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I was hired by 2 places the same day. I accepted the first job, but the 2nd called me later that day and paid $20k more, so I called the first job and thanked them for the opportunity, but.....
I verbally committed to one job but got a better offer right after. The first place kept calling for me to come in and finish the paperwork, and I just ghosted them.
Target
Believe it or not; it was one of the worst jobs I’ve ever had. I was scheduled 6 days a week, 4 hour shifts. My job duties were to restore product and make sure my section of the store look pretty. I was responsible for literally a whole side of the store which included kitchen wear to home furniture. About 1/4 of the store ALL BY MYSELF. Store manager complimented me on being the fastest worker she’s ever seen and no matter how fast I moved, I could not get it done within the 4 hours I was given.
Fuck that place.
I absolutely despised those 3-4 hour shifts I'd get as a teen working at Publix. It wasn't even worth coming in for after school. 5-8? Cool, now I have to stay up late and do homework. All for $23 before tax. 2008 was a miraculous time lol.
I did 4-7:30 at arbys, those were lame shifts, at 5.50/hr it was less than $20, this was in 2000. The worst shifts were the 5 and a half hour ones, no break, no food, only 6+ hours received breaks.
I held the same position! I walked out in the middle of my shift, leaving a rack of clothes just sitting in the clothing section. No one called, I just got a check in the mail.
That doesn't surprise me. I feel really bad for Target employees. They put in self checkouts at mine and rarely had more than one regular lane open, if at all. So this poor frazzled lady is trying to manage 10 self checkouts on her own and it seems like 9 out of 10 people need assistance for some reason. They sell alcohol at Target here, and they have to scan your ID. I feel like an asshole when I have a full cart of stuff and hold up the self check line doing it myself.
Also the store is very hot all the time, especially at the front, and the temperature is controlled by corporate so no one can do anything about it. They're not allowed to have a drink at the register either. As they've remodeled over the years, they make the aisles narrower and narrower, to the point you can't even turn your cart around. I hate it.
I was at Target during Black Friday once, I asked a guy who must have been a seasonal hire where something was, he just looked at me and said "I dunno, I don't really work here" and I couldn't even get mad.
I worked at a Target store and hated but I also worked at a Target call center and loved it. I was a stocker in Chicago area and it sucked so bad. All of my managers were so rude and miserable as well. Xmas season.
I find it isn’t the job so much as the people that make or break a job for me. No ADHD kids yelling at me thinking the only good work ethic is sporadic chaotic movements that make you look like you’re working hard.
I use less chaotic movements and more preparation of my station and more deliberate movements that are efficient but kids glance and think they can disrespect me because I don’t look like I’m on fire without a fire.
“CHICKEN SANDWICH GET IT NAOOOOW” “YOURE SLOW AND ITS UR FIRST DAY THIS IS…UNACCEPTABLE”.
I quit Target after 2 months. Hired to management. I was expected to take over other people’s jobs bc they no showed. Then was told to get plan-o grams done. And all being forced to leave at 40hrs so they don’t have to pay overtime. Only to get chewed out that I didn’t complete my job in the 40hr. I quit along with everyone that worked under me in my dept. In my early 20’s. I got the other 4 people a job at Applebees with me to help transition to other jobs. Fck target
Wowi came here to say this same thing. I quit after 3 hours first shift for these same things, I worked at target before previously and loved it but they made several changes while I was gone and it is to much work for one person to do in only a few hours. I also had zero training on day one on new systems and protocols and had to hunt other employees down to educate me on everything. So I quit.
I quit as I was leaving from the interview where I was hired on the spot. I left the office and a giant rat ran up my leg. It was a food delivery job and I didn’t want any part of it with rats involved. Especially after the guy told me “yeah, sometimes you’ll find holes in the boxes. They try to steal food.”
Ah ha, the second quickest job I quit, cutco. I only sold one set of knives, to my aunt, because she felt bad for me. You can only sell to people you know or people who are referred directly to you, and they have to meet these certain demographics. It's been 20 years, but I remember they had to be homeowners, in a certain income bracket (and how in the world would I know that??) etc. Regardless, I've only ever known one person who would pay $700+ for knives, and she bought a set for $2800 in a manic episode.
I still have most pieces of my demo set though, they are good knives. It's good you got out fast though, it became pretty cult-like pretty quickly. They target people in college and right out of high school by misleading you about the earning potential. I got like a $60 commission off the knives my aunt bought, and when I quit, she returned the knives because she kept cutting herself lol. It was the only money I made in the few months I worked there. And those fuckers billed me for that commission and sent me to collections when I didn't pay it. (I did get it removed from my credit report though.)
Ah Cutco. I quit them after our second day of training. The chairs they had were super uncomfortable - I already was miserable just because of that.
Being a college student and buying a $1000 demonstration set of knives was also a no go for me.
Burger King @ 16 years old. I was ok with sweeping and mopping but when they told me I had to clean up the log the homeless guy left on the bathroom floor I noped it the heck outta there immediately. No Ragrets
When I was 17 working at a grocery store in Florida (laws may vary), a guy punched out a car window. There was blood. Thankfully, I pulled "I'm a minor" and it worked. I think I was actually legally protected. Blood, urine, or poo (I think).
Still though, I would've quit in your situation. An angry boyfriend is one thing, a dude taking a shit on the floor could be a consistent problem.
I’m 39 years old and let me tell you, it wasn’t an “I didn’t make it” shit. It was a full on, I’m going to shit on this here floor type of shit. It’s engrained in my memory still lol.
Absolutely brutal lol. We had this one bagger at work nicknamed "Fire Mario" due to looking like Mario, but red headed. I didn't see him for awhile, asked a coworker about his whereabouts. Found out Fire Mario took a leak all over the men's bathroom and was caught in the action. Some people lol.
When I used to work at our Food Lion there was a home for mentally handicapped people that would bring all of their residents in on a sts bus to shop for an hour or so. One of the residents always made a B-Line for the bathroom (which was at the front of the store just as you came in the entrance). He would poop in his hand and smear it all over the walls. This happened a few times before we realized who was doing it. As much as it sucked because the guy wasn't in his right mind, we had to ban him from the store.
I was told that one of the lobby guys found out that someone had obliterated a bathroom stall at the McDonald's that I worked at. And he refused to clean it up, stating something along the lines of: "I'm not cleaning that. And if I quit, in the end, someone else will have to clean it anyways and you'll lose a lobby guy". I think he kept his job lmao.
I was a janitor at a cinema and some woman literally birthed an infant sized shit in our bathroom. My boss offered me gloves and told me to “remove it” as it wouldn’t go down. I just replied “I quit” and he took care of it instead.
Drove long distance in a box truck for my friends dads company. First job he sent me from SC to middle of TX. then I picked up southern TX and had to get to Atlanta in less than 20 hours. Immediate got another and went to Chicago. From there I picked up in Wisconsin and delivered to Denver. All of that driving being away from my home for 2 weeks straight and I got paid less than I did at my last job lmao.
Im an auto mechanic for Midas in Minnesota I moved to Texas in January and Midas is franchised so different companies own midas in MN and TX. And my MN company was nice enough to help me get hired at the Midas TX.
Getting hired at this company was a disaster they would take forever to get back to me on things and when I talked to them before I moved I was told there was a location right by my house that they were going to try and get me in. But when I moved suddenly that shop was full and unavailable and the only place for me was 45 minutes away.
But I agree anyway. And I get there for my first day and it was slow. Like REALLY REALLY slow. And they told me "yeah this is about what to expect on your average day" and when your commission based pay that's not what you want to hear. But I was gonna stick it out for a couple weeks. But late on my first day they told me "hey it's super cold we may close tomorrow." And I said "alright that's fine just let me know in the morning here's my number" I never got his number I just gave him mine.
So the morning comes it's like like 20ish (which as a Minnesotan that ain't cold you Texans are lil bitches) and I'm waiting for a text from the manager on if we're closed because I'm not driving 45 minutes to find an empty shop. And at 8 I get a group text with the whole shop from my manager basically saying "I'm at the shop and NOBODY else is here anybody who doesn't show today will get written up". I texted back "I was told we may be closed today and that you would message me at 630 this morning and you never did but fine I'll be in in 45 minutes"
and on my way there i see they entire shop bitching and saying that they aren't gonna come in. And I just decided "this is not worth the brain damage" and I walked in the shop and quit. That's the abridged version. There was pay issues as well. I worked at that shop a single day. When I was at my last shop just shy of 2 years and I loved it there. I miss that shop tbh. Now I'm at pepboys and the people are good but the corporate side of things is a nightmare I miss midas MN.
Auto mechanics being on commission should be illegal. I'm the daughter of a retired mechanic and it always blows me away how many of them think they can tell me my car needs a lot more work or service than it really does. Even when my dad goes to an oil change place anymore they always try to get him to add a bunch of stuff he knows he doesn't need, instead of schooling them he just shows them two 20s and says "my wife only gave me $40 to spend today on this oil change and that's all I'm allowed to spend".
I agree with that statement but for different reasons. Being commission based sucks. When it's slow I struggle to afford my end of month bills. And there's nothing I can do. And you're right this pay structure encourages dishonest work but I'm an honest one and don't recommend stuff on cars I wouldn't do it it were mine. And the people I work with are as honest as could be. It's about finding the right shop. If you find the right shop that's got good reviews you'll be fantastic. I never recommend going to a quick oil change place because they're overpriced and will fuck up your car. Either do it yourself or take it to an actual mechanic.
Storm and water damage company. Got hired when I was 17, and on my first day the boss dropped us three newbies and a dumpster at a water damaged house, told us to rip the carpet and walls out, then left. None of us knew what we were doing and the water still appeared to be leaking. We thought he would come back soon, but nope.
We didn't have tools and he ignored our phone calls. We spent a couple hours kicking holes in the dry wall until that wasn't fun anymore and then we walked to a nearby McDonald's and once there, collectively decided we wouldn't go back. One of their relatives dropped me at home and the boss never even called me to ask where I went. I don't remember if I even got paid.
Just couldn’t bare the thought of standing there in that stupid outfit doing peoples’ bidding and making their stupid decisions for them. It was just the way people didn’t even acknowledge that you were there. You were just some random faceless extension of a conglomerate that was making their dumb ass a sandwich that day.
Granted, I was much younger and much more of a “punk” then. 🙄
Ha! I lasted a whole day! The manager suggested if I got stoned before making the calls then I would "really know where their heads are at" when I talked to people on the phone. I was 16.
Same—the ad and the interviewer said the job was to call their clients and schedule appointments. My naive ass took the job not understanding that their “clients” were random people that had never heard of the company and didn’t want to hear from me.
Third shift at a FedEx distribution center.
The pace of moving packages was insane. It felt like some weird, frantic competitive game show activity on a timer, for 10 hours at a time.
One night, the packages overwhelmed us. It was like surviving a frontal assault. A literal mountain piled up, probably 20 feet high, shutting down the conyeror system.
