15+ Workers who quit their jobs on the spot: '[Bosses] expected me to do an unpaid training shift to deliver pizzas'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 12, 2025 5:00 PM EST

These employees had no problem saying goodbye to their worst job ever. Sometimes, you can plan out a 2-week notice… but other times, the conditions are so disruptive that you have no choice but to leave immediately. 

These workers all had unique stories about why they left their worst jobs ever, but there were definitely some areas of overlap. For example, several people talked about how their mean coworkers were really getting to them. One person had an especially strange case of this: they started working at a chiropractic office, and were told they'd have to stand all day long, every day. Now, that's not entirely unusual — a lot of retail jobs require the same thing. But in their case, they watched as all their coworkers did get to sit down all day in cushy chairs. This person even had a medical issue that should've prevented the directive to stand for 8 hours a day… but it seems like neither their boss nor their coworkers thought it was important enough to allow them to sit down. 

Other people realized they were getting swindled just as they started their jobs. If your boss asked you to deliver pizzas without getting paid as a training period, would you do it? Probably not, and one person here felt the same way. It'd be too easy for the boss to take advantage of a person they're not even paying. Just in case you needed the reminder, don't work for free! And don't be afraid to to quit a job you really dislike. A better job is out there! 

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    Frank Gallagher_ I got a job at a truck stop restaurant when i was 17. The boss introduced me to everyone and disappeared and the person who was supposed to train me wasn't there that day. Throughout the day i shadowed a few people in the kitchen and out at the buffet but didn't really know what i was
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    doing. At the end of shift my boss came back and asked how my first day was and said he hoped i learned a lot because I'd be opening and running the buffet alone tomorrow on 1st shift. I handed him my apron and told him good luck and walked out.
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    [deleted] My first day at this chiropractic office I noticed that every single staff member had a desk with a chair that they could sit in except for me. I was being hired for their receptionist position and my desk sat in front of an opening that stood to about my chest (I'm 5'0).
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    Could not for the life of me understand why considering it was an office position where I would only really need to stand to use office equipment or set up the rooms for clients. The girl that was training me to be her replacement and I stood there for the entire 8 hour shift, often stagnant, while all other office staff sat at their desks.
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    I texted the owner that evening to tell him that due to my flat feet it would be extremely difficult for me to stand, especially stagnant, for an entire 8 hour shift. Especially since the position had zero requirement for it. I even offered to pay for the seat. I explained that I would be alright with standing when required to, even if that meant I was moving around for most of my shift, but that having no
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    opportunity to sit down seemed a little cruel. He proceeded to go on a tirade about how that position had been a standing position for more than 20-years. Told me that sitting was bad for your back. He also told me that if I mirrored his other location he would see that I wouldn't
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    be standing stagnant or even have the opportunity to sit down because the position requires a lot of movement. All this knowing that every other staff member, including him, were sitting for about 70% of that day. I quit on the spot.
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    Sky_no7 Buddy got me to apply for a job at his work. I was a former lead of shipping at another job, and was told this would be a data entry, orders organizing desk type job. They directed me to a temp service, and the temp service tested my ability to use a windows, did a typing speed test, an Excel knowledge test, etc. I
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    passed them with flying colors, computer usage is like breathing to me. Another day I came in and they quizzed me on UPS and Fedex shipping software, international USPS orders. Again, knew it all like the back of my hand. Got hired, showed up, they put me stacking paper products into boxes on pallets for 12 hours. I asked
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    why I went through all the computer usage tests, and got a shrug from the supervisor. Next morning my back was killing me, but I got in the car anyway and drove towards work. Some dude on a motorcycle cut through 3 lanes, the car beside me had to swerve into my lane to avoid him, and I had to go into the service lane. I took the next exit and just went home.
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    LongRoofFan Expected me to do an unpaid training shift to deliver pizzas. Nah, I'm out.
