What's the soonest you ever quit a job?

[TheOtherVillainess]

I quit one job as a telemarketer for a charity after 3 days. We were supposed to go down the list of ph #s and call each one, requesting donations for this charity. We got 'tips' based on how much money we could get people to donate. It wasn't worth the effort or the time, so I quit.

TOV

 

[DisneyJen0504]

5 days. It was unbearable after just 5 days.

 

[Planogirl]

After one day. It was a temp job and there was apparently a miscommunication between the agency and the job place. The job required someone extremely good at spacing and layout in Excel. I was at the time a LOTUS expert but really didn't know that much about Excel. I struggled with the spacing but really had a rough time of it. These two programs are similar but they are NOT the same.

 

[debloco]

One day. Part telemarketing, part sales. Had to call people up to get them to come in and hear a presentation about "direct buying". Furniture, appliances, carpet, etc. After they heard the presentation we had to try and sell them a membership. I hated it.
When I explained why I was leaving, the manager's response was that it was my problem because I was "selling" instead of "offering them an opportunity" or whatever other goofy euphemism for "selling" they were using.

Um...yeah. It's still trying to get people to buy something no matter what you call it!

 

[barkley]

after one shift at chuck e cheese. got hired during college, the provided no training and i was there for the "grand opening". one of the managers found that in the insanity of trying to wash dishes someone had dropped a couple of forks in a garbage can and said he would fire everyone who had "fork contact" should he find anymore trashed. i gave no notice because i figured if they could affored to fire everyone with "fork contact" they could handle loseing one worker.

p.s. i also got stuck doing "cheese hole" cleanup-since i was the smallest worker they made me go into the stupid plastic cheese tube play area the kids climbed through and clean out the pizza, drool, general ick.

 

[Kitty 34]

Two weeks.

 

[Chattyaholic]

2 weeks - it had been several years since I'd had a job outside the home so I was nervous anyway, and the government agriculture office needed extra help after the flood of '87 so I applied and was hired. It was chaotic to say the least, but probably wouldn't have been so bad had it not been right at that time. Everyone was stressed and overworked. The trouble was they had me doing too many different things and not properly teaching me any of them. The "last straw" was when they sat me down at the computer and said "do it." I didn't have ANY computer experience!! There were other ladies they'd hired just sitting in the back of the office stuffing envelopes. In hindsight I should have gone to the manager and asked if I could be moved back there, rather than quitting.

 

[boomhauer]

4 hours.

Home Depot. Was there for orientation, and I could tell right away, I wouldn't like the job. People say I'm crazy, but I'm lke that. My current job, first day, I knew I'd like it. Been here for 8 years now.

 

[flaps]

'bout a year

I was getting married & moving to another state, else I'd have stayed.

 

[coolbeans]

4 hours.
As a clerk at a grocery store. All the clerks that were working were just not very nice to anyone, eachother, managers or customers. I have to be nice at my full time job, I couldn't handle listening to that even for a couple of hours a nite.

 

[KarenAylwood]

Haven't had too many jobs yet- I'd say about a month (it was a summer job anyway, I just left early ).

My older brother, however (9 years my senior) has been through many jobs. His two shortest were
1) a half hour : worked at WaterSlide World in Lake George, NY- his 16 year old boss told him (at the time 18) to take out the garbage. He left.
2) 2 hours: two people shorted him at the Saratoga Race Track when he worked as a teller at the betting windows. He left and went to watch the races w/ my parents (who had come for his first day on the job )


Hey, if you hate it and you know you're gonna leave soon anyway- what's the real difference between a few days and a few weeks? (other than the paycheck )

 

[C.Ann]

A half a day.. Nut case woman who claimed to be a "fortune teller" and had ads in the back of the National Enquirer and such.. For "x" amount of dollars she would send you your "lucky" numbers that would guarantee you would win the lottery.. The job was advertised as "clerical" work and what she really wanted me to do was sit there all day and send the SAME numbers to the HUNDREDS of people who sent her checks every day.. The absolute worst part was the names on the checks - things like "Harold", "Mildred", "Eleanor", "Wilbur" - obviously elderly people who were probably sending money they didn't even have just in hopes of "hitting it big"..

It was both sad and DISGUSTING!!

 

[kbkids]

in college I worked at taco bell one day. I walked out wearing the grease-smelling ployester uniform. the manager screamed at me that I wouldn't get my check if I didn't return the uniform. my roomate stuffed the uniform and made a mannequin that sat in a director's chair for over 3 years. at our parties, he was the photo op. the smell never quite went away. when we graduated, we burned him in effigy. his name was Floyd.

I know that uniform well. My mom used to make me take it off in the garage before I came in the house. YUK!!!

 

[Shugardrawers]

3 days. At 20 years old I was hired as a CNA in training at a nursing home. The pay was excellent and they had a good training program but I just couldn't handle it. It takes a special kind of person to work in a nursing home.

I worked 2 weeks at McDonald's about 5 years ago. I came down with a migraine during my shift and as I was bent over vomiting into a trash can the Asst Manager accused me of not wanting to work. I went home and never went back. I'm not a fast food kinda gal either.

 

[Blondy876]

I worked for a store called Jamesway for about 2 weeks and the security guys would follow me around hitting on me every shift and my assigned department was automotive. People would come in asking questions about cars and I would just look at them and smile. I was not incredibly helpful. Plus the security guys started freaking me out.

I took a 3 week long temp job and quit that after 4 days.

But my sister beats mine. She worked at a deli for a whole 4 hours before she handed her boss her apron and quit. She came home and when my parents asked her what happened she said "I don't make sandwiches for myself and I'm not making them for other people."

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

Two days.

I worked in a shoe store where the all-white sales staff instructed me that I was to follow African-Americans (and only African-Americans, but they didn't refer to them by that name, if you know what I mean) around the store to make sure they didn't steal the shoes.

I felt helpless to change the way they did things, and I felt so bad about what they were making me do. I was witnessing discrimmination in the 1980's first hand...but I was a teenager and was too scared to fight the company over it. I didn't stick around long enough to see if it was company policy or if it was just the store I worked at.

 

[raammartin]

I quit one job after two-three weeks. I could just tell it wasn't going to work out. I dreaded going in each and every day.

 

[SPAM]

2 months.

 

[LisaNJ25]

I worked for a store called Jamesway for about 2 weeks and the security guys would follow me around hitting on me every shift and my assigned department was automotive. People would come in asking questions about cars and I would just look at them and smile. I was not incredibly helpful. Plus the security guys started freaking me out.

I so dont miss that store....You didnt happen to work at the one in Rockaway/Dover?