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Ehhh... Only time I can remember "nope"-ing out of something on the spot was a temp job at a cranberry packing plant where the temp agency had dropped the ball and assigned me there as a seasonal worker when they had told me they had tech positions lined up for me.
I did no-notice quit at an advertising/Web dev studio once upon a time when my boss (the owner's son) kept micromanaging me and promising pie-in-the-sky bullshit to our clients with no formal analysis or requirements gathering process; just "dude asks for A Thing and we say yes" to multiple requests over the course of six weeks with no adjustment to testing or launch deadlines. I had a dream that I was at the office and he did this shit again, right in front of me, and I just started punching him.
Turns out that during said dream, I started flailing in my sleep and backhanded my wife. Thankfully, I only hit her through a pillow, but I didn't bother going back in after that. Imagine getting PTSD over a shittier, low-budget, extremely regional Craigslist knockoff.
Fucking god! A small business hired me to do IT, run cables, manage their websites and networked hardware, etc. and when I showed up they just started giving me shifts behind the counter at the gas station they owned.
Worse yet, the owner thought it was still 1955 and had all the gas pumps set up so that you could just start filling up without any form of pre-payment and if (when) you drove off without paying, they'd take the cost of the stolen gas out of the counter employee's wages.
Everyone who swiped their card at the pump before filling instead of coming into the convenience store after filling would not be charged.