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    TheCervus Not first day, but three days in, a girl who was training me literally yelled and threw a book at me because she was annoyed by all my questions. I explicitly made it clear when I was hired that there were certain aspects of the job I'd never done before. So I needed training. And I really wanted to understand
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    what I was doing, but there was one specific thing I was having trouble with. I apologized for asking so many questions, but apparently this wasn't good enough. This girl made me feel so stupid that I was on the verge of tears. Worse, the boss stood there and watched her yell at me and throw the instruction manual at me, and did nothing.
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    Pretty sure I dodged a bullet.
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    DarthLysergis I walked out of the UPS interview process. I was in college and my schedule changed like 3 times a year, I don't want to shit on the company but the interview was pretty straight to the point. I was told to arrive at a UPS warehouse parking lot at 2:30am. When I arrived
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    there were like 30 people waiting as well. A woman gathered everyone around and put it bluntly: You will not get any days off in your first year, you will absolutely work the holidays. Missing any time. will definitely get you terminated, and if you get terminated you will be black listed by UPS going forward. I went back to bed.
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    [deleted] Applied for a local power- washing company, place seemed legit. For the first job, the owner takes me out to an unoccupied house in the middle of the woods, shows me how to start the washer, how to unfold the sixty foot ladder, and then bounces and says the entire house (THREE STORIES) has to be done by 5. Total orientation time: about 5
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    minutes. I told him I wasn't comfortable working on ladders BY MYSELF, he said it'll be fine and he believes in me. So I start power washing the base of the house, and it starts raining about twenty minutes in. Eventually I do as much as I can from the ground, and I start climbing up the ladder to do the upper levels. The ground is
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    wet, the house is built on a slope, and the recoil from the washer is pushing me back. I felt like at any moment, that ladder was going to lose its footing and I was going to fall... and nobody would be around to hear me scream, I'd be out there until the boss realized the truck wasn't back at the end of shift.
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    $11/hr was not worth it, I packed up the equipment, called him and told him I quit, and drove back to the office to drop it off. Total time as an employee: 4 hours.
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    [deleted] Was told we had to get permission before using the restroom. Left that moment.
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    NewHumbug The boss asked to borrow some money. lol nope.
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    monotoonz Candy factory. I saw a woman pass out in the line to clock out and not a single person went to help her. I ran to my trainer to tell her and she just rolled her eyes like she couldn't give two fucks. Also, the green paint they use on the fake grass that goes into the prepackaged Easter baskets. That shit
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    gets EVERYWHERE and the people stuffing it into the baskets were only given those super cheap, blue disposable masks to wear. I knew that place was a sneeze away from like 30 OSHA violations. Never went back after that first day.
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    Kringels I went in for an interview for a "sales position". When I get there I'm interviewed for about a minute before he said "ok, you're good to go for the next stage, go into the next room and we'll be with you shortly." The next room had about 10 people. sitting around looking a little confused. About 20 minutes later a guy walks in dragging
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    a vacuum cleaner. He started into his pitch about how easy it is to sell $1000 vacuum cleaners going door 2 door. But go for your relatives first since they're easier to sell to. When he started giving suggestions like "when they open the door, throw a handful of dirt on their carpet" I just got up and noped the fuck out. About half the room filed out behind me.
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    HardBanana Peel I was asked to sign off on notes and bill insurance for services that were provided months prior to me starting the job. Insurance fraud. Reported it to licensing agency, quit. Nothing happened to them.
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    usn... Expectations of job were different from when getting hired to after starting. Including 18 hour days and having to stay later based on if someone came in last minute or not. Made it too lunch called and said I would not be coming back.
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    CerRogue Engineer with multiple degrees showed up for the new job they show me to the garage and expect me to start changing oil and rotating tires... still paying 6 figures but I'm so confused, it gets explained to me that
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    amc81879 I was told that the machines were mostly automated so the physical labor wasn't that bad. Then they wanted me to push a several hundred pound cart of cores all the way thru the plant and said this would have to be done every day at least once maybe twice. I had a
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    total hip replacement so no way I am doing that. No one should be doing that. It should be done by a forklift or battery powered pallet jack. I left my first day on the production floor, third day overall.
