Shortest period of time you've worked before quitting...
 

What was the shortest period of time you've worked at a job before quiting?
Just curious. :)

Mine was an hour. This was 2 years ago unfortunately.

LOL, I want to know the story behind that one! Mine was less than a week, it was a long term contract position that I left early.

Four hours. It was a canvassing position in college. I didn't know what canvassing was when I accepted the job and once I found out.....I was OUT. :)

I want to know too!

I worked four hours and was fired! I was working this temporary job and during lunch hour (which was 30 minutes) I was tired and decided to lay my head down on this sofa. I woke up an hour and 15 minutes later.... damn that sofa was cozy!

Four hours at Abercrombie. It was just me and the manager, who didn't bother to train me (even though I had never worked retail before), and about half an hour into my shift he decided to disappear to his office in the back. FOR THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS THERE.

Oh, and did I mention it was during a big sale, too? :rolleyes:

A couple days. I had signed up to become a balloon twister (yes, the ones in bars and restaurants) but it sounded like a bum deal. I got the job, ordered the stuff and then quit. (I returned the balloons.)

Ditto!! (and I'd totally forgotten about that job til I saw this!)

One week at Express. It was horrible. Management basically told you to annoy the customer into signing up for the credit card or buy things they don't need. It was winter break during college and I was hoping to work full time so I could make some money but they were only giving me these random, 3-hour shifts.

2 days at Cinnabon. I had to leave after I saw the ingrediants they used in their Cinnabons (tons of butter and sugar, pretty much) and all the freebies I could get in one shift (2 Cinnabons). And after I left work everyday, I would smell like it...so I bounced. I couldve easily gained 10 pounds in a week working over there.

3 months. I'm not a light job jumper...but seriously, this was hell on earth. The boss was a racist, sexist jerk who told us in no uncertain terms were we to waste our time waiting on minorities (PS, he didn't call them that...imagine the worst racist word for everyone not-caucasian). He also played favourites. He yelled at me for being late when I was coming from swim practice halfway across town, but wouldn't yell at my friend coming form swim practice late less than 2 miles away. Got crap hours. Had crap management. Got crap pay. I have no idea how I lasted 3 months (must have really really needed that money). But I've yet to go back there.

One month for me.

A girl who worked as an assistant at the place where I interned last summer lasted two days. It was a very small company (just the woman who ran it, her and me) and the boss was out at meetings all day. For some reason, we were locked out of the office, so she got mad and never came back.

When I was in college I worked some temp jobs. Man, can you get put in some weird places there. This one job I worked was at some place using this drill-mechanism to bore holes in parts for boats. It was a horrid, hot, loud environment, standing for like 8 hours getting home in the wee hours of the morning. Yeah, I worked there one night and said F*** that noise...

I saw on the news later on that the place caught fire and burned down. I can't say it saddened me.

2 weeks doing telemarketing. it sucked so much

One one my first jobs during college was at Olan Mills, a photography studio. I was the annoying sales call person who would call people during the dinner hour and try to convince them to order sets of portraits. Our supervisor, or 'She who sat outside the whole shift and smoked' would keep a daily tally of who sold the most. I was never on the top of that list. I hated calling people because I knew I was annoying them and I think it came through in my voice. I started the job on a Monday and quit by that Friday. I don't think I even sent in a notice, I just never went back.

A week at two places:

The first was a local pizza place. I was accused by my boss that I made her friend's dog BITE me.

The second was Cedar Point. They kept sending me place to place to work, and wouldn't let me take a break and eat when I was having troubles with my blood sugar. I ended up out cold on the floor in a kitchen. The cool part was I only really worked two days, and had one day of training, so I spent a lot of time riding the rides.

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 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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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;)