she finds the mare having a sobbing fest, since Kicker actually likes her job. Even Rainbow Dash, not normally an easy pony to work with, seems rattled by how far Cloud goes, and sort-of apologizes. Though Cloud still gets put on stress leave.]] |
| 82 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3987477/7/Return-to-Sender Return to Sender]]'', Harry has grown increasingly disenchanted with his job as an Auror, while Draco never cared much for his current job in the first place. To cheer Harry up, Draco turns Auror Headquarters into a replica of the garden outside Harry's old apartment building and an overwhelmed Harry kisses him. |
| 83 | -->'''Finch:''' If you two don't start helping like the others you'll be out of a job!\ |
| 84 | '''Draco:''' I hate to use an overdone cliché, sir, but you can't fire us, because we quit. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/SoonIShallBeIndestructible'': While Izuku and Mei are supposed to be partners, she drives a wedge between the two of them with her irrational hatred of Shouto, getting pissed off over his friendship with Endeavor's youngest child. When Shouto [[spoiler:has his Quirk erased]], she coldly declares that's a ''good thing'', pissing Izuku off so much that he promptly quits Project Indestructible. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/SpikesGambit'': Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]] quits her job after learning that Discord had implanted a GPS tracking chip in her backside. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': |
| 88 | ** The Straw Hats' RoaringRampageOfRescue during the Enies Lobby arc, which saw them air a ''metric ton'' of the World Government and the Marines' dirty laundry, saw several marines defect or quit in disgust. A later chapter reveals that there were more resignations in the twenty-four hours within the incident than there have been in the last two ''years''. |
| 89 | ** The Thriller Bark incident similarly incited several resignations from the Marines -- specifically, those Marines that were victims of Moria, and had their shadows returned to them by the Straw Hats. Hell, the first call during Cross' post-victory SBS broadcast was a Marine calling in to do exactly that. |
| 90 | ** The absolute crowner, however, has to be the Sabaody Revolution arc, where ''Sengoku'' turns in his resignation after [[spoiler:Cross allows Silvers Rayleigh to expose the truth about Gold Roger's capture and execution on the SBS, destroying the Marines' last shred of credibility]]. [[spoiler: After the events of the Marineford Misery arc, he makes good on it and quits his job as Fleet Admiral of the Marines.]] |
| 91 | --->'''Sengoku''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Am. Done]]. The exact ''instant'' that Fire-Fist's execution is over and done with, I resign. Find someone else stupid enough to put up with this PR death sentence, because I don't intend to. To put it as ''politely'' as possible, '''I quit, deal with it'''. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/TwoLetters'' starts six months after Marinette resigned as Ladybug, having grown sick of how everybody [[HoldingOutForAHero expected her to solve all their problems for them]] while [[AllTakeAndNoGive taking her for granted]]. She passed the Earrings over to a SketchySuccessor she deemed to be "the kind of Hero [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Paris wanted]] and [[LaserGuidedKarma deserved]]." Problems naturally arise when she learns people are trying to figure out the original Ladybug's SecretIdentity and track her down so they can make her return to service, insisting that [[EntitledBastard she]] ''[[EntitledBastard has]]'' to help them [[UngratefulBastard despite how they treated her]] because "That's just what heroes ''do''"... |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
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| 95 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 96 | * ''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]]. |
| 97 | -->'''Penny's mother:''' We '''quit'''. |
| 98 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': [[SecretIdentity Bob's]] patience with his humdrum insurance job and his ObstructiveBureaucrat boss Mr. Huph finally snaps when the latter 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. |
| 99 | -->'''Bob:''' I'm fired, aren't I?\ |
| 100 | '''Rick Dicker:''' Oh, you think? |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 104 | * This is what Music/WoodyGuthrie does in ''Film/BoundForGlory'' after his radio station tries to make him play non-controversial, non-political songs. The fact that it's TheGreatDepression and the radio job lifted his family out of poverty and got them a house does not bother Woody. |
| 105 | * In ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'' the eponymous heroine is cruelly cheated on by her boss Daniel Cleaver, with whom she had just started an exciting and passionate relationship. The environment in the office quickly becomes toxic. Daniel tries an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, threats, and finally professional flattery with a promise of advancement to prevent her from leaving. Her parting shot at the last attempt is quite something. |
| 106 | -->'''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")'' |
