“If You Don’t Like It, Leave”: 35 Times People Put An Arrogant Person In Their Place

There comes a time in everyone's life where they hear the phrase, “If you don’t like it, leave”. This demand is the ultimate throwdown that parents, employers and disciplinarians use to strong arm someone in to doing things a certain way. While the bluff is ideally meant to put someone on the backfoot and make them appease the issuer of the demand, there are occassions when it backfired instead. When Redditor Yeah_nah90 posted online seeking stories from people who've responded by immediately walking out instead of complying, some interesting tales of dissent were revealed. Scroll below to read all the satisfying details of moments when people dared to take a stand against an arrogant person's demands.

#1

Image source: khendron, Curated Lifestyle / Unsplash When I was a kid I stayed at a friend's house for the weekend. My friend's mother was one of those parents who, at the dinner table, required their kids to eat everything on their plate come hell or high water. I had been served way too much food, and said that I can't eat it all. The mother said to me, "you can either finish your food or leave the table." I promptly left the table. This totally blew the minds of my friend and his siblings. It had never occurred to them that leaving the table was actually a viable option. When my mother picked me up the next day, my friend's mother told her what had happened and said I was the rudest little boy. I think my mother was actually quite proud of me. Turles5000: My parents were like this growing up. I still clean my plate as an adult often which causes me to over eat. Its not a healthy way to raise children IMO, and although I don't have extreme weight issues I can see how some people could develop issues.

#2

Image source: difulp, Matthew LeJune When I was in high school, a group of friends agreed to meet at a local pizza place after a Friday evening basketball game. Most of the group arrived before me and three of my friends, so when the four of us arrived, the hostess and server did not realize we were a part of the large group that was already filling the restaurant. (The students from our school represented about 75% of their now very full dining area.) We were seated at the one available table in the middle of the room, received our menus, and were in the process of preparing our order, when my best friend asked the waitress for a napkin. She returned a moment later, gave him the napkins, and he responded with a friendly “Thank you!” I don’t know if she misheard him or what, but she immediately became angry and responded with a very harsh, “Stop giving me that attitude!” We were all taken aback, and I immediately stepped in to defend my friend, who was a naturally shy and quiet person. I explained he only told her thanks and did not have an attitude at all. She yelled at me, insisting that he was rude, and stormed away. The entire table had a moment of awkward silence, and then burst into laughter, along with several tables around us that had heard the exchange. It was all just so surreal. She literally got upset at our friend because he thanked her for bringing him a napkin. But we quickly went back to preparing our order, until the manager approached the table and said that she had been told we were giving one of her waitresses a hard time. I explained what happened, and as I did, the rest of the dining room went quiet, as they had realized that something tense was taking place. Then the manager cut me off mid sentence, told me that she dealt with disrespectful teens like us all the time and was sick of it. She then told us that we could take our business elsewhere. So I agreed, and our table stood up to leave. And, almost as one, 75% of the customers in their dining room on that Friday evening stood up and walked out with us. I will never forget the stunned look on that manager’s face as she watched hundreds of dollars of sales leave with us. It was the last time I ate there. And that was a pity, because I loved their pizza.

#3

Image source: anon, Osmar do Canto / Unsplash My great grandmother is notorious for being a mean old b***h. It was Thanksgiving at her house, and much of the extended family were there. She started harping on my mom's cousin for something, like she always does, and my mom's cousin was like, "Grandma, can't we just have a nice dinner for once?" And Great Grandma was like, "If you don't like it, leave!" And every last cousin, aunt, uncle, and all of their food disappeared to my aunt's house. Lol.

#4

Image source: HomemadeJambalaya, Mushvig Niftaliyev / Unsplash My husband worked at a really toxic job for a while. As staff got fired or quit, they weren't replaced (to cut costs) and instead the remaining 2 employees were worked to death. Finally, the owner (who was a s****y boss and terrible businessman) called a meeting with the 2 to try to force an attitude adjustment. The employees tried to be constructive and talk about things they saw that needed to be improved upon to make things work better, and of course this egotistical a*****e owner wouldn't have it. He told them if they couldn't handle the expectations that they were free to leavs. So they did. Both of them left immediately and never set foot in the store again. I don't think the owner was expecting that at all - he expected them to grovel and beg to keep their jobs and thank him for the opportunity to work 70-hour weeks under his tyrannical rule. My husband called me after that meeting and was so upset he couldn't hardly tell me what happened. He was terrified- he was so sure I would be angry at him for quitting his job when we really weren't in a position that I could support us. I wasn't mad at all! I was so proud of him for not taking the s**t that was being doled out to him and doing what is best for his mental health. He's a d**n good man and deserved better. Msbakerbutt69: I'd rather be slightly broke with a happy husband than rich with an unhappy one.

