What's the soonest you ever quit a job?

[kdibattista]

I just quit my part time job yesterday after a month of employment. I felt bad because that's not like me but I could tell very quickly it was not the place for me. I'm a massage therapist and I was having problems with "missing" tips, as well as other issues so I really had no choice but it still felt weird.

So, what's the shortest amount of time you were a a job?

 

[disneynutt1225]

There are two jobs I've had in the past that I quit quickly. One was a telemarketer - I quit after 30 minutes, LOL. The other was a bagel place - I quit after 3 weeks.

I couldn't stand all the hangups when I was doing telemarketing. I enjoyed the bagel place, but it was interfering with school (I was in high school) and my mom wasn't able to be reliable transpo for me.

 

[Bob NC]

27 minutes. Long story.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I just quit my part time job yesterday after a month of employment. I felt bad because that's not like me but I could tell very quickly it was not the place for me. I'm a massage therapist and I was having problems with "missing" tips, as well as other issues so I really had no choice but it still felt weird.

So, what's the shortest amount of time you were a a job?

For me it was so quick that I hadn't even had time to start working. I was hired by a copy company to work at an law firm in their copy center. I told them that I didn't want to start for a about a week, but I was already hired and had filled out all the paper work. Well, right before I was to begin I called them and told them that I got a new job and to not expect me on Monday.

 

[buddy&wooz]

I quit after a day once.

I was assigned a temp job that was supposed to last 2 months. I was seriously in over my head- they were looking for an experience administrative assistant (this was pre- computers, yes I'm old) who could type 100+ wpm, take dictation, answer and direct phone calls (I could do that part, at least!) and handle all the paperwork for 3 executives. I don't know what the agency was thinking when they placed me, I had zero secretarial skills and was typing about 35wpm! Plus the woman I was replacing was so busy saying goodbye to her co-workers that I got no training at all.

So I didn't go back the next day. I didn't even get my time-card signed so I could get paid, although I did end up sending it to the boss with a very apologetic letter (blaming the agency, of course ) and he signed it. The agency was so mad at me, but I didn't care- a week later I got a permanent job that I loved.

 

[mommystieg]

2 months. A friend recruited me from another company to come work with her. I wasn't familiar with the industry and she didn't reallly have time to train me since they were converting their accounting software. After I had been there about a month she told me that she was leaving I lasted about a week or two after she left and then one day I sent an e-mail to the office manager to tell him I was leaving-I clicked on "Send" and then bolted out the door. I felt horrible but I really didn't know anything about the job.

 

[agotta]

One month.

 

[Dan Murphy]

4 days. I started work riding shotgun on a beer delivery truck here in Chicago when I was 17, lied and told them I was 18. That wanted me to bring in my draft card (we used to have those back then), proof showing I was 18. I never went back, they mailed my 4 day paycheck to our house.

 

[CapeCodTenor]

I just remembered another one...3 days. I got a job working in a fast food joint back in my home town, and discovered that I didn't like in after only 3 days. So I quit. I did give them a 2 week notice though.

 

[mtemm]

when I was in college I took a job one summer at a bank. I was supposed to be doing some job...can't remember now...but I remember it involved my brain a bit. Anyway, when I got there all I did for 3 days was stuff envelopes. Literally, I stuffed return envelopes into people's bills. Not exaclty what I was looking for and that friday I told them I wouldn't be back on monday. The manager tried to get a bit huffy saying I couldn't put them down as a reference, then she kind of realized I wouldn't be doing that anyway. And I told her that perhaps being a bit more upfront about what the job was would help in the future.

 

[Skatermom23]

When I was 19 I applied for several jobs and took the first one offered. The afternoon that I started the job, my mom called to tell me a bank had called and offered me a job. Since I really wanted that one, I quit! That was the hardest thing for me to do!

 

[RickinNYC]

7 months for me. I had spent a few years at a non-profit and loved it. Was made an (what I thought) amazing offer with an international financial company as director of their philanthropy department. It was a logical choice. I had spent twelve years in the corporate world, few years in the non-profit, so let's put the two together.