| 107 | * In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Lenina Huxley (played by Creator/SandraBullock) finally grows exasperated with her police chief and tells him to "take this job and ''[[{{Malaproper}} shovel]]'' it." John Spartan (played by Creator/SylvesterStallone) [[LampshadeHanging points it out]] moments later: |
| 108 | -->'''John Spartan:''' Take this job... and ''shovel'' it.\ |
| 109 | '''Huxley:''' ''(uncertainly)'' Yeah...?\ |
| 110 | '''John Spartan:''' ''({{beat}})'' ...close enough. |
| 111 | * ''Film/Destroyer1988'': Sharon Fox, after getting deliberately shocked in the electric chair to [[EnforcedMethodActing get a better performance out of her for a scene that they were shooting]], angrily chews out the director for what he did and quits the movie. |
| 112 | * Part of the backstory of ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': Loki, the Angel of Death, got ''very'' drunk. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy As a result of this]], he let his friend Bartleby talk him into leaving the position -- meaning tossing down his flaming sword at {{God}}'s feet, declaring that he quits, and ''[[FlippingTheBird giving Him the finger]]''. Unsurprisingly, this gets both of them banished from Heaven for all eternity. This also has the side effect of also banning angels from getting drunk, which Metatron laments. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/{{Gambit}}'', Harry Deane hates his job as an art curator and plans to use it to scam his boss out of approximately 12 million pounds sterling with a forgery. At the end of the film, after his scheme has failed, he's offered his job back, and he refuses it, telling his boss exactly what he thinks of him. [[spoiler:It was all part of his plan to steal a different painting.]] |
| 114 | * ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Janine comes close to this but doesn't quite go through with it after being forced to work for two weeks without a break, then getting snarked at by Venkman when she points out that he's failed to follow through with his promise to hire additional help. |
| 115 | -->'''Janine''': I've quit better jobs than this. |
| 116 | * One of the most famous scenes in ''Film/HalfBaked'' is this trope. |
| 117 | -->'''Scarface:''' ''(at random co-workers and customers)'' Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg you're cool]], and FUCK YOU! I'm out! |
| 118 | * ''Film/HighNoon'': Even if totally wordless, when Sheriff Will Kane rips off his sheriff's badge and tosses it to the ground before RidingIntoTheSunset with his wife, sickened that almost everybody in town was a DirtyCoward who refused to stand up to Frank Miller and nearly got him killed, he ''definitely'' means this Trope. |
| 119 | * ''Film/Hustle2022'': Stanley Sugerman works as a recruiter for basketball players, a job which has him constantly travelling and being away from his family. During one of his travels, he finds a talented amateur player called Bo Cruz, and decides to become his trainer. When his boss, Vince Merrick, tries to force Stanley to stop training Bo and get back to scouting for new players, Stanley calls him out for his smarmy, dickish behavior before announcing that he's quitting his job. |
| 120 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': |
| 121 | ** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. When M takes Bond off the hunt for Blofeld due to lack of result, Bond dictates a letter of resignation to Moneypenny and is genuinely hurt when M accepts it without question. It turns out that Moneypenny altered it to a request for two weeks' leave. With (as is revealed after Bond leaves the room) M's connivance. |
| 122 | ** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Bond is confronted by M for trying to avenge Felix Leiter: |
| 123 | --->'''M:''' This private vendetta of yours could easily compromise Her Majesty's government. You have an assignment, and I expect you to carry it out objectively and professionally.\ |
| 124 | '''Bond:''' Then you have my resignation, sir!\ |
| 125 | '''M:''' We're not a country club, 007! |
| 126 | * ''Film/MariaFullOfGrace'': It occurs offscreen, but Maria quits her job at a rose plantation when her boss denies her a bathroom break and she ends up vomiting all over her workstation. It does not help that he does not show any concern for her welfare. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', after being speechless throughout his dismissal, George Banks decides he should say something to his superiors: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" |
| 128 | -->'''Mr. Dawes, Sr.:''' What are you talking about, man? There's no such word!\ |
| 129 | '''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]]! |
| 130 | * This was the attitude of most of the characters in ''Film/OfficeSpace'', although most of them [[spoiler:ultimately end up back in similar jobs]]. In fact, the song "Take This Job and Shove It" was sampled in the closing credits track "Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee". |
| 131 | %%* A version of ''Film/TheProducers'' has Leo Bloom pull one of these on his boss. And then on Max later on when SpringtimeForHitler defines its trope, too. |
| 132 | %% Needs more context. |
| 133 | * ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}'': When hauled up in front of his boss for being AWOL from work after his arrest and charge for being involved in the Brighton riots, Jimmy is effectively put on final written warning. In response to his boss telling him that "many people would give their eye-teeth for your job", Jimmy tells him to "FIND ONE, THEN!", and continues "You can take that mail, and that franking machine and you can shove them RIGHT UP YOUR ARSE!" |
