Reasons People Quit Their Jobs On The First Day

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mattstaff
Nov 13, 2021 12:00 PM EST

Sometimes, you show up for a new gig, and your gut instinct starts bellowing and roaring all kinds of warning signs. It's as if your literal bones are shaking in discomfort over the environment you've walked into. Maybe you unfortunately missed the red flags that only later on when it was already too late, seemed obnoxiously bright. Fact of the matter is, some folks just don't waste any time with dipping out from a terribly toxic, overall nasty job. Maybe these people's reasons behind why they quit their jobs on the first day will make you feel better about any kinds of career blunders or misjudgments that you've made. 

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    Font - 40 Awards When the microwave in the lunch room was coin activated. G Reply 4 38.3k 3 ...
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    Font - battleangelred · 12h 3 2 Awards I answered an ad for a baby sitting job. I was already working on a casual basis but it was sporadic so l thought some after hours baby sitting would be welcome extra cash. The couple were both in the military and proceeded to tell me that I would be staying in the spare room and looking after their 6 mth old child around the clock as well as doing the housework. I would have one day off every two weeks. They said it is cash in hand so I could sign onto the
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    Rectangle - ro thelonecedar · 12h 1 Award It was my first day at five guys, it was around 10:30 PM and they told me it was time to clock out, despite not having finished closing. I then worked until almost midnight. I did not return. G Reply 4 8.3k 3 + ...
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    Font - DrTardis89 · 12h I wasn't the person but I was training a new guy at a movie theater. A customer asked for extra butter. She was nice and normal. Not a mean or rude customer. The kind I would pay to handle all day long. He puts the popcorn tub down, says l'm going to the bathroom, takes off his apron and walks out the front door and never came back. G Reply 4 5.6k 3 ...
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    Font - Ismygrayshowing · 12h 7 Awards I was hired at a chain restaurant to be a hostess. I was so excited because my last job was washing dishes and because of my eczema, I had to quit. It was too painful to do that job. So, I arrived at my new job dressed up to be a hostess and those mfers took me back to the kitchen to do dishes because the dishwasher just quit. I noped out of there real fast! G Reply 1 19.3k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - p38-lightning• 13h 2 Awards Took a summer job at a textile plant and the trainer said, "Forget about taking a break if you want to stay caught up." G Reply 28.3k 3 ...
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    Font - 3 17 Awards I had a job for one day selling home security equipment door to door. The whole idea was basically to make it seem like you're doing them a service and then lock the customer into 5 year contracts. My supervisor and I were in this one home of a family that hardly some English. The father said they had been struggling with finances but my supervisor kept pushing it on them, and the customer seemed like he didn't fully understand what was going on. I couldn't in good conscience
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    Font - webz45 · 11h Answered an ad in the paper (this was the mid 90s) what seemed to be an office job making sales calls when I was in college. Did a phone interview and was called back for an in person interview. When I go to the interview I'm led into a room with about 50 other people and a small stage at the front of the room. We're all somewhat confused as to what is going on. Finally a guy gets on the stage and informs us that we've been selected for the opportunity to sell Cutco. Me and 2
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    Font - PoolMermaid • 13h O 2 Awards Not me but I was training a new lifeguard. After our shift was mandatory staff training for our entire crew, where we practice rescues. Once she found out we actually had to practice and go in the water, she just...walked out. Not really sure what kind of job she thought she had signed up for. G Reply 4 17.7k 3 ...
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    Font - ThunderFlash10 · 13h 3 2 Awards Fast food chain: I was 17. I found out during training that the place had been robbed 3 times in the past month and 1 employee was seriously injured. Not worth the $5/hr. Edit: For those asking about the pay and the time, this was the US state of Georgia in 2004. G Reply 4 31.9k 3 ...
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    Font - MechaGodzilla61 · 13h I showed up. Was 15 minutes into Orientation and Paperwork. Regional Corporate came in and sacked everyone (sans me..l was still the new hire). The Regional came up to me and said this never happens, we'd love for you to stay. 2 hours later the Regional has to leave for another location. The trainee from another branch that had come to run the branch I was at says...they're about to sack everyone there too. I was like ok...this isn't for me at all and left. The Regio
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    Rectangle - Everythingcute · 12h A 3 hour presentation and you need to commit $100 to start your "life changing" journey to make money and be your own boss. No thank you! G Reply 530 ...
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    Font - coffeeandjesus1986 · 13h 1 Award Was hired as a server sure no problem. Got there they were like nope you're doing dishes. After 8 hours of dishes I went home. I'm not a dishwasher and I was told I'd be serving. Never went back never got paid. Didn't care the couple running it were a bunch of jerks anyway. 6 Reply 1 4.6k 3 + ...
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    Font - Didn't get a lunch break. Nothing comes between a guy and his food *except my old boss, evidently G Reply 2.8k ...
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    Font - all_my_SOrr0w•14h I worked on as a cashier on a parking lot of a big shopping mall. I got a orientation of 2 hours and then my boss let me alone, the first customer wanted to pay me $300 with $20.000 (Chilean pesos) and got mad cuz i didn't had change, the next one asked something similar and the next and the next. When my boss came back i just quit 6 Reply 4 1.3k 3 ...
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    Font - ItsMeDoodleBob · 12h Restaurant line chef. Worked a 12 hour shift, was given 2 breaks of about 10-15 min each. Burned my hand numerous times because they gave me plates that came right from the oven and never said a word. End of the shift I told the head chef I was done. He called me soft and Said I was the third person to quit on him after a day. I said "maybe it's the way you treat people". G Reply 1 328 3 ...
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    Rectangle - Shadethewolf0 • 13h Hired me as a cashier, told me l'd be training for it and only working registers. Had me cleaning toilets and cart collecting in a thunder storm, with basically no heads up. Just handed them my badge and walked out. G Reply 4 1.6k 3 ...
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    Font - Auto_Fac • 12h I noped out of an interview one time. Thanked them at the end and said it wasn't for me. Those interviewing, management level folks, started arguing with each other in front of me during the interview.
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    Font - 240z300zx • 13h Got a job at a saw/lumber mill. My first shift started at midnight. My boss met me at the entrance, lead me through the mill and out a back door. He told me stand next to this little opening in the wall, and when a piece of wood comes out, place it neatly in the stack on this big pallet. He left. Pieces of wood (1" x 2" x 10 feet) started shooting out every few seconds. It was all I could do to keep up. It started to rain, then poured. A fork truck driver went past and I a
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