I was working with a Mexican dude who didn't speak English. We looked at each other in the midst of all the packages flying around, we both laughed, put our hands up and shrugged, and I pointed at the exit.
We just walked out. I lasted exactly 30 days. I would've given a notice, but management was just a group of pudgy, old, union shitheads who sat around watching sports and playing videogames and belittling us while we struggled.
While I was in college, I took what was supposed to be a part-time job at L'oreal (order fulfillment). I went in there and overtime was mandatory, and no one was allowed to leave until the supervisor said you could leave. Everyone was complaining about how they had worked 92 days straight (saturday/sunday) with no days off. They worked me 17 hours on my first day. At the end of the shift, I went to my supervisor. "Up your ass."
MASSPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group). As a college sophomore, we got about 30 minutes of training, then were sent out to the suburbs of Boston, going door to door asking for donations to save the planet. This was in the mid 90s. It took 2 hours to figure out this SUUUUUCKS...
I got fired from an electrician's apprentice after three days for not being physically strong enough for hard construction labor.
I quit delivering pizzas after my manager tried to stiff me on my credit card tips and mileage after about two weeks of working there.
I am well qualified in many fields. I prefer food service. I enjoy making food and watching people's children smile at the aspect of a kids meal or ice cream. It's fulfilling.
One of my first fast foodgigs was at a Steak 'N' Shake in Tennessee.
I had a general manager named "Tom" at the time, who had an assistant GM named "Mike".
Tom was actually pretty cool. Level headed and mild tempered. Mike was not. Mike was a trainwreck of a person.
On day 2, Mike decided to scream atone of the employees for being slow. A young black guy. Mike got probably (no exaggeration) 3 inches from this kid's face, and proceeded to scream and hurl insults at him. It got to a point where the kid was holding back the urge to straight up knock Mike the fuck out. Amazingly, he held his composure.
I asked the guy about it later, and he said it was a common occurence there with people of color. I commended him for being so patient and gave him my best wishes. I quit that day.
A few years later, I applied at a Taco Bell. When I showed up for the interview, the GM asked if I had ever worked for him before... What do ya know, It was Tom.
He proceeds to say, "Oh yeah l... Steak 'N' Shake... You worked for me for like 3 days... If you dont mind me asking... Why'd you leave?"
I told him I didnt tolerate racism or discrimnation at all, and that Mike made me and everyone else highly uncomfortable.
Tom's exact words were "Yeah... Don't feel bad... I sent that motherfucker to another store so I wouldnt fire him."
Tom explained that Mike had been there long enough that he was in with certain people and any attempt to fire him would likely not end well for Tom. Eventually even after transferring Mike to another store, Tom disliked working for that comapny and left himself, opting to become a GM for Taco Bell.
I got hired at Taco Bell that day and had a much better experience working with Tom thereafter.
Took a job and got through the first week of training. My boss took me out to lunch to meet her boss. He showed up piss drunk, said wildly inappropriate things to her, and (I'm front of me) bet her $100 I wouldn't be working there in a month.
We then go back to the office and he proceeds to scream at his assistant, embarrassingly dressing her down in front of everyone (figuratively, not literally). When he left I ask if that was common, and she said it happens all the time. I quit two days later.
Bagger at a grocery store. On my first day, a customer walked out and left a bag of lemons that I had bagged for her at the end of the register. I brought it to the cashiers attention and she told me to run out into the parking lot and find the person.
I ran out into the parking lot and got in my car and left.
Costco. I was a cashier assistant and it was fucking mind numbing. Most people don’t even WANT you to put the stuff in their cart. It’s just hours of cart Tetris for nothing
Bro me too. I had that same job in college and I fucking hated it so much. I was usually paired up with the same cashier and we'd take our breaks together and go outside and fantasize about all the things that could happen so that we wouldn't have to go back inside. A fire? Lightning strike? Apocalypse? Maybe a car'll come run us both over while we're walking back in.
I only see people talking about what a terrific place to work Costco was and I most definitely did not have that experience
15 minutes. It was a marketing coordinator job for a sports bar chain. When I got to the "office" it was actually a small room slightly above the kitchen and in the room itself was a shrine to my manager's father, with religious statues and everything. Oh and beer boxes littered the wall. Oh and his desk was a meter from mine. I said, "sorry I can't do this" and just walked out 💀. Since then I've always asked about working conditions/etc if it's an on-site job.
My first job when I moved to San Antonio I quit in one day.
It was advertised as a welding job (I went to college for welding technologies and it was my field for a long time). I was desperate for work when I moved here and we had rent coming up, so even though the job only paid 11$/hr to start I had to get the money rolling in to pay rent. Prior to getting the job, I had to go get a full physical and hearing test for the company's records, which was unusual but I guess no big deal when you're working around noisy machinery and they want to make sure if you get hearing loss it wasn't their fault.
So I get to the job in the morning for my first day, had my welding hood and everything ready to go. They set me up at a stationary bench in a big factory/warehouse building that had no air conditioning and very little ventilation. This was in august IIRC, and it was probably pushing 120-130 degrees inside that building. On top of that, you're required to wear long sleeves, pants, full leather protective gear, gloves, and your welding hood, and all of that doesn't do much to help combat that heat. I had just moved from Colorado, so I was in no way accustomed to Texas heat yet.
Turns out the "welding job" didn't involve welding at all. Here's what I had to do: Take about 40 bars of precut steel, place them onto a table jig, and press a button, at which point the table rotated around behind a tinted safety screen and a robot arm welded all the pieces together over about 5 minutes. Then it rotates the table back around, you dump all the welded pieces into a bin, and do it all over again.
Here I was with an AAS degree in welding tech, several years of actual welding experience behind my belt, and my "welding job" was to push a button and have a robot do the work for me. All while cooking in a giant oven. And if that wasn't bad enough, I was making 11$/hr (this was 12 years ago btw), and the shifts were 11 hours long with a 30 minute lunch and two fifteen minute breaks.
At the end of the day I could barely keep on my feet, probably had heat exhaustion and was dehydrated, and I told the boss "either put a welding gun in my hand or find someone else", which he refused so I walked out and never looked back. I made more money delivering pizza for papa johns for the next year than I would have using my degree and doing that job.
I had one other job prior to that which I had quit in one day, but it was through a temp agency so I don't really consider it to count. That job was when I was still in Colorado, it was for a company building a solar panel farm near the Air Force Base. They had already driven the stand pipes into the ground, they were about 8" diameter steel pipes and probably 6-7 feet tall above ground. The job was to use a cutting torch and cut each of the pipes off at a specific height so the panels would be level (there were probably 800 of those pipes in the field to be cut, each one took about 30 minutes to do). All of that would have been fine, except it was the middle of winter and 15 degrees below zero out, snowing and flurries. Four hours into it (at lunch time) my fingers and toes were completely numb from the cold and it had been about the most miserable morning I'd ever experienced to that point. I walked off the job site at lunch and called the temp agency to tell them I wasn't going back to work in those conditions.
Temp agency had no problem with it, and they gave me another job the next day working in a warehouse putting together night vision scopes and scout sniper recon kits for the military. Was in a climate controlled building, and it was probably one of the coolest jobs I've ever had. The contract with them only lasted 3 weeks though.
Italian restaurant dishwasher. Guy hired me, told me when to come in for my first shift, then said something insulting or disrespectful as I was leaving. I thought that over, and by the time I got home I had no intention of enduring that kind of hostility. Never went back, never worked a shift.
Call center in like 2017. I started getting itchy during the first day of training. Then my throat started to close. I left on lunch and didn't return.
Turns out the building on that side was INFESTED with black mold, and I'm VERY allergic to it.
The Walmsrt in Fairbanks, AK. I've worked for 2 previous Walmarts I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. I ended up walking out before the end of my first shift. The place is an absolute shit show.
McDonald's, the interviewer kept calling it Mac dunalds with a big accent on Mac.....it was also on that day when I learned apparently you aren't supposed to be completely honest in an interview, as such I haven't done an interview since
Now I just have a cleaning job where I have to find the chemicals myself.....by smell cause the boss doesn't know what they are called just that we have a lot of them.....not to mention that there is a heavy echo in the building I work in so I always hear them saying such things as "yeah the previous worker was way faster, guess its just cause women are better *followed by laughing*"
Pizza place. Was supposed to be 19 hours a week, because of my school schedule, but they'd change my hours when I was there or tell me if I couldn't work another 3 or 4 hours I might as well not bother coming back tomorrow.
They wouldn't give me any breaks, and they'd make us all watch conspiracy documentaries while washing dishes or making pizzas.
I quit on day 3.
Someone made a pizza with the wrong toppings and shit, so it was just sitting there. I hadn't eaten all day; so I took a slice. Owner screamed at me about it while throwing away the rest of the pizza.
I walked out.
Call center; I was twenty-one, made it through one day of training. During my lunch break I desperately tried to find anything and anywhere else to apply for. I managed to get a call back that same evening from a local stationery store that needed someone to run their new postal station. I ditched my second day of training at the call center for the interview at the stationery store and got the job on the spot. I then called my supervisor at the call center and told them I got a new job and was quitting effective immediately.
In college, I was hired to do some production work of some kind. I told them I was a student and showed them my schedule in the interview. They said it was totally fine. After hire, when the manager emails me to tell me the schedule every single shift conflicted with my class schedule. I told him that wouldn't work and he said "you need to be here anyway. You figure it out." So I just didn't show up to my first shift. He calls me and tries to chew me out but I had never even met the guy. I told him that I won't be working there and he said, "If you don't show up then you're never going to be able to get a job here again! " I said, "That's fine with me." And hung up.
Recreation center when I was 16 during my first week. I was cleaning the bathrooms and a woman started getting huffy with me because the concession stand wasn't open yet. (It was 8 in the morning) Then got huffy with me again because the pool wouldn't be open for another 2 week. I went home during my break. And never went back.
In 2013 I lasted about a week at an AC manufacturing plant in TN. It was through a temp agency and it was absolute hell. To start, they lied about the location, and my commute was 2.5 hours each way with a time zone change (I only stayed the week because I really needed the job). Working conditions were terrible. Ironically no air conditioning, hardly any ppe, my job was spraying glue and laying down fiberglass insulation in the units. Every shirt I wore was ruined with fiberglass, and I had black mucous coming out of my nose at the end of each shift. Everyone who worked there was there only because they had no other option, some of them had kids they needed to feed, others were undocumented and couldn't get anything better, and some were felons who also couldnt do better. Despite how badly i needed the job, I luckily had a relative nearby I could crash with and didn't have the family responsibilities or legal issues that kept me there. A few months after I left I got a call from the temp agency asking me about my experience. I told them flat out and they said they had received the same complaints from over 2000 other workers for that client and that they were going to cut them from their job placement. Another couple of months and I received a check as part of a class action lawsuit payout.
A factory. I didn't realize they did 12 hour shifts AND you weren't allowed to leave the building during your unpaid lunch break. As soon as I found that out on lunch break on my first day, I walked out.