| 134 | * A [[AssShove literal]] example happens near the end of ''Film/RushHour'' when Detective James Carter is offered a job with the FBI by some FBI officials-a job that he considered "a dream come true." However, he has this to tell them: |
| 135 | -->'''Carter:''' Why don't ya'll... take that badge... and shove it up your ass. All up in your ass. I'm LAPD. |
| 136 | * ''Film/TakeThisJobAndShoveIt'' (1981), starring Robert Hayes. Its title was taken from the {{Trope Nam|ers}}ing song (which, incidentally, was part of the movie's soundtrack; see the music section below for information on the song). |
| 137 | * ''Film/TerrorBirds'': Dr. Slater, after having had enough of working on getting the birds to reproduce, as well as the rather unethical things they've been doing to keep them healthy, decides she's had enough and leaves. She gets fed to the birds for it. |
| 138 | * ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'': Jimmy quits the band in the middle of a recording session by ''singing'' "I quit... I quit... I quit, Mr. White!" |
| 139 | * In ''Film/{{Wanted}}'', Wesley quits his job in a spectacular fashion; slamming all of his co-workers and breaking his keyboard across the face of [[WithFriendsLikeThese a particular one]] who'd been sleeping with Wesley's already unfaithful girlfriend. |
| 140 | * At the end of ''Film/WelcomeToTheJungle'', Chris is offered a promotion for his efforts to save the company. Having learned what jerkasses the majority of them are, he decides to quit instead. |
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| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 144 | * ''Literature/ArtemisFowl - The Opal Deception'': Holly gets framed for the murder of [[spoiler:Commander Root]] and after her innocence has been proven, Ark Sool prohibits her from attending [[spoiler:Root]]'s funeral and clarifies he'll wait for Holly to make a slip-up. Holly declares she'll quit the LEP rather than work under Sool and decides to open a detective office along with Mulch. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'': John Galt's origin story is that, after watching his hard work and accomplishments go to waste at a dysfunctional company that treated him like garbage and was being run into the ground by both [[SoapboxSadie his bosses' misguided idealism]] and [[LowerClassLout the increasingly extreme demands of the workers' union]], he angrily walked out the door and told everyone to go to hell, vowing to "stop the motor of the world". |
| 146 | * In ''Literature/BerattelseOmHerrRoos'', one of the first things Valdemar does after winning 2Million Swedish kronor is quitting after working for 28 years for Wringmans Elektriska. After that, he still pretends to go to work every morning to his family. |
| 147 | * 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.'' The protagonist Aix was horribly exploited by his guild, to the point of being treated like a slave. When his [[BadBoss guildmaster]] outright ''dares'' him to quit, Aix happily does so, and utterly refuses to return no matter what kind of offers they try tempting him back with. They've burned every bridge with him, and he won't go back, even if he has no other prospects, at all. |
| 148 | * ''Literature/{{Shtum}}'': After Ben forces Valentine to work overtime one too many times, he leaves a letter at the office saying, "I QUIT. VALENTINE. P.S. FUCK YOU!" |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 152 | * Early on in the pilot episode of ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walter White worked as a cashier at a car wash for additional income where his boss Bogdan constantly has him wipe down cars, which Walt detested. As soon as Walt receives his [[YourDaysAreNumbered diagnosis of terminal lung cancer]] later on in the episode, Walt completely ''snaps'' at Bogdan when he tried to make him wipe down cars again, and then storms out the door. |
| 153 | -->'''Walt:''' Fuck you, Bogdan!\ |
| 154 | '''Bogdan:''' What?\ |
| 155 | '''Walt:''' I said FUCK YOU, and your [[BigOlEyebrows eyebrows]]!!!\ |
| 156 | ''(Walt angrily knocks down air fresheners from the wall display)''\ |
| 157 | '''Walt''' ''(grabbing his crotch):'' WIPE DOWN THIS!! |
| 158 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. The title character said this to Emmett at the end of the show's second season. At that point, Chuck had realized [[spoiler:he didn't need his cover at the Buy More since he was intersect free. He also had a lot more experience so he could easily find another job]]. Casey also quit too. Though despite this, [[spoiler:he always manages to find himself back at the Buy More. Because the CIA manipulated things so no other company but Buy More would hire him]]. |
| 159 | * ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' has this when Kate is offered a job elsewhere and quits being Mrs. Fowler's assistant, including a song and dance where she repeatedly says "I hate you" as she leaves with a big smile on her face. When the job doesn't pan out, she manages to trick her boss into taking her back. |
| 160 | * Happens several times on ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'', particularly to Henry when an old friend dupes him into thinking he has been offered a BBC job which turns out not to exist, and in the final series where Globelink is shutting down and some employees believe they can get better payouts if they get fired rather than simply laid off. |
