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

PhoenixAzul · #1 08-08-2006, 10:31 PM

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.

Taualumna · #2 08-08-2006, 10:36 PM

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.

JonInKC · #3 08-08-2006, 11:00 PM

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.

Greekopedia · #4 08-08-2006, 11:19 PM

2 weeks doing telemarketing. it sucked so much

KatieKate1244 · #5 08-09-2006, 08:12 AM

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.

AlphaFrog · #6 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 · #7 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 · #8 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.

DeltAlum · #9 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.

sigmadiva · #10 08-08-2006, 11:24 PM

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.