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AlphaFrog 08-09-2006 08:26 AM

1 Day. (Well, maybe you could say two, because the "job interview" was pretty much the same as the first day.) It was supposed to be a "Management Training Program"...but it was really Biz2Biz Marketing and a Pyramid Scheme after you make it to "Manager". Plus the hours were 6:30am-6:30pm COMMISSION ONLY, no hourly base.

Senusret I 08-09-2006 09:13 AM

I worked for about a month under the professor who was the editor of Business Ethics Quarterly.

Worst boss EVER. Micromanager. Wouldn't even let me keep a box of kleenex on the desk!

Sister Havana 08-09-2006 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
1 Day. (Well, maybe you could say two, because the "job interview" was pretty much the same as the first day.) It was supposed to be a "Management Training Program"...but it was really Biz2Biz Marketing and a Pyramid Scheme after you make it to "Manager". Plus the hours were 6:30am-6:30pm COMMISSION ONLY, no hourly base.

I lasted three weeks at a similar type of job. It was advertised as advertising/PR - "management training." The advertising was going door to door selling coupon books. I was a little leery of doing door to door sales but the guy who hired me assured me that it was only for the first couple weeks, just so I could get a feel for what the salespeople did. I wasn't even there three full weeks, since I was working my other job on tuesdays and thursdays for the first couple weeks. The hours were from 9am-7:30pm or so, Monday-Saturday (I claimed I had other commitments that prevented my working the first few Saturdays) One day I was talking to a guy there and found out he'd been doing the door to door thing for two years, and that everyone, even managers, was expected to be out in the field! No thank you. I went in the next day just long enough to tell my manager I quit. :D

Honeykiss1974 08-09-2006 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by rho4life
LOL, I want to know the story behind that one!

LOL - it was after I had finished grad school and I had accepted a new position with a new company. Well when I got their, the position I had accepted, no longer existed! :eek: I asked them why, during this last two weeks when I had given my notice to my current job, didn't anyone call to tell me. And they were just like, "we thought you wouldn't mind". They offered me something else that I was not interested in doing(which I had made crystal clear during the interview process) so I left. I figured that if a company would pull some mess like that and I haven't even started the job yet, then I would only be in for a crazy time.

Before this, it was 3 days. It was a telemarketing job back in high school. I just could not motivate myself to sell knives over the phone.

recentASAalum 08-09-2006 11:54 PM

I worked at Kirby (the vacuum company) for three days. It was calling people and convincing them to let us come clean their carpet or get a free 2 liter of soda. I was terrible at it. The best part was that they just opened the phonebook and started calling people. Although they didn't want you to call the lower income areas and since I had no idea where those were, it just made everything a mess.

It was awful. That taught me early in life that sales/telemarketing really isn't my thing.

Jimmy Choo 08-09-2006 11:54 PM

one week.... as a bill collector.....:(

DeltAlum 08-10-2006 10:52 PM

I'm changing jobs next week. Shall I go for a record?

Nope. Got to work to make a living whether I like it or not.

lake 08-11-2006 10:32 AM

I'm actually quitting today (I hate this friggin' place) :mad: but I've been here about 19 weeks.

Working as a contractor, I've had jobs that on the first day I told them, "This WILL be my last day." Being a contractor can be a beautiful thing sometimes! You feel less obligated to put up with other people's crap and bad behavior.

pinkiebell1001 08-11-2006 04:12 PM

5 weeks-worked at a summer camp and i injured myself! EEk!
Ah well...I'm starting a new job Monday. Hopefully I won't beat yall's records;)


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