| 161 | * One of the episodes of the final season of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' called ''A Pain In Harassment'' had Harriot having to deal with an unruly supervisor who constantly belittled his employees and rejected any suggestions they made. No one dared speak out against him for fear of losing their job. However, Harriot eventually gets fed up and tells him off, leading to this exchange. |
| 162 | -->'''Boss:''' You're fired! Ooh, that felt good.\ |
| 163 | '''Harriot:''' I quit! ''That felt better!'' |
| 164 | * This is essentially Geoffrey's reaction on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' when the kids fake his winning lottery ticket. |
| 165 | * In the ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' episode "[[FeudEpisode Loggerheads]]," Joshua is angry that Jason isn't taking his ideas seriously and starts giving the other lumberjacks instructions without Jason's knowledge. Jason says, "If you were an employee of mine, and you did what you did last night and this morning, I'd fire you." Josh snaps, "I'll save you the trouble. I quit!" and storms off. |
| 166 | * {{Discussed|Trope}} 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: |
| 167 | -->'''Marshall:''' I don't want any of this! This is not why I became a lawyer! This is not the ''person'' I wanted to be! I quit, Arthur! I QUIT!\ |
| 168 | '''Arthur:''' Well, thank you Eriksen, I needed to hear that.\ |
| 169 | '''Marshall:''' Really? Cause I didn't mean to attack you personally, it's just that--\ |
| 170 | '''Arthur:''' No, no, no, the part where you said "I quit". Now we don't have to pay you a severance package. Security's gonna rough you up a bit on the way out. |
| 171 | * ''Series/ModernFamily'': Mitchell Pritchett becomes increasingly frustrated at his work when he keeps missing quality time with his daughter, Lily and partner, Cam. When asked one-too-many times to put in extra time he silently but ceremoniously abandons the job. |
| 172 | * ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': At the end, [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch operative Tim]] resigns in protest after losing faith in Verdugo and the organization. |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' does this with his espionage job during the opening credits. It's apparently what causes his former bosses to capture him and send him to the Village. |
| 174 | * In ''Series/{{Review}}'' Forrest is asked to review the experience of quitting a job. His producer arranges for him to get a job which he instantly quits with a grand speech, before concluding it doesn't qualify unless you've worked there first. So he starts working at a coffee stand, overhauls how the stand runs, makes it much more successful and himself indispensable while getting along well with his co-workers, and was clearly happy to keep working there indefinitely until his producer reminds him of the point of the exercise. With obvious discomfort and guilt, he repeats the same speech before walking out. Quitting your job didn't get a very good score. |
| 175 | * In an early episode ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' quits her job at the plastics factory this way. Her ''entire'' section of the factory follows suit and walks off the job behind her. |
| 176 | * In one of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s most famous stories, "The Revenge", George does one of these, [[DidntThinkThisThrough only to gradually realize he's made a big mistake since he has no other prospects or skills]]. [[RefugeInAudacity His (ineffective) solution is to go in on Monday and act like nothing happened]]. This was based on Creator/LarryDavid's having done the same thing when he was a writer for ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
| 177 | * ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': After being ignored yet again and punished for pursuing a lead she was right about as a police officer (against orders), Darby angrily quits after chewing out her superiors for how they acted to her. |
| 178 | * The episode "Alice Quits" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' gives us two examples of this trope. First, Alice Quits, telling Travis to "Fuck off and eat a dick!", and then Jet Set quits in an even greater example. |
| 179 | -->'''Jet Set:''' What's happening here? This is not the Tel America Corp that I used to know. I look around, I recognize nothin'! Where's all the smiles, the giggling? Can someone tell me where the giggling at, huh?\ |
| 180 | '''Travis:''' Jessie, if you wanna talk, step into my office.\ |
| 181 | '''Jet Set:''' Travis, before you got here, we was all friends. Work was fun. We used to love to walk through that door. But now, since you been here? This place is silent!\ |
| 182 | '''Travis:''' Jessie, calm down.\ |
| 183 | '''Jet Set:''' Bitch, my name is Jet motha-fuckin Set! But you can call me Patrick Swayze, cause guess what? I'm ghost. |
