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

Honeykiss1974 · #1 08-08-2006, 06:12 PM

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.

rho4life · #2 08-08-2006, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

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.

OtterXO · #3 08-08-2006, 06:48 PM

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.

FirstAndFinest · #4 08-08-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by OtterXO

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.

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

ZTAngel · #5 08-08-2006, 09:49 PM

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.

_Opi_ · #6 08-08-2006, 09:51 PM

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.

PhoenixAzul · #7 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.

Honeykiss1974 · #8 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!

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 · #9 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 · #10 08-09-2006, 11:54 PM

one week.... as a bill collector.....

whiteandblack · #11 08-08-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

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.

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!

WVU alpha phi · #12 08-08-2006, 08:24 PM

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?

JenMarie · #13 08-08-2006, 08:32 PM

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.)