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Alex.:
It's happened more frequently now than it did when I was working. I still don't have a whole lot, though, don't get me wrong.  Each time I do though, it seems to come with a weird story behind it.

Hank Chinaski:
Really dumb but there's this line in ECD 3 where a guy yells I bought milk!  My friends and I used to yell it at each other (I was about 17 at the time).  Anyways, I had this terrible job waiting table's for an El Salvadoran who owned an Italian restaurant. Money was shit, he was an asshole,  etc. One of my friends had already quit in spectacular fashion after one shift washing dishes.
Anyways school was about to start back up and I already knew I was leaving so one night during dinner service he was being a real dick so I just pulled off my apron, threw it on the ground, and yelled I BOUGHT MILK at him and peaced out. His grasp of English was minimal at best so I still can't imagine what he thought had happened. There were only 2 table's in there but I'd love to have seen their reactions. He called my house for about two months offering me shifts after being repeatedly told I had another job.

tecnic1:
So way back in the day I was in the Navy, and I was supposed to get out December 28th, 2003.  I had been negoitaing re-enlisting and had orders to a ship, a school worked out, re-enlistment bonus (something like$15K), the whole nine.  The detaier and my local retention guy had been working on this for like four months.

Because of Christmas and what not, I was supposed to re-enlist December 23rd.  Well, after talking to my wife, and looking at the way my orders worked out, I was going to be gone for like 9 months straight, and 11 out of the next 12 months total, so I tried to get out of the school, which would have knocked 4 months off of that.  My detailer wasn't hearing that.

I walked into work December 21st (about) and told them to go fuck themselves.  If you know anything about the Navy, you can't just get out in two days, so they had to extend me to January 28th, and it was still a clusterfuck trying to get all the checkout stuff done.

So like six years later, right after I had graduated from university, I had gotten a job at Sam's Club to keep me busy while I looked for a legit job.  I was there for about three weeks when I got the call offering me my current job while I was at work.

At the end of the shift, I found the manager on duty, and handed him my blue vest and box cutter, and told him that I wasn't going to be pulling boxes anymore because I was going to be a Mechanical Engineer at a nuclear shipyard.  Dude was cool as shit about it and asked me politely to come back the next day and talk to the grocery manager.  I did, and she was cool as shit too (even put in my file that I was eligible for re-employment).

blueee:
i chopped my bosses head off with a katana, he was being a dick

Alex.:
Everyone was cool with it, I assume?

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