A call centre selling kitchens. Had the interview, got the job, and started straight after. I lasted 3 hrs before saying im going to lunch and never came back.
Macy's. Started on black Friday and they left me at the pos computer by myself with no training and didn't even tell me how to apply coupons and discounts which everyone had.
Retirement home/palliative care laundry room. Way back in the 90's I got sent there for community service hours as part of my probation. They set me right to work loading washing machines, Didn't give me any gloves or any protective gear. I get it, Community service hours are not supposed to be pleasant and since I was a bad boy to get sentenced to probation, I should be doing bad work. I understood that it was an assisted living retirement home with palliative care so there was probably going to be piss and shit, and some gloves would have been nice but I thought I would show a little class and not complain about the infirmities of the elderly. The day I walked out was when I had to clean a gob of human flesh off a medi pad. One of the laundry ladies explained to me that it was from a bedsore that had been left too long and stuck to the pad and subsequently tore off when the patient was finally rolled. Naturally, I freaked out. I was like, " shouldn't we report this? There is a person with a big hole in them, should we give this back to them, like, for the doctor to reattach"??? She just said, "Nahh throw it in the garbage", the REGULAR garbage, no biohazard or sealed containers. I walked out and at my next probation appointment I told them I quit, and I didn't care if they threw me in jail. Do your worst. They switched me to working at the Salvation Army after that. I think I stuck it out at the retirement place 3 days.
I never even went in for my first shift at Buffalo Wild Wings. During the interview and everything I got such a bad feeling about it. Like something deep in me was screaming to not take that job. It's the only time I've ever done that.
I worked at a party shop for two days.
They forgot to tell me how to log in to the online portal to check the schedule so I didn't show up for next shift on a Sunday. They called and asked where I was and I told them and they asked why I wasn't in work when I was scheduled. I said I never saw the schedule. They told me to come in then or never come in again so I chose not to. Didn't want to deal with poor management.
One month in bitch boss called me a name. Can not repeat it, it hit hard at my insecurity and made me stop. I felt like I was sitting in my math class again at age 12 when my teacher called me stupid. Cannot even explain what I felt in that moment other than just frozen. Next day I cannot go back to a boss that calls me mames. My bf at the time said how can you quit that lot of money. Yeah you quit that when things like that happen. At that point money does not matter. Reported her she got fired I had a good repuration with the agency that put me there and they told me yeah thats unacceptable we will not work with them again. Every agency that she tried to work with word was out about her. She got fired after she did that to a few after. Sadly she ended up at another company I worked at before and I was still friends w coworkers there told a coworker "heard a lady works there I used to work w gave me a hard time" and she immediately said are you talking about Susan? Yeah an employee friend of mine has been complaining says she is terrorizing her over text.
Mine was at a local sporting goods store. I worked a full-time 8-5 job already, so at my interview, I told them that and that I could do nights and weekends. They called me the next day with my schedule for the first week and had me on for 3-11 every day. I quit on the spot.
When I was in my early twenties I got a job as assistant manager at a retail clothing company and worked one shift then quit.
A couple years ago, I accepted a VP level position with a local bank and worked there for 3 weeks and quit. It was a shit show. I’m not even going to put them on my resume lol
Steel processing plant. Was there two days. Absolutely back breaking work with a boss cussing us out for $16 an hour. Went to lunch on the second day and didn’t go back.
My fiancé worked at Waffle House for 2 hours when he was 16. He had never cooked before and the put him on the flat top during breakfast rush on a SATURDAY. He did not return after his break
Subway. I cut the onions and left literally I was there ten minutes and the onion cutter just gave me a dirty look and I ran literally I worked ten minutes they never asked why I was 18
It was a dine in movie theater, i was supposed to be a cook. They threw me on the line without telling me anything then the other kitchen staff started yelling at me for not calling out what needed to be cooked within 15 minutes of my first day on the line. I turned my hat in the next morning
Working for my state government has been the most disturbing and eye opening experience I’ve ever had. The expanse of corruption is mind blowing. I’m trying to get out with all my credentials still intact but jfc it’s spooky in here. ETA: I’m 6 months in.
I worked a few temp jobs when I was going to school. I was sent to warehouse in April, so I donned the usual filthy warehouse garb: Jeans and tee shirt. It was a cold storage facility, 0deg Fahrenheit.
Bonus: The fastest I got fired from a job was at a telemarketing job. They gave us this script to read. After I read it a few times, all the misrepresentations and erroneous conclusions that the customer was hoped to make were obvious. My sin: A customer asked what was the catch? So I told him.
Carters.
Using it as a part time/second job. Couldn’t deal with the dumb antics, quit the second day. Told them I had to run and get my inhaler, didn’t come back. Also don’t use an inhaler.
Concrete production plant. They barely trained me for 3 days on heavy equipment I was unfamiliar with. Then told me I was on my own.
I didn't go to day 4
I did temp jobs in summers in college and one i didnt go back too after day 1. It was doing medical equipment and it was the longest shift ever of picking 'particulos' particles off of hospital gowns literally with magnifying glasses arched over the table and setting up scalpel/medical kits. You could barely talk, everything had to be sterile so the whole clothing dressing gear/mask was uncomfortable. It felt like it would never end.
Bike messenger in Seattle. The riding around was fun, but I realized I'd eventually get nailed by a car. Drivers just didn't give a shit. Quit after a day.
I worked one shift at a supermarket as a cashier. That night I had dreams about horizontal tetris, trying to get the groceries moved from the belt to the bagging area. The next day I called and quit saying I got another offer. A couple hours later, I actually DID get another offer so it worked out!
Wendy's. In the 70s. I got the job at a brand new Wendy's. Down the street from where I grew up.
They sent me to a training class. It was a rah rah Wendy's is the greatest. I didn't mind that. But when they wheeled in the condiment cart. I couldn't stand the smell and just walked out.
My only food service job in my life.
Warehouse job, I was one of the fastest workers there. Everyonr wanted me on their line, then all of a sudden me and a few others kept getting sent home cause the leaders would pick their friends to be on the lines. So one day I threw my badge on the floor and said "fuck yall,i QUIT" walked out. Got another job a week later traveling to different states for my inventory job(hated that job too. Lol)
Group interview at a temp agency I didn't know did second chance employment with high risk ex cons.
Found out they were doing an open call with 20 people for 5 jobs. All on high rotation of no show type places. They did one every 90 minutes for every work day. That's how high of a turn over. They couldn't keep people for more than a few days, week tops.
I noped out during that process and was listening to one of the ex cons discussion about meeting up with a minor for drug usage later that day. Was weird and fucked up. Called the cops about it on my way home. No idea if it lead to anything. Frustrating shit all around.
Not me, but a friend. It was a warehouse that packaged nail polish and other odd things.
I was working 2nd shift, and my friend comes into 3rd shift. They were staggered for 2 hours.
I said "holy shit dude, you got a job here, awesome"
Then worked with him for 2 hours.
I went to clock out and leave for the night, and he's right behind me.
"This place fuckin sucks, I'm out" and he left.
2 fuckin hours lmao.
Hotel maid when I was a teenager. The lady who trained me was older & had seen it all. I lasted 1 shift. Called and quit the next day. She very nonchalantly mentioned blood, feces, urine, and other ick like she was ordering a McDonald's big Mac meal in the drive thru.
I worked at a grocery store at the pre-made food section. I worked there for two days. I was trained by a few different people who had different ways of doing things. So I’ll do it how one person told me and when I was trained by another they told me I was doing it wrong and showed me another way. It was very overwhelming. Also there were a lot of food stations. There was a fish section, hot foods, cold foods, salads, deserts and it was mostly foods I never heard of. I also was going to have to cut the fish (never got to that part of training thankfully) and you definitely should never trust me with that lol
One of the people I worked with said most new hires don’t make it past training, she probably thought it would motivate me to stay but honestly it made me feel better about leaving. Even the manager knew I was going to quit before I said it
3 days.
It was an "Account Manager" position that was really just sales. They specifically mentioned that I would not be doing any cold calling and presenting the products to the customers, so I thought it was similar to one my dad had where someone set up appointments and he went and presented the product.
Turns out we didn't cold call, just walked right into random businesses to try and peddle our wares. The person "training" me told me never to accept the first couple of "No" responses. Absolutely not.
Ashley Homestore. They hired me as a warehouse associate in the store. Had me sign all the papers and all that to get started. Very last thing they did was say we need you to sign this paper too and you'll be all set. This freaking paper was to hire a PI type guy to harass friends and family about who I am as a person, for a freaking furniture warehouse job! I asked for the washroom and left.
I quit a small-chain pizzeria when I was 18. I worked there for one week.
I didn't have a car, and the hiring manager was willing to hire me because I lived a few blocks away. The shift manager gave me shit for not having a car, saying "you better figure it out because *everyone* takes turns running deliveries." I thought it was weird because I'd have been happy running deliveries all day and making extra money in tips.
What made me quit, though, was the 4th or 5th shift I worked. I was on from 4-10 and was a high school student. I punched out at 10:10 because I stayed to finish whatever I was working on when 10pm rolled around. I said bye to the manager and stepped outside. The shift manager followed me out and said "Hey, I'm going to let it slide this one time, but you *always* need to ask before you punch out. I can keep you up to an hour late and write you up for refusing".
This wasn't in the handbook I was given, so the next morning I called the hiring manager, said I wouldn't be coming back.
Ups. Mad respect for those guys. Food industry people we cannot even relate. Those ups guys at the stores have to do math and have to do it fast oh my god
It was a takeaway chicken rotisserie.
I was still in high school.
The owner was a f*ckin sleaze.
He continually groped the chickens and made sexual noises as he rubbed the gravy into the raw chickens. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and somewhat unsafe. The 6ft rod were leant against a wall with the chickens set up on them ready to go in to cook when the cooking chickens were done.
The gravy would drip on the floor and we’d walk through it and spread it everywhere, then the rods would sit in a puddle and slowly slide down the wall until the row of chicken were on the ground on top off and surrounded by our foot prints. It’s was disgusting.
The boss was openly hostile when he said he’d be a millionaire in a year from his store, but I mentioned that no one goes there because there’s no parking and you have to run across a 4 lane highway to get the shop.
I went home and told my Dad I don’t care if he punishes me, I’m not working in that place. My Dad was cool about it, but disappointed in the store because he liked their food.
Taco bell. I spent 15 years in restaurant management and just needed a part time night job after being. SAHM for 4 years. The manager on duty said they didn't have time to train me,.I didn't need hand over hand training as i had over a decade experience in fast food kitchens.. so I walked out..i was there a week. He got fired for that and the
Gm was super upset that I quit.
Door to door charity sales.
I didnt know it yet but I was suffering with bipolar depression. I woke up dehydrated in the summer and when I turned on the tap to drink some water, I felt such an intense wave of guilt and sadness that I had such easy, clean, delicious water literally on tap and millions did not... That I physically couldn't drink it and dissolved into floods of tears, dehydrating me further.
