have you ever just walked off the job?

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yes, some i just left and some i made a scene.
making a scene was fun.

I walked out of one job because they asked me to do something I was morally opposed to. I offered an alternative solution, so they could still get their information, and they said I had to do it their way, so I left.

I walk out of my current job a lot lately, but I always come back. Right now, I am on my third motherboard for my computer and it is dying too. They won't give me a new computer, so I just keep leaving because when the computer goes down, I pretty much can't work. Our network people are idiots and they won't let us fix things ourselves. It's very frustrating.

In kindergarten, I used to get sent to the "quiet corner" a lot. It was a large cardboard enclosure with wrapping paper or something on it to make it look nice. One time, I was sent there even though I wasn't the one talking in class. The "quiet corner" was next to the window, so I climbed out and went and played in the playground. I stealthily returned without the teacher never knowing I had been gone.

I did. I was working at a music store when I was 17, and once the owner realized I was a weirdo or somehow "undesireable" (i'm guessing because he sensed I was "different") he started picking on me every day even though I was always at work and did everything that was asked of me. Once he wrote me up for being 2 minutes late - called me into the office with his female clone of an asst. manager and made a big formal deal out of it. It was ridiculous.

The final straw was when he made me (I was a tiny 90 lb teenager at the time) rearrange all of these really heavy shelves and refold like a million t-shirts for no apparent reason. It was like he got pleasure in watching me be miserable. The other asst. manager (not a jerk) told me that I didn't have to put up with this and I could just leave if I wanted to, so I walked out on the spot.

I did pick up my check but I arranged to pick it up from the nice asst. manager when the evil manager and his cohort weren't around.

I have come close to walking off my job several times, closest I got was taking time off to calm down as I was angered a lot of the time I wanted to walk off the job

obviously I didn't get paid the times they sent me off to calm down

in college i was working as a waitress and it sucked. my friend & roommate worked with me. it was a patio/bar restaurant.
to make a long story short, we got irritated at our manager. he was such a perv.
so we just left. we got in my car, she drove i stood out the sunroof, with both both of my hands in the air and flipped off everybody. my manager had walked outside because someone told we had left.
we were blaring my stereo & giving the bird to the whole restaurant.
that felt nice, we laughed so hard.

I've never actively walked off a job (well, I've only ever had two long-term ones), but my first job caused me to be so emotionally crushed that one day I just couldn't go into work in the first place, and they arranged for me to stop without a period of notice.

Had my mother not insisted I call them, though, I'd have been happy to just not turn up.