| 184 | * ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "A Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish and the Future", upset that Wilkins was offered the head coach position behind his back, George Sr. goes over to the principal's office and quits immediately rather than play out the rest of the season. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 188 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} is a song of the same title by Music/DavidAllanCoe from his 1978 album ''Family Album''. The song itself conveys the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard at a thankless job, and TheLastStraw comes when his wife leaves him. It has been covered by Johnny Paycheck (which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the country charts, making his version a case of CoveredUp) and the Music/DeadKennedys, and sampled by rappers Canibus and Biz Markie on "Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee". |
| 189 | %%* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad's]] "S.Y.L." |
| 190 | * The Lancashire Hotpot's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jz3bJWVvs Resignation Song]]: |
| 191 | -->''You can stick your job, that's what you can do,\ |
| 192 | You can whistle if you think I'm doing any more for you!\ |
| 193 | You've made my life a misery, now I've had to draw the line,\ |
| 194 | So take your job and stick it, where the sun don't shine!'' |
| 195 | * The song "Last Day at Work" by Mikey Mason has the narrator playing a lot of pranks on his soon-to-be former workplace after finding a better job. |
| 196 | * "Fire When Ready" by Perfect Stranger: |
| 197 | -->''Does it bother you to have my feet on your desk?\ |
| 198 | Please take it as a sign of no respect\ |
| 199 | Your office was open, thought we'd have a little talk\ |
| 200 | Here's somethin' you can stuff in your suggestion box\ |
| 201 | You're a bonehead jerk, yeah, I said it\ |
| 202 | I've been doin' all the work, you've been takin' all the credit\ |
| 203 | Shootin' me down, ridin' me steady\ |
| 204 | Come on, boss, fire when ready'' |
| 205 | * The protagonist of "White Collar Holler" by Music/StanRogers imagines doing this: |
| 206 | -->''Someday I'm gonna give up all the buttons and things\ |
| 207 | I'll punch that time clock till it can't ring\ |
| 208 | Burn up my necktie and set myself free\ |
| 209 | Cause no one's gonna fold, bend or mutilate me'' |
| 210 | * Music/WesleyWillis says this in the song "Fuck You". |
| 211 | -->''Take this job and shove it!\ |
| 212 | I'm not working for you anymore!\ |
| 213 | Stick it up your ass!'' |
| 214 | * The ''WebAnimation/YourFavoriteMartian'' song "Eff this job" is all about Puff and Cartoon Wax singing about how they’re going to quit their jobs. |
| 215 | -->''It’ll feel so good when I’m walking out''\ |
| 216 | ''Imma give them something to talk about''\ |
| 217 | ''Yeah''\ |
| 218 | ''Fuck. This. Job!'' |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 222 | * In the late '90s, Wrestling/{{WCW}} was hell for all those who weren't Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/KevinNash, or one of their friends. It got so bad that one day after winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit gave it up to move to the WWF with Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, Wrestling/DeanMalenko, and Wrestling/PerrySaturn.[[note]]Benoit and the others had asked for their release before he won the title but after Wrestling/KevinSullivan replaced Vince Russo as booker, as there was serious bad blood between Sullivan and Benoit thanks to Sullivan's wife leaving him for Benoit (and the other 3 just didn't want to be there anymore). Sullivan booked Benoit to win the title in an attempt to convince Benoit that he would keep it professional and not bury him over their personal issues (which may very well have been genuine), but Benoit and the others found a lifeboat off of the sinking ship and they weren't passing it up.[[/note]] This was one of the strongest signs the promotion was circling the drain, and it was finally bought out by WWF shortly thereafter. |
| 223 | * Wrestling/CMPunk during "The Summer of Punk II" in Wrestling/{{WWE}}. Punk, sick and tired of all the crap he had to deal with in the WWE despite being one of the greatest wrestlers in the world (if not THE greatest), decided to walk out the door the moment his contract expired on July 18, 2011. He also decided to take the WWE Championship with him. However this was an [[{{Kayfabe}} in-story example]] and he came back to the company again to challenge Wrestling/JohnCena just as soon as Cena had been reestablished as WWE's new Champion. He would later do it for real after being eliminated from the Royal Rumble in 2014, simply refusing to come back to work because he was sick and tired (''literally'' sick, as it turned out) and just couldn't face doing the job any more, leading to a retirement from the ring that lasted for 7 years until he returned to the business in 2021 to join Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling. |
| 224 | * Adam Pearce and Wrestling/ColtCabana's seven levels of hate feud concluded this way when they learned that Wrestling/BruceTharpe had successfully sued the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA, followed that with a hostile takeover, named himself president and restricted the privileges of member promotions. They washed their hands of the body, leaving the world heavyweight title belt they had been feuding over vacant. |