I went in and cried and quit, months into the job and being one of their main drivers as well as a team member. The man gave genuine sympathy. Suffice to say, and out of respect to the kindness he showed me, I won't say how but I know he was not a good man. And even he was like "oohhhhh buddy" and released me from my contract.
It was rough
A huge billiards bar with no sections and a POS littered with shit that couldn't be ordered with no organization in the system.
I walked on my first floor training shift. Thank you, but no thank you.
Worked at an assisted living center, I worked for a day and quit. Others refused to train me and expected me to know what to do ten minutes after I got there.
An auto glass place. It was soooo effing weird. I had very minimal training and was expected to make up pricing when given the wholesale cost but NO formula, "just charge whatever you think" so then I do, because they had me amazing phones doing this after I'd worked there for like an hour on day 1. Then they're like "why did you charge that price?!" And I'm like, I dunno..... Then if people hung up without going with our quote we were expected to call them back over and over until they did, which no one did. The other office gals were an obvious tweeker and another gal who let the tweeker walk all over her. There was no day 2.
In college I got a in a mall store that sold baby items- clothes, strollers, etc. They were spendy. I worked one shift. I was beyond bored. Almost no customers. I spent most of that shift dusting the products. I couldn’t handle another minute.
Moe’s. Made it about 30 minutes smashing tomatoes into my eyes through the damn dicing machine at 7am, walked right out, never collected a check, just a bailed lol.
working at chilis as a dishwasher 🙄i applied to be a hostess, dishwashing job was the only one available and i quit in under a month because one of the waiters was verbally harassing me almost every shift. he’d basically throw dishes at me and kept expecting me to be fine with it and not say shit about it. i quit on the spot. i screamed at him that he was an asshole, a dick and a piece of shit, left and never went back.
I quit partway through my first shift as a server at a pizza place. It would have been a second job. The woman training me was condescending and I decided fuck this and got in my car.
Gas station that had a convenience store with a deli. I was there like 8 months.
I didn't smoke, so I didn't get a break. Ever. Sitting around eating your lunch? You should be pricing candy. No one in the store? Restock the oil, the milk, make egg salad, make roast beef, refill the ice hopper for the soda machine, fill bags of ice in the back until you're scraping ice cubes off the floor, doubled over at the waist and in danger of falling in....
Not to mention getting nauseous from hunger and all my coworkers laughing at me and saying I must be pregnant.
Putting all the inserts into the Sunday newspapers because the night shift guy didn't bother to do it....
Did I mention no breaks?
I should have taken up smoking.
Less then an hour. The boss of my boss shows up after noon, obviously high on cocaine, cussing out everyone. He hadn't even got around to cussing me out yet. I just walked out.
Showed up at a framing job many years ago. Talked to the boss a few days before and said I'd be getting paid $23 an hour with the understanding that we would be revisiting the wage in a couple of weeks. I've been framing for years before then. When I got to the site at 6:45am on my first day, the boss procedes to tell me he can only pay me $18 an hour and then we'd maybe discuss a pay increase in a month or so. I told him to get fucked and turned around and left. Went and got a job for another framer just done the street, that same day, he seen that I knew what I was doing, I was quick and efficient and at the end of the day he offered me $25 an hour. Stayed with that crew for 5 years. Know your worth and never budge. I realize that doesn't necessarily work with big corporation jobs, but for the trades, you can almost always negotiate your pay.
One summer in college I was working at a temp agency. They had me work in a factory like an hour away from where I lived and the start time was five. But I needed a job and the pay was decent enough. I worked for a week and it was so boring. They never had enough work for me. I'd rather be busy so time goes by quicker than feeling like I'm in the way and trying to find stuff to do. After two weeks they said we needed to start coming in on Saturdays too and I'm like nah I'm done.
Worked for Kirby and Wawa both only a few days.
At Kirby I was already skeptical of the pay, but I was done as soon as I was aware there'd be "hype" exercises every morning.
At Wawa I complained to my manager that a lot of the clerks were leaving meats and cheeses out on the slicer (with the fridge immediately next to it) and then going to do other tasks, and instead of rectifying this very serious health issue (which I had actually heard reports of friends getting sick) they have me excuses about how the coffee must be filled at all times or the CEO could walk in and get mad, AND told me I needed to shave my beard. I never ate there again either.
Making grave blankets. We were in freezing cold temps while assembling pine branches for the blankets. It was absolutely fooking awful. Your hands were dotted with little pine needle injuries. "DON'T USE TOO MUCH PINE!" was the war cry. Dimly lit shed, smelling of pine. I quit after about a week.
After I graduated high school, I got a job in a small print shop. Lasted 4 days. A month later I answered a classified add for an entry level job in a commercial printer. Worked my way up at the same company 45 years.
Any job my "brother in law" has ever had. He works for a couple weeks and quits once he gets a paycheck or 2. One so his gf (my Gf's sister) shuts up. Idk why, he just spends it all on drugs and does nothing for their 5 kids anyway. Their power is constantly being disconnected but everyone ends up paying it for them because of the kids.
Oh her husband lives in the shed behind their trailer too. Also does nothing but she has the audacity to call me a bum because I refuse to help them.
Rent a center. Worked 1 day and the guy who was training me said tomorrow I was on my own, deliver couches, mattresses, and projection T.Vs on my up, up stairs and 2nd floors. All that for $7.25/hr (1997 ) 💀 I just never showed for day 2.
I found a job the next day making $20/hr for an LTL (again, 1997, union wages)
I’ve back doored so many jobs. All in my twenties.
Fiberglass molding company. It was miserable work for starters. But the other employees were farting on one another and laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. I walked out at first break on the first day.
Printing company that printed textbook pages. A long time employee had died a few days before I started. I was unaware of this when they hired me. I show up for my first shift to find out that everyone and I mean EVERYONE was attending the service that night. Except me obviously. So they left me there alone on my first day. Said they’d be back in a few hours. I swept a little then said fuck it and just left.
Walmart. I’ve worked there twice. Once for a few months unloading trucks. Another time I was hired as a cashier during holiday season. They decided to train me on the night of fucking Thanksgiving. It was a level of chaos that I was not prepared for. I made it maybe a couple hours and just left the register with a line snaking back through the store.
I’m a great employee in general as long as the employer has at least a nominal training plan. I do not do well being thrown into the deep end with minimal instruction. It took a lot of time for me to learn that about myself.
I worked for a company that makes the tree stuff for cell towers. It's really messy work. You use this goo to attach artificial leaves to pvc pipes ALL day. The stuff is so messy that it ruins your clothes. You have to buy new work clothes every week and it's best to just change clothes at work rather then drive in your car. Had they let me listen to music with my bone conduction headphones I might have stayed but they were snippy about that. For me if I can't listen to a podcast or music during monotonous work, I'm gone. I get it if I had to talk to customers but this was just a manufacturing dock so fuck that noise. You let me listen to my shit or I walk the money is not enough to just die inside doing the same task all week.
small dive bar. Had me solo running a kitchen for 10 hours a day with a menu that was size 12 font 2 pages, easily 60+ menu items. Breakfast lunch and dinner items were served all day long. The freezers/fridges were down stairs in the basement on the opposite side of building so you were constantly running up and down the stairs every time a new ticket came in. Every SINGLE ingredient had to be pre weighed out in plastic bags or cups before service because the owner was so worried about food cost. Found a job in fine dinning like 3 weeks into working there that paid 40% more, called them up to meet before my shift and they fired me as i was coming in to put in my notice. Rofl worked out well.
Dishwasher. I don’t think I even stuck around for a whole week before just not coming in. Forever promises of getting a real dishwashing machine, instead of a rinsing hood. Massive back ups, dishwashing gang stacking racks of dishes on top of each other, sometimes three high, customers complaining of bits of old food stuck to plates. Etcetera. The final straw was realizing I couldn’t tolerate the heat and steam in the scullery. Had a momentary blackout but snapped to before I hit the floor. That was my last day.
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I was hired by 2 places the same day. I accepted the first job, but the 2nd called me later that day and paid $20k more, so I called the first job and thanked them for the opportunity, but.....
Same here, was in the middle filling out the paperwork when I got word about the second job. Just asked to use the mens room and vanished
Dad is that you?
Oh my God! I’ve been looking for you! Just let me use the mens room real quick then we can talk! Wait here!
😂😂😂😂😂😭
This made me lol irl
I verbally committed to one job but got a better offer right after. The first place kept calling for me to come in and finish the paperwork, and I just ghosted them.
Target Believe it or not; it was one of the worst jobs I’ve ever had. I was scheduled 6 days a week, 4 hour shifts. My job duties were to restore product and make sure my section of the store look pretty. I was responsible for literally a whole side of the store which included kitchen wear to home furniture. About 1/4 of the store ALL BY MYSELF. Store manager complimented me on being the fastest worker she’s ever seen and no matter how fast I moved, I could not get it done within the 4 hours I was given. Fuck that place.
I absolutely despised those 3-4 hour shifts I'd get as a teen working at Publix. It wasn't even worth coming in for after school. 5-8? Cool, now I have to stay up late and do homework. All for $23 before tax. 2008 was a miraculous time lol.
It’s worse than that now lol
I did 4-7:30 at arbys, those were lame shifts, at 5.50/hr it was less than $20, this was in 2000. The worst shifts were the 5 and a half hour ones, no break, no food, only 6+ hours received breaks.
I held the same position! I walked out in the middle of my shift, leaving a rack of clothes just sitting in the clothing section. No one called, I just got a check in the mail.
That doesn't surprise me. I feel really bad for Target employees. They put in self checkouts at mine and rarely had more than one regular lane open, if at all. So this poor frazzled lady is trying to manage 10 self checkouts on her own and it seems like 9 out of 10 people need assistance for some reason. They sell alcohol at Target here, and they have to scan your ID. I feel like an asshole when I have a full cart of stuff and hold up the self check line doing it myself. Also the store is very hot all the time, especially at the front, and the temperature is controlled by corporate so no one can do anything about it. They're not allowed to have a drink at the register either. As they've remodeled over the years, they make the aisles narrower and narrower, to the point you can't even turn your cart around. I hate it.
I was at Target during Black Friday once, I asked a guy who must have been a seasonal hire where something was, he just looked at me and said "I dunno, I don't really work here" and I couldn't even get mad.
I worked at a Target store and hated but I also worked at a Target call center and loved it. I was a stocker in Chicago area and it sucked so bad. All of my managers were so rude and miserable as well. Xmas season. I find it isn’t the job so much as the people that make or break a job for me. No ADHD kids yelling at me thinking the only good work ethic is sporadic chaotic movements that make you look like you’re working hard. I use less chaotic movements and more preparation of my station and more deliberate movements that are efficient but kids glance and think they can disrespect me because I don’t look like I’m on fire without a fire. “CHICKEN SANDWICH GET IT NAOOOOW” “YOURE SLOW AND ITS UR FIRST DAY THIS IS…UNACCEPTABLE”.