#5

Image source: anon, unsplash.com At my old job they put in place a new policy, which at the time we didn't realize that it was probably illegal( i won't say the name of the company) but basically in simple terms was if you had to miss work for ANYTHING, the pointed you, and three full points was termination. One of my co-workers had jury duty, so he had to miss. Pointed him for it. My wife went into labor, I got pointed. A few other people had unavoidable instances and were point. Eventually, we all had HR come down to the factory so we could express our complains, and the lady say " if you don't like it, find another job". Not even 5 minutes after she said that, 45 people of a 55-person crew left THAT DAY. Me included.

#6

Image source: ult_me_senpai, Fred Kloet / Unsplash My dad. Without going into too much detail, he had gone back on an agreement we had and i was protesting, so he said "As long as you and your brother live under our roof, you obey our rules. Otherwise, you can leave." I was 22 years old and had my own fulltime job, so i said "ok then" and started packing right then and there. Found a place, moved out, and done. Dad basically was all surprisedpikachu.jpg lol it felt great.

#7

Image source: DukeBeekeepersKid, Getty Images / Unsplash Yup, at a potluck, we had a Karen who went on a power trip and made rules that only benefited her. She screamed "“If You Don’t Like It, Leave”, the other mothers, fathers, all picked up there kids, took their dishes from the pot luck and left. It was only the Karen and us security guards. We weren't able to leave because we were on the job, however, we didn't share our pizza with her.

#8

Image source: TassieGal, Jude Infantini / Unsplash My mother is well known for her Christmas/Easter/whatever tantrums. She threw a particularly good one when I was about 14, and yelled the infamous line. My Uncle and Aunt piled themselves, their daughter, and myself and about 5 of my siblings into their 4WD, and we all left to go to their place, picking up KFC for lunch on the way. Don't know what kind of Christmas my mother had, but ours was pretty good in the end! So glad we didn't get pulled over!

#9

Image source: wanderinhebrew Every year the military has this event they host named The Warrior Games. It's like the olympics for men and women who were injured while serving. I'm a decent cyclist so I was selected to represent the Marine Corps team in that event. I'm not sure where they hold the event these days but the year I was selected they flew us out to Colorado Springs. When I got there I quickly realized that 99% of the Marines competing were still active duty. I had retired a few years prior so it was weird being around Marines again. Almost immediately after arriving the senior leaders and officers in charge began demanding that I get my haircut and to shave my beard. At first I laughed it off and thought they were joking. Turns out they were quite serious. The lady who was in charge of the Marine team was a Major and she took me off to the side and "ordered" me to get a haircut. I reminded her that I had retired a few years prior and was no longer required to abide by active military grooming standards. Then a lightbulb went off in her head and with a smirk she said "well you either get a haircut or you can go home. Your choice." So I smirked back and said "guess I'm flying home!" They had already prepurchased our airplane tickets home so all I did was call Delta, explain what happened, and the lady on the other end transferred my ticket to a flight home the next day. I had taken a few weeks off work to attend this event so I just went back home and enjoyed my time off with my hair and beard.

#10

Image source: anon From 1996-1999 I worked for Burger King. It was my first job and I stayed because they were close to home, my friends worked there, and they were very accommodating for my buddy school (and then university) schedule. At one point they fired our favorite manager, Kevin. We were never really told why, he was just gone one day. They replaced him with a complete t**d of a human. The t**d started forcing us to sell food that policy said was too old to sell. He cut down on ketchup portions for carryout fries. He started short staffing us so things weren't getting cleaned correctly. Scheduled students when they had class. Just a general jerk who didn't know what he was doing. Burger King didn't realize Kevin had an entire well-oiled crew who was loyal to him. They told us to deal with the new manager instead of trying to fix his issues. So we left. All of us. The entire crew save a few nights shift closers who had to have a job walking distance from their apartments. Kevin became the store manager of a newly opened pizza place and needed to hire a whole crew. God news for him is he didn't have any trouble finding one that one what they were doing and worked well together. So that was the day I went from burger maiden to pizza princess. Stayed there 3 years, too, until I got through college.

