If you won the powerball, would you quit your job?

[Catch22Dem]

Poll question: If you won the powerball, would you quit your job?

Not me, man. I hate my boss so fucking much that I'd make his life hell until he fired me. I may even take a dump right on his stupid desk! These are the thoughts that get me through each excruciating day.

[InsultComicDog]

1. I like my job and my boss

...but if I won that much money I don't think I'd hang around too long. Because now there would be a new exciting chapter of my life to start, and I wouldn't want to postpone it.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Yep!

[Jamison]

3. YES!

Once I did, I'd go out and celebrate my life as a free man.

[Catch22Dem]

4. I can't believe the people who would wake up millionaires...

and still go to work to give notice. :crazy:

[donheld]

5. I wouldn't even look back nt

[6000eliot]

6. No. Because I enjoy teaching.

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Yes. Then Mr. kt and I could open up the fair trade non-profit

we dream of!

[Initech]

8. If I won, I'd seriously find the greatest way to get fired ever.

I'd walk out of there with people saying "wow, now that guy got canned!"

[Kerrytravelers]

10. It's like "Office Space!"

Just clean fish guts on your desk, unscrew the subical and toss it over and walk in wearing shorts and flips. Walk right past the boss when they're gripping about the TPS reports!

You would be my hero!

[Initech]

44. I was thinking more along the Seinfeld episode where...

George gets a job offer from the Mets and he's going out of his way to get fired from the Yankees.

[Kerrytravelers]

46. Ah yes, Seinfeld. Gotta love George's work ethic!

:evilgrin:

[Broken_Hero]

9. I am a sub teacher...

I wouldn't send in shit, they can live without me...I would take my wife, away from Walmart, sell the house and build a cabin up in SE Alaska, and live the rest of my life up there, thats what i would do...I would also buy a Yacht, or a sail boat, and spend some time on the ocean, i do miss the ocean....SW Missouri Blows, never move here!...:)

[NMMNG]

11. I'd quit, giving my two weeks notice

But if they cheesed me off I'd tell them to bite me.

[leftofthedial]

12. no. I'd fund my nonprofit so it could give me a job

[grace0418]

13. I would go to the office in the middle of the night

take everything out of my cube and never go back again. If I won enough money (like 400 million) I would buy the company and fire all the idiots in management and give all the talented people huge raises. Then I'd move the company somewhere nicer, with windows and cheerful decor. And I'd let the artists come up with the ideas instead of the sales people.

[Catch22Dem]

48. Now, THAT'S a damn good plan

Screw this 2-week notice shit.

[emmajane67]

14. I'd quit my job but start working doing what I really want to do.

None of which pays well.
I'd go make docos around the world
and run community arts events
and write news stories that might not sell
and volunteer in Bolivia
and foster lots of kids
and live my drems free from the one major constriction that currently stops me...MONEY!

[Catch22Dem]

49. You're a better person than me.

No question about it.

[tjwmason]

15. Definitely.

I'd give them reasonable notice though.

Then I'd probably buy a small-holding for organic and free-range food (employing somebody to do the real work on it). I'd keep myself fairly busy pottering between things, maybe set up a second-hand bookshop.

[aaronbees]

16. yes...

and then just write freelance for the rest of my life :) woot!

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

17. Well, I'd not quit, but I'd sure be able to take it...

... into some interesting realms, being self-"employed", you see...

[Callalily]

18. Most definitely!

I truly love my job and love everyone that I work with, but if I'd have that kind of money well, there's so many other things in the world to experience.

[supernova]

19. I'd give notice and then take up to a year

to just travel, buy a nice car, a new house, and think about the best way to use all that money. The reason is evidence suggests lottery winners don't do so well with their windfalls. They sorta go crazy for a while and then lose it all through bad money managmeent and decisions and a total 180 on sudden lifestyle changes.

If I'm ever in that position, I fully intend to not be another sad statistic.

I'd probably like to get into philanthropy. I'm not a good person to implement things, but I am good at seeing where needs are and which problems need solving.

I think I would want to set up different pots of money for all that: My personal $$ for living expenses and anything I personally wanted to do, plus my old age, TAXES, and another pot of money for the philanthropy.

:party:

NC is supposed to join the Powerball at the end of March.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

20. Of course, being independently wealthy...

.... would allow me to finance a few experimental communities, as well as one or two prog orgs... :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

21. Yes. let someone unemployed have it. Besides, it's a hostile workplace.

Every time I try to get involved in something, the response makes the situation more intimidating. Then they'll blame me anyway. :eyes:

[jmm]

22. No but I'd get myself fired

:evilgrin:

[Orsino]

23. I would enjoy the hell out of those last two weeks, too. n/t

[Allenberg]

24. Yeah, I would.

I'd start my own company though.

