What's the soonest you ever quit a job?

[motherhen17404]

I was hired to work at McDonalds, but I never worked a day there. I was hired on a Thursday, was to report the next Monday. That Friday I was called in for an interview for another job and before I got home they had called and offered me the job. Good thing I took the 2nd job, that is where I met my DH.

 

[caitycaity]

7 months - but that was a pt job and there was little expectation that people there would last more than 5-6 months. other than that, i haven't left a job in less than 2 years.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

When I was in high school (or just after graduation) I worked in a maternity shop at the mall. It was a terrific shop, great customers, just not very "cool". I was offered a job at a surf shop. THAT was cool! Until I started and found out the manager LIED to me about the starting salary. Jerk. Then sometimes I would go in for a scheduled shift and they would send me home because business was slow. No thanks! I quit after about 2 weeks and went back to the maternity shop.

 

[Mickey76]

I quit Burger King after a month when I was in high school. I hated it. I only worked there because a few of my friends were there. It still sucked, though.

 

[KristaTX]

I could tell after one day of working as an RN for a rheumatologist that he was unbearably arrogant, so at the end of the day I told the office manager that I wouldn't be back. She said she understood .

 

[SleepyMom]

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

I once quit a job after 3 days, and I was fired/let go from one after working only one morning

The 3 day job was at a day-care and I worked in the baby room, should have been the perfect job The other workers though were too much to handle. They had no respect for the little ones, I saw one lady wash the face and hands of a baby and then move down the line to the next one, without getting a clean cloth or even rinsing it off she just kept going down the line... baby after baby with the same washcloth. I quit that day after reporting it, nothing was ever done though.

The other job lasted about 4 to 5 hours, working in the hot sun on a moving piece of machinery. It was a very small town, so everyone literally knew everyone. As we were being pulled down the field behind the tractor the heat and movement finally got to me and I started to go down, they stopped and got me into the shade with some water. I was sent home to rest and they said they would call again if I was needed, a few days later I heard they thought I was pregnant (I was a newlywed) so they didn't ask me back I wasn't pregnant, so I went to work for another family during their harvest and finished out the season with no more episodes.

 

[liamsaunt]

Two days! In college I took a part time job working for a company that required us to go door to door and solicit donations for the cause. They sent us out by ourselves, in the evenings, and on my second night I was attacked by a Doberman Pincher! The dog must have been exceedingly well trained, because he did not bite me. He did, however, knock me down, get up on top of me, and growl into my face for a while. Then he got off and let me get out of the yard, growling all along of course. I went directly home, and quit the next day.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I quit a paralegal job after one day once. I was used to working for "defense" firms and this was a "plaintiff" firm. It just was not the right fit for me and there were a few things that I was not comfortable with so I called the next day and quit.

 

[RadioFanatic]

Two weeks. And I'm the type of person that is so loyal towards work that I can count the number of places I've worked on six fingers. But this job, a Subway during my first year of college, had me beat. They promised me good hours b/c of school and my age (17) but they then scheduled me for their LATE shift, which b/c it was a college town, meant the store wasn't closed until 3 am, of which I would be alone from midnight to 3 am. And then I had to walk home alone from the shift - and they knew I didn't have a car. After doing it twice and being scared through the whole shift and then scared walking home. So I told them I quit.

 

[phisigprincess]

8 hours!!!!!!!!! LOL! It was a temp job that was supposed to last the whole summer. It was beyond awful. I went home at lunch and called my temp agency to tell them I was leaving. They begged me to stay on the whole day, but after that I was out of there!!!!

 

[Sylvester McBean]

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.

 

[Disney Doll]

3 months. It was my first job out of nursing school, at a Traumatic Brain Injury Unit. They had promised to pay me like $8-ish per hour as a graduate nurse, and instead I was paid $4-ish per hour, which was the CNA pay rate at the time.

They strung me along for about 2.5 months with the old "we're putting this salary range into the computer system" and that kind of thing, and finally I went in, gave my notice and told them that on my last day I expected all my pay retroactively to my start date at the $8-ish rate they promised me or I would sue them, report them to the labor board etc.

I got a big check that last day.

 

[Alice's Mom]

5 days!

I took a job at a company in Las Vegas (while in college) that involved telemarketing. I called businesses to offer them low phone rates, I found out if the customer didn't say "I don't want your service" specifically they would slam their phone line with the service anyway, which turned out to be an outrageous rate, seemed very illegal, so Friday I let them know I wouldn't be back, I just couldn't be a part of that!

 

[Disney-Kim]

1 day.
this was a reputable good accounting job. but I worked 1 day and realized I would never like the job. I quit that night after work. never regretted it.

you know there is something wrong when a company is still doing their accting on an AS400 in DOS. they did not own PC's. ok...this was in 2001...not the 80's.
I wanted to learn new software/etc...not go backwards.

 

[Snoopymom]

3 long weeks! I was an ADMINISTRATIVE assistant for 3 people. One kept snapping her fingers at me and had me run to buy her cigerettes. Another told me to call around to get her birth controll pills cheaper and the boss had me drive to his house to let his big dirty slobbery dogs out during my lunch!

When I was the only one to show up one morning during a horrific thunderstorm and was ripped out for being a few minutes late by the boss who called from his home, I walked out, leaving the keys on his desk.

I was an idiot for lasting that long!

My dh who is in the same industry evenutally put them out of business!

 

[brerrabbit]

Technically I didn't quit it was more like I was laid off. I changed jobs and the Friday beore I was to show up I got a call from a friend that said he had read on the internet that the company I was going to work for was getting out of the business. I showed up on Monday and they were very apoligetic about everything. The following Monday, the president of the company called me into his office and gave me my package which included 10 months severence, paid medical for five months. He also said I would stay on the payroll for three months but did not have to come in because I had not had a chance to learn anything yet. So for working five days I got 13 months pay and five months of paid medical insurance. What a deal!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

1 weekend.

I had two overnights at a radio station here in town to get back into the business. Decided--staying up all night--just didn't make it worth it. So worked Friday and Saturday and left a note on the bosses desk when I left at the end of my shift Sunday morning.


(It was a test run anyway and just weekends. They put it back on auto-pilot the next weekend).

 

[Galahad]

What's the soonest you ever quit a job?

About 9:00 a.m. I think

 

[kdibattista]

I guess I don't feel so bad now

 

[Mari annie]

1/2 of the first day!

I hadn't done retail in years and years and thought I d work pt while the kiddies were at school, working with younger kids* that did nothing, and having to do everything I left on my break and never returned!!LOL!Boy did that feel good (to leave I mean)!

lousy jobs lol!