Ex-Employees Spill Tea on Why They Quit on the First Day

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Sienna Varady
Nov 30, 2023 3:00 PM EST

There are a few important ground rules we should remember when entering the workforce... The first rule is to NEVER allow someone to take advantage of your inexperience or lack of knowledge. I know, pretty obvious, but you would be surprised by the number of people that I personally know that have experienced this. I would have loved to share all of the juiciest stories with you, but what kind of friend would that make me?

So, I may not be able to share my friends' experiences, but I am super excited to share with you some of the juiciest stories that I have stumbled upon while scrolling on Reddit. If you're even the tiniest bit curious and LOVE to gossip (and don't worry… your secret is safe with me), check out the screenshots below! And when you're done, and you feel like a quick giggle, don't forget to check out some funny classical art memes here!

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    Posted by u/KJ-The-Wise 4 days ago People who quit a job on the first day, what happened?
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    kylegilliscomedy. 4 days ago I was hired as a cook at a Huddle House. On my first day I learned that they lied about which shifts I'd have in the interview, I'd be expected to basically run the restaurant alone on graveyard shift after only a week of training, and this place was violating health codes left and right.
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    Lochan2468 4 days ago I worked at Home Bargains and did my first shift on a Saturday, I was off on the Sunday originally, and they waited until 11pm on the Saturday to call me and not ask me but tell me to cover a Sunday but the conversation went as followed. "Hey we've changed the rota and you're working tomorrow 8am-5pm.” I was busy on the Sunday as I had family commitments since I assumed I was free being my day off.
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    "Well that will go down as an unauthorised absence if you don't turn up." "Alright then I quit." "WHAT?!" I then hung up and never went back.
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    mmmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmm - 4 days ago I worked at Costco for a while. Overall great job, but schedules were a sh OW. They only had printed schedules, hung in the break room. They would always come out 1-2 days before the upcoming week, so we could never make plans for days off ahead of time.
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    Also, they would constantly change the schedules and not notify anyone, even if you were not working and couldn't possibly see the revision without coming in on your day off. Multiple times I got angry calls from management asking where I am on a day I was off/didn't work til later. Also I showed up multiple times for morning shifts and was sent back home cause I was changed to afternoon for that day. Really gets your blood boiling.
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    Robbie-R 4 days ago When I was around 14 I worked for Dickie Dee Icecream (think Canadian Good Humor) for ONE DAY riding a bicycle/cooler. You were paid a commission based on what you sold, but you had to pay for your dry ice. Long story short, you had to ride that thing all day in blazing heat to make virtually no money. This was the in the mid 80s, I hope this is illegal now.
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    Korncakes 4 days ago I had a friend quit from a restaurant her first week out of training. Called before her shift and was like "yeah no I'm done, just figured I'd give a courtesy call." The manager called her back shortly after, screaming at her that they wasted something like $10,000 training her and that she could be sued if she didn't pay back. For a server position. We were
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    st d out of our minds and she had him on speaker with the microphone muted and we were hyperventilating laughing so hard at this idiot scream into nothing. When she finally composed herself, all she could muster was a half "good luck with that" and then hung up.
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    BaseTensMachine 4 days ago edited 4 days ago . . I was working at Zara. They didn't do advertising at the time and instead are very particular about how they set up the store. My last hour was being screamed at by the woman in charge of the store's appearance for not folding clothes fast enough (she was screaming at all of us. Imagine an hour of a woman standing on the top floor alternating between "Let's go, people!" And shouted insults). We finished 15 minutes early. Which means we got paid le
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    Then we were asked to clock out for a "team meeting". We did and the woman screamed at us so much she drove herself to tears. The woman who hired me apologized on my way out and I told her I wouldn't be back. I didn't even pick up my check. Nor have I ever, ever, ever bought anything from Zara ever again. Even secondhand, I won't do it. I have like a P D reaction to that store.
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    No Significance6785- 4 days ago I got hired for the local Taco Bell. On my first day it was a busy Thursday night and everyone was stressed and yelling at each other. I was asked to come in at 3 but never told when I was supposed to leave so I asked, because if I was going to be there for a long time I also wanted a break. The person in charge wasn't even a manager and they told me they didn't know what to tell me because they don't have a manager right now to make schedules. She