| 225 | * Wrestling/AJStyles, much in the vein of Punk, did the same thing to [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] in storyline (in fact, it was a rehash of Punk's storyline and really poor one too), and in RealLife at the end of 2013. By that point, even he was sick of all the bullshit the company had put him and his coworkers through -- trying to get him to re-sign with a ''forty percent pay cut'' was the last straw.[[note]]In TNA's defense, the lowball offer wasn't intended to insult Styles, it's just that they were broke. Of course, Styles probably responded with something to the effect of "You wouldn't BE broke if you didn't spend the last 10 years doing the same idiotic garbage that killed WCW with the exact same people!", and he was right.[[/note]] They tried to make amends in 2015 by offering him a huge sum of money to wrestle one last match at ''Slammiversary'' along with being inducted in their hall of fame (making him the only inductee to have actually earned his fame in the company rather than somewhere else), but he turned them down flat, citing Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}OH and Wrestling/{{N|ewJapanProWrestling}}JPW as his main priorities. Everyone else who read between the lines knew what he was ''really'' saying (as one writer put it: "Duck Fixie"). |
| 226 | * In 2022, WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/{{Naomi|Wrestler}} reached the end of their rope with the booking they were being subjected to. Winning the poorly-regarded tag belts and resolving to establish them as a prize to be taken seriously, both women were very upset when creative, instead of pushing them as a tag team, instead expected them to job as individuals to the Womens' singles champions. This eventually culminated in a backstage argument before an episode of RAW where they were expected to both take part in a Six-Pack Challenge to determine the #1 contender to Wrestling/BiancaBelair[[note]]where according to some reports, one of the WWE officials directed sexist and/or racially charged language at them[[/note]] which ended with both women walking into the office of Head of Talent Relations Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis, throwing the Women's Tag Team belts onto his desk, and walking out of the company. WWE uncharacteristically buried both women on commentary as "unprofessional", pretty much solidifying that they didn't think there would be any possibility of smoothing things over, and Sasha and Naomi would go on to rebrand themselves and redebut in other companies, as Mercedes Moné in Wrestling/WorldWonderRingStardom and as Trinity in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling respectively, where both would win top women's singles championships in short order. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:Urban Legends]] |
| 230 | * There's an {{Urban Legend|s}} about a prank played on a guy by his co-workers. While out at dinner, they copied the numbers from his lottery ticket and gave them to a waitress. The waitress then came up and said the winning numbers had just been announced, if anyone was interested, and read out the numbers they had given her. The man checked his ticket, double-checked it, and then announced that he was quitting. He then went on to thoroughly insult his boss, all of his co-workers, and also announced that he'd been having an affair with his secretary. End of job and end of marriage. This may have inspired the aforementioned example from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 234 | * In ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', Klungo stays loyal to [[BigBad Gruntilda Winkybunion]] for most of the game, despite [[BadBoss the beatings he receives from her for failing to defeat Banjo and Kazooie]]. With each beating he receives, he looks more and more beat up. After he loses to Banjo and Kazooie a third time, he realizes that each beating he receives makes him less and less handsome, to the point where his wife won't find him attractive anymore if he keeps working for Grunty. Also realizing that things will only get worse for him if he continues to work for Grunty (he won't get any chance of a promotion, days off, or pay), Klungo quits, [[HeelFaceTurn turning to Banjo and Kazooie's side]] and pursuing a career in making video games (which he actually does in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts''). |
| 235 | * In ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'''s [[ApocalypticLog audio recordings]], Wally Franks threatens this trope so frequently that his catchphrase is "I'm outta here." He complains about frequently-bursting pipes, having to deal with the music director when he loses his keys, and low workplace morale, among other things. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'': After having to put up with [[DaEditor J. Jonah Jameson]] as her boss all game, [[spoiler:and just after being freed of the Scream symbiote]], Mary Jane decides to dial him up. His voice immediately comes on the line demanding to know when she's going to bring him some apple fritters. MJ's response: "Jonah...kiss my ass. I ''quit.''" Followed a second later by her hanging up in his ear as he starts to scream in outrage. |
| 237 | -->'''Peter:''' ...you're so cool. |
| 238 | * In ''[[VideoGame/KoumajouDensetsu Koumajou Densetsu/Touhouvania II]]'', one of the stage bosses, Reimu, Lord of the Scarlet Devil Castle (who is under suspicion of mind control and/or outright being the BigBad), quits her job in the middle of a cutscene. |
| 239 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 240 | ** ''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. |
| 241 | ** ''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." |
| 242 | * 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. |