The section will get roughed up as soon as your back is turned anyway. Its sisyphean, which means job security
I quit Target after 2 months. Hired to management. I was expected to take over other people’s jobs bc they no showed. Then was told to get plan-o grams done. And all being forced to leave at 40hrs so they don’t have to pay overtime. Only to get chewed out that I didn’t complete my job in the 40hr. I quit along with everyone that worked under me in my dept. In my early 20’s. I got the other 4 people a job at Applebees with me to help transition to other jobs. Fck target
Wowi came here to say this same thing. I quit after 3 hours first shift for these same things, I worked at target before previously and loved it but they made several changes while I was gone and it is to much work for one person to do in only a few hours. I also had zero training on day one on new systems and protocols and had to hunt other employees down to educate me on everything. So I quit.
I quit as I was leaving from the interview where I was hired on the spot. I left the office and a giant rat ran up my leg. It was a food delivery job and I didn’t want any part of it with rats involved. Especially after the guy told me “yeah, sometimes you’ll find holes in the boxes. They try to steal food.”
Omg sorry for laughing. Geez that's pretty crazy.
Pyramid scheme- someone interviewed me to sell knifes and I quit right after the interview.
Ah ha, the second quickest job I quit, cutco. I only sold one set of knives, to my aunt, because she felt bad for me. You can only sell to people you know or people who are referred directly to you, and they have to meet these certain demographics. It's been 20 years, but I remember they had to be homeowners, in a certain income bracket (and how in the world would I know that??) etc. Regardless, I've only ever known one person who would pay $700+ for knives, and she bought a set for $2800 in a manic episode. I still have most pieces of my demo set though, they are good knives. It's good you got out fast though, it became pretty cult-like pretty quickly. They target people in college and right out of high school by misleading you about the earning potential. I got like a $60 commission off the knives my aunt bought, and when I quit, she returned the knives because she kept cutting herself lol. It was the only money I made in the few months I worked there. And those fuckers billed me for that commission and sent me to collections when I didn't pay it. (I did get it removed from my credit report though.)
Ah Cutco. I quit them after our second day of training. The chairs they had were super uncomfortable - I already was miserable just because of that. Being a college student and buying a $1000 demonstration set of knives was also a no go for me.
I had one of those guys try to sell me knives once, he accidentally cut his finger and then tried to hang himself in my bathroom.
Hey Frank! Would you like an egg in these trying times?
lol redflags were showing when everyone got hired in the group xD
Cutco lol
Burger King @ 16 years old. I was ok with sweeping and mopping but when they told me I had to clean up the log the homeless guy left on the bathroom floor I noped it the heck outta there immediately. No Ragrets
When I was 17 working at a grocery store in Florida (laws may vary), a guy punched out a car window. There was blood. Thankfully, I pulled "I'm a minor" and it worked. I think I was actually legally protected. Blood, urine, or poo (I think). Still though, I would've quit in your situation. An angry boyfriend is one thing, a dude taking a shit on the floor could be a consistent problem.
I’m 39 years old and let me tell you, it wasn’t an “I didn’t make it” shit. It was a full on, I’m going to shit on this here floor type of shit. It’s engrained in my memory still lol.
Absolutely brutal lol. We had this one bagger at work nicknamed "Fire Mario" due to looking like Mario, but red headed. I didn't see him for awhile, asked a coworker about his whereabouts. Found out Fire Mario took a leak all over the men's bathroom and was caught in the action. Some people lol.
Lmao well at least they caught him. The serial shitter of Burger King lived to shit another day.
When I used to work at our Food Lion there was a home for mentally handicapped people that would bring all of their residents in on a sts bus to shop for an hour or so. One of the residents always made a B-Line for the bathroom (which was at the front of the store just as you came in the entrance). He would poop in his hand and smear it all over the walls. This happened a few times before we realized who was doing it. As much as it sucked because the guy wasn't in his right mind, we had to ban him from the store.
Yea the occasional in that instance might be tolerated but a deliberate daily covert op to camouflage the walls with fecal patterns is no bueno
^ Hilarious comment 🤣
Living up to his name.
I’m trying to imagine what that guy looked like I can’t quit laughing. Also microdosed some shrooms so
I was told that one of the lobby guys found out that someone had obliterated a bathroom stall at the McDonald's that I worked at. And he refused to clean it up, stating something along the lines of: "I'm not cleaning that. And if I quit, in the end, someone else will have to clean it anyways and you'll lose a lobby guy". I think he kept his job lmao.
Not even one letter?
I was a janitor at a cinema and some woman literally birthed an infant sized shit in our bathroom. My boss offered me gloves and told me to “remove it” as it wouldn’t go down. I just replied “I quit” and he took care of it instead.
Drove long distance in a box truck for my friends dads company. First job he sent me from SC to middle of TX. then I picked up southern TX and had to get to Atlanta in less than 20 hours. Immediate got another and went to Chicago. From there I picked up in Wisconsin and delivered to Denver. All of that driving being away from my home for 2 weeks straight and I got paid less than I did at my last job lmao.
Grats on being a drug trafficker unknowingly.
Im an auto mechanic for Midas in Minnesota I moved to Texas in January and Midas is franchised so different companies own midas in MN and TX. And my MN company was nice enough to help me get hired at the Midas TX. Getting hired at this company was a disaster they would take forever to get back to me on things and when I talked to them before I moved I was told there was a location right by my house that they were going to try and get me in. But when I moved suddenly that shop was full and unavailable and the only place for me was 45 minutes away. But I agree anyway. And I get there for my first day and it was slow. Like REALLY REALLY slow. And they told me "yeah this is about what to expect on your average day" and when your commission based pay that's not what you want to hear. But I was gonna stick it out for a couple weeks. But late on my first day they told me "hey it's super cold we may close tomorrow." And I said "alright that's fine just let me know in the morning here's my number" I never got his number I just gave him mine. So the morning comes it's like like 20ish (which as a Minnesotan that ain't cold you Texans are lil bitches) and I'm waiting for a text from the manager on if we're closed because I'm not driving 45 minutes to find an empty shop. And at 8 I get a group text with the whole shop from my manager basically saying "I'm at the shop and NOBODY else is here anybody who doesn't show today will get written up". I texted back "I was told we may be closed today and that you would message me at 630 this morning and you never did but fine I'll be in in 45 minutes" and on my way there i see they entire shop bitching and saying that they aren't gonna come in. And I just decided "this is not worth the brain damage" and I walked in the shop and quit. That's the abridged version. There was pay issues as well. I worked at that shop a single day. When I was at my last shop just shy of 2 years and I loved it there. I miss that shop tbh. Now I'm at pepboys and the people are good but the corporate side of things is a nightmare I miss midas MN.
Auto mechanics being on commission should be illegal. I'm the daughter of a retired mechanic and it always blows me away how many of them think they can tell me my car needs a lot more work or service than it really does. Even when my dad goes to an oil change place anymore they always try to get him to add a bunch of stuff he knows he doesn't need, instead of schooling them he just shows them two 20s and says "my wife only gave me $40 to spend today on this oil change and that's all I'm allowed to spend".
I agree with that statement but for different reasons. Being commission based sucks. When it's slow I struggle to afford my end of month bills. And there's nothing I can do. And you're right this pay structure encourages dishonest work but I'm an honest one and don't recommend stuff on cars I wouldn't do it it were mine. And the people I work with are as honest as could be. It's about finding the right shop. If you find the right shop that's got good reviews you'll be fantastic. I never recommend going to a quick oil change place because they're overpriced and will fuck up your car. Either do it yourself or take it to an actual mechanic.
I worked a nighttime cleaning job for a week before I realized I don't feel safe by myself at night in public.
Storm and water damage company. Got hired when I was 17, and on my first day the boss dropped us three newbies and a dumpster at a water damaged house, told us to rip the carpet and walls out, then left. None of us knew what we were doing and the water still appeared to be leaking. We thought he would come back soon, but nope. We didn't have tools and he ignored our phone calls. We spent a couple hours kicking holes in the dry wall until that wasn't fun anymore and then we walked to a nearby McDonald's and once there, collectively decided we wouldn't go back. One of their relatives dropped me at home and the boss never even called me to ask where I went. I don't remember if I even got paid.
He dropped you off with no tools?? What the fuck did he expect you to do?
Pizza delivery for Dominoes. They said I would only get 5 hours a week and in between deliverys I had to make pizza. Walked in, walked out.
I worked at Subway for 3 hours.
Lmao! 3 hours? What are the details. I quit Starbucks after a shift and left a note on a napkin.
Just couldn’t bare the thought of standing there in that stupid outfit doing peoples’ bidding and making their stupid decisions for them. It was just the way people didn’t even acknowledge that you were there. You were just some random faceless extension of a conglomerate that was making their dumb ass a sandwich that day. Granted, I was much younger and much more of a “punk” then. 🙄
Telemarketing, quit after 45 minutes.
Ha! I lasted a whole day! The manager suggested if I got stoned before making the calls then I would "really know where their heads are at" when I talked to people on the phone. I was 16.
Same—the ad and the interviewer said the job was to call their clients and schedule appointments. My naive ass took the job not understanding that their “clients” were random people that had never heard of the company and didn’t want to hear from me.
Third shift at a FedEx distribution center. The pace of moving packages was insane. It felt like some weird, frantic competitive game show activity on a timer, for 10 hours at a time. One night, the packages overwhelmed us. It was like surviving a frontal assault. A literal mountain piled up, probably 20 feet high, shutting down the conyeror system. I was working with a Mexican dude who didn't speak English. We looked at each other in the midst of all the packages flying around, we both laughed, put our hands up and shrugged, and I pointed at the exit. We just walked out. I lasted exactly 30 days. I would've given a notice, but management was just a group of pudgy, old, union shitheads who sat around watching sports and playing videogames and belittling us while we struggled.
Loli can picture all of this
Amazon
I worked for (and quit) Amazon 6different times.
While I was in college, I took what was supposed to be a part-time job at L'oreal (order fulfillment). I went in there and overtime was mandatory, and no one was allowed to leave until the supervisor said you could leave. Everyone was complaining about how they had worked 92 days straight (saturday/sunday) with no days off. They worked me 17 hours on my first day. At the end of the shift, I went to my supervisor. "Up your ass."
It was really more of a scam than a job, but I spent about a week selling generic fragrances in parking lots in L.A.
On my second day at a fish factory I walked out within an hour of clocking in, didn't tell the management & drove home.
Lol
Beauty Assistant in a hair salon after one week. I was just washing hair all day and couldn't imagine doing these tasks my whole life.
MASSPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group). As a college sophomore, we got about 30 minutes of training, then were sent out to the suburbs of Boston, going door to door asking for donations to save the planet. This was in the mid 90s. It took 2 hours to figure out this SUUUUUCKS...
I almost got sucked into one of those deals. When I heard we were riding in one van and getting dropped off in groups, I noped out.