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    mentioned they were open until 3 am and asked me how long I would stay. I got really sketched out so my next question was about how they were counting for my labor since I was new and wasn't in the computer yet, and there was no manager on site to input my labor manually. She had no idea what I was talking about. I never walked out of somewhere so fast in my life
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    Clearyjim 4 days ago · edited 4 days ago . I was having a real tough time finding a job out of college in 2009 in a difficult economy and finally found an outside sales position selling copy machines and office equipment to small businesses. During the interview, the manager said it would be a salary position plus commission but when I showed up for my first day they said it was actually 100% commission and there was no salary.
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    I sat down at my new desk and my name was spelled wrong on my name plate. The training on my first day was riding along with my boss as he called on offices. He took me through a bikini barista drive thru stand for coffee and dropped a couple s y lines to the barista. Once the work started he proceeded to get shut down immediately by the receptionist at every office we went in.
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    The next day I told him I wouldn't be coming back in and wished him luck.
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    drc84- 4 days ago I worked for this small lawn care outfit in Baton Rouge. So you know it was hot as The first thing the guy did was drove to the store left me in the truck with the truck running to go inside and get snacks. I thought to myself this place can't be all that well organized. so then we went to go cut yards and we cut this gigantic apartment complex. They said they would pay me per yard and they counted the apartment complex as one yard. So for a 12 hour day I made $36. I never went
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    _phish_. 4 days ago It was the second day on the job not the first but close enough. I had left another job to go to this new company with the promise that I wouldn't have to stay late. I was told I would be working basically a 9-5 which I was perfectly happy with. That day I didn't get off until 10 PM. I texted my boss as I got off and said I they wouldn't be seeing me again.
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    SketchAinsworth - 4 days ago Started bartending at a country club during a break from college, not my first bartending gig. I'm minding my business, getting the regulars drink preferences down when the waitress in the dinning room starts yelling at me. She proceeded to yell at me on and off my entire shift. Not about her tables drinks, just about everything I was doing, like a mean boss.
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    A customer ended up telling her off, complaining to management and leaving as he said he just wanted a quiet beer after a long day, not listen to me get berated. After my shift management told me they planned to make her a manager soon, so we needed to work it out. I quit on the spot and walked out.
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    mrSalamander 4 days ago edited 4 days ago It was a split shift. 2 hour lunch, 2 hour break, then 4 hour dinner service. The entire lunch shift the owner sat in a corner table and would yell demands (go fill water.. etc) I was already planning to do. Then he told me (after shift started) that the tips are pooled with all staff including him. So I never showed up for the dinner service.
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    PicaDiet 4 days ago I was washing dishes at a nice Chinese/ Asian place in college. They used little dabs of bright red sweet and sour sause on the walls of the kitchen to tack up notices. There were little filthy dark red smudges everywhere. But that was just kind of gross.
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    Even though the owner was ethnically Korean, he had grown up in Kansas City. Most of the kitchen staff were ethnically and culturally Chinese and most spoke little English. They just called me "Boy". So did the owner.
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    The last straw of my one-shift tenure was when we were closing, one of the staff handed me a plastic bucket which I had used earlier as a mop bucket, and he told me, "Boy! Wash this." I gave it a quick rinse to get most of the gray sludge out of the bottom and handed it back to him. The owner literally cuffed me in the back of the head and yelled "You want us to sore vegetables in that? It's still filthy!". I responded, "No, I never expected it would
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    used for anything other than mopping." His slow, deliberate response was, "That's. Why. He. Told. You. To. WASH. It. When someone tells you to wash a bucket, you WASH it, BOY!" I took my apron off and dropped it where I was standing and told him he should be surprised if I didn't report him to the department of health (which I did), and walked out. They were put on probation by
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    the health board due to my complaint and they closed a few months later for good. It had been open a decade or more. I don't know if I had anything to do with getting it shuttered, but I was sure glad when it closed.
    via u/PicaDiet

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