On leaving my first proper job, under paid and overworked, as a barristers clerk.
I was working for a chambers in London for an absolute beast of a woman call Jo, who took great pleasure on picking on me all through my probation, about a week before it ended I had decided I'd had enough and quietly resigned and as I (and indeed they) were still on probabtion, I could leave that day which I had decided to do.

Now Jo, was about as anal as they come, exacting in her standards and a right bitch to boot. She had been particularly awful all day and my blood began to boil.

She'd had me stuffing envelopes all afternoon so dead on 5:30 and half way through my task I stopped and started putting my coat on.

"Where do you think you're going?" Said she.

"Home actually, Jo" Said I.

"You sit yourself back down, you can leave when you've finished Stuffing those envelopes,they need to go out tonight"

"Jo, what time do you make it?"

"5:32 precisely"

"Well in that case, as of 5:30, I am no longer under the employ of these chambers, so you can *stuff* those envelopes up your arse".

Jo, with a facial expression akin to a stunned mullet, was unable to form a response to that so I smiled sweetly, skipped out into the early evening and got absolutely stinking drunk.

It was cathartic, perfectly delivered, 3 months of pent up hurt and anger, vanished.

On the flipside I woke up the next day jobless, with no chance of a reference but it still makes me smile.
(GirlOfTheWorld, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 11:50, 6 replies)

When I worked in a Barrister's chambers
I was told by one of the senior clerks that back in the day they wouldn't bother to remember the name of the most junior clerk and would just refer to all of them as 'Billy'.
( WormuIus, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 11:52, closed)

This would not surprise me

(GirlOfTheWorld, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 11:53, closed)

Hi Billy!

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 11:54, closed)

I replaced a person in my
office called 'John'. The boss decided he would call me John, which isn't my name. I'm not sure if it was an 'I don't care who you are' attitude, or what, but it didn't work at all.

I completely ignored him when he called me John. He had to give up after a few days of not getting any response.

Tosser.
(username failed moderation, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 12:25, closed)

Did someone kill your scooter?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 13:06, closed)

Yes
Was it you?

I'll hunt you down and wear your head as a hat.
(GirlOfTheWorld, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 13:09, closed)