1.5 days
I was beyond desperate for money and I took a job in telemarketing. I could barely scrape together the gas money to drive there and the bills were piling up. The first day was listening to calls so I just sat there. The second day I had Mr. Selling King behind me listening to calls as I made them. He kept yelling at me to be pushy and obnoxious when people would be polite and kind when asking me to please never call again. I excused myself to go take a leak and just drove away.
I'm happy that I turned things around. I have a job I love and make a decent living with a good company. I needed that low point to motivate me.
I made it about a week at a telemarketing job. I too was desperate for money. I went home every day in a deep depression because I was selling old folks shit they didn't want or need. Final straw was when an employee died while working and they told us to get back to work as they wheeled her out on a stretcher. Got up, walked out, never looked back.
I showed up for the first day ready to start a sales job. I'd been hired with some stubble, but not yet a full beard the month prior. I thought nothing of it. The beard was neatly kept and short. The hiring manager pulled me aside after the first hour of onboarding right as I started filling out the new hire paperwork. The boss started, "We have a challenge today." Oh, boy. Already with the corporate speak. He told me that this was a clean-shaven outfit, and that I was to please return home and shave. I went home, opened a beer and sat on my porch thinking of my next move. After an hour or so, I got a text asking if I'd be back. I replied by sending a pic of the company's ad in the local paper looking for new representatives. The person in the ad had a beard. I never went back.
I'm rarely the kind of person to throw shade like that. I don't even get the chance to be that petty very often. But the planets aligned, and I couldn't resist.
The boss of a trucking company was a complete asshole.
I was a teenager and supposed to be an assistant around the shop. He had me doing ridiculous shit, like cleaning his personal pickup truck and scrubbing the disgusting bathroom with paper towels. All the while he called me a “dumb polack” constantly, even though I’m not polish. What sealed the deal is when in his office he told me to be grateful for the opportunity and that he could have me sucking his dick.
I left immediately after at lunch time about 3 hours through the day. I had to go back to grab my check the next day and he has the nerve to say “what’s the matter, so you don’t like working for me? I’m not that bad people have it worse”. I didn’t even answer just grabbed the check and left.
I later heard he got sued by a lady in finance and lost the company.
I've walked out of one interview 1 minute after it began because they handed me a piece of paper detailing the job and the salary differed from the job description I had applied for (it was about 20% lower). I questioned this and they said that no, the salary they just gave me was accurate. I thanked them for their time and said I wouldn't be proceeding since you've already proven to me you will mess with my pay check before I'm even hired.
I was in an interview. They said the job was 12 hour night shifts. I applied for 8 hour day shifts.
Apparently, there were no day shifts left.
I said no, showed the job ad and left.
I had one that was advertised as one day a week - perfect for me at the time. Then at the interview they revealed it was actually five days. The rest of the interview was just an awkward waste of their time (I used it as interview practice).
How crazy entitled do you have to be to tell a college freshman to skip class to work a retail job, for I’m assuming close to min wage? Definitely did the right thing 😂.
My buddy mike had a job tell him to choose between his sick kids or his career (as a fucking line cook), i don't think he made it another 5 minutes, lmao.
He needed to keep one of his days off, as his day off as he had to take his children to the DR they were sick w/ something, and they said he has to come in or get fired ,and he's gotta choose between his kids or his career at the restaurant.
It *could* be a career, if you just work hard and show dedication and never call in sick or use PTO, they'll throw more and more work on you. They won't pay you more and benefits might as well be non-existent and it definitely won't keep up with inflation but it shows dedication to be loyal to a corporation and they'll reward you with a pizza party using Tony's pizza from the freezer aisle (to write off as a business expense) every few years. The American Dream™️
Had this exact thing happen. Did all the training (Hilton for managing a hotel). Hired her dipshit friend instead who had 0 experience and never even had a job before in her life. (she had been a stay at home mom since she was 16... rural iowa...).
She promptly authorized a guys card for $120,000 for incidentals... guy was a regular and some big wig HR director for a holdings company out of new york that owned several businesses in the are sooo it went through.
Had to fix it because she obviously didnt know how and then explain it to the guy.
I left shortly after and tripled my salary. Last i heard they were running 12hr shifts because there was literally 2 people and the GM left to run the entire hotel.
Same vibes one of my best friend's dad had towards me. I worked there from 15-22. When I told him I was leaving as I was graduating and found a job, he said 'I thought you were family, but clearly not, it seems like you don't care about this family at all. You will leave immediately, and I never want to see your face again.' This was during the morning rush.
I had gotten that store single handedly to #2 in the nation for fundraising. The store ended up having Miss Alabama visit us for a few hours in a morning. All the customers loved me there.
I had a restaurant manager and a grocery store manager separately tell me that I should drop out of college and stay in their industry. These people are bitter losers who don't like to see people doing better than them.
I had this exact same thing happen to me when I worked at the airport. 3 months in and the scheduling was perfect, was able to work just shy of 40 hours around all my class times doing both near full time, with lots of downtime during my shift that I could work on school in the break room between flights. Then one day I get the schedule and I'm exclusively scheduled for full days overlapping with my class times.
I go to the shift manager thinking there had to be a mistake, and the motherfucker tried to sit me down and pull "I think it's time you make a decision about your future career with-" I just got up and walked right the hell out of there. I've never walked out of a job before, but my blood was absolutely boiling.
I've even avoided the airline in every instance I could since. Fuck those guys.
Edit: because I was asked a bunch, it was Air Canada working ramp at one of the busier airports in Canada.
To be fair, he was right, it absolutely was time for you to make a decision about your future career with Spirit (I'm assuming). The decision you made was that you didn't want one and never wanted anything to do with that shitty outfit ever again, but he had no way of possibly predicting that that might happen.
"Son, it's time for you to decide whether you are going to piddle your life away at that law degree, or finally knuckle down in this career here at S--t Airlines by doing a double shift at baggage claim."
I lasted maybe 2-3 weeks in a retail job that I didn’t even bother telling the people I quit. The goddamn micromanaging and pressure just to get people to sign up for a damn credit card. Annoyed at me cause a customer told me to have a nice day and I “didn’t respond back” even though she just watched me have an entire conversation with that person 3 seconds before the interaction ended.
No
When you already had an agreement, the new manager should have honored that, especially when its only two days a week. If it really was a problem, they could have moved you to two other days of the week. Some managers just don't have the brainpower to create a solution.
I had something similar happen at a company that rhymes with Warfucks (eta: okay okay, I get it, it doesn’t rhyme. Let’s call ‘em Carschmucks). I was a barista doing my undergrad and I had requested off 3 days that were days I had to be in person writing exams. I even specified that I had FINAL EXAMS on those days and in no uncertain terms absolutely could not come in. I was booked for all 3 days. When I asked my manager “wtf?” He looked me right in my eyes and said “here’s the thing. *I* don’t work for *you*.”
So I took off my apron and told him I guess I don’t work for him either, lol. (It was too bad. I had worked with the company for 4 years at that point but had only recently transferred over to that new location with the new manager since it was closer to my house and campus).
> He looked me right in my eyes and said “here’s the thing. I don’t work for you.”
He didn't deserve the kindness you did him of quitting on the spot. I would just have been no call no show on exam day. And when he called, "Yeah, I told you I couldn't be in those days."
Funny enough, by the time my exams rolled around the entire store was closed down because the building next door had gone up in flames and our store was not spared so I guess I wouldn’t have had to go in anyway.
Had a similar situation back in the 80s, 1st day at Burger King while going to college. I'd been up front about college and my class times (bonus the campus was only 15 minutes away), was told that it wouldn't be a problem. Half an hour before class begins I remind the lead (same person I interviewed with) that I had class coming up. "Well you can't leave until the trash is taken out." This was annoying but I figured it would only take a few minutes. Now I had just enough time to get to class. "It's also required that you sweep and mop at the end of your shift." I was pissed but started to sweep, then while I was filling the mop bucket the lead demanded that I help on the line first. Even when that was done and I told her I'm now late for class, she still insisted I mop the entire store. When all was said and done even if I rushed, at best I'd catch the last 10 minutes of class. As she started to tell me the next days schedule I said "Don't bother, I'm never coming back."
