Have you ever gotten so angry with your boss that you wanted to walk out the door? Not just walk out the door, but to exact a little revenge in the process? Advice columnist Jeffrey Zaslow once asked his readers that question. Here is what he got:

Several waitresses and secretaries said their most satisfying career moves were out the door. Gina, a Woolworth's waitress, told how her boss once offered a ten-cent raise, "as a big favor." Gina saw it as a big insult, and her customers egged her on to quit. It made her day, she says, "to see the manager running from table to table, trying to fill her shoes."

A young research chemist, a Ph.D. candidate, had spent three years separating a certain substance into its components. It was excruciating, tedious work, done for starvation wages. His eg…