| 243 | * 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. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 247 | * ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' [[https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/take-this-job/ calls this]] the "Blaze of Glory" method. |
| 248 | -->'''Boss:''' Mooning me was sufficient. You didn't need to write "I quit" on your butt. |
| 249 | * In ''Webcomic/CigarroAndCerveja'', Cerveja's [[http://www.cigarro.ca/?p=203 resignation letter]] is a very CloudCuckoolander-ish take on this, rather than an actively malicious one. |
| 250 | -->In the name of Thor, god of thunder and disco, I hereby abdicate my position of corporate lackey to my boss, who happens to be bald.\ |
| 251 | Smiles and lollipops,\ |
| 252 | Cerveja Goose |
| 253 | * Liz does this [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/24 pretty early on]] in ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'', one she's fed up with the asshole customers and her assholier boss. Immediately after this, though, she realizes she's in the middle of a ZombieApocalypse, making her dramatic exit sort of pointless (and dangerous, since later on [[spoiler:her boss goes completely nuts and, as promised, starts hunting her down with murderous intent]]). |
| 254 | * In one ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0320.html strip]], Wilbur from ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' is running an ad agency ... until he sees Charlotte's written this message in her web. |
| 255 | * When Matt quits his hated job on ''WebComic/MacHall'', he first announces it loudly and proudly, then immediately backtracks, detailing that he'll finish up his two-week notice, and leave his information in case someone needs to contact him. |
| 256 | * In ''Webcomic/{{PvP}}'' when Robbie wins a massive lottery jackpot, he first heartfully thanks Cole for almost 10 years of employment and support despite both Robbie and Jase's near-total uselessness and slacker attitude... |
| 257 | -->'''Robbie:''' That said, you can take this job and cram it. |
| 258 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': |
| 259 | ** Dale decides to announce his leave from his pizza job (which was mostly just soul-destroying rather than actually ''evil'') [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2530 in style.]] |
| 260 | ** Later, Roko [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3836 has enough of being a police officer]]. |
| 261 | --->'''Roko:''' Oh my god FUCK THIS! |
| 262 | * In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Wolf gets his ass handed to him by the protagonist. Afterwards, he declares that he's sick of working for Donald Na, sick of acting like his lapdog, and wants out of the Union. [[ResignationsNotAccepted Donald doesn't let him]]. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 266 | * On the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Quackity did this in the middle of the Manburg Rebellion arc. When [[BadBoss Schlatt]] ordered that the White House be taken down, a massive argument occurred between him and Quackity, who regarded it as [[RageBreakingPoint the last straw]] for him to stay in Manburg. Quackity eventually told Schlatt during the argument that he could "find [him]self another {{Vice President|Who}}", and went on to [[ExaggeratedTrope shoot]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Schlatt]], taking his second canon life (out of three total), before fleeing the country and later joining [[LaResistance Pogtopia]]. |
| 267 | * In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', Tom is an eager news anchor who does his job with aplomb, up until the [=WEAPONs=] break out and he has to report on it. He becomes increasingly angry over the fact the [=WEAPONs=] have been rampaging for a week, but when he has to report on [[ColonyDrop Meteor]], he decides he's had enough. |
| 268 | -->'''Tom:''' ... I'm done. I'm out. I'm [[SoundEffectBleep f**king]] out. F**k you and f**k the news.\ |
| 269 | '''Sam:''' ''(in tandem with Tom)'' ...Tom? ...No! No, don't slow-roll away! ...Damnit. At least the censor guy was on point. [[note]]'''Censor Guy:''' YOU'RE F**KING WELCOME![[/note]] |
| 270 | * In ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Fizz suffered constant abuse under his boss and the Sin of Greed, Mammon. When he's finally had enough, not only does he quit during a national live competition Mammon expected Fizz to win, he does so in the form of a ClusterFBomb[=/=]TheVillainSucksSong aptly called "Two Minutes Notice". |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 274 | * In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', [[TheChewToy Waspinator]] decides enough is enough and he opts out of the Beast Wars altogether. |
| 275 | -->'''Waspinator:''' Waspinator sick of being evil, sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of '''''GETTING BLOWN TO SCRAP ALL THE TIME!''''' So, Waspinator quit! Hmph! As of now, which means Ant-Bot and Two-Head can just pucker their mandibles and plant big, wet juicy one right here on Waspinator's big, fat, stripey--\ |
| 276 | ''[Inferno and Quickstrike shoot Waspinator for desertion]'' |
| 277 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' episode "Test of Friendship" has a woman affected by Evil Eye Weevil's hostility ray scream "You can take this job and shove it" as she picks up her boss and throws him out the window. |