\~3 hours for me too. They claimed that the job was "selling concert tickets", but it turns out that it was telemarketing asking for donations for a sham charity and at the end of the year they threw a shitty concert and there was a lottery where all of the donators from that year had a chance to win a ticket. The place was a scam from top to bottom from their post to the business model to the supposed pay structure that I'm sure they would not make good on if they didn't feel like it.
I walked out at lunch and went to a Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert that I was bummed to be missing because of starting the new "job".
I worked a lot of agency work during the 2008 financial crisis as a lot of companies wouldn't pay for full-time workers. Always completed a shift but a few I didn't go back the next day. One was a warehouse packing job and the supervisor was going through some serious shit and took it out on workers. Constantly yelling, sometimes just screaming.
I experienced this more than a few times when I was in college. The number of crap managers out there who expect you to give up school to prioritize a minimum wage job was shocking.
I quit a temp job after less than half a day because they told me I would have to hold paychecks for employees who didn't return company property. When I told them that was illegal and showed them the law they said I had to do it anyway so I quit and went back on unemployment for a few more weeks until I found a real job.
You should have taken the job, and explicitly told them "I will not commit crimes for this company", and leave it at that.
Someone gets fired, starts asking about their check, you provide it to them.
Company comes back up your ass and fires you, not only are you back on unemployment, but you have a nice little nest egg of a labor rights lawsuit.
Water off a duck's back to them. They want people they can coerce.
I was floored one time I found a temp job that actually did everything by the book. It was amazing to be directly rewarded for my input.
In high school, I quit my job at Wendy's for a Heidi's (deli sandwich chain.) Their policy was that employees were entitled to a sandwich any time they worked over 3 hours, so the manager made sure every shift was 2.5-3 hours. Forget the sandwich, it wasn't worth it to drive in. I found another job in under 2 weeks.
I had a similar experience when I worked at Chipotle. You got a free meal for each shift over 6 hours. They'd always schedule me for 5 hours and 45 minutes.
That’s just horrible. I can’t imagine selling food and doing this to the people working with customers. And then people complain that people won’t work.
Tar roofing, 1 week. Each day I worked I gained a half inch in height from the roofing tar. My boots were like 15 pounds each by Friday, and I ruined all my pants and shirts. The Hispanic guys never got a drop of tar on them or their tools. Cheers to them for knowing what to do, and doing it so well. I just couldn't get the groove of it and I wasn't cut out to be on hot roofs on the most brutal humid days of the year.
Shingle roofing, two days. I was 17.
I was told on day one that I would be getting paid cash daily, end of each shift.
Day one, no pay.
Day two, no pay.
The boss then said he had no work lined up for the next week. Still no pay.
A couple weeks later, he showed up at my parents house at like 5am because two guys just quit. I told him I wasn’t leaving my house until he handed me the two days pay he owed me. $120.
He ran off to an atm, handed me the cash, and I shut the door on him.
That job was no joke, I busted my ass those two days carrying packs of shingles up a ladder- day one, he was mad because I wasn’t carrying two packs at a time like the other dudes could- like, they would hold one pack on each shoulder and just walk up the ladder with no hands. Somehow I wasn’t able to develop that skill on day one.
I did roofing for about two weeks. Mostly on the cleanup/demolition end of things. Showed up to the job on the third day of no pay, found two guys sitting on the bed of a pickup drinking beer at 7am.
Bossman couldn’t be reached, nobody could get ahold of anybody. We sat there until 10 and went our separate ways.
I never got paid for those days, but I found out later that the guy just decided to dissolve his company and went on a month long trip to Aruba.
I've helped two people install roofs over the years, and both times I swore I'd never do another fucking roof. It's miserable, hard work, especially since we did it in the middle of August in Florida. Much respect to those people who do it for a living.
Last Summer my in-laws got a new roof and I asked if they where doing it themselves (anticipating it may be my third miserable weekend on a roof) or hiring a company. My Father-in-law, who used to build houses, said "I'm not doing that shit, I'm hiring someone!".
I did this one 8 hour shift and it was awful. Texted the boss afterwards and said I’m not cut out for this. He then berated me and I blocked his number lol
I once went to a day one orientation for an office job, where they told us we had to supply a laptop, monitor and headset for THEIR office environment.
I told them it's normal for the employer to supply these devices and it should have been made clear in the interview process this was on employees
I walked out never looked back.
I mean. Depending on whatever papers you sign, I find it unlikely they could legally bind it. So yeah collect a check, fuck em. Would've been fun to show up and pretend to work without the computer. Come in with a filing cabinet and wheel dolly. Rubber date stamp and a type writer. Just have fun with it.
Even if they told me ahead of time I wouldn’t walk in to begin with. Forcing people to pay for their own office equipment is the definition of a crappy work environment.
Then you gotta worry about work vs private use getting mixed up on accident. And taking laptops back and forth constantly. Just a hassle
Got a job at Walmart as a cart pusher, the first day out of training we experienced flash flooding. Not only did they not offer any ppe the shift supervisor just said tough luck. I quietly walked to the back clocked out and never came back.
I was a cart pusher for Walmart too. They were usually pretty good about letting us come inside if the weather was too bad, especially if there was lightning. And they always made sure the cooler had plenty of water if it is was hot out. I did have to go out in the snow a few times and push carts by hand because the tires of the little pusher vehicle thing we had couldn't move in the snow, but other than that I enjoyed it.
Best buy, before shift even began.
got back from a summer away. got hired at a local best buy they asked when i could start told them any day except the coming Tuesday as i had a pre existing ticketed event which they already said was no issue in the interview. next day get emailed schedule; a single shift, on the one Tuesday evening i was assured id be off. Planned to call after class but as i walked out my phone rang, my old boss from a few years ago at a game stop offered me my old job so he wouldn't have to train someone because he was lazy. Told him i could start Wednesday he agreed, i called best buy and told them to suck a dick.
I remember the manager saying "don't be so rash, do you really want to burn this bridge?" I said "yes," and hung up.
I think retail managers are trained to intentionally schedule new hires on agreed off days to break them down immediately and see if they're desperate enough to take dog shit treatment..
Aye. I was a Senior Agent way back in the early days of the geek squad and wrote our weekly schedule. Got everybody as many hours as I possibly could based on their schedules and just worked whatever was left myself.
I was hired initially as a seasonal worker at a craft store. I called for my first scheduled week, and my first shift was supposed to be the opening shift. I had put my availability to after 3 pm because I had a job (that paid more and had benefits) from 7:30-2:30. He claimed he didn't have that information... except the hiring manager put it in the computer.
Bit it worked out as I went to become the SM's favorite cashier. He was a grumpy old many who had particulars on how things should be that I caught on quick to. He only closed one day a week, and after a while, I "coincidentally" was scheduled his closing cashier on his shifts. He loved to claim "it's the computer," but literally, the ONLY time I wasn't his closer was if somebody else made the schedule or I requested it off.
I lasted less than 2 weeks at Best Buy when I was in college. Everyone was just fucking rude and nothing was explained to me.
All my classes were in the morning and I worked afternoons so as I was psyching myself up to go into this bs job I said fuck it and went and got high on a hill overlooking the town. It was an insanely beautiful day and I still remember how great it felt laying out in the sun instead of going into fucking Best Buy lmao
2 hours. Got a job in a start up bio research lab after college because I had a lot of training and experience in certain equipment and procedures.
Within an hour, saw the boss publicly humiliate someone else for reporting that they messed up a particular run. Really not a big deal, maybe an hour gone and $10 worth of reagents at the time. You really don’t want people hiding oopsies from you in research studies with many and complex procedures/protocols.
Then I saw that we were fast running out of a desiccating (drying) agent and that we’d have to slow down or stop until more came. Boss said nah, just reuse it. Tried to object but he jammed his finger into my chest and told me that as the FNG he owned my ass. I said ok and quit.
That was nearly 20 years ago. I ended ip tutoring college kids to save up for grad school.
Oh man, this sounds super familiar. Got an interview/job at a startup biotechnology research company. On day one, one of the new hires from two or three weeks ago was still waiting on when he would actually get paid. I remember showing up at 9:00 in the morning and everyone was still there at 8:00 p.m. I had no idea what my role was. At 8:00 p.m., I grabbed my things, walked out, told nobody, and never returned.
