'I just quit my job on the first day': Underpaid employee receives no training or oversight on day one, he quits while he can

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    Shorts - "I just quit my job on the first day"
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    Font - I just quit my job on the first day I feel so bad, I had no idea what to do. I just left a note for the manager saying I quit and signed my name.
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    Font - They said my first day I'd get a name tag, watch training videos, and shadow someone. But instead I was just thrown on the floor and greet people. Then when it was my lunch break they didn't tell me how to clock out so I asked someone who was in the break room and she didn't know either because you need a specific employee code that they give you. I never got one. She said to just write a note so instead I left a note saying I quit.
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    Font - All of this just for $10 an hour. I've worked previous jobs that actually trained me and paid more. I'm not sure if anyone will even see my note but I left my walkie on the table and took my stuff and went home. I feel sick. Edit: Thank you so much everyone for the kind words and stories, definitely helped me feel a lot better about what happened :)
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    Font - spectredirector. 14 hr. ago Biggest work place regrets I have are the places I knew I should've left day 1 - but didn't. Don't feel sick. You did nothing wrong. 4.7k Reply Share
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    Font - megaman368 12 hr. ago I worked a job I loathed for 6 years. I trained countless people there. Most didn't last the month. Many didn't last a week. The really smart ones left at lunch on the first day. I wish I hadn't wasted so much of my life there. 613 Reply Share
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    Gesture - strangeloop414 15 hr. ago A lack of training is always a 1.1k Reply Share
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    Font - Mysterious_Today_245. 8 hr. ago I was never trained then constantly bullied for being horrible at my job so that was a fun time. There were red flags I ignored during the interview process. I should've known. 189 Reply Share
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    Font - LF-Johnson 16 hr. ago I've noticed this is a thing with jobs now. Not just me but pretty much everyone says something similar. Employers say one thing in the beginning to hook you in, and just throw you to the wolves instead without any training. And then they wonder why "nobody wants to work anymore". 789 Reply Share
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    Font - VacuumTubesAreFun. 16 hr. ago Wise move. I once had a job like that... I left at lunch on the first day and never looked back. 554 Reply Share
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    Font - plopseven 14 hr. ago I've never understood businesses that treat their employees bad on their first day. Like we don't care. We didn't work here yesterday. You can't just disrespect someone like that and expect them to say "oh, it'll get better." You can't start a (work) relationship off as abusive like that. 335 Reply Share
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    Font - Actual-Anybody6030. 15 hr. ago Quit a restaurant like that once. No training just told me to clock in and get to work. Had to ask kitchen staff how to do everything. Was promised a meal at lunch, lunch comes and they said "we can't give you a meal today we're too busy, ask when you're about to clock out." Yeeted out like you at lunch and never went back. Didn't even bother to get the $40 bucks for the first half of the shift. 193 Reply Share
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    Gesture - c_schema 17 hr. ago Smart move. It was not going to get any better. 4 186 Reply Share
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    Font - Constant_Mud_7047 15 hr. ago edited 13 hr. ago You did the right thing! My son and his friend just got their first job at a popular convenience store, and hardly got any training at all, and every time they'd ask how to do something, the management would treat them like they were stupid. I worked opposite shift, so I started asking them what they had been shown because the store would look like and the tea would be outdated, they weren't shown how to stock the cooler or do the tea, but we
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    Font - Environmental-Song16 I quit once on my first day. Got hired at a gas station. Ya, not glamorous but it was money and we needed it. Told my boss during the interview I could not work past 2:30. Kid got home and husband needed the car for his job. She scheduled me until 8pm, told me to leave my children home alone, they would be fine. My oldest was 6, then 4 and 3. Like wtf? . 12 hr. ago I quit on the spot when she told me that. She was fired two weeks later. They called me after that and a
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    Font - B_L_I_N_K_182 16 hr. ago I quit a retail job by just not going.
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    Font - IronSheikCamelClutch 12 hr. ago Last year I quit 4 jobs within the first week. Hobby Lobby was the first day when they said "You leave when I say so". them. They don't care about, so you shouldn't care about them
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    Font - Extra_TK421 14 hr. ago I had a job where I accidentally ended up riding the elevator up with my new boss on my first day. He was complaining in the elevator about things that I had expressly asked during the interview and been told opposite answers. I should have ridden the elevator down and left right there. I had other offers at the time.

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