#11

Image source: anon It’s the last thing my really wicked mother ever said to me, when I was 17. She worked for a small business college and demanded that I attend that school after graduating high school. They had programs that were for Travel and Tourism, Administration, etc. The average age of the student at this 2 year college was 32. I remember thinking (at that time) ‘I don’t wanna go to college with a bunch of OLD people’. All my friends were attending four year schools, universities, etc. I knew i was going to have to pay for school on my own, so I wanted to enjoy it and have it be on my own terms. She told me that was my lone path and ‘if you don’t like it, you can leave.’ I dipped out. Age 17. Had nowhere to go. Prayed that a friend would let me stay at his place for a few nights to chill. Next time I saw her, was 12 years later. She was in a coma-post CVA secondary to diabetes and a myriad of other health issues. She died two days later. I now have my doctorate, and a great life. But also, a head full of memories that no one deserves to have from a childhood run by a hateful b***h.

#12

Image source: becooltheywatching My aunt's 40th birthday. It had been a long day and we were set to eat dinner but she decided that she wanted to open gifts. My mom tried to explain that everyone was hungry and to just wait until we were done eating or at the very least until everyone had a plate. She starts getting pissy and saying that it's her day and that if we don't like it we can leave. Now my dad. Not too fond of my aunt for reasons I won't get into here. Gets up and walks out. Well this started a chain reaction. The only people left were my mother and grandmother. My aunt starts yelling and getting upset to which my grandmother replies. "Maybe don't be a b***h?" It's been ten years and she has never acted that way again.

#13

Image source: Nevermind04, Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk When Hastings Entertainment was committing s*****e, many of us in corporate raised the alarm about new short-sighted policies that would doom our stores. Our CEO sent out a corporate-wide email that more or less gave some spiel about the brand needing only "bold" people in leadership positions and if we didn't like it we should email his assistant for a professional reference and resign. Something like 40% of corporate resigned within the first month following this email (including myself). I think it was close to 65% within 6 months. Dozens of stores closed, they tried to sell the brand, and declared bankruptcy several years later.

#14

Not exactly but my sister had a habit of picking fights with people and when it wasn't going her way, she'd tell them she was removing them from her life. She's done it to boyfriends, long time friends, sorority sisters...she did it to me twice. The first time, I rolled my eyes because she's younger than me. After the second time my sister told me "I'm removing you from my life, you're toxic!" and unfriended me and told family I was toxic (in reality, I wasn't letting her be toxic, selfish, and under the influence of whatever she was on with/to me, my spouse, or my kids, so she decided to was a good idea to threaten us) I said okay, fine. Per her usual routine, after a few weeks she came around and wanted to pretend she never said the things she said I didn't respond. She claimed it all was a joke and she had a right to be in my kids lives. I haven't spoken to her in two years. I honestly do not miss her drama and it was the best decision for my family. It highlighted how bad the generational dysfunction was in my family and how it was expected to just overlook bad behavior and people please for everyone else's comfort. I realized that I didn't want my kids to repeat that cycle. I vowed to always put my kids first. I'm not popular in my family right now but I've never been happier and this was the first year I got to enjoy holidays without having panic attacks or dread. When someone walks out of your life, let them. Image source: Ramcem87

#15

Ok, maybe not everyone left but... My mother in law got me involved into a charity. First I was a volunteer, then a secretary to the Board and back to volunteer again. Things started changing, people who got on the Board were no longer true to the organization’s mission and at times ethically challenged (i.e. using high school volunteers for the charity in a political campaign, using artwork obtained through contest beyond scope of the contest rules without pay). Anyway, during one of the meetings, which was meant to be planning for a big annual event but was more like hazing to be honest, I asked myself why the hell am I allowing anyone to treat me like whipping girl? So I openly asked the Board members if this tone is the new standard of the organization’s interactions with people volunteering their time and talent to them. The President told me I was being impertinent and rude, and if I “could not stand the heat to get out of kitchen”. To which I replied that I quit volunteering. He told me then I had to submit my resignation in writing in order for it to be acceptable. I sat down, scribbled my resignation on a notebook page and presented him with it. He told me he won’t accept it because it was not submitted according to the bylaws. I told him he was incorrect and reminded him I wrote the bylaws (they were to cheap to hire a lawyer to write them), and they clearly state that volunteer resignations do not require Board approval. And I left. I was to pissed to drive home, so I went to a cafe across the street. Few minutes later two other long time volunteers and all the high school volunteers walked in... They all did quit effective immediately as well. The annual event did not take place. The Board was sued by the entity it was supposed to be solely supporting for mismanagement and misappropriation of funds. The charity later involuntarily dissolved by the state due to reporting failures. Custodian was appointed who allocated the remaining funds. In hind sight, it was the right time to jump the ship. For me best part was, the Board let the insurance laps (guess who normally kept track of the renewals?), so the legal expenses and part of the judgement went out of their own pockets. Talk about heat in the kitchen... Image source: Kooky_Bunny