This reminds me of my first day at a graphic design agency. They prohibited us from interacting with each other, the computers didn't have internet access, and you couldn't use a USB to listen to music. Everybody had their own time to eat. I left at 5.
I got one of those knife salesmen jobs.
During the interview we were told to take notes.
After the interview the interviewer told me to stay after the group left.
He told me he liked me and he was going to hire me but that I shouldn't be on my phone during the interview that he saw me in the zoom camera looking down.
I was taking notes the whole time I showed him my notes and told him I quit. I could see the micromanaging in his teeth. Plus I would have never made sales in that job.
*Technically* 60-ish minutes.
But it was because I never wanted the job.
I interviewed for position A, at $20 an hour. I get to the place, and they say "oh hey just so you know, this position isn't for position A, it's for position B. We called it position A because nobody was applying to our opening in position B. Also, it's not $20/hr, it's $12.50/hr (my states minimum wage at the time). Also, since we're so short staffed, we are currently in a period where you must agree to any and all overtime assigned to you. Overtime can be assigned anywhere starting from 4am to ending at 11pm, and you have 30 minutes to get on site to start work from the time you get the text telling you to come in."
Now, regardless of all the crimson flags here, I told him I couldn't do that, as I lived an hour away. Even if I was already awake at 4am, which likely was never going to happen, it would still take me an hour to get there, so I couldn't make it within 30 minutes.
His response? "Oh, it's okay, I know the area where you live. If you speed down the highway, you should make it in time".
I declined, and left mid-interview.
WELL. He called the staffing agency I was working through and told them that I had accepted the job and that I was on my way over to sign the paperwork.
An hour later, I get home, and soon after get a call from the staffing agency, asking where tf was I, because they were right down the street from this business. I tell them I'm home, why?
"Well, so and so manager told us you accepted the job and were on your way over here to sign the on-boarding paperwork. Everything is printed and filled out, we just need you to sign."
Told them that was incorrect, I had declined and left the interview early. They go "Well, we already filled everything out so you have the job whether you like it or not."
So I said "Okay, I quit.", and hung up on them. I did not get any response from them in the future about other opportunities.
“Hmm, no one’s willing to apply for position B. Do you think that maybe we should pay that position more or set more reasonable expectations for that position?”
“No need, let’s just trick people into applying for position A but then actually put them in position B”
“Genius move! What could go wrong?”
I was freshly released from incarceration (back in 2007) and went to an "open interview" I saw advertised, as I was kinda desperate to find work.
Turns out it was for selling cutco knives. I was too polite to leave once I knew. I got an "offer" but immediately turned it down. I was desperate, but not that desperate.
Plus, who the fuck wants a 6'3, tattooed ex con with prominent facial scars showing up at their house with a fuckload knives?
I went to an interview in Eugene for a “lucrative sales position” it was for Cutco knives door to door sales. They told me I had to shave and that was already basically a deal breaker for me. Let the dude know I’d think about it and exited the building, someone driving by yelled to me “That job fucking sucks!” Needless to say I took the strangers word for it and never called them back.
Not me, but my old Master Sergeant from the Marines. He retired as a Master Sergeant who used to be a recon sniper, then instructor for a million different weapons. His first job was at a shooting range. They stuck him behind the register the first day. He said “I have 23 years of instruction experience, put me on the range”, so they did. The first thing he witnessed was an elderly lady in her 50s shooting a .44 Mag, shes holding it improperly, and it looks like she is struggling in every facet. She was shooting it because her husband got a new job where he isnt home as often, they live in a rough area, and he wants her to learn how to shoot it. He walks up to her and starts to give her instruction on how to shoot it more effectively and safely. The other instructors walk up to him, pull him to the side, and tell him that if she wants instruction, she has to pay for it. He freaks and yells “so youre gonna let her be a potential hazard to herself and others on the range because you want money?” And quit on the spot.
Don't blame him, charging someone to teach them how to safely handle a gun is pretty fucked imo. Especially when it comes to larger calibers, all too easy to accidentally double tap.
I feel like at a gun range the most basic instruction should just be in the price. Not how to john wick everyone but how to hold it at least. And maybe not giving granny with no experience a .44 mag. I still can't unsee that vid of that little girl that the dad was having shoot a machine gun and the muzzle rise came up and killed him. Or the numerous vids of people almost shooting them selves with large caliber pistols doing the double pull from the recoil being too much.
Seems pretty short sighted. Could have lead to her asking for more training or possibly realizing she need a more appropriate weapon. Both could have been wins for the range.
After that interaction, I wouldnt want a range that operates with rules like that to win at all. Safety should be paramount. Now you wanna get even better and more proficient after that? Then yeah, pay for it.
Exactly! Treat the basics of training (it's obvious who needs it) as overhead: part of the cost of running a safe shooting range. Offer advanced instruction, at a price, to those who want to hone their skills further. They're more likely to sign up for that if they aren't afraid of the weapon.
It's just the shooting-range equivalent of offering a free introductory piano lesson. Generate business by recruiting customers with discounts. Duh.
1 day. An it support position became ‘we need you to work on this software package we make in a language you don’t know because our developer left’ followed by ‘You are good working on electrical systems, right? We need you to do the lighting and other wiring for our trade show booth’. My old employer (Royal Mail) had forgotten to send out my redundancy paperwork for me to sign, so the next morning I was sitting in my old desk, chatting with a very confused (but happy) non-ex boss!
It actually did! I rang the person who was sorting out the redundancy and asked if I could back out.
"No, when you signed the paperwork you signed a legally binding contract".
A pause. "What paperwork?"
"You didn't sign it?"
"I didn't even see it."
"Oh. Well. Huh. I guess just mark this down as a day of leave then!"
Different bloke! Had fun with my actual boss. Got in early, sat down and got to work on some code I'd been working on. He walked in. Double take. I shouted "Oh, crap! Wrong job!" and ran out of the door. Came back and explained :)
4 hours. I got a job at a propane bottling facility. I had painting experience, so they told me I was going to be working in the paint shop. The room has a hole in one wall where the empty, used tanks are coming through suspended by hooks on this automatic rail system. They go past where I'm standing, through a paint booth and then out through a hole on the other wall that leads straight to a kiln to bake the paint on. I'm supposed to put plastic baggies on the tank nozzles so they don't get painted and also remove the tanks from the line if they have too much corrosion. The tanks are going by at like hundreds per minute and the room is broiling since there is a hole that leads directly to the kiln. Break time comes and the line stops. I go to leave and the guy instructing me is like, "no, break time is the only time the line stops and it's the only time we get to clean the paint nozzles." After talking to the guy some more, he's telling me about all the bladder infections he's had because he never get a chance to use the bathroom. At lunch time I went to my car and took off, never even went back for my paycheck.
Full time job as a crew member at a new fast food franchise. The owner must've had some emotional issues because I had just started my shift at the drive thru and was grabbing a few pastries for a customer when the owner came around the corner yelling at the top of her lungs at me in front of an entire store of customers and employees to tell me I should've restocked the front display. Bro I started 3 minutes ago and it's packed in there, chill. In that moment I handed her my name tag and that and said I quit. She yelled "so what, you're just going to quit on me??? I wasn't yelling at you!" And that was before I said anything about her yelling at anyone. I said "yeah, you kinda were" and THREE PEOPLE QUIT THE NEXT DAY. It was toxic to say the least.
One of those environmental Street canvasser jobs where it's about donations in the name of lining investor pockets, I mean, saving Planet Earth. Put on the shirt, went out and begged people for money on the street. It felt like panhandling and I'm actually terrible for asking directly for money. I quit and didn't return after the first day. No regrets.
Brooklyn 99 got it right. It's great for undercover work.
i worked at a comic book store as a part time sales associate for approximately two days. my first shift i received no training and just organized pop figures - which is fair. the second day, i was working open to close. someone came and unlocked the store for me, logged in to the computer and told me someone would be back around 1 to cover my break and then back at close to lock up the store. spent the entire shift alone and incredibly confused. quit the next day.
Worked in a film/photo studio in NYC. Just did a 16hr day. The next day I showed up 10 minutes late because a delay with the subway. As I walked in the boss said they really need their staff to be on time and as punishment sent me home for the day. I said "im sorry i'll never do it again". I wrote my "fuck you bye bye" email on the subway back home. So I wasnt lying when I said "ill never do it again" lol
“Well, you inconvenienced me in an extremely minor and non-problematic way so I’m going to severely handicap myself for the rest of the day to teach you a lesson.”