[Robeson]

25. Yes. And forward my checks to Europe...Adios!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. Not only would I quit my job...

I would slash everybody's tires on the way out.

[BikeWriter]

27. I'm retired. I'd only come back to my house to get personal items.

Other than that, I'd be out of here!

[kick-ass-bob]

28. I asked my M-I-L the other day - I was sure she'd say "2 weeks"

She said she wouldn't even call in, and she would disappear. They'd go looking at her place and no one would be there...

She's worked there for 15 years.

:rofl:

I would throw my stuff in a box and run out the door as soon as I found out...

[Love Bug]

29. Are you kidding?

I like my job, but if I won the lottery (we're talking a significant amount of never-need-to-work-again winnings here) I'd hire the local high school marching band to march through the parking lot playing "Take this Job and Shove It" while I ride behind in a limosine standing up through the sun roof waving "buh-bye!"

[Catch22Dem]

50. Exactly!

I can't fathom the people who said they'd give 2-weeks notice. All I can think of to say is fuck that! Then again, I hate my job, and I hate my boss, so...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

30. Other: I'd buy the business

And fire my boss. :-)

[Hugin]

33. Seconded.

My other choice would be to buy the building it's
in and drive them insane with constant renovations.

[wildhorses]

31. not just yeah but,

HELL YEAH:applause:

[B3Nut]

32. I'd stay put....

at least for awhile. I like my job and what I do (IT) and I have fun. Plus my boss is a DUer as well, I'd miss the bull sessions. :D My wife would stay at the vet clinic she works at, only difference is she'd buy it from the older vet who owns it and give it to the young vet she works with, and rebuild it bigger and better. We'd pay off our debts, but wouldn't really change our lifestyle at all. I'd still eat at Denny's. :D

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[DS1]

34. At that point the question would be "What job?"

*poof*

I wouldn't even go back to pick up my laptop.

[texas1928]

35. NAH

I would just take VERY fancy vacations and brag nonstop about them. I would also have a bigger house than my VP and a nicer car. Then I would look down my nose at them and donate to the DNC.

[SteppingRazor]

36. I'd give the two weeks notice, because I love my job and my coworkers...

But there's no way I'd keep a job. With that kind of money, I'd have way too much traveling to do.

[bigwillq]

37. YES but I would give it a few weeks.

Because of the nature of the business I am in, I would give it a few weeks depending on what time of the year it is.
At my job, each of us is responsible for our own beats and I wouldn't feel right just leaving without finishing out the season.
That's juts me though.

[enigami]

38. If quit includes "never being heard from again" then yes n/t

[samplegirl]

39. In a heart beat

[grimble_grumble]

40. I'd quit

and when I got bored, I'd find some sort of volunteer work.

[x-g.o.p.er]

41. Nope...

I've got 19 years in the military. Those bastards owe me my retirement, which I would donate to charity.

[noonwitch]

42. I would need about 3 months to take care of everything properly

I wouldn't want to leave people hanging.

[Catch22Dem]

51. I would absolutely LOVE to leave people hanging!!

:D The look on their faces when they hear their ONLY programmer is walking out on the biggest project they've ever seen would be priceless. Hell, I'd even consider doing the whole thing naked!

[NoPasaran]

43. Not only would I quit

I would buy the company just to fire the boss!

[Nikia]

54. Buying the company would be an option in my case

I don't know how willing they would be to sell, but if I won enough, it might be an option. I wouldn't necessarily fire anyone, only if they didn't do things my way. There would be changes that I would like to make.

[Wapsie B]

45. Take this job and shove it!

>

[LeftyMom]

47. Yeah, but I'd give it some time

so I could train my replacement and find a new place to live. I like my bosses so I'd give them a nice long notice. I'd try to cut back my hours though so I'd have time to deal with other stuff.

[LeftyMom]

56. Nevermind

I need to quit being such a fucking martyr. I'd walk.

[Generic Brad]

52. I'd Share the Wealth

The sooner I vacated the premises, the sooner someone else would have an opportunity for advancement by getting promoted to my post. Everybody wins!

[NNadir]

53. My business partner's might kill me. I'm the technical core of the

company.

[Nikia]

55. I'd quit and give notice

If things didn't go well though, I'd walk. Then I'd figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. Money gives one more options.

[Strong Atheist]

57. Yes, at the end of the year. nt.

[BlueIris]

58. Many lottery winners say they didn't have to quit their jobs, because

their jobs quit them. Coworkers become bitchy, paranoid, suspicious and jealous, getting annoyed at the winners for taking up a job someone perceived to be more in need of the position could be doing. Supervisors and bosses assume the winners aren't going to stick around for the long-haul anyway, and so don't promote the winners, start making their lives miserable so the winners will quit, etc. It's the reason that financial experts who work with lottery winners often advise them to lie like dogs to their friends and employers as long as they have to about the win.

