'They told me on day 2 that they had to fire a few people': 25+ Newly hired employees who quit their jobs almost immediately

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    Kopfstandnode 800 000 SQ31 Method Re Survey + Read Question Eboration
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    What's the shortest you've lasted at a job before you quit?
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    Joeclu Couple of hours. Call center. Another one was about 1 hour. It was flat old cold calling in the phone book trying to sell computers. It was bad.
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    Dapper-Import... 25 minutes. Got a job in a restaurant, kitchen was absolutely disgusting, cooks smoking on the line, oil all over the floor, meat out for who knows how long, walked out
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    ratmoon25 I no-showed my first day because I got a better offer.
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    N Sucked it up and got hired at McDonald's. The guy training me was, well, aggressively differently abled. He's showing me how to mop, like I somehow didn't know how to mop. I just couldn't do it. He ran after me into the parking lot and yelled 'get back here! you can't just leave!' And I'm still laughing about it 30 years later.
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    Electronic_Us... I think six weeks. It was a call center taking roadside assistance calls. I couldn't take the verbal ab e
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    gouwbadgers 2 days. I was hired as a temporary office assistant in college. I'd be filing papers, making photocopies, etc. They told me on day 2 that they had to fire a few people the next week but didn't want to do it, so it was my job to do it. I didn't come
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    back on day 3. I can't imagine having so much disrespect for your employees that you have some part time minimum wage temp fire them.
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    SugarHooves About an hour as a telemarketer. I don't even remember what I was selling but the verbal ab e was off the rails.
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    AttemptVeget... 4 days selling kirby vacuums. The first two days were orientation, the next two were hl.
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    GunitGeneral2... 1 day. I didn't know that a fast food cashier also cooks and cleans and does a million other things. Fxck that. Lol younger me got tf up outta there
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    hungaryboii I worked 5 shifts at a restaurant and I quit because I realized I really didn't want to work another restaurant job
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    comfortablynu... 2weeks "selling" encyclopaedias door to door after the Internet had already been invented. No one could afford them, they were out of date annually (obviously) and I at being a liar (I mean salesman )
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    stupididiot78 Low wage job - A day at Walmart. High wage job - I left the second day when I was supposed to be running a dialysis clinic. I'm a nurse and that place was in such
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    bad shape that I was not going to risk my nursing license or a lawsuit when any number of patients. there finally file a malpractice suit. It wasn't there for long and I've always wondered what happened that shut them down.
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    LeditGabil Not me but a guy we hired as a devop in my team. He came in at 9AM on his first day and left for lunch at noon and never came back. Never sent an email or a call about leaving to anyone. He became a legend in the team... Some say he's still hiding somewhere in the office and we always blame him for every little thing that goes wrong
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    RIPdon_sutton Did a seasonal job at Pier One about 33 years ago. Lasted about 30 minutes.
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    Spirited-Chem... One day, meat processing
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    elphaba00 I didn't technically start, but I once (verbally) accepted a job and then ghosted them when they called later to set up the onboarding process. I came to my senses when I realized I could do better. I was accepting out of desperation.
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    Daily BreadEnj... My first job at Burger King. absolutely disgusting kitchen with little regard for food safety. I lasted 3 hours. I just told them this isn't for me. Don't eat at BK.
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    slamuri 3 days. Day 3 the guy transported us to a rental property in a Penske truck. One guy sat in the back in the pitch back with open buckets of water. Of course he ended up soaked. We get there and he tells me and that guy to scrape the ASBESTOS SIDING with no ppe. He also tells us that he's leaving and when he
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    comes back that house better be completely scraped. Dudeman got right up and started killing himself trying to get that thing scraped. White streaks going up into his nose. White powder all over his hair, face, etc. I called up the sh and said "hey just so you know.. This is illegal. We're only being paid 8 an hour
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    and we have no safety gear. I...” Him: "consider this a test. You want this job, you do what I tell you no questions asked." Yeah.. nah. Hung up called my old lady to get me. I'd only taken the job as a job after we moved to a new city while I was waiting on all my base passes to get
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    approved so it wasn't really detrimental. Also this was back in 2015. It was really sad to see what that other dude was willing to do to himself for 8 dollars an hour.
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    TripzNFalls My first job as a teen, mid 70s. Hired at a nearby amusement park to be a ride operator. First day, owner tells me he moved me to an area where they "needed a big guy". It was part of the team picking up garbage. So, maybe 5 minutes?
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    piggy_wig When I was 16 I worked one day as a waitress. Never went back.