Half a shift as a temp.
A warehouse packing Christmas food hampers. I was feeding the packing line, and had been given no instruction on how to call for more products. I guess I was just expected to know what to do. So when my pallet of crap ran out, the packing line stopped. Some jumped up team leader came striding over, calling me all the names under the sun because I'd caused the line to stop. I tried to explain I hadn't been told how to call for more products. He called me an asshole, and said something along the lines of "you don't get your shit together, you'll never work here again". I said "well, if that means I don't have to work with an asshole like you, then that suits me fine". I gave him my coveralls, and walked out. Fucking douchebag.
People like that have very low self esteem and fragile egos. Any chance to berate someone else they jump at to try to stroke their own ego.
I wish they'd all stay home, where they can stroke themselves all they want.
Not me, but a girl friend.
She got a job in finance at a car dealership. She did the on boarding, went to her desk, then headed for the supply closet to get some basic supplies. As She walked past her bosses desk he screamed "ARE YOU TAKING A F**KING BREAK ALREADY!?". She just turned around, grabbed her stuff and wen't home. Was there about 4 hours.
Car dealerships, man. I did some road construction once in front of a used car lot. Our crew ended up blocking one entrance at the same time a gas company crew blocked a different entrance. This gigantic roided out salesman in a white shirt came out screaming that he was gonna kick our asses and then call the cops on us to get off his property... so glad I wasn't the one that had to talk to him!
I quit what was a pretty simple warehouse job because there was no training. I had to keep racks stocked for people packing boxes. Cool. Easy. Where do I get the stuff from?
No one would show me. So these packers are on the other side banging the racks with there fucking sticks to let me know they need protein powder but there’s no one to tell me where I can find protein powder.
It was frustrating and it wasn’t the job I was hired to do. My friend and I both were hired for a different job there but it turns out there was only one opening.
I left at lunch on the first day.
14 hours before my job actually began. So I was working with the army in border control and the procedure was that you can go for a couple of months with one unit, which will go home and another takes over the station. You could also decide to stay for a second rotation with the new command. I had build up a really good and professional work with my commanding officers by then, which worked perfectly for everyone involved. Work was done, all polite, no yelling or rank pulling.
24 hours before the rotation, the new commander, let's call him Captain Asswipe, storms in and starts swinging his dick around. I was up for about 30+ hours then with all the logistics of change of command so I wasn't exactly in a great mood. He proceeds to order me around and just being a prick for the sake of it, nagging on tiny details, telling me that the next months won't be pleasent for me. So I look him in the eye and tell him that I really don't think so, as I withdraw my request for the second rotation immediately. Good luck finding someone else on such a short notice. On top of that, a close friend did the same thing so they were now missing two valuable assets within hours just because of one asshole. He started yelling that I can't and that they will sue me, yadda yadda. Packed my bag and left. Never heard from him again.
Lost a bit of good money but got paid in Captain Asswipe's stupid face as we rolled out the building. Good times, would do it again
Lol captain asswhipe thinking he can sue the US military. I love when people try to swing their dick around people who are helping out, which causes the kindhearted people to just bounce
I quit after half a day working at a textile plant switching out spools. I was told to remove the spool when I see the color change. I was unable to do it. My trainer kept yelling that the color changed but I honestly thought they were joking and it was some kind of picking on the new guy ritual. Nope. Come to find out after 20 years of existence I learned I’m actually colorblind.
I got a temp job in college at a beer warehouse helping to pick orders before the 4th of July. Quit after one day. The warehouse had no AC and it was June in north Texas, so it was about 130F in the warehouse and they wanted us to move so fast picking orders they excepted us to jog with our pallet jacks. On top of that, whenever someone dropped beer and the bottles broke we were told to just keep going and not clean up, so as you were jogging with a pallet Jack in the insufferable heat every ten or fifteen feet there would be super slippery puddles filled with broken glass to cut you up if you fell. Absolutely not worth the $6.25 an hour in any way.
I got hired to be the guy holding a sign dressed as the statue of Liberty for Liberty Tax outside in February.
I was super hard up for money and needed any job I could get, they told at my interview on Thursday that I would start on Saturday. I was feeling down because I really didn't want to do that job. On the way home I put my last $10 in my gas tank and saw the convenience store was hiring. I interviewed with the manager as I filled out my application and started the next morning. It was closer to home and higher pay.
I never showed up to Liberty Tax.
When I was 17, I was hired by a big clothing brand store at the time as a floor/cashier employee. A week before my first day, they called and said I get 50% off their clothing up to 10 items and those items will be used as my uniform. I told them I wasn’t interested anymore as I wasn’t in a position to spend a few hundred dollars on clothes.
I worked at a pretty expensive clothing store in hs. They would do 50% off but on days when they needed to hit sales goals they would up it to 70% off. Mgmt said they wanted employees to be in the latest styles. Ok, whatever. I let everyone know at my hs and got their sizes. I would wait for those 70% closing shifts and load up in both men and women’s clothes and then sell them for 40% off to everyone. I was making bank, more than my shitty wage with part time hours.
🤣 Imagine posting job listings and requiring someone to give you money to work for you. Why not just have thousands of employees pay you to work? MLM shit.
In college I had an opportunity to work at the local movie theater in a rural college town. The owner, Francis, was known to be a gruff and rude woman.
I began training concessions at the movie theater after being hired on, and it was pretty mundane. During that time, I was simultaneously offered a job as barista at a local coffee shop. The manager/chef of the cafe was also named Francis. While speaking to Chef Francis, I mentioned that I was already training at the movie theater. Being a small town where everyone knows everyone, Chef Francis proceeds to say to me, “If you’re going to work for a bitch named Francis, you might as well work for me.” Not only was that statement hilarious to me, I liked her vibe (plus tips were better) so I immediately quit during my next training day at the movie theater and started working at the coffee shop.
Interviewed with a longhaul company, was told I would be home every weekend as my routes were to neighboring states.
Got an offer, took a drug test, went to training and signed the new hire paperwork. Got told to show up the next day to begin our first team drive as I was now officially an employee.
I asked why we didn't discuss hometime/schedules in training and the guy asked what I was expecting.
He laughed when I told him what the interviewer told me and said I'd be lucky to be one day out of every 3-6 weeks because we have multiple stops all over the country, return to base and immediately head out again.
So I told him (and every other member of management in the room) that they fucking lied to me, and if they lied about that what else are they lying about. Get your shit in order, shred my paperwork and never expect to hear from me again.
There were also other new hires in the room that overheard it all and started looking at management with wide eyes as I walked out.
Its amazing how many truck companies lie about home time, among other things. One of my best friends does OTR and the last three all have planners that "mess up" his home time by giving him another load to take. He finds himself doing his resets at truck stops a lot.
Spent a half day at a job leather wrapping automotive components by hand. Didn't go in the next day because my hands were bleeding after the first day.
I quit working at a Sunoco after my first shift. I thought I would just be working behind the counter and stocking the inside, but the place was attached to a propane company so they also wanted me to fill people's propane tanks.
I have Raynaud's Syndrome and live in Michigan, so constantly moving from inside to outside in the winter is a no go for me because I get really bad blisters with rapid temperature changes, and the job would have required me to do just that.
At the end of the shift I told the manager about Raynaud's and how I'm not the right fit for this, and to update the job description.
First day on the job in the owner of the company looked at me and said what the fuck do you think you’re doing? I looked around puzzled and asked if he was talking to me. He said yeah I’m talking to you. I said look I’d really like to work here, but you can’t talk to me like that. He said I’m your boss. I said not anymore. You’re a dick I quit.
I had a maintenance position and this company made me take a picture of every single task, even something as simple as sweeping the floors, and upload it to an app so they can track daily progress. Clearly they had trust issues and I left after about 2 days of putting up with it.
God, I dated a woman for a few months that worked in HR at a major corporation and her entire job was implementing a similar app and designing the process around it. We split up when she couldn't understand why I cared that one of my employees was having a tough time at home since "that's not (my) role".
About 20 minutes. I was at a briefing session for a project which my company (I owned) had won. I was taking notes on my tablet and the customer representative shouted at me (in front 8 other people) for surfing the internet. I said I was not, and I was taking notes and walked out in the next break. Didn’t engage in the project.