#16

Image source: anon, Getty Images / Unsplash A former industrial job I used to have said that during an all-hands meeting. We were understaffed, underpaid, and overworked, and everyone knew it. Instead of the 2/1 ratio of two machines to one operator for safety reasons, we'd have 4, 6, 8, because people were getting paid less than most retail jobs to bust their asses in some of the most disgusting work I've ever done. You'd come home covered in moldy coolant, metal shavings, and STINK. Machines started breaking down, because they'd never shut them down to perform maintenance on them, so we'd often have massive problems, which, of course, meant even more overtime to make up for the broken machines, and people started quitting. Management's response was to tell us that they expected us to work harder, because they couldn't get more help in. One of my coworkers, who generally gave no f***s, asked, in front of everyone in that room, why they didn't try raising the poor wages, and see if they could entice people that way. The response was "We're not having that conversation right now. If you don't like it, you can quit." Hoo, buddy, was that the wrong thing to say. As soon as word got out to the other shifts, what can only be called a f*****g exodus began. We lost half of each shift within the week. I stuck around for a few more weeks, until I had a conflict with my schooling at the time, since one of my classes got out about 30 minutes before my shift, 30 minutes away, so I warned them in advance that I might be a few minutes late one day a week, MAYBE, and got told that "I needed to decide what was more important, my school, or my job." So I quit. And giggled my a*s off at the sign in the HR office that said we had an almost 80% turnover rate. Never did find out what happened to that hellhole, but I can't imagine anything good with losing that many people. The poor HR rep seemed like she was just so f*****g done with everything, and seemed so very apologetic as she took my badge.

#17

Image source: anon, Amaan Abid / Unsplash At an off-campus college party, the host - a tenor voice major in the music dept. - started playing Wagner and Verdi operas *full blast*. When those attending asked him to play something else that they could all like, he said: "You all need to LEARN to like opera - if you won't give it a fair try, you can always just leave!" And with that, everyone left.

#18

Image source: luciferwilson66, Dylan Hunter I once worked at a plant that sorted pallets. I worked like 16 to 18 hours a day (sometimes more off the clock) as time went on they demanded more and more work from us. By this time i was a manager. Well people were getting burned out getting sick or just plain stopped coming to work, so keeping workers was nearly impossible. The straw that broke the camels back came when a higher up came in from out of state and informed us out pay was going to go down and we were expected to put out 20 percent more work (this not only was an impossible feat but was asking way to much of people sorting 50 to 70 pound pallets by hand for 16 hours a day) we said that it wasnt fair amd was there any way to at least keep out current pay. Was firmly told if we didnt like it then we could leave. We looked around at each other grabbed our name badges and threw them at this higher up and walked out and went to a local bar. Last i heard that plant was shut down for overworking staff and underpaying them.

#19

Image source: masschock99, Yunus Tuğ / Unsplash We had this college teacher who didn't do his job diligently, always making us do projects and stuff but he never makes the effort of teaching us, so us student made a pact, we would talk to him during next session, if he agreed to start teaching the right way then good, if not we would all stand up and go out. He ended up saying "if you don't like the way i teach you can go out", so we did just that, needless to say he wasn't expecting everyone to go out. We talked to the college principal, he then offered us the possibility to change the teacher.

#20

My boss said "don't like it? Try finding a job like this one with better pay and benefits!" So I Google it and now I just had my 14th year anniversary at the "new" job. Image source: 40ozSmasher

#21

Image source: hotdogflavoredgerm-x, Mathieu Odin In high school, when it came time to dissect baby pigs, one of my friends would just quietly sit and sob while trying to dissect (*big* animal lover, couldn't stand it). Our teacher was incredibly rude about it, being really insensitive and all the other kids caught on, too. She basically told us that if we didn't like it, the door was right there. So we all got up and left, one by one, goggles still on and everything. I think like only 2 kids stayed behind.

#22

Image source: Otherwise-KnownAsMe, Pocstock / Unsplash I think it was 6th grade, we were all playing a game of truth or dare, but one of the really pervy boys starting daring the girls to kiss some of the other boys, or lay on them. All the girls told him to knock it off but he just said “if you don’t like it, leave the game” everyone AND I MEAN everyone (we had 14-17 people there) got up and left him there.