Boy was I wrong. I was absolutely miserable from the first week. It would take far too long to explain here but let's just say that when I spoke to my boss after 7 months in hell, there was no love lost. I left that day.

I'm only happy for the experience, now knowing I do indeed have the corporate world out of my system 110% without a doubt. No way would I ever rejoin the suit and tie brigade!

 

[poohandwendy]

One day. It was an exclusive dinner club and I had applied to wait tables. The whole behind-the-scenes operation of this place was so shady, like being told that all calls for the manager (if they mentioned him by name) were to be screened, etc When he handed me a twenty dollar bill for my hours of work, I knew I was never going back.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

2 jobs where I quite after just one shift. I have never walked out on a job.

One was a telemarketer. HATED it. I had to call these numbers at ramdom. We had an exchange like 555- then we literally had a sheet. My sheet was 2. So it would go 555-2000, 555-2001, 555-2003, ect. Many people had unlisted numbers and wanted to know how I got their number. I was not allowed to tell them. My hours were to be from 5-9 pm. When most people are sitting down to dinner. ARGH. No thank you.

The other was a job where I sat in a little booth, as tractor trailer trucks came in. I had to log their truck munber and the time they came in. Oh so very exciting. The booth was outside the fence, and it was very lonely. Didn't go back.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

3 days into the Hardees Breakfast shift as a cashier. There was a weasley crew chief on a power trip who seemed to fill his time by making all the young girls working for him cry.

He would yell at me for actually counting change back to the Customers (took too long), he would yell at me if my little visor got crooked as I was trying to run breakfast sandwiches quickly to the tray, he yelled at me for punching the time clock two minutes early -- got right into my face and screamed "Don't EVEN TRY IT, WE ARE NOT PAYING YOU FOR THOSE TWO MINUTES!!!" When he yelled at me for stepping aside for 30 seconds and taking the time to tie my shoe, I nearly lost it.

On the third morning I woke up and just couldn't face it. I called in and told them I quit.

When I went to pick up my "paycheck" they made me sign a piece of paper agreeing that I could never work for the Hardees Corporation ever again for the rest of my life.

I really didn't have a problem with that.

 

[AMcaptured]

I quit a part time job after working three days there. I called the office on a Sunday night and left a message that I wouldn't be coming in in the morning or ever again for that matter. I also asked them to please forward my check and I didn't get it for 2 months. No big deal actually, it was better than going back there!!!

 

[RUDisney]

4 days at the Holiday Pancake House. The most disgusting restaurant I ever saw. I was going to wait tables. I got stiffed on several tables in those 4 days and when I was trained, I was told to stick my dirty hands into the salad and place it into a bowl for my customers. The kitchen was always dirty. Blech!

When I went to pick up my paycheck, there was a note telling the manager not to give it to me unless I returned the terribly attractive, brown polyester uniform that they had given me. Good riddence to that is all I have to say.

If I knew then, at 19, what I know now, I would have called the board of health about the place. They closed down about 3 years after I left.

 

[Maleficent13]

Three months...until I found out that the owner was deducting all the medical expenses out of the employees' checks, and then NOT paying the premiums with it. Those poor people had no benefits. I told as many of them as I could to check into it and then I quit.

 

[mommaU4]

In high school I went through about 16 different jobs most in retail and some were only temporary/seasonal to begin with though. The quickest I ever quit was after half a day. I wasn't irresponsible, believe it or not, just of the mentality that if it wasn't working out, why be there? Of course that was along time ago and I don't recommend that way of thinking now.

 

[GoofyDad869]

Not me personally, but...

When I was working at a major petroleum retailer headquarters (Knoxville-area people would know which company I'm talking about - rhymes with "ShmPilot ShmCorporation") our department's receptionist was going on maternity leave. Our department head was not easy to deal with (tactfully saying, he was a "Shma$$hole"). Not just one, but TWO of her replacements bailed at lunch time. In other words, they left to go to lunch and didn't come back.