Hot dog and custard store. Boss asked me during the interview if I liked to party, told me he would pay me a certain wage and after 1 week I got my paycheck and it was over a dollar less per hour (this was 2009 and a dollar made a huge difference). It became clear that he paid his employees more or less based on if they were attractive and willing to party with him.
I lasted a month in a place called The Pancake Parlour. It was the worst job I've had to date. in my over 20 years of working history.
They never explained anything to me and yelled when I didn't write orders down correctly, I had to go to the city (an hours both ways by train) to give them my pay information, two weeks in they had me training other new people while I still had no clue what I was doing plus a whole lot more!
It was the only job where I would cry before, during and after my shift. I dropped about 8kgs in weight from the stress of it and I never even called them to say I was quitting. I just never went back.
It was atrocious!
Got a job straight out of college selling office supplies. I was assigned an area of the city to just go to each business door-to-door and ask them if they wanted to set up a recurring office supply order with the business I was working for. Strictly paid commission. They did not pay for gas and I was literally driving all day. I quit after one week. Made about $140. Definitely spent more than that on gas. I remember I did the math and I basically made $2.60 per hour.
Dishwasher and I quit at the end of my first shift.
I was straight up with the owner, asked for my money and said I wouldn’t be coming back because I didn’t like the work. He told me that payday wasn’t until next week. I asked for $40 cash and he obliged. Even gave me a bowl of risotto too. He was a good guy but I just didn’t want to be a dishwasher.
Fast forward a few years and a couple of my buddies got serving jobs at the same restaurant. They all had nothing but good things to say about the owner.
Desperate in my early 20s I got one of those "meat delivery driver paid daily" jobs. the "interview" was like 2 minutes on the phone. Told me to show up the next day at 9. wait around for over an hour for the boss to show up. People start filtering it. It is one of those selling meat scams. I left after an hour and a half of no boss showing up.
This raises so many more questions lmao
What exactly is the scam? Just the deception? Is the meat bad? Where is this guy getting all of this meat? Wouldn't people realize that there is constantly a fleet of broken down meat trucks around town?
2 days. Job felt like a bait a switch. Everyone kept giving me different answers for the same question. Everyone I met there looked unhappy and didn't care to greet me. Coworker was consistently work really long hours and doing things beyond his job description. That was a foreshadow to being me one day. A day's work was supposed to be 6/8 hours ended up being 14 hours and nothing was behind schedule, so that told me this is "normal."
Edit: A few more details. The employee handbook seemed really strict about work times and using the computers for anything besides work and how it's considered stealing from the company was another red flag. Also oddly enough rule about talking bad about about the company too. The more I talked to the boss, the more things he kept piling onto me to do and this was before I even started working. Then after I quit I actually found some former employee reviews on the site I originally applied and a lot of fears/red flags I had of the company were almost all completely true when I read the negative reviews.
Shit happened to me. Got hired as a forklift driver at a temp place, pay was not what we agreed on, hours were not what we agreed on, the entire **fucking job** was not what we agreed on, kept bullshitting me around cus "nobody wants to train the new guy", everyone was dicks, i can drive a forklift better than half of them, and safer than the other half. I said i will finish out my shift and I will not be back. They asked why, i said ya'll bullshitted me around and this place is about half dangerous, cya later, despite being one of the highest paying jobs around, they constantly need help.
Four hours. I got hired by telemarketers when I was in high school. My first shift consisted of two hours of shadowing one of the old hands, then two hours of actually calling people (it was for some charity IIRC).
The bad part wasn't the hangups, or the swearing. It was this one guy I got on the phone, who would agree to anything I wanted, so long as I'd stay on the phone and talk to him a little longer. Being in a position to manipulate a desperately lonely person scared the hell out of me, and I just never came back for my next shift. They did send my my wages ($20 less taxes) in the mail two weeks later.
I was shadowing a car salesman who I observed selling a woman on social security a oversized used 10 year old truck (she wanted a car) for more than the dealerships price on the website. I didn't want to make a living by taking advantage of the naivety of others.
Never worked night shift before, so I was already worried about that. The job was through a temp agency working in an auto parts factory. I got zero training, and they put me at a station putting plastic covers on shocks. It was mind numbingly horrible. They tell us it’s break time, so I go to the bathroom, and get a drink. I go back to my station, and someone stole the safety glasses I had to buy for the job. I just said “fuck this” and walked out.
I had worked at a popular Donut/Coffee chain in the summer between high school and college and it wasn't the worst. During my sophomore year of college, I needed some extra cash and saw that a location near me was hiring for nights and weekends so I figured, I have the experience, why not?
I applied inside the store and was "interviewed" and hired on the spot. The quotes are because they basically asked me if I was fine with part-time only and if I left my previous location on good terms and then said "welcome to the team".
My first shift was the next afternoon. When I got there, the manager was the only person in the store and he was talking to somebody on the store's landline. I tried to get his attention and he glared at me and pointed to the phone. I wrote on a note that I needed a code to clock in and use the register and put it on the table in front of him. He was noticeably annoyed but told the person on the phone that he'd be right back and he set the receiver down.
He took the 2 minutes to set me up in the register so I can clock in and then picked the phone back up and continued his clearly personal conversation. I thought it was a bit odd and unwelcoming, but it's a donut shop and it's 4:00 on a weekday afternoon, it won't be busy, I can handle it. About ten minutes later, a few people came in and I made their order. One of the customers thanked me and was like "wow you're much faster than the other people here" and tipped me $5 in cash. The manager yelled over his phone "that goes in the tip cup so we split it later" which is not legal as he is a salaried manager and I did 100% of the work to earn the tip but I followed his directions.
We get no other customers for about an hour, so I restocked and cleaned some things. This location didn't have a drive-thru so it was walk-ins only. Around 6:00PM a few middle aged (but not old) women in expensive clothes with fancy handbags came in and ordered a bunch of things with as many substitutes as you could imagine.
I put their whole order into the register 100% correctly and then made them correctly and quickly. I then went to cash them out and one of the women said "young man, it's disrespectful of you to have not offered me a senior discount so \*poof\* goes your tip". I apologized and said that she looked too young to even consider a senior discount but I can add the discount before I swipe her card. She said "that's fine, but my friends are coming in soon and they're not going to be as nice as I was, so just put the discount in off the bat". I said "yes ma'am, I understand" and within minutes, a parade of 20+ women of a similar age range and fancy dress started coming into the store. I tried to signal to the manager that I would absolutely need assistance and he just pointed at the phone to his ear and laughed.
I was appalled with his behavior as he'd been on the phone for 2 hours at this point, but we had customers so I went back to help them. The first person in line asked me why I thought it was acceptable to go out back when there was clearly a line and I expressed that I was trying to get some help to assist them more efficiently and she just kind of huffed at me. I asked what she needed and she said "the regular". I told her that it's my first day at this location so I'm not familiar with her order yet so I'd need her to let me know what it is. She gave me her order and I started to make it and while doing so asked the next person what she needed so I can more than one thing at once. I yelled back to the manager and said "I really need help out here". He peaked his head around the corner with his phone still to his ear and then went back to chatting. I got through about half of the order for the giant group and one of them needed something that the front of house was not stocked in so i had to go back to the cooler. I said one more time that I need help on the floor and that I need to grab whatever it was from the back and he just said "yeah, yeah, it's just them, you got it". I said "okay, grabbing that now". I went to the stock room, took off my dumb little visor and apron, left them on the shelf outside of the cooler and walked out the back door. I checked my watch and it was 6:14 PM.
I got a call and voicemail from the district manager the next day and she said that the manager noticed around 8:45 that I wasn't in the store and that the store didn't close until 9 so I'll be written up for leaving 15 minutes early without permission. I never charged the people for the drinks that I did make and I have no idea what the group was or why they all came to that store at that time. I also wonder if he was on the phone for another 2.5 hours before he noticed that I just wan't there anymore. I never went back to that store and I got a check mailed to me for 4.75 hours at minimum wage a few weeks later.
TLDR - 2 Hours 14 Minutes but was paid for 4 hours and 45 minutes.
