People Who Quit Their Jobs On The First Day Share Their 'I’m Outta Here' Moments

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    Font - r/ask u/Confident-Fun-8183 • 17h Join People who quit their jobs on the first day, what was your "I'm outta here" moment?
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    Font - Green420Basturd +1.16h 1 Award I interviewed for a retail sales position with one of those job placement companies and on my first day I realized it was a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman job based on commission only. I vacuumed my grandma's house with the display model they gave me while she made me French toast, then I quit. ... Reply 2k
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    Font - XxCeresxX +1.16h Stepping into a failing walk-in cooler with 2 inches of standing chicken blood on the floor. ... Reply ↑ 616
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    Font - Fit-Meal4943 • 14h I was a rookie driver, barely a year into it. They handed me my bills, told me I had to run Toronto- >L.A.->Toronto in 7 days. I asked how I was meant to do that. The safety guy handed me a bottle of amphetamines, and told me my logs were already filled out. I walked out. ... Reply 451
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    Font - itsnotromy 14h ● I took a job as a "kitchen assistant" in a fairly busy restaurant. From how they described it, I'd be assisting the chefs, maybe clean a bit, all things I'd done before when working in a restaurant. Well. First shift came, and they pointed me to the pile of dirty dishes, and a large metal sink. I cleaned dishes for hours, and when I tried to go to the bathroom, I got screamed at to go "ask permission” first. I'm a 22 year old woman, like fuck am I asking someone's permiss
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    Font - Bobbi Bari +3. 17h I was hired for a customer support position that ended up being standing in a mall kiosk trying to get leads from randos walking by for sales. I was there for 2 hours before I went to the restroom and never came back. Reply 4263
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    Font - Sometimes_Stutters +2 15h Not me, but one of my bosses. So I got hired as an intern, and sometime between me being hired and starting my original boss quit. So there I was with no one to report to and kinda had to figure out what to do.
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    Font - Anyways, a couple months later they hire my new boss. I met him in the morning, he spent the rest of the morning meeting leadership and getting acquainted with the place. At lunch he stopped by my cubicle and invited me to lunch. He drove. We ate pizza. Had a couple beers (which I thought was strange, but kinda cool), then we drove back and he dropped me off at the front door and said he was going to go park.
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    Font - Strong_Mango7653. 17h During the initial onboarding, I realized that the job description I was promised was completely different from the actual tasks they wanted me to perform. It became clear that there was a lack of transparency, and I didn't want to invest my time in a role that didn't align with my expectations. ... Reply 838
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    Font - AgePractical6298 - 16h Cleaning houses. They gave me a quick tutorial on how they like the houses cleaned, since I would be cleaning alone, I wouldn't clean any houses bigger then 1200 square feet. My first house was 3000 sq feet and I had 2 hours to clean top to bottom. I got what I could do done in 2 hours. Boss called me to go back because customer wasn't satisfied, I blocked the number. ... Reply 223
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    Font - Cowboy Camploo • 17h Went into a Mexican restaurant with the idea that I was going to be a cook. And found out very quickly I was a dish washer, right after quitting another dish washing job like a week before that I hated. And on top of that I had non slip shoes on and the restaurant had slick ass tile in the back that still had me basically skating. I left within the hour. ... Reply 587
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    Font - MissHibernia +2•16h 2 Awards In 1967 when 18 I thought I was going to do a telephone customer service job but it was selling aluminum siding for the home. This job was in a little room with a dozen other girls, very loud. Everyone I called screamed and yelled about being disturbed, and I don't blame them. Then I realized that this was on commission. I wasn't going to be selling anything, wasn't going to make any money, and anyone I contacted hated me. So it was day one and done. I tried t
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    Font - FreshlyWritten69 Temp job right out of college. During the training phase I was told if I made an error I would get yelled at by him, his boss, his boss's boss and the owner of the company. I assumed it was a joke and he didn't laugh. 17h I told him this was going to be a bad fit and walked. Reply 4336 ...
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    Font - Just_Frosting2840. 17h Worked Arby's for 4 hours. Came in 4am, prepped meat, shown registers lightly, then left to tend both lobby and drive-thru. Manager just sat in the office. Took my break and never went back. Reply ... 264
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    Font - pitterpatter0207 '+1.16h Got a job in a car repair shop as a tech, everything was going decent for a first day lunch time rolls around boss tells me to go get lunch for him at the local grocery store that makes really good subs in the deli, No biggie I'll get mine and his at the same time. He then proceeds to hand me a shopping list tells me to grab groceries, stop at the high school pick his son up and drop groceries and kid at his house before returning. How bout eat shit? Reply 452
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    Font - El-Viking +1. 15h It was a call center answering phone calls from people getting pop up ads saying "you've won a free vacation!" in the early days of the internet. I tried to follow the script for the first few calls but quickly realized it wasn't a "free" vacation. Reply 95
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    Font - FreshChicken Eggs +1. 14h I was temping for a logistics company. The girl who was training me could not explain how to do the job. She gave vague instructions like "You look for empty rail cars and then make sure they are this certain kind and can handle the freight assigned to them" - I asked is there some way to tell the difference in the types of rail cars because they were just boxes on a screen. Do I click on them and maybe get a description like this one is a refrigerated unit, etc?
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    Font - She gave me some filing to do. There were tons of offices on the floor I worked on and it was DEAD SILENT. No one spoke above a whisper and that was only when necessary. The girl I was temping for was on maternity leave and had worked there 2 years, the girl training me wasn't sure what her name was. I left at lunch and didn't go back. ... Reply 87

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