#23

I had a college professor do this once - was lecturing us about how poorly we all did on the assignment, how we all sucked and called us stupid wastes of oxygen. We tried to point out that his emails were confusing in some cases contradictory, and the scope of the assignment changed 3 weeks before it was due. So he said it and we all left, and in the class next week the assistant dean for the program was there, took down our side of the story, and then dismissed us for the day. Normal prof returned for the following class but had a grad student attending all the classes for the rest of the semester and all emails were cc’d to the assistant dean. Image source: CanuckNewsCameraGuy

#24

I was working at McDonald's. I wasnt a manager but I convinced all the crew on my shift to show up at the meeting because they were discusing Corona Virus hazzard pay and there was a rumor that only the managers were getting hazzard pay and we were 3 months into this covid c**p. At the meeting she said crew were only getting $50 and every manager was getting $450. Now that's not fair, i understand then getting mkre because of their position but I starting banging on my table and shouting FAIR HAZZARD PAY!!! And everyone, including a fair amount of the managers started hitting the tables. And then here comes our boss with the line "IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN LEAVE" I got up and everyone followed me out that door and i shouted DAIRY QUEEN IS HIRING and we flooded Dairry Queen and filled out paper applications lol. Image source: thestrangentleman

#25

Broke up with bf/fiancé of four years that way. Him: “Well if you can’t change, maybe we should break up!” Me: “actually yeah, I do think we should break up.” And that’s how I left (after years of emotional abuse and gaslighting, of course). Image source: Violatido65

#26

I was born into the cult that is the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW). I was told from a young age that I was only permitted to live with my mother if I was a good and faithful JW, if I wasn't committed to the big J then I was out on my a*s. I remember one large argument I had with my mother in the car when she suddenly pulled over and screamed at me to get out and never come back because I wasn't being a good enough little JW. I refused because I was a scared little child. Fast forward to my teen years and she still made it clear that it was Jehovah's way or the highway. So I left. It was a f*****g massive drama. My mother called my older siblings and 'elders' from the congregation (church group) and they all came over to try and talk me out of it. It was this huge ordeal, but I stuck to my guns and left that very night with a suitcase full of my stuff and my school backpack. I already had a little unit lined up and had already paid the security bond on it. I moved in with a friend from school who was also having some trouble at home. That was probably the biggest defining moment of my life so far. If I hadn't moved out then I'd still be a d**n JW and would have a COMPLETELY different life to the one I have and love now. JW's suck. Image source: Beezneez86

#27

Image source: mylifeisathrowaway10 When my parents divorced my dad said "fine, if you think i'm so awful you can go live with mom." Guess what I and all my siblings did.

#28

Image source: anon, Outlaw Masks / Unsplash When I worked third shift at Walmart the management tried to change a shirt policy overnight. They all the sudden decided that we HAD to wear blue collard shirts, and not blue t-shirts anymore. One of the managers named Jackie(who was a total b***h) came up to my two friends, and myself, and told us we had to either go buy new shirts right then or go home. We left. Frozen/Dairy didn't get done that night, and we got to go home and play Destiny all night. Next day they never said another word about our shirts. F**k Walmart by the way. jpropaganda: You still went into work after that and kept your jobs? Nice.

#29

Had a teacher nobody liked pull the old "if you don't want to behave, you can leave my classroom" on a classmate. The whole class got up and left. Things hadn't been going well in this class since he had started teaching us. The main problem was that he was a really bad teacher - like, he seemed to have no knowledge on his own subject (History), or at least was incredibly bad at transferring his knowledge. We didn't have any respect for him, and he tried to keep us in line by being extremely strict, but in an unfair way. Wouldn't let anyone ask questions anymore (because he could never answer them), screamed at students if they quietly asked their neighbour for a pencil, that sort of stuff. I don't remember what my classmate did that angered the teacher, but it was something minor. We were all fed up with him. So when he told my classmate to just leave, we all did. Felt really rebellious and like I was part of a bigger plan or something, it was great. We got into trouble for it, but also got the teacher fired so it was worth it. Image source: VeryDelightful

#30

Image source: Denocom, Giulia Squillace / Unsplash Well I wasn't here for this one unfortunately, but my high school English class had this scenario. The senior AP English teacher was notorious in my graduating class for not really giving a d**n about a lot of the students. From the way I was told, they were going over quizzes to which the teacher started going over some vague subjective response and how it was wrong. The students started arguing and the conversation came full circle to where the teacher started agreeing with the students. Once he realized this he started backing off that answer and correcting students again, causing more frustration. This resulted in a student saying, "Theres no point in learning this if we're wrong even if we were right at one point." "Well if theres any of you who don't find this valuable, you can stand up and leave the classroom." 2 students of 28 remained. I was absent cause I was sick, but what a sight it would have been.