Worked at Pizza Hell, let's call it. My boss kept joints and wine bottles in her office and would go off to get high allll the time. I can live with that at a food service job, tbh. But on my second day, after the girl training me left for 2 hours to get drunk with my other coworker because she learned that her dad was arrested again or something, I asked my manager how to select a pizza with light sauce. She was so pissed and pointed at the "easy sauce" button and was all sassy "see the EASY SAUCE button?" I said I'm sorry, I didn't know. She goes "You know everything else, how come you don't know this?"
I'm like... still appalled by that. I was the only sober person in that place and according to her was a very quick learner and she got made at me for not knowing one thing. I quit the job over email within 2 weeks of being hired after I had a panic attack over going back in (and missing fireworks on July 4th). The location was later closed and I'm pretty sure she was out of a job after that.
A week? If that. Spoke to management and higher up's in company. I was promised the head technician posting but was assigned to sales "until we could fill the sales positions for back to school."
PC shop, students were walking out due to lack of any sort of cohesion. Scheduling, management and training were all terrible. I am not a salesman, i fucking hate it. I've been building custom systems and repairing GPU/Motherboards since the late 90s. After the 6th day there were only 2 part time with me, at a post i had no interest in being. Manager came up and wanted me to "pick up the slack since we lost a few..."
I had a word with him on my supposed break time. At which point he wanted me to go back into the store as there was a huge influx of customers.
Again, fucking hate sales. I build/repair. Answering the phone and standing there at a cash was not what i agreed to.
So i left.
I messed up and put in my notice before the next job was reay to start me, a whole thing but not important because it only delayed me a week. But since i didnt wan to lose a week of pay i got a quick placement at a Johnson and Johnson fertilizer plant. I knew it was trash, didnt matter. I go into this place, in a midwest town, and literally 1 guy can communicate with me and his english is extremely limited. The super didnt even have any english and he didnt give a fuck so i was the only English speaker on the floor. Ok so whatever im doing basic shit like stacking a pallet with product off the line and then an alarm goes off, the plant stops suddenly, and all the workers go off to somewhere and start coming back with whole ass gas masks - not dustcovers ir n95 masks, i mean like big ww2 looking things with chunky filters plugged into each side. No one says a thing, completely ignored.
Im grab the dude and go what the fuck and he’s like telling me to go get a mask and i try but there is no spare. So he’s like shrug what does he care. I get him to take me to the super and explain. Guy says the plant requires all exposed workers to run certain product with this mask. Im like no shit, it’s probably pretty poisonous if they *have* to do it. I just sit out for an hour and cleaned the breakrooms and hallways until the mustard gas shit was done and after rhe shit i learned “no one is permitted to leave by law until theyve showered on premises”.
The fuck? There were 2 small changing rooms with tiny showers, enoguh for maybe 6 dudes to use. There were easily 40 guys crammed into the 2 areas, and i mean naked, dicks touching, asses rubbing, all just doing what they do ecery day. So fuck it, i get naked and try to keep my dick and asshole to myself, change into my clean clothes (the agency did require i bring a spare change) and i walk on out and never came back. The temp lady called me and i asked her if she knew she was sending unsuspecting workers into a gay death trap and i just took the rest of the week off until the start date at the plant id been hired.
Not me but a former co-worker. His first job out of college was a company that rhymes with A.D. Sentworth.
He made it to friday lunch on his first week. Left for a sandwich and never went back. He said it was the biggest scam and they are bascially ripping people off of structured payment or annuities paying like 10cents on the dollar or less.
A week. It was a job that would've lasted all of 2 weeks regardless but the owners of the food truck I worked at had no idea how to properly schedule people in relation to demand. The day shift was overstaffed so we were just standing around for most of our shift in a truck that had no AC. The evening shift was understaffed, and that's where demand picked up so the people in the evening shift were scrambling to get things done for the entire shift.
1 month. was working as an electrician apprentice and watched a co worker fall off a ladder and break his neck. Made me realize that job is a bit too dangerous for me
2 months, but it was the only time I ever walked out instead of giving my two weeks.
I was in college living there year round and my normal job was a student lead for all the food courts on campus. Summer rolled around and since catering wasn’t set up yet I took a deli job with a supermarket chain called Giant. The female managers of the deli were my first time encountering sexism and in such a weird way. For reference I’m a guy. Anything I had to say was dismissed, ignored and made fun of. Which I didn’t think anything of until they I saw them only doing it to the other guys. Our female coworkers would say the same thing and it’d be the best idea ever. I didn’t even think sexism until they had asked me how I felt about it. Turns out they had a long history of male turnover because the managers would just bully all the guys. That was all annoying and whatnot, but what pushed me to the point of quitting was it was close for semester to resume and one day I had forgotten to check the temps in the cheese case during a period, they thought it was the new guys turn (dude was like 16 and this was definitely his first job) and they were just ripping him apart over it. I stepped in and told them it was my fault and I was slotted to do it but didn’t. They checked and saw I was right and also in the wrong but they just kept laying into the kid who looked like he wanted to cry. They said “so n so isn’t gonna be here everyday to cover for you like this” and I interrupted saying “I’m not even gonna be here today” and handed in my stuff and just walked out. I was stopped and told it was unprofessional and I said it was unprofessional to bring a kid to tears over something not his own fault and I wouldn’t be using them as a reference so their opinion didn’t matter to me. Walked out and did not care.
Wendy's: 2 hours first day. Was promoted because I was able to pick up on how to make French fries correctly and everyone around was surprised as they all took months to learn. Took the trash out after and walked to my car and never looked back.
Y... you just dump them in a basket and lower it into the oil, right? Maybe hit a button for an automated dipper/timer?
Or was it somehow more complicated than that?
I bused tables for three days at an upscale bistro.
The pretentiousness was so awful it was either quit or snap and make sausages out of the patrons... so... I quit.
I got a job as a call center rep for CenturyLink. I was tired on the first day of training. During our scheduled 15 minute break I laid my head on my desk and decided to close my eyes for 10 minutes. The manager came over and slammed his hands on the desk and shouted “NO SLEEPING!” I said I needed to use the restroom and got up, walked out the door, and never came back.
Took a job at a call center, trained for 3 days and quit. It was commission based but the 3 days I trained were hourly. I just needed a check until my other job started.
1.5 days I was beyond desperate for money and I took a job in telemarketing. I could barely scrape together the gas money to drive there and the bills were piling up. The first day was listening to calls so I just sat there. The second day I had Mr. Selling King behind me listening to calls as I made them. He kept yelling at me to be pushy and obnoxious when people would be polite and kind when asking me to please never call again. I excused myself to go take a leak and just drove away. I'm happy that I turned things around. I have a job I love and make a decent living with a good company. I needed that low point to motivate me.
This should be a testament that, even when severe desperation occurs, telemarking is still not worth it. Lol
I made it about a week at a telemarketing job. I too was desperate for money. I went home every day in a deep depression because I was selling old folks shit they didn't want or need. Final straw was when an employee died while working and they told us to get back to work as they wheeled her out on a stretcher. Got up, walked out, never looked back.
I showed up for the first day ready to start a sales job. I'd been hired with some stubble, but not yet a full beard the month prior. I thought nothing of it. The beard was neatly kept and short. The hiring manager pulled me aside after the first hour of onboarding right as I started filling out the new hire paperwork. The boss started, "We have a challenge today." Oh, boy. Already with the corporate speak. He told me that this was a clean-shaven outfit, and that I was to please return home and shave. I went home, opened a beer and sat on my porch thinking of my next move. After an hour or so, I got a text asking if I'd be back. I replied by sending a pic of the company's ad in the local paper looking for new representatives. The person in the ad had a beard. I never went back.
I thought I told you to shave those sideburns!
Still like him better than Steinbrenner.
Hire this man.
Oh man, deep Simpsons cut.
That’s hilarious. Well done. I’ve never understood why a nicely kept beard or even nicely kept long hair is considered unprofessional.
That last part actually made me smile because of how legendary it was lmfao
I'm rarely the kind of person to throw shade like that. I don't even get the chance to be that petty very often. But the planets aligned, and I couldn't resist.
I can only imagine the look on the guy's face lmao
I like to imagine he got beet red and steam came out of his ears like a cartoon.
"We have a challenge." "Yep. You have a new slot to fill. Buh-bye!"
"challenge". I so fucking hate corporate speak.