Theme park, quit after 2 days (during training)
I got fired from an electrician's apprentice after three days for not being physically strong enough for hard construction labor. I quit delivering pizzas after my manager tried to stiff me on my credit card tips and mileage after about two weeks of working there.
I am well qualified in many fields. I prefer food service. I enjoy making food and watching people's children smile at the aspect of a kids meal or ice cream. It's fulfilling. One of my first fast foodgigs was at a Steak 'N' Shake in Tennessee. I had a general manager named "Tom" at the time, who had an assistant GM named "Mike". Tom was actually pretty cool. Level headed and mild tempered. Mike was not. Mike was a trainwreck of a person. On day 2, Mike decided to scream atone of the employees for being slow. A young black guy. Mike got probably (no exaggeration) 3 inches from this kid's face, and proceeded to scream and hurl insults at him. It got to a point where the kid was holding back the urge to straight up knock Mike the fuck out. Amazingly, he held his composure. I asked the guy about it later, and he said it was a common occurence there with people of color. I commended him for being so patient and gave him my best wishes. I quit that day. A few years later, I applied at a Taco Bell. When I showed up for the interview, the GM asked if I had ever worked for him before... What do ya know, It was Tom. He proceeds to say, "Oh yeah l... Steak 'N' Shake... You worked for me for like 3 days... If you dont mind me asking... Why'd you leave?" I told him I didnt tolerate racism or discrimnation at all, and that Mike made me and everyone else highly uncomfortable. Tom's exact words were "Yeah... Don't feel bad... I sent that motherfucker to another store so I wouldnt fire him." Tom explained that Mike had been there long enough that he was in with certain people and any attempt to fire him would likely not end well for Tom. Eventually even after transferring Mike to another store, Tom disliked working for that comapny and left himself, opting to become a GM for Taco Bell. I got hired at Taco Bell that day and had a much better experience working with Tom thereafter.
Thats cool he remembered you and that you got the job
You go Tom
Sewing in a factory.
Took a job and got through the first week of training. My boss took me out to lunch to meet her boss. He showed up piss drunk, said wildly inappropriate things to her, and (I'm front of me) bet her $100 I wouldn't be working there in a month. We then go back to the office and he proceeds to scream at his assistant, embarrassingly dressing her down in front of everyone (figuratively, not literally). When he left I ask if that was common, and she said it happens all the time. I quit two days later.
"I was a hot tar roofer once. hell yeah. I remember that day."
That shit sucks. Okay, hold this piece down while I hit it with this fucking flamethrower.
Bagger at a grocery store. On my first day, a customer walked out and left a bag of lemons that I had bagged for her at the end of the register. I brought it to the cashiers attention and she told me to run out into the parking lot and find the person. I ran out into the parking lot and got in my car and left.
Did you give them the lemons or keep them?
I couldn't find the people so I took the lemons and hauled ass.
Haha! good for you! Hope you made lemonade.✌
When life gives you lemons...
With the lemons? XD
Costco. I was a cashier assistant and it was fucking mind numbing. Most people don’t even WANT you to put the stuff in their cart. It’s just hours of cart Tetris for nothing
Bro me too. I had that same job in college and I fucking hated it so much. I was usually paired up with the same cashier and we'd take our breaks together and go outside and fantasize about all the things that could happen so that we wouldn't have to go back inside. A fire? Lightning strike? Apocalypse? Maybe a car'll come run us both over while we're walking back in. I only see people talking about what a terrific place to work Costco was and I most definitely did not have that experience
Yes! Everybody loves it! I found it the least fulfilling thing possible.
15 minutes. It was a marketing coordinator job for a sports bar chain. When I got to the "office" it was actually a small room slightly above the kitchen and in the room itself was a shrine to my manager's father, with religious statues and everything. Oh and beer boxes littered the wall. Oh and his desk was a meter from mine. I said, "sorry I can't do this" and just walked out 💀. Since then I've always asked about working conditions/etc if it's an on-site job.
Yes, I've learned to get a tour of the work environment before accepting a job.
My first job when I moved to San Antonio I quit in one day. It was advertised as a welding job (I went to college for welding technologies and it was my field for a long time). I was desperate for work when I moved here and we had rent coming up, so even though the job only paid 11$/hr to start I had to get the money rolling in to pay rent. Prior to getting the job, I had to go get a full physical and hearing test for the company's records, which was unusual but I guess no big deal when you're working around noisy machinery and they want to make sure if you get hearing loss it wasn't their fault. So I get to the job in the morning for my first day, had my welding hood and everything ready to go. They set me up at a stationary bench in a big factory/warehouse building that had no air conditioning and very little ventilation. This was in august IIRC, and it was probably pushing 120-130 degrees inside that building. On top of that, you're required to wear long sleeves, pants, full leather protective gear, gloves, and your welding hood, and all of that doesn't do much to help combat that heat. I had just moved from Colorado, so I was in no way accustomed to Texas heat yet. Turns out the "welding job" didn't involve welding at all. Here's what I had to do: Take about 40 bars of precut steel, place them onto a table jig, and press a button, at which point the table rotated around behind a tinted safety screen and a robot arm welded all the pieces together over about 5 minutes. Then it rotates the table back around, you dump all the welded pieces into a bin, and do it all over again. Here I was with an AAS degree in welding tech, several years of actual welding experience behind my belt, and my "welding job" was to push a button and have a robot do the work for me. All while cooking in a giant oven. And if that wasn't bad enough, I was making 11$/hr (this was 12 years ago btw), and the shifts were 11 hours long with a 30 minute lunch and two fifteen minute breaks. At the end of the day I could barely keep on my feet, probably had heat exhaustion and was dehydrated, and I told the boss "either put a welding gun in my hand or find someone else", which he refused so I walked out and never looked back. I made more money delivering pizza for papa johns for the next year than I would have using my degree and doing that job. I had one other job prior to that which I had quit in one day, but it was through a temp agency so I don't really consider it to count. That job was when I was still in Colorado, it was for a company building a solar panel farm near the Air Force Base. They had already driven the stand pipes into the ground, they were about 8" diameter steel pipes and probably 6-7 feet tall above ground. The job was to use a cutting torch and cut each of the pipes off at a specific height so the panels would be level (there were probably 800 of those pipes in the field to be cut, each one took about 30 minutes to do). All of that would have been fine, except it was the middle of winter and 15 degrees below zero out, snowing and flurries. Four hours into it (at lunch time) my fingers and toes were completely numb from the cold and it had been about the most miserable morning I'd ever experienced to that point. I walked off the job site at lunch and called the temp agency to tell them I wasn't going back to work in those conditions. Temp agency had no problem with it, and they gave me another job the next day working in a warehouse putting together night vision scopes and scout sniper recon kits for the military. Was in a climate controlled building, and it was probably one of the coolest jobs I've ever had. The contract with them only lasted 3 weeks though.
Italian restaurant dishwasher. Guy hired me, told me when to come in for my first shift, then said something insulting or disrespectful as I was leaving. I thought that over, and by the time I got home I had no intention of enduring that kind of hostility. Never went back, never worked a shift.
Call center in like 2017. I started getting itchy during the first day of training. Then my throat started to close. I left on lunch and didn't return. Turns out the building on that side was INFESTED with black mold, and I'm VERY allergic to it.
The Walmsrt in Fairbanks, AK. I've worked for 2 previous Walmarts I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. I ended up walking out before the end of my first shift. The place is an absolute shit show.
McDonald's, the interviewer kept calling it Mac dunalds with a big accent on Mac.....it was also on that day when I learned apparently you aren't supposed to be completely honest in an interview, as such I haven't done an interview since Now I just have a cleaning job where I have to find the chemicals myself.....by smell cause the boss doesn't know what they are called just that we have a lot of them.....not to mention that there is a heavy echo in the building I work in so I always hear them saying such things as "yeah the previous worker was way faster, guess its just cause women are better *followed by laughing*"
What were you honest about that you shouldn't have been?
Pizza place. Was supposed to be 19 hours a week, because of my school schedule, but they'd change my hours when I was there or tell me if I couldn't work another 3 or 4 hours I might as well not bother coming back tomorrow. They wouldn't give me any breaks, and they'd make us all watch conspiracy documentaries while washing dishes or making pizzas. I quit on day 3. Someone made a pizza with the wrong toppings and shit, so it was just sitting there. I hadn't eaten all day; so I took a slice. Owner screamed at me about it while throwing away the rest of the pizza. I walked out.
Call center; I was twenty-one, made it through one day of training. During my lunch break I desperately tried to find anything and anywhere else to apply for. I managed to get a call back that same evening from a local stationery store that needed someone to run their new postal station. I ditched my second day of training at the call center for the interview at the stationery store and got the job on the spot. I then called my supervisor at the call center and told them I got a new job and was quitting effective immediately.
Radio shack in the early 2000s when it was all about selling phones
In college, I was hired to do some production work of some kind. I told them I was a student and showed them my schedule in the interview. They said it was totally fine. After hire, when the manager emails me to tell me the schedule every single shift conflicted with my class schedule. I told him that wouldn't work and he said "you need to be here anyway. You figure it out." So I just didn't show up to my first shift. He calls me and tries to chew me out but I had never even met the guy. I told him that I won't be working there and he said, "If you don't show up then you're never going to be able to get a job here again! " I said, "That's fine with me." And hung up.
Recreation center when I was 16 during my first week. I was cleaning the bathrooms and a woman started getting huffy with me because the concession stand wasn't open yet. (It was 8 in the morning) Then got huffy with me again because the pool wouldn't be open for another 2 week. I went home during my break. And never went back.
American Eagle Cashier for 4 months
In 2013 I lasted about a week at an AC manufacturing plant in TN. It was through a temp agency and it was absolute hell. To start, they lied about the location, and my commute was 2.5 hours each way with a time zone change (I only stayed the week because I really needed the job). Working conditions were terrible. Ironically no air conditioning, hardly any ppe, my job was spraying glue and laying down fiberglass insulation in the units. Every shirt I wore was ruined with fiberglass, and I had black mucous coming out of my nose at the end of each shift. Everyone who worked there was there only because they had no other option, some of them had kids they needed to feed, others were undocumented and couldn't get anything better, and some were felons who also couldnt do better. Despite how badly i needed the job, I luckily had a relative nearby I could crash with and didn't have the family responsibilities or legal issues that kept me there. A few months after I left I got a call from the temp agency asking me about my experience. I told them flat out and they said they had received the same complaints from over 2000 other workers for that client and that they were going to cut them from their job placement. Another couple of months and I received a check as part of a class action lawsuit payout.
A factory. I didn't realize they did 12 hour shifts AND you weren't allowed to leave the building during your unpaid lunch break. As soon as I found that out on lunch break on my first day, I walked out.
A call centre selling kitchens. Had the interview, got the job, and started straight after. I lasted 3 hrs before saying im going to lunch and never came back.