[Patiod]

59. It depends if I'm in the middle of a project or not

I like my job a lot, and they've been very good to me, including gold-plated insurance that paid for a $15,000 procedure which I could NEVER have afforded to pay for out of pocket (even if they charged me what they charge BCBS).

I'd finish whatever I was in the middle of (meanwhile working on setting up trusts, changing addresses and phone numbers, etc.), and then claim the money and retire.

Travel first for a year, both because we've not been much of anywhere outside the US and because it would get us away from money-seekers. Then back to the US to buy a house. I'd work at hospice, and S.O. would probably set up his own theater company (no THERE's a money pit!)

[Ron Mexico]

60. If I won the Powerball, I'd have no choice but to shit directly into my

pants out of sheer shock. I don't buy tickets.

[Fox Mulder]

61. Hell fuckin' yeah!

I tell everyone I work with to go fuck themselves, knock everything off the shelves, and wave them the finger as I walk out the door!

I don't understand how ANYONE could work after winning millions of dollars! That's just insane! I wouldn't care if I was in the middle of a project or what, I hate everyone at my work and I wouldn't stay there for another second if I didn't have to!

[Bridget Burke]

62. Of course. But I would give notice....

There are some aspects of my job that I like. And I'd prepare full documentation of what I do--since there's nobody there who's trainable.

And I'd like a chance to let one supervisor know that I planned to be very generous to all those artsy-fartsy, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal causes that she hates!

One co-worker said he'd not tell anyone if he won. But the next time he got handed a ridiculous project, he'd just walk out.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. As a free-lancer, I actually enjoy much of the work I do, but if I

won Powerball, I'd stop translating industrial videos and Japanese government reports and do only fun work like translating novels and subtitling movies (which doesn't exist in large enough amounts to live on under normal circumstances).

[patcox2]

64. There'd be a me-shaped hole in the wall.

Like a Warner Brothers Cartoon, I would quit so fast.

[Alleycat]

65. I would just stop showing up

kinda like the guy from office space. Let them chase me down to find out why. Come and go for a while, make them feel secondary and not so important to me. May be say a few things that couldn't say while an employee but really wanted to!

[xchrom]

66. they would have to try and find my ass!

there wouldn't even be a warm coffee pot.

gone?!?!? like yesterdays news -- i'ld be gone.

[NaturalHigh]

67. I love my job.

Winning the powerball would just give me more money to enjoy my leisure time.

[SOteric]

68. Heck yeah, all three of them.

Though I may find a way to put in guest appearances at two of them. I'd set myself up in a little business I've had in the back of my mind for some time and take a few month off each year just to chill with the SO and the kitty.

[Heidi]

69. Oh, heck no.

I love _both_ of my jobs. Having a stupendous amount of money would just make it possible for me to be more generous.

[Yollam]

70. Yes, but not because I don't like my job.

I actually like my job very much - the only thing I don't like about it is the pay.

The reason I would quit would be to take care of my kids full time. My wife is much more passionate about her career as an artist and I'd like to let her focus on that. There's nothing I enjoy more than being with my kids.

Once they were a bit older, I'd probably go back to work. I can't imagine not working, even if I won the lotto. On the few occasions when I was out of wok for a week or whatever, the boredom drove me nuts, and Even if I was being pampered in resorts or whatever, I think I'd still get bored. Work keeps you going.

[datsafact]

71. Would I quit my job,

before a cat could lick its ass!

[Lilith Velkor]

72. No, because I don't have a job.

[mwooldri]

73. I got the kind of job I could just walk away from.

However... if I had a job where I felt some sense of responsibility to those people whom I helped out and worked with then I'd stay on if I were to quit.

I wouldn't stop working though. If I did win the big millions then I would do something worthwhile with the money.

Mark.

[derby378]

74. I want to say Yes, but...

...I know how winning the lottery can sometimes change people for the worse. Some lottery winners burned through their cash like there was no tomorrow and actually wound up neck-deep in debt, with no friends, and kicking themselves every day for their foolishness.

What would I do? Hopefully, pay off all my bills, buy a nice house cash down, continue to show up at work, and otherwise hunker down and enjoy a modest yet comfortable life with my wife, our pets, a front porch, a lawn to mow, and a souped-up Turion laptop.

Oh, yeah - and send out the occasional contribution to a Democratic candidate that I like.

Russ Feingold, if I get the five plus the bonus ball, your check will be in the mail...