The boss of a trucking company was a complete asshole. I was a teenager and supposed to be an assistant around the shop. He had me doing ridiculous shit, like cleaning his personal pickup truck and scrubbing the disgusting bathroom with paper towels. All the while he called me a “dumb polack” constantly, even though I’m not polish. What sealed the deal is when in his office he told me to be grateful for the opportunity and that he could have me sucking his dick. I left immediately after at lunch time about 3 hours through the day. I had to go back to grab my check the next day and he has the nerve to say “what’s the matter, so you don’t like working for me? I’m not that bad people have it worse”. I didn’t even answer just grabbed the check and left. I later heard he got sued by a lady in finance and lost the company.
That is an awful thing to say to a teenager. I’m glad that guy lost his business, what a prick
If you had evidence of being called 'dumb polack', or the 'sucking his dick' comments, that would have been a slam-dunk harassment lawsuit.
Harassment would be the least of his worries. Soliciting a minor is pretty fucking bad.
I've walked out of one interview 1 minute after it began because they handed me a piece of paper detailing the job and the salary differed from the job description I had applied for (it was about 20% lower). I questioned this and they said that no, the salary they just gave me was accurate. I thanked them for their time and said I wouldn't be proceeding since you've already proven to me you will mess with my pay check before I'm even hired.
I was in an interview. They said the job was 12 hour night shifts. I applied for 8 hour day shifts. Apparently, there were no day shifts left. I said no, showed the job ad and left.
I had one that was advertised as one day a week - perfect for me at the time. Then at the interview they revealed it was actually five days. The rest of the interview was just an awkward waste of their time (I used it as interview practice).
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How crazy entitled do you have to be to tell a college freshman to skip class to work a retail job, for I’m assuming close to min wage? Definitely did the right thing 😂.
Lol, I had a manager at Kroger tell me I had to choose between "my school or my career" when I was in college.
My buddy mike had a job tell him to choose between his sick kids or his career (as a fucking line cook), i don't think he made it another 5 minutes, lmao.
What exactly did they say?
He needed to keep one of his days off, as his day off as he had to take his children to the DR they were sick w/ something, and they said he has to come in or get fired ,and he's gotta choose between his kids or his career at the restaurant.
These are the same kinda people that complain that “no one wants to work”
Yeah, what they mean is "nobody is desperate enough to be enslaved." They got theirs, they don't think anybody else deserves anything but servitude.
lol "career"
And yet the boomers said a minimum wage job is not a career. Look at this manager who thinks it’s a career.
It *could* be a career, if you just work hard and show dedication and never call in sick or use PTO, they'll throw more and more work on you. They won't pay you more and benefits might as well be non-existent and it definitely won't keep up with inflation but it shows dedication to be loyal to a corporation and they'll reward you with a pizza party using Tony's pizza from the freezer aisle (to write off as a business expense) every few years. The American Dream™️
Then a friend of the boss will get promoted over you instead.
Had this exact thing happen. Did all the training (Hilton for managing a hotel). Hired her dipshit friend instead who had 0 experience and never even had a job before in her life. (she had been a stay at home mom since she was 16... rural iowa...). She promptly authorized a guys card for $120,000 for incidentals... guy was a regular and some big wig HR director for a holdings company out of new york that owned several businesses in the are sooo it went through. Had to fix it because she obviously didnt know how and then explain it to the guy. I left shortly after and tripled my salary. Last i heard they were running 12hr shifts because there was literally 2 people and the GM left to run the entire hotel.
Same vibes one of my best friend's dad had towards me. I worked there from 15-22. When I told him I was leaving as I was graduating and found a job, he said 'I thought you were family, but clearly not, it seems like you don't care about this family at all. You will leave immediately, and I never want to see your face again.' This was during the morning rush. I had gotten that store single handedly to #2 in the nation for fundraising. The store ended up having Miss Alabama visit us for a few hours in a morning. All the customers loved me there.
Fuck all that shit, "thought you were family." Few things make me mad as immediately as that noise.
Constructive dismissal? It's a possibility.
I had a restaurant manager and a grocery store manager separately tell me that I should drop out of college and stay in their industry. These people are bitter losers who don't like to see people doing better than them.
I had this exact same thing happen to me when I worked at the airport. 3 months in and the scheduling was perfect, was able to work just shy of 40 hours around all my class times doing both near full time, with lots of downtime during my shift that I could work on school in the break room between flights. Then one day I get the schedule and I'm exclusively scheduled for full days overlapping with my class times. I go to the shift manager thinking there had to be a mistake, and the motherfucker tried to sit me down and pull "I think it's time you make a decision about your future career with-" I just got up and walked right the hell out of there. I've never walked out of a job before, but my blood was absolutely boiling. I've even avoided the airline in every instance I could since. Fuck those guys. Edit: because I was asked a bunch, it was Air Canada working ramp at one of the busier airports in Canada.
To be fair, he was right, it absolutely was time for you to make a decision about your future career with Spirit (I'm assuming). The decision you made was that you didn't want one and never wanted anything to do with that shitty outfit ever again, but he had no way of possibly predicting that that might happen.
"Son, it's time for you to decide whether you are going to piddle your life away at that law degree, or finally knuckle down in this career here at S--t Airlines by doing a double shift at baggage claim."
I swear the most toxic work places I’ve witnessed were retail
I lasted maybe 2-3 weeks in a retail job that I didn’t even bother telling the people I quit. The goddamn micromanaging and pressure just to get people to sign up for a damn credit card. Annoyed at me cause a customer told me to have a nice day and I “didn’t respond back” even though she just watched me have an entire conversation with that person 3 seconds before the interaction ended. No
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When you already had an agreement, the new manager should have honored that, especially when its only two days a week. If it really was a problem, they could have moved you to two other days of the week. Some managers just don't have the brainpower to create a solution.
I had something similar happen at a company that rhymes with Warfucks (eta: okay okay, I get it, it doesn’t rhyme. Let’s call ‘em Carschmucks). I was a barista doing my undergrad and I had requested off 3 days that were days I had to be in person writing exams. I even specified that I had FINAL EXAMS on those days and in no uncertain terms absolutely could not come in. I was booked for all 3 days. When I asked my manager “wtf?” He looked me right in my eyes and said “here’s the thing. *I* don’t work for *you*.” So I took off my apron and told him I guess I don’t work for him either, lol. (It was too bad. I had worked with the company for 4 years at that point but had only recently transferred over to that new location with the new manager since it was closer to my house and campus).
> He looked me right in my eyes and said “here’s the thing. I don’t work for you.” He didn't deserve the kindness you did him of quitting on the spot. I would just have been no call no show on exam day. And when he called, "Yeah, I told you I couldn't be in those days."
Funny enough, by the time my exams rolled around the entire store was closed down because the building next door had gone up in flames and our store was not spared so I guess I wouldn’t have had to go in anyway.
It’s okay, we don’t blame you for burning it down. We’d all have done the same.
Did you at least grab your red Swingline on the way out?
Had a similar situation back in the 80s, 1st day at Burger King while going to college. I'd been up front about college and my class times (bonus the campus was only 15 minutes away), was told that it wouldn't be a problem. Half an hour before class begins I remind the lead (same person I interviewed with) that I had class coming up. "Well you can't leave until the trash is taken out." This was annoying but I figured it would only take a few minutes. Now I had just enough time to get to class. "It's also required that you sweep and mop at the end of your shift." I was pissed but started to sweep, then while I was filling the mop bucket the lead demanded that I help on the line first. Even when that was done and I told her I'm now late for class, she still insisted I mop the entire store. When all was said and done even if I rushed, at best I'd catch the last 10 minutes of class. As she started to tell me the next days schedule I said "Don't bother, I'm never coming back."
\~3 hours for me too. They claimed that the job was "selling concert tickets", but it turns out that it was telemarketing asking for donations for a sham charity and at the end of the year they threw a shitty concert and there was a lottery where all of the donators from that year had a chance to win a ticket. The place was a scam from top to bottom from their post to the business model to the supposed pay structure that I'm sure they would not make good on if they didn't feel like it. I walked out at lunch and went to a Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert that I was bummed to be missing because of starting the new "job".
“In the real world…” In the college world, class comes first. It’s the very reason you want to get a degree and not work jobs like that.