#31

Image source: ColdTeaSince2020, Curated Lifestyle / Unsplash I was the whistleblower at my workplace, I witnessed my manager mentally and physically ab**e a 101 year old woman (I worked in a care home) I raised the alarm, and staff above the manager didn’t deal with things quick enough and over worry of a bad name (press had gotten ahold of the story) they were trying to keep it quiet and were going to allow this manager back to work on a final warning. We were a small team, about 8 of us.. when they told us that, all of us reached in to our bags and threw our notices at them, it was all of us, or her. A week or so later and them paying her £15k she was gone. Worst thing is, we were a charity care home, she basically got thousands and thousands of pounds for ab**ing a vulnerable elderly woman. Anon: You were incredibly restrained and correct in your response. As an American after 5 years of taking care of my grandfather and grandmother and another three to four years of just taking care of my grandfather I would have whooped that lady's a*s. I would have broke some kneecaps.

#32

Image source: anon, Getty Images / Unsplash Grade 8 language arts class. To preface this, I was never an aggressive student, generally the teachers pet, the person who if a teacher was away for the day would be tasked in their notes to the sub to be able to assist & give them directions. The time: 20 some odd years ago shortly after the Columbine shooting (this context is critical to the he story.) Location: middle of nowhere Alberta, a small country school. So our regular teacher was out for the day and had left a note directing the sub to ask me if she had questions about what had been covered. Sub comes in reads note and opens the teacher's Weekly planner. Then begins writing our words for the weekly spelling test on the board; except; she opened the wrong week, instead of the current week, she had opened the prior week. At this point being the goody two-shoes that I was (and much to my classmates dismay, although our teacher would have corrected us when she was back so it wouldn't have helped them) I raised my hand and politely informed her that I believed she had gotten the page wrong as we had previously covered this material. What happened next, I couldn't make up. She lost her c**p, she started ranting about how teens in general and me specifically were a danger to her, how she didn't know who were her friends and her enemies in the class (we'd never had this sub before), how she had every right to fear for her life. She then capped it off by saying she was the teacher and if we wanted to think in her classroom, well there was the door, we were welcome to leave. I was never a popular child so I wasn't really expecting one of the popular kids (and my sometime bully) to stand up collectively with everyone else, pull me to my feet and we all walked out. Now I mentioned above that we attended a small country school, there was no place to go, so we just sat in the hallway until the principal came down to chew us out for not being in class. The sub was gone by the start of the next period and the principal taught the rest of our teacher's classes that day. Youre_late_for_tea: The sub's behavior was unacceptable, I do not mean to defend her, but maybe she just had bad classes over bad classes and reached a point where anything could've ticked her off. I hope she got help.

#33

When I was in high school I was part of a FRC Robotics team. The coach decided that no one who missed a practice during the last week of the season would be allowed to attend the tournaments. Of course the band class had a mandatory concert during one of the meetings. So when I brought up that I wouldn't skip the graded band concert the coach gave the ultimatum. About a third of the team got up and left, including all the captains. Coach backed out of that really fast. Image source: pso_lemon

#34

Image source: CrimsonClover06 When I was still in school, we had this great and fun teacher that really did his best for us. Unfortunately, we had some serious bulls**ts in our class, not paying attention and just talking through him. I felt so sorry for him. One day he had enough and, still kinda calmly, tells anyone not interested to just leave. Those s***s didn’t think twice and just stood up and left. What’s more sad is that almost everybody blindly followed those s***s. Even people that I never expected that to do. I sat there probably with 2 others. That’s the moment I realized I’m never ever going to follow blindly like sheep anymore. I never really done this, but I was often afraid to walk a different path. Even 18+ students, literally paying for their study themself, can be serious ungrateful s***s. I know it’s bad but I secretly hope they end up without certificate and a sh**load of debt from that study.

#35

The boss telling us we still had to work 16 hour shifts. The ENTIRE workforce just dropped tools and left. It cost them millions for that little "f**k you" from the bosses. By the next day, shifts were reduced and more staff hired. Image source: anon