I have one serious one and one silly one. Serious: I worked with a hot-tempered director from academia for a total of 3 months, at a remote lab for a large tec

I have one serious one and one silly one. Serious: I worked with a hot-tempered director from academia for a total of 3 months, at a remote lab for a large tech company. At this company, writing docs is more important than doing any work. This guy kept asking me to rewrite the doc and present it to the team over and over. Coworkers confided that they were confused as to the issue with the doc and didn't understand why he was acting this way. My direct manager tried to be all empathetic and work with me to improve the doc and said he didn't know what the director's problem was. Yet, each time I presented, I would get grilled and my manager would just sit there with a smirk on his face, not defending me. At our last meeting, the director tore up the report and said "I don't want to see another doc like this." I pretty much had a yelling session with my manager asking why he wouldn't back me up and he just sat there deadpan. The director walked in and I said "if you ever speak to me that way again, I quit." It happened again, and I quit on the spot. My two week resignation period was spent at home, with permission. I came in one final time to walk my clueless manager through all of the code I had written and he just said "Wow you really did a lot of great work here." I wanted to explode. My exit interview was cathartic. Two months later, the manager was fired. Silly: I had been working at a startup and was in the process of leaving that startup (interviewing etc.) There was constant drama at this startup and the COO was a complete drama queen. The latest drama was that the COO was on a crusade to figure out who kept plugging the toilet and sent an email to everyone threatening termination. I went to wash my hands (not use the bathroom) where the sink was outside both bathrooms in public view. One of his lackeys told him that I had used the restroom last (I didn't). During the meeting where I learned this he started asking me about when I typically use the restroom and gave me a warning. I just looked at him and said "Are you fcking serious right now? You're meeting with me over a clogged toilet I had nothing to do with? I am so fcking sick of the drama at this company." I met with my direct manager, told him the situation and just said "I can't. I've learned a lot from you, but I'm about to receive an offer from another company, and I just can't anymore." I returned to the COO's office to resign and the COO asked me if I wanted to give him a hug. I just looked at him and said "Um, no, I am giving you my resignation. I know this is no notice, do what you need to do." I also missed stock options by a week. I learned that two weeks after I quit, the toilet plugged again, overflowed after hours and flooded the entire work area. My career has been otherwise normal.