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    punchbricks Lost my job during COVID and was looking for anything, as long as it paid. more than unemployment was currently. I got accepted in a sales position at a local favorite furniture store. I asked how the commission worked and they told me that it was usually much faster than it was currently but
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    commission doesn't pay out until the product is delivered and that COVID had expanded timelines to a 1-2 months, rather than a few weeks. On my first day I was told that I had to purchase my own iPad to make sales on as the store only had 2 and they were used based on seniority. Not a deal breaker but super annoying this
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    wasn't explained beforehand. Later, I was filling out paperwork in the break room and saw a bunch of manufacturer names written on a whiteboard with dates. next to them. The closest date was 6 months out. I asked an employee what the dates meant and he said "that's the expected date of delivery for each brand we carry"
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    I called my wife, we talked it through and both came to the conclusion that we couldn't afford for me to work for $10 an hour (less than my unemployment) for 6 months before seeing my first commission check. Left without saying anything and called the manager on the way home who said I was "overreacting and would be sorry".
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    Got a much better job and was happy to have made the decision.
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    [deleted] Job ad: "Work with pro sports teams" The job: Selling nonsense in front of a supermarket
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    akaMichAnthony Hired at a factory job back when I was 18-19ish, it was my first "real" non-fast food job. It was a one person per shift forklift driver position. Was told only 2nd shift was available, but I could apply to 1st shift whenever it opened up. First day I found out not only was 1st shift open, but I was expected to be the one that
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    would train whoever they hired. And no I couldn't take the ار 1st shift opening. They wanted an "adult" to fill 1st shift. Not sure why they were surprised when I told them I wasn't coming back for day 2.
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    im_just_exsisting Sonic. I got yelled at for not knowing how to make some speciality drink for the morning. Literally had been there like 3 hours. I walked out
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    EatFood2Survive This BS start-up that wanted to become "the next YouTube." They hired me to do software QA for them. I had two technical interviews before being hired― then they tell me on the first day that we get paid once a month, it's $150 a month to use the parking lot, and the hours are actually NOT 9 to 5, but that they work "as late as possible every night to
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    make as much progress on the project as possible." I was livid and asked them why they never bothered to mention this to me in either of my interviews- they snobbishly responded, "do you want to be part of a hot new start-up or not?" I walked and made DAMN sure I was able to get on unemployment. Within less
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    than three months, all their employees had found different jobs and the company went bankrupt. *EM.
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    [deleted] My brother got a job at McDonald's. First day of work, they sent him home. and said he needed to be in black pants and a black shirt. They asked him to reschedule his training for another day that week. He simply never went back.
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    CommunicationHo... It was a family style seafood restaurant and I was bussing tables. Found out that the waitresses didn't tip out and said eff that. This was a summer job in college for the record.
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    itsatwisttt I did one shift at a coffee shop in NYC. The lady who ran the place was also the baker - there were also baristas on staff. I was in charge of the upstairs seating area, running coffees, taking people's orders & bringing out their food. On my first day one of the baristas, who had been
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    there for a bit, remarked "why would YOU work HERE?!" after he had learned about my previous position. Ok, weird but whatever. The baristas would also give a side glance to each other when the lady in charge's name would come up. I kinda knew what that look meant after ages of working in the restaurant industry
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    The place was pretty busy & there was a lot of running up and down the stairs to fetch coffees and bring them up to the seating area... but no way to know if your coffee. was ready, you just had to run down and check. That got annoying, quick. The lady who ran the place was yelling the whole day and was sooo incredibly chaotic and disorganized during the entire shift.
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    Running around like a chicken with her head cut off. The kicker was she peaces out at like 3pm every day. Didn't show up to any shifts after that.
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