Employees discuss why they quit their jobs only a few days (or hours) in: ‘[I was] working 12-13 hours a day’

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  • A male employee leaves his office with a box of his belongings.
  • "Have you ever quit your job after just a few days in it? If so, why? I'm pondering about doing it"

    Give me your story
  • Kuildeous I quit as dishwasher that night. It was definitely not to my liking. Funnily enough, one of my more enjoyable aspects of working at a Pizza Hut was just chilling in the back washing pans. But washing pans was much better than cleaning food that other people ate off of. I don't know your job or what industry you're looking into. I know that the job market has been rough for many fields. So unless you are comfortable with the idea of being unemployed for a long time, you may consider try
  • OP Upper-Mouse763 Bank teller. But I come from a law background. My contract is only 1 month so anyways is not gonna last long
  • fawningandconning When i was last job hunting after I got laid off almost a decade ago I got a formal offer from Company A while Company B was still taking their time to give me the formal offer. I accepted Company A's while B went through their motions to give me the actual written offer, which ironically I got on my first day with company A. Company B was my dream job at the time so I worked at A for 2 weeks while the background check went through and then resigned on the spot the Friday befor
  • Medium Acceptable 129 I left a job after barely 2 hours
  • A yellow Post-It note that reads, "I quit!"
  • Mean_Prize5459 At 17, I was hired as a valet driver for a large casino in south Florida. During my first shift, I got told all the drivers were pooling their tips to be split at the end of the night, and that tips needed to be given to our shift lead. The night goes on and I collect/hand- over about $40-$50 in tips (about 3 hours at this point) before noticing nobody else is doing this. I ask one of the other drivers and he has no idea what "tip pool" even means. I confront the shift lead and he
  • UnderstandingLow4768 I got a sales job working 12-13 hours a day and they wouldn't let us have lunch sometimes or leave for lunch on busy days. Just wasn't for me
  • VettaVetta101 Yes. I was supposed to have a position that allowed me to sit. They switched me to a position after one day to standing and bending all day. Nope. Not taking the ol' switcheroo.
  • BigMomma12345678 Most jobs feel terrible the first 6 weeks. I would only leave earlier than this if I felt unsafe there.
  • StrictCompetition765 I worked at a local community college. It was an okay job but it was an overnight job and couldn't hang
  • chknsalad89 I quit McDonalds after just 2 days. Standing in one place bagging fries all day with no freedom to think or make decisions was my worst nightmare
  • Public_ ng_Media Yes but I really want to caveat this with it being a really different time for jobs and it won't happen today... I was fresh out of college and working with a tech staffing agency. Got a second placement after my first three month IT support one, and it had been sold as a better position - it was not, it was password resets for little old lady insurance accounts. Quit after the first day. Spent the next two weeks looking for jobs and got two, one of which I've been at now for 15
  • Stardustmoondust Yes. They were asking me to do illegal things. I refused to do it, and when I confronted them about it, they told me everyone does it and it's not a big deal. Plus, they were super micromanaging. It was an on-call job, and even on days I did not work, I had to email them to say I worked zero hours. It may seem like small thing but I hated that they would take up mental real estate on days I'm not even getting paid for. Also, they did not pay me to join mandatory company zoom cal
  • glitterkitty279 I once left a start up after a week. When I came on board, I quickly realised both owners were in the middle of fighting with each other. They constantly failed to show up to important meetings and I became the mediator/messenger between them because they were so at odds with one another. Not only that but I could see how miserable and stressed their staff were. All working long hours, poor compensation, their Ops manager looked like she was going to pass out in the middle of a b
  • Professional_Bid_579 Subway. Quit after one day because the owner wanted me to put 6 pieces of onion on the sandwich. He literally stared me down if I put more lol
  • Sweet_Bass8222 Day 3 off orientation - i walked out. i was trying my hand at serving tables when i was a teenager. i got a 3 cent tip from a group of demanding old ladies after busting my ass for hours trying to please them.

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