revenge-quit

Verb

revenge quit (third-person singular simple present revenge quits, present participle revenge quitting, simple past and past participle revenge quit)

1. (informal, intransitive) To resign from employment in a deliberately retaliatory or disruptive manner, typically as a response to perceived mistreatment.
   • Even as some of us struggled to get out of our lockdown pyjamas, people were donning revenge dresses and revenge heels to work; bosses were horrified to find employees revenge-quitting, bringing on The Great Resignation; and travellers revenge-flocked to the hills2021 December 30, Kritika Kapoor, “2021: The Year of Revenge”, in The Times of India, New Delhi