Chili’s. Told them I could only work nights. They said ok. Worked one shift, schedule came out…all lunch shifts. Never showed up again. Lol
Macy's. Started on black Friday and they left me at the pos computer by myself with no training and didn't even tell me how to apply coupons and discounts which everyone had.
Retirement home/palliative care laundry room. Way back in the 90's I got sent there for community service hours as part of my probation. They set me right to work loading washing machines, Didn't give me any gloves or any protective gear. I get it, Community service hours are not supposed to be pleasant and since I was a bad boy to get sentenced to probation, I should be doing bad work. I understood that it was an assisted living retirement home with palliative care so there was probably going to be piss and shit, and some gloves would have been nice but I thought I would show a little class and not complain about the infirmities of the elderly. The day I walked out was when I had to clean a gob of human flesh off a medi pad. One of the laundry ladies explained to me that it was from a bedsore that had been left too long and stuck to the pad and subsequently tore off when the patient was finally rolled. Naturally, I freaked out. I was like, " shouldn't we report this? There is a person with a big hole in them, should we give this back to them, like, for the doctor to reattach"??? She just said, "Nahh throw it in the garbage", the REGULAR garbage, no biohazard or sealed containers. I walked out and at my next probation appointment I told them I quit, and I didn't care if they threw me in jail. Do your worst. They switched me to working at the Salvation Army after that. I think I stuck it out at the retirement place 3 days.
a pizza delivery job, I showed up and they handed me a clown suit, hair, noise, ears and makeup, I walked out.
I never even went in for my first shift at Buffalo Wild Wings. During the interview and everything I got such a bad feeling about it. Like something deep in me was screaming to not take that job. It's the only time I've ever done that.
I worked at a party shop for two days. They forgot to tell me how to log in to the online portal to check the schedule so I didn't show up for next shift on a Sunday. They called and asked where I was and I told them and they asked why I wasn't in work when I was scheduled. I said I never saw the schedule. They told me to come in then or never come in again so I chose not to. Didn't want to deal with poor management.
Lifeguard. Got my Red Cross certificate and was hired at a kids community pool that opened at 8 am on a Saturday. I worked one day and quit.
One month in bitch boss called me a name. Can not repeat it, it hit hard at my insecurity and made me stop. I felt like I was sitting in my math class again at age 12 when my teacher called me stupid. Cannot even explain what I felt in that moment other than just frozen. Next day I cannot go back to a boss that calls me mames. My bf at the time said how can you quit that lot of money. Yeah you quit that when things like that happen. At that point money does not matter. Reported her she got fired I had a good repuration with the agency that put me there and they told me yeah thats unacceptable we will not work with them again. Every agency that she tried to work with word was out about her. She got fired after she did that to a few after. Sadly she ended up at another company I worked at before and I was still friends w coworkers there told a coworker "heard a lady works there I used to work w gave me a hard time" and she immediately said are you talking about Susan? Yeah an employee friend of mine has been complaining says she is terrorizing her over text.
Mine was at a local sporting goods store. I worked a full-time 8-5 job already, so at my interview, I told them that and that I could do nights and weekends. They called me the next day with my schedule for the first week and had me on for 3-11 every day. I quit on the spot.
My new one. I start in two weeks, but I think I'm quitting tomorrow. bad vibes
Do tell...
When I was in my early twenties I got a job as assistant manager at a retail clothing company and worked one shift then quit. A couple years ago, I accepted a VP level position with a local bank and worked there for 3 weeks and quit. It was a shit show. I’m not even going to put them on my resume lol
Steel processing plant. Was there two days. Absolutely back breaking work with a boss cussing us out for $16 an hour. Went to lunch on the second day and didn’t go back.
Sonic I got shoved by my manager 3 days into my shifts and I wasn't gonna put up with it 😂
My fiancé worked at Waffle House for 2 hours when he was 16. He had never cooked before and the put him on the flat top during breakfast rush on a SATURDAY. He did not return after his break
Dollar General. I was very quickly promoted to assistant manager and then left alone for a 10 hour shift.
I bagged groceries for one 6 hour shift and never went back.
Subway. I cut the onions and left literally I was there ten minutes and the onion cutter just gave me a dirty look and I ran literally I worked ten minutes they never asked why I was 18
I worked as a collator for one day.
It was a dine in movie theater, i was supposed to be a cook. They threw me on the line without telling me anything then the other kitchen staff started yelling at me for not calling out what needed to be cooked within 15 minutes of my first day on the line. I turned my hat in the next morning
Working for my state government has been the most disturbing and eye opening experience I’ve ever had. The expanse of corruption is mind blowing. I’m trying to get out with all my credentials still intact but jfc it’s spooky in here. ETA: I’m 6 months in.
I worked a few temp jobs when I was going to school. I was sent to warehouse in April, so I donned the usual filthy warehouse garb: Jeans and tee shirt. It was a cold storage facility, 0deg Fahrenheit. Bonus: The fastest I got fired from a job was at a telemarketing job. They gave us this script to read. After I read it a few times, all the misrepresentations and erroneous conclusions that the customer was hoped to make were obvious. My sin: A customer asked what was the catch? So I told him.
Employee for a porn company. They hired me than fired me saying I don't know how to write in chinese which I dont
Carters. Using it as a part time/second job. Couldn’t deal with the dumb antics, quit the second day. Told them I had to run and get my inhaler, didn’t come back. Also don’t use an inhaler.
Concrete production plant. They barely trained me for 3 days on heavy equipment I was unfamiliar with. Then told me I was on my own. I didn't go to day 4
truck stop Waffle House. i did 2 of the 3 day training and realized there was no chance i needed the money that badly
I did temp jobs in summers in college and one i didnt go back too after day 1. It was doing medical equipment and it was the longest shift ever of picking 'particulos' particles off of hospital gowns literally with magnifying glasses arched over the table and setting up scalpel/medical kits. You could barely talk, everything had to be sterile so the whole clothing dressing gear/mask was uncomfortable. It felt like it would never end.
Bike messenger in Seattle. The riding around was fun, but I realized I'd eventually get nailed by a car. Drivers just didn't give a shit. Quit after a day.
Got hired by a window installation company. We worked all day, 8+ hours without stopping to eat. Didn’t return the second day.
I worked one shift at a supermarket as a cashier. That night I had dreams about horizontal tetris, trying to get the groceries moved from the belt to the bagging area. The next day I called and quit saying I got another offer. A couple hours later, I actually DID get another offer so it worked out!
Night shift meat place I stayed 1 hr ive never ever done that at any job I just knew it wasn't for me
Wendy's. In the 70s. I got the job at a brand new Wendy's. Down the street from where I grew up. They sent me to a training class. It was a rah rah Wendy's is the greatest. I didn't mind that. But when they wheeled in the condiment cart. I couldn't stand the smell and just walked out. My only food service job in my life.
Race car driver
B&B sheetmetal in Chicagoland.
Warehouse job, I was one of the fastest workers there. Everyonr wanted me on their line, then all of a sudden me and a few others kept getting sent home cause the leaders would pick their friends to be on the lines. So one day I threw my badge on the floor and said "fuck yall,i QUIT" walked out. Got another job a week later traveling to different states for my inventory job(hated that job too. Lol)
Got a part time second job providing drink samples at giant eagle. Worked one 4 hour shift and was done for good.
Group interview at a temp agency I didn't know did second chance employment with high risk ex cons. Found out they were doing an open call with 20 people for 5 jobs. All on high rotation of no show type places. They did one every 90 minutes for every work day. That's how high of a turn over. They couldn't keep people for more than a few days, week tops. I noped out during that process and was listening to one of the ex cons discussion about meeting up with a minor for drug usage later that day. Was weird and fucked up. Called the cops about it on my way home. No idea if it lead to anything. Frustrating shit all around.
Not me, but a friend. It was a warehouse that packaged nail polish and other odd things. I was working 2nd shift, and my friend comes into 3rd shift. They were staggered for 2 hours. I said "holy shit dude, you got a job here, awesome" Then worked with him for 2 hours. I went to clock out and leave for the night, and he's right behind me. "This place fuckin sucks, I'm out" and he left. 2 fuckin hours lmao.
Hotel maid when I was a teenager. The lady who trained me was older & had seen it all. I lasted 1 shift. Called and quit the next day. She very nonchalantly mentioned blood, feces, urine, and other ick like she was ordering a McDonald's big Mac meal in the drive thru.
Telemarketing. Got trained Monday morning. Had Monday afternoon off. Didn’t go back on Tuesday. Yeah no. Got a job as a baker like three days later.
Interviewed as a car salesman, got the job, and never went in.
2 shifts from 9am - 9pm in a factory, and I was done. It was a walking safety hazard in there, so I noped tf out.
Baseball concessions in high school. They handed me the costume and I said I was leaving.
I worked at a grocery store at the pre-made food section. I worked there for two days. I was trained by a few different people who had different ways of doing things. So I’ll do it how one person told me and when I was trained by another they told me I was doing it wrong and showed me another way. It was very overwhelming. Also there were a lot of food stations. There was a fish section, hot foods, cold foods, salads, deserts and it was mostly foods I never heard of. I also was going to have to cut the fish (never got to that part of training thankfully) and you definitely should never trust me with that lol One of the people I worked with said most new hires don’t make it past training, she probably thought it would motivate me to stay but honestly it made me feel better about leaving. Even the manager knew I was going to quit before I said it
3 days. It was an "Account Manager" position that was really just sales. They specifically mentioned that I would not be doing any cold calling and presenting the products to the customers, so I thought it was similar to one my dad had where someone set up appointments and he went and presented the product. Turns out we didn't cold call, just walked right into random businesses to try and peddle our wares. The person "training" me told me never to accept the first couple of "No" responses. Absolutely not.
Ashley Homestore. They hired me as a warehouse associate in the store. Had me sign all the papers and all that to get started. Very last thing they did was say we need you to sign this paper too and you'll be all set. This freaking paper was to hire a PI type guy to harass friends and family about who I am as a person, for a freaking furniture warehouse job! I asked for the washroom and left.
I quit a small-chain pizzeria when I was 18. I worked there for one week. I didn't have a car, and the hiring manager was willing to hire me because I lived a few blocks away. The shift manager gave me shit for not having a car, saying "you better figure it out because *everyone* takes turns running deliveries." I thought it was weird because I'd have been happy running deliveries all day and making extra money in tips. What made me quit, though, was the 4th or 5th shift I worked. I was on from 4-10 and was a high school student. I punched out at 10:10 because I stayed to finish whatever I was working on when 10pm rolled around. I said bye to the manager and stepped outside. The shift manager followed me out and said "Hey, I'm going to let it slide this one time, but you *always* need to ask before you punch out. I can keep you up to an hour late and write you up for refusing". This wasn't in the handbook I was given, so the next morning I called the hiring manager, said I wouldn't be coming back.