| 278 | * Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Richest Duck in the World!", when Zan Owlson, former CFO of Glomgold Industries, and now of Louie Incorporated following the events of the previous episode, decides she's tired of being the OnlySaneWoman in the world of Duckburg business, and dramatically quits while they're in a plummeting plane. Then clarifies that she will be serving out her notice and training her replacement, because ''she'' is a ''professional''. |
| 279 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Peter winning it big in the state lottery, and plays it up like he did this. Then subverts it. Then double subverts it. |
| 280 | -->'''Peter:''' Angela, I just want to thank you for several extremely pleasurable years working here. Certain events have created a situation where I am no longer in need of employment. But I would be remiss not to thank you [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and there is a]] [[BreathlessNonSequitur giant poo on your desk]]. |
| 281 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': In "The Talent Search Part 2", [[TokenBlackFriend Shana]] leaves the Holograms to be the costume designer of a famous actress, only to learn [[ControlFreak how bossy]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing she really is]], and finally quits near the end. |
| 282 | * Done by Bob on ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'': |
| 283 | -->'''Bob:''' You can take this job and post it! As vacant! Because ''I quit!'' |
| 284 | * Turns up on ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' in the ''Super Santa'' short "Naughty" when Elmer Scrooge's servants turn against him. |
| 285 | -->'''Servant:''' Scrooge, you can take this job and-- ''[fires laser at Elmer Scrooge]''\ |
| 286 | '''Elmer Scrooge:''' Ingrates. |
| 287 | * A Brodax-era ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon had Popeye getting a construction site job with Brutus as his foreman. After a spinach-fueled tussle causes the site to collapse to so much rubble: |
| 288 | -->'''Brutus:''' You're fired!!\ |
| 289 | '''Popeye:''' Oh, yeah? Well, I quits!!\ |
| 290 | '''Brutus:''' ''(to camera)'' I quit, too. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Labyrinth Runners" features a coven scout named Severine who is repetedly belittled by her superiors. Eventually, it proves to be too much and she quits, throwing her mask on the ground and storming off after the mission is a failure. There's also a bit of BitingTheHandHumor involved, as she was voiced by series creator Dana Terrace, who was almost certainly using it as an opportunity to air her grievances about the show being ScrewedByTheNetwork. |
| 292 | -->'''Severine:''' You know what? It has been a rough year, and my self-esteem can only take so much! I quit! |
| 293 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 294 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree And Maggie Makes Three]]", Homer gets the chance to work his dream job at the bowling alley and so decides to quit the power plant by...putting a drink on Mr. Burns' desk without a coaster and dumping his trashcan (which contains a single wadded paper ball) on the floor. However, he thoroughly leaves PokeThePoodle territory by putting Burns in a headlock and playing his head like a bongo drum ("Oh, I should be resisting this, but I'm paralyzed with rage...and island rhythms!"). But since this is a {{Flashback}} episode, [[CrossingTheBurntBridge he had to return somehow]]. |
| 295 | ** When Homer was working at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay for Lisa's pony, after Lisa gives up the pony, he tells Apu, "You can take this job and restaff it!" Referencing the song, but not the exact quote. |
| 296 | ** In "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", Grandpa Simpson is working at Krusty Burger. He eventually quits after he starts complaining with his friends about what's not on the breakfast menu, plus the fact that he's supposed to be old. As he puts it: |
| 297 | --->''"The good Lord allows us to grow old for a reason: to gain the wisdom to find fault with everything He's made!"'' |
| 298 | * After the election of UsefulNotes/BarackObama, Randy Marsh of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' triumphantly quits his job, telling his boss this. After all, Obama's going to make everything better, so he doesn't need a job anymore! |
| 299 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 300 | ** In the episode "Can You Spare a Dime?" Squidward gets fed up with Mr. Krabs after being accused of stealing his first dime and quits. He obviously comes back to work after [[spoiler:Mr. Krabs discovers the dime was in his pants the whole time, resulting in him [[HereWeGoAgain accusing Squidward of putting it in his pants]]]]. |
| 301 | ** In "Nature Pants", [=SpongeBob=] angrily quits his job at the Krusty Krab, throwing his hat onto the ground and storming out to start a new life. |
| 302 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'' episode "Work Study" has a subversion of this, as Nitz wants to leave his work on good terms, and Rocko steps in and does this trope for him. |
| 303 | -->'''Nitz:''' Yeah, see, somethings come up and I kinda don't need the work anymore, but you guys were cool to me, and I certainly don't want to burn any bridges--\ |
| 304 | '''Rocko:''' He ain't working for the man no more, so you can take this job and cram it with some sexual harassment on top! |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
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