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    MamaTried22 1 training day and then another job was nearly 2 weeks both service industry- I'm usually a manager but I took a server job somewhere and quit after my first training shift because I just cannot, the other was a GM position. over a coffee shop that I was insanely overqualified for, being underpaid, and it was a major sh show.
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    VypreX_ Not me, but my daughter was hired to wait tables at a brand new restaurant when she was 17. She went to her 3-hr orientation on a Sunday morning and was told by the assistant manager to report for her first shift on Wednesday. On Wednesday we dropped her off for her first shift and hadn't even arrived back home 10 minutes away when she
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    called and asked us to come pick her up. In the afternoon, after her orientation on Sunday, the general manager had come in and created the weeks schedule and had given her shift on Monday - which she wasn't aware of because
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    again, she had been told by the assistant manager to report to her first shift on Wednesday. As soon as she walked in the door for her Wednesday shift, the general manager immediately fired her while stating that the schedules are posted on Sundays.
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    johnny_19800 Three weeks. I wrote my resignation while my general manager sat beside me at my desk. When I finished, I turned the monitor toward him, let him lean in to read it, smiled, picked up my computer bag, and walked out.
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    Swimming-Fly... 20 minutes. At Michael's back in the 90s.
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    Wealthy_Vamp... 2 weeks. Fired for no reason. They refused to train me on anything but the grill. Waste of my _time.
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    Original_Gypsy I had guy come into work today and last 5 minute's
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    WhiteLycan20... 3 hours for training on day 1. Quit the next day. This was a door to door bulls job
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    TemperatePirate 5 minutes into the intro for a job that clearly was just cold sales when it had been advertised as something else. I don't remember now exactly what I thought the job was but I stood up and walked out silently.
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    lilgreenowl A few weeks. Toxic, toxic office environment where people tried to sabotage each other. Horrific.
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    flecksable_flyer Three days at a Food Lion. deli. No recipes, no menu, limited training, and they expected me to work alone that sh. day four. F
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    motherofsquw... 2 hours, maybe? I got hired for a second job at McDonald's in the 2000s because my boyfriend and I were trying to financially get ahead (I was less than thrilled though). I went in for my first day, did my paperwork, and then the
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    lady asked me what size of the ugly polyester pants they provided, I wore so she could order them. I said, "Oh, if I can't wear my own pants, I can't work here," and then walked out.
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    Havok1717 1 day. The following day, the gate didn't let me in the building, and I went home early. The temp agency got mad at me about the incident. It wasn't my fault the gate wasn't working and didn't let me in.
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    MostlyHarmle... I work in the trades...took a side job as a server in a restaurant to help with Christmas money. Lasted 2 shifts. Hat's off to you who deal with that.
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    asyouwish_123 Call center for a phine company. I lasted 2 months. The only time in my life I've ever had bad headaches.
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    megatronsaurus 2 hours. They told us during onboarding that we couldn't use the bathroom unless it was during a break that we had to clock out for. It was a wfh computer job.
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    Past-Mistake-... I've never quit a job, but I did get fired from my first job ever the first day because my boss found out that I couldn't stay longer than a few weeks even though I literally said that I'm a 16- year-old student when applying so of course I can't stay past summer at least in the shift I have because it was a morning shift
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    Larry Bagina3 I once got fired on my first day for being late
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    Citizen_Kano 20 minutes. Cleaning out a fertilizer factory. The dust on the floor was above ankle height
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    RapscallionMo... 4 hours. An independent little dry cleaner in a small rural town in Central Florida in the summer of 1987. I was 17 yrs old, and I got yelled at for ironing the collars too well. I was wasting time. It was so hot. There was no air conditioning, and I don't like being yelled at. Worked til lunch and didn't go back.
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    bayala43 4 hours at a Sam's Club. Absolute nut jobs, both the customers and management. Never even got paid, but honestly I couldn't care less.
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    sharonoddlyen... One day. I took a job at a florist, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. The ad said driving deliveries was a part of it, but I didn't realise how small a part that was of the actual job.
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    unfavorablefu... made it through 3 hours of paid training and then no- called no-showed on the very first day. the manager who was training me made a really nasty remark about my appearance as I was leaving.
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    i probably wasn't supposed to hear it, but thankfully I did. it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I never went back. no wonder she had no staff.
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    KatiaHailstorm A few hours at a gas station. It was job number 3 while I was just trying to fill up my time and not have to go home. I couldn't do it
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    P Traxx Not me, but my press. assistant. His job was to take ice cream cone wrappers that I was printing. Put them in a stack, put the stack in a box, and put the box on a skid. He lasted until lunch. He did t come back and his mom called up asking if we had anything easier. Guy was 20ish. It was entry level work.
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