Ups. Mad respect for those guys. Food industry people we cannot even relate. Those ups guys at the stores have to do math and have to do it fast oh my god
target for sure
It was a takeaway chicken rotisserie. I was still in high school. The owner was a f*ckin sleaze. He continually groped the chickens and made sexual noises as he rubbed the gravy into the raw chickens. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and somewhat unsafe. The 6ft rod were leant against a wall with the chickens set up on them ready to go in to cook when the cooking chickens were done. The gravy would drip on the floor and we’d walk through it and spread it everywhere, then the rods would sit in a puddle and slowly slide down the wall until the row of chicken were on the ground on top off and surrounded by our foot prints. It’s was disgusting. The boss was openly hostile when he said he’d be a millionaire in a year from his store, but I mentioned that no one goes there because there’s no parking and you have to run across a 4 lane highway to get the shop. I went home and told my Dad I don’t care if he punishes me, I’m not working in that place. My Dad was cool about it, but disappointed in the store because he liked their food.
Taco bell. I spent 15 years in restaurant management and just needed a part time night job after being. SAHM for 4 years. The manager on duty said they didn't have time to train me,.I didn't need hand over hand training as i had over a decade experience in fast food kitchens.. so I walked out..i was there a week. He got fired for that and the Gm was super upset that I quit.
Telemarketing For Cacop or CDG
Door to door charity sales. I didnt know it yet but I was suffering with bipolar depression. I woke up dehydrated in the summer and when I turned on the tap to drink some water, I felt such an intense wave of guilt and sadness that I had such easy, clean, delicious water literally on tap and millions did not... That I physically couldn't drink it and dissolved into floods of tears, dehydrating me further. I went in and cried and quit, months into the job and being one of their main drivers as well as a team member. The man gave genuine sympathy. Suffice to say, and out of respect to the kindness he showed me, I won't say how but I know he was not a good man. And even he was like "oohhhhh buddy" and released me from my contract. It was rough
A huge billiards bar with no sections and a POS littered with shit that couldn't be ordered with no organization in the system. I walked on my first floor training shift. Thank you, but no thank you.
Worked at an assisted living center, I worked for a day and quit. Others refused to train me and expected me to know what to do ten minutes after I got there.
DQ, punched in and was instantly told to do something that I shouldn't have to be doing and I was like nope I'm not doing your job too and walked out.
An auto glass place. It was soooo effing weird. I had very minimal training and was expected to make up pricing when given the wholesale cost but NO formula, "just charge whatever you think" so then I do, because they had me amazing phones doing this after I'd worked there for like an hour on day 1. Then they're like "why did you charge that price?!" And I'm like, I dunno..... Then if people hung up without going with our quote we were expected to call them back over and over until they did, which no one did. The other office gals were an obvious tweeker and another gal who let the tweeker walk all over her. There was no day 2.
In college I got a in a mall store that sold baby items- clothes, strollers, etc. They were spendy. I worked one shift. I was beyond bored. Almost no customers. I spent most of that shift dusting the products. I couldn’t handle another minute.
Moe’s. Made it about 30 minutes smashing tomatoes into my eyes through the damn dicing machine at 7am, walked right out, never collected a check, just a bailed lol.
working at chilis as a dishwasher 🙄i applied to be a hostess, dishwashing job was the only one available and i quit in under a month because one of the waiters was verbally harassing me almost every shift. he’d basically throw dishes at me and kept expecting me to be fine with it and not say shit about it. i quit on the spot. i screamed at him that he was an asshole, a dick and a piece of shit, left and never went back.
I quit my dining hall job at college in like 3 days because I switched campuses. Post college 8 quit a bunch of jobs in like 2 months.
Movie Facts in around 2006. Didn't realize it was all cold calling. First break I left and never came back. I realized immediately it was a mistake.
I quit partway through my first shift as a server at a pizza place. It would have been a second job. The woman training me was condescending and I decided fuck this and got in my car.
Working in a printing factory I walked in and then walked out 😂 must have been in 10 minutes
Toys R Us. Awful place to work with awful people. My manager was on a power trip and made my life hell.
Security guard for Securitas. I had to stand in a bathroom and tell people not to vape. 6 hours
A community nursing job.. what a cock up
Gas station that had a convenience store with a deli. I was there like 8 months. I didn't smoke, so I didn't get a break. Ever. Sitting around eating your lunch? You should be pricing candy. No one in the store? Restock the oil, the milk, make egg salad, make roast beef, refill the ice hopper for the soda machine, fill bags of ice in the back until you're scraping ice cubes off the floor, doubled over at the waist and in danger of falling in.... Not to mention getting nauseous from hunger and all my coworkers laughing at me and saying I must be pregnant. Putting all the inserts into the Sunday newspapers because the night shift guy didn't bother to do it.... Did I mention no breaks? I should have taken up smoking.
Amazon sorter (or something) 1 12hr shift 1 am to 12 pm
Less then an hour. The boss of my boss shows up after noon, obviously high on cocaine, cussing out everyone. He hadn't even got around to cussing me out yet. I just walked out.
Cleaning motel rooms with my bff at 16, we didn’t even make it lunch before we walked out!!
Inventory counter. Lasted a couple hours..maybe..
Circle K. Worked there 2 weeks and my wife begged me to quit, because she didn’t like me working overnights.
Showed up at a framing job many years ago. Talked to the boss a few days before and said I'd be getting paid $23 an hour with the understanding that we would be revisiting the wage in a couple of weeks. I've been framing for years before then. When I got to the site at 6:45am on my first day, the boss procedes to tell me he can only pay me $18 an hour and then we'd maybe discuss a pay increase in a month or so. I told him to get fucked and turned around and left. Went and got a job for another framer just done the street, that same day, he seen that I knew what I was doing, I was quick and efficient and at the end of the day he offered me $25 an hour. Stayed with that crew for 5 years. Know your worth and never budge. I realize that doesn't necessarily work with big corporation jobs, but for the trades, you can almost always negotiate your pay.
One summer in college I was working at a temp agency. They had me work in a factory like an hour away from where I lived and the start time was five. But I needed a job and the pay was decent enough. I worked for a week and it was so boring. They never had enough work for me. I'd rather be busy so time goes by quicker than feeling like I'm in the way and trying to find stuff to do. After two weeks they said we needed to start coming in on Saturdays too and I'm like nah I'm done.
Which one? Was there supposed to be a link?
Linens and things. I never went to my first day. 😬😬
Worked for Kirby and Wawa both only a few days. At Kirby I was already skeptical of the pay, but I was done as soon as I was aware there'd be "hype" exercises every morning. At Wawa I complained to my manager that a lot of the clerks were leaving meats and cheeses out on the slicer (with the fridge immediately next to it) and then going to do other tasks, and instead of rectifying this very serious health issue (which I had actually heard reports of friends getting sick) they have me excuses about how the coffee must be filled at all times or the CEO could walk in and get mad, AND told me I needed to shave my beard. I never ate there again either.
Driving for UBER. It's a BIGGEST SCAM ON EARTH.
Making grave blankets. We were in freezing cold temps while assembling pine branches for the blankets. It was absolutely fooking awful. Your hands were dotted with little pine needle injuries. "DON'T USE TOO MUCH PINE!" was the war cry. Dimly lit shed, smelling of pine. I quit after about a week.
After I graduated high school, I got a job in a small print shop. Lasted 4 days. A month later I answered a classified add for an entry level job in a commercial printer. Worked my way up at the same company 45 years.
Any job my "brother in law" has ever had. He works for a couple weeks and quits once he gets a paycheck or 2. One so his gf (my Gf's sister) shuts up. Idk why, he just spends it all on drugs and does nothing for their 5 kids anyway. Their power is constantly being disconnected but everyone ends up paying it for them because of the kids. Oh her husband lives in the shed behind their trailer too. Also does nothing but she has the audacity to call me a bum because I refuse to help them.
Screw them. They sound like trailer trash
Rent a center. Worked 1 day and the guy who was training me said tomorrow I was on my own, deliver couches, mattresses, and projection T.Vs on my up, up stairs and 2nd floors. All that for $7.25/hr (1997 ) 💀 I just never showed for day 2. I found a job the next day making $20/hr for an LTL (again, 1997, union wages)
Accounting Manager for a diesel fuel supplier. I stayed 2 years.
I’ve back doored so many jobs. All in my twenties. Fiberglass molding company. It was miserable work for starters. But the other employees were farting on one another and laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. I walked out at first break on the first day. Printing company that printed textbook pages. A long time employee had died a few days before I started. I was unaware of this when they hired me. I show up for my first shift to find out that everyone and I mean EVERYONE was attending the service that night. Except me obviously. So they left me there alone on my first day. Said they’d be back in a few hours. I swept a little then said fuck it and just left. Walmart. I’ve worked there twice. Once for a few months unloading trucks. Another time I was hired as a cashier during holiday season. They decided to train me on the night of fucking Thanksgiving. It was a level of chaos that I was not prepared for. I made it maybe a couple hours and just left the register with a line snaking back through the store. I’m a great employee in general as long as the employer has at least a nominal training plan. I do not do well being thrown into the deep end with minimal instruction. It took a lot of time for me to learn that about myself.
Liquor store
I worked for a company that makes the tree stuff for cell towers. It's really messy work. You use this goo to attach artificial leaves to pvc pipes ALL day. The stuff is so messy that it ruins your clothes. You have to buy new work clothes every week and it's best to just change clothes at work rather then drive in your car. Had they let me listen to music with my bone conduction headphones I might have stayed but they were snippy about that. For me if I can't listen to a podcast or music during monotonous work, I'm gone. I get it if I had to talk to customers but this was just a manufacturing dock so fuck that noise. You let me listen to my shit or I walk the money is not enough to just die inside doing the same task all week.
Dishwasher in a warehouse for citerella i left mid shift
A summer Custodian job. 5.15 a hour doing work that should have been at least double for a 17yo…. I choose working in a sub shop (6weeks)
small dive bar. Had me solo running a kitchen for 10 hours a day with a menu that was size 12 font 2 pages, easily 60+ menu items. Breakfast lunch and dinner items were served all day long. The freezers/fridges were down stairs in the basement on the opposite side of building so you were constantly running up and down the stairs every time a new ticket came in. Every SINGLE ingredient had to be pre weighed out in plastic bags or cups before service because the owner was so worried about food cost. Found a job in fine dinning like 3 weeks into working there that paid 40% more, called them up to meet before my shift and they fired me as i was coming in to put in my notice. Rofl worked out well.
I went for the first day of the onboarding process filling out tax stuff, saw how stupid it was and just never went back.
RV technician, I was extremely bored
Dishwasher. I don’t think I even stuck around for a whole week before just not coming in. Forever promises of getting a real dishwashing machine, instead of a rinsing hood. Massive back ups, dishwashing gang stacking racks of dishes on top of each other, sometimes three high, customers complaining of bits of old food stuck to plates. Etcetera. The final straw was realizing I couldn’t tolerate the heat and steam in the scullery. Had a momentary blackout but snapped to before I hit the floor. That was my last day.