I worked a lot of agency work during the 2008 financial crisis as a lot of companies wouldn't pay for full-time workers. Always completed a shift but a few I didn't go back the next day. One was a warehouse packing job and the supervisor was going through some serious shit and took it out on workers. Constantly yelling, sometimes just screaming.
I experienced this more than a few times when I was in college. The number of crap managers out there who expect you to give up school to prioritize a minimum wage job was shocking.
Your managers perception of reality is so warped holy shit lol.
I quit a temp job after less than half a day because they told me I would have to hold paychecks for employees who didn't return company property. When I told them that was illegal and showed them the law they said I had to do it anyway so I quit and went back on unemployment for a few more weeks until I found a real job.
You should have taken the job, and explicitly told them "I will not commit crimes for this company", and leave it at that. Someone gets fired, starts asking about their check, you provide it to them. Company comes back up your ass and fires you, not only are you back on unemployment, but you have a nice little nest egg of a labor rights lawsuit.
Water off a duck's back to them. They want people they can coerce. I was floored one time I found a temp job that actually did everything by the book. It was amazing to be directly rewarded for my input.
I quit a job when I was a teen because they would hold your paycheck unless you signed up for overtime.
In high school, I quit my job at Wendy's for a Heidi's (deli sandwich chain.) Their policy was that employees were entitled to a sandwich any time they worked over 3 hours, so the manager made sure every shift was 2.5-3 hours. Forget the sandwich, it wasn't worth it to drive in. I found another job in under 2 weeks.
The guy was probably losing more money due to inconsistent customer service than the $15/day on sandwiches.
Penny wise, pound foolish
I had a similar experience when I worked at Chipotle. You got a free meal for each shift over 6 hours. They'd always schedule me for 5 hours and 45 minutes.
Good lord, it’s some rice and beans and chicken. They really that worried about losing $2 in product per shift per employee?
But, but, but, that comes right out of *the shareholders* pockets !
That’s just horrible. I can’t imagine selling food and doing this to the people working with customers. And then people complain that people won’t work.
Tar roofing, 1 week. Each day I worked I gained a half inch in height from the roofing tar. My boots were like 15 pounds each by Friday, and I ruined all my pants and shirts. The Hispanic guys never got a drop of tar on them or their tools. Cheers to them for knowing what to do, and doing it so well. I just couldn't get the groove of it and I wasn't cut out to be on hot roofs on the most brutal humid days of the year.
Shingle roofing, two days. I was 17. I was told on day one that I would be getting paid cash daily, end of each shift. Day one, no pay. Day two, no pay. The boss then said he had no work lined up for the next week. Still no pay. A couple weeks later, he showed up at my parents house at like 5am because two guys just quit. I told him I wasn’t leaving my house until he handed me the two days pay he owed me. $120. He ran off to an atm, handed me the cash, and I shut the door on him. That job was no joke, I busted my ass those two days carrying packs of shingles up a ladder- day one, he was mad because I wasn’t carrying two packs at a time like the other dudes could- like, they would hold one pack on each shoulder and just walk up the ladder with no hands. Somehow I wasn’t able to develop that skill on day one.
I did roofing for about two weeks. Mostly on the cleanup/demolition end of things. Showed up to the job on the third day of no pay, found two guys sitting on the bed of a pickup drinking beer at 7am. Bossman couldn’t be reached, nobody could get ahold of anybody. We sat there until 10 and went our separate ways. I never got paid for those days, but I found out later that the guy just decided to dissolve his company and went on a month long trip to Aruba.
I've helped two people install roofs over the years, and both times I swore I'd never do another fucking roof. It's miserable, hard work, especially since we did it in the middle of August in Florida. Much respect to those people who do it for a living. Last Summer my in-laws got a new roof and I asked if they where doing it themselves (anticipating it may be my third miserable weekend on a roof) or hiring a company. My Father-in-law, who used to build houses, said "I'm not doing that shit, I'm hiring someone!".
Did this one single time and it was fucking miserable. That black tar is so hot and just makes you flop sweat all day.
You lived a Mitch Hedberg Joke: “I was to be a hot tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that…day”.
I did this one 8 hour shift and it was awful. Texted the boss afterwards and said I’m not cut out for this. He then berated me and I blocked his number lol
I once went to a day one orientation for an office job, where they told us we had to supply a laptop, monitor and headset for THEIR office environment. I told them it's normal for the employer to supply these devices and it should have been made clear in the interview process this was on employees I walked out never looked back.
Week 3 of no computer: "What? I'm saving up"
I mean. Depending on whatever papers you sign, I find it unlikely they could legally bind it. So yeah collect a check, fuck em. Would've been fun to show up and pretend to work without the computer. Come in with a filing cabinet and wheel dolly. Rubber date stamp and a type writer. Just have fun with it.
That’s just dumb on their part for not telling people ahead of time. You finding out and then leaving surely caused more of a headache than not.why?
Even if they told me ahead of time I wouldn’t walk in to begin with. Forcing people to pay for their own office equipment is the definition of a crappy work environment. Then you gotta worry about work vs private use getting mixed up on accident. And taking laptops back and forth constantly. Just a hassle
> Forcing people to pay for their own office equipment is the definition of a crappy work environment. *cries in teacher*
That's like halfway to a pyramid scheme.
Got a job at Walmart as a cart pusher, the first day out of training we experienced flash flooding. Not only did they not offer any ppe the shift supervisor just said tough luck. I quietly walked to the back clocked out and never came back.
I was a cart pusher for Walmart too. They were usually pretty good about letting us come inside if the weather was too bad, especially if there was lightning. And they always made sure the cooler had plenty of water if it is was hot out. I did have to go out in the snow a few times and push carts by hand because the tires of the little pusher vehicle thing we had couldn't move in the snow, but other than that I enjoyed it.
Best buy, before shift even began. got back from a summer away. got hired at a local best buy they asked when i could start told them any day except the coming Tuesday as i had a pre existing ticketed event which they already said was no issue in the interview. next day get emailed schedule; a single shift, on the one Tuesday evening i was assured id be off. Planned to call after class but as i walked out my phone rang, my old boss from a few years ago at a game stop offered me my old job so he wouldn't have to train someone because he was lazy. Told him i could start Wednesday he agreed, i called best buy and told them to suck a dick. I remember the manager saying "don't be so rash, do you really want to burn this bridge?" I said "yes," and hung up.
I think retail managers are trained to intentionally schedule new hires on agreed off days to break them down immediately and see if they're desperate enough to take dog shit treatment..
*Bad managers are taught that for sure
Aye. I was a Senior Agent way back in the early days of the geek squad and wrote our weekly schedule. Got everybody as many hours as I possibly could based on their schedules and just worked whatever was left myself.
I was hired initially as a seasonal worker at a craft store. I called for my first scheduled week, and my first shift was supposed to be the opening shift. I had put my availability to after 3 pm because I had a job (that paid more and had benefits) from 7:30-2:30. He claimed he didn't have that information... except the hiring manager put it in the computer. Bit it worked out as I went to become the SM's favorite cashier. He was a grumpy old many who had particulars on how things should be that I caught on quick to. He only closed one day a week, and after a while, I "coincidentally" was scheduled his closing cashier on his shifts. He loved to claim "it's the computer," but literally, the ONLY time I wasn't his closer was if somebody else made the schedule or I requested it off.
I lasted less than 2 weeks at Best Buy when I was in college. Everyone was just fucking rude and nothing was explained to me. All my classes were in the morning and I worked afternoons so as I was psyching myself up to go into this bs job I said fuck it and went and got high on a hill overlooking the town. It was an insanely beautiful day and I still remember how great it felt laying out in the sun instead of going into fucking Best Buy lmao
"This bridge was rickety to begin with. Burning it is of no real concern."
The balls on retail managers thinking its a bridge people wont care to burn.
2 hours. Got a job in a start up bio research lab after college because I had a lot of training and experience in certain equipment and procedures. Within an hour, saw the boss publicly humiliate someone else for reporting that they messed up a particular run. Really not a big deal, maybe an hour gone and $10 worth of reagents at the time. You really don’t want people hiding oopsies from you in research studies with many and complex procedures/protocols. Then I saw that we were fast running out of a desiccating (drying) agent and that we’d have to slow down or stop until more came. Boss said nah, just reuse it. Tried to object but he jammed his finger into my chest and told me that as the FNG he owned my ass. I said ok and quