WATCH: Lindsay Lohan threatens to fire staff for wearing the wrong shoes - plus more unreasonable workplace demands

Social media has been abuzz with feedback regarding the recent Twitter spat involving Lindsay Lohan. 

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So, Lindsay has lent her name to a club in Greece, it's called Lohan Beach House Rhodes. And last week the club posted this Instagram as a promo post: 

Lindsay, however, was not having this mismatched shoes vibe. The two staff members wore the same dress, but different shoes. 

The Cut reports that she tweeted the club, asking "Wear the same shoes please."

A follow up tweet read "Or you're fired."

A Twitter user asked Lindsay whether she was joking and she responded that she was "totally serious!"

Grounds for dismissal or completely unreasonable?

Recently in Bustle.com, an article about career risks you should take grabbed my attention. Specifically, a point in the piece talked about whether or not you should take the journey into the unknown by resigning without having planned ahead.

It made me curious to see if there were any folk amongst my friendship and social media circle who had taken the leap (turns out there were quite a few we couldn't include in the first piece). I asked them to share their experiences with me and also reached out for some expert advice, which you can read about here).

One of the biggest reasons for leaving? Their environment had become toxic and abusive and their responses make it clear that a lot of people place happiness and a healthy mindset over their jobs.

Here are more of our reader responses:

Twitter user @Soldin_ was told that he wasn’t all that great at his job – he resigned immediately.

*Jennifer says, "The timing was right but I know it was risky.”

It was stressful working out my notice and looking for a new job - I found the uncertainty was the worst.  

For me I was young and living at home with my parents and thankfully they supported my decision. I took a big risk and signed a contract for a temp position.  

The temp position became a permanent one and 11 years later I'm still here. If I'd been older with more commitments and expenses I'd probably not have left without something permanent lined up. The timing was right but I know it was risky. 

My advice is to think carefully and plan ahead. I went to recruitment agencies before work for interviews. I updated my CV and sent it to all the agencies I'd been registered with before. I was prepared to temp if necessary - and I got lucky but it isn't that way for everyone.

*Not her real name

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Toxic workplace situations became an everyday experience for *Fatima

*Busisiwe took the risk twice – here’s why

My first job post uni was horrible. It was at a small independent company where I was promised a certain salary and given a certain job description.

Each month, however, the work increased and the pay remained ridiculous (R2500 a month). I was doing everything, from editing and proofreading to arranging launches and doing post office collections.

To top that, I was so overworked I could not even think of getting a second job. After six months I resigned, with nothing lined up.

They had a little bit of egg on their face, so we agreed I could “freelance” until I got something solid. For the next three months I did a quarter of what I used to do for the same amount. I had just moved to the city, with my family paying rent while “I figured things out”.

It was either that or move back to the Eastern Cape where I am from ... so I stuck it out and my mom’s savings saved me.

Out of 43 job applications I only got 3 interviews.

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My mom spent a lot of money on me. I fought with my dad a lot, mostly about why I don’t want to move back home. Then I got an interview with a company that seemed promising.

Two days after the interview I was offered the job I would have, and love, for the next four years. After some very good years, the company got very tight with everything and the bureaucracy started overwhelming the fun of the job.

That, and the prospect of no realistic raises, and the fact that I had reached the highest rung of the ladder that I would be able to reach while there, made me start looking for other opportunities. A temp job came up and I went to meet with them.

*Not her real name

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Monique’s manager expected 16 hour work days – so she upped and quit

Tallulah walked away from a job that became so toxic that she was even bothered on sick days

Yes, I had a job where I just had to walk away.

It was not an easy decision. I was going home every day and working, and working every weekend to try keep up. It was one of those jobs where you "might be needed after hours" but they treated my off time as belonging to them. "Tonight you'll go to this event".

My favourite was when I got into trouble for not being in two places on one night and had to give a formal apology. When I was off sick, asleep, I got a phone call telling me to post something on one of their channels.

They knew I was sick, but I still got into trouble for not answering that phone call even though I tried to return it when I woke up (and it went to voicemail.).

I debated quitting every single day for ages before I one day got pulled into a meeting and my manager asked "Do you think this job's for you?" And I just said "No, I don't" and I handed in my resignation that day. I was still in my first three months so I only had to give one week, but I gave them two.

And at the end of that first week there was a social media disaster that I had to handle (irony!) but then after I did that my manager actually said I'd come into my own and asked if I wanted to reconsider (nope!).

I went to two job interviews the first week after leaving and then there was a month of agony thinking that I'd never work again (I even considered starting my own business), but then I got offered the job I'm still at now.

It was far easier to go to interviews when I didn't have to worry about sneaking around, and I think that I presented myself better being fully rested. I'm very glad I got out of that situation even though my only safety net was a credit card (my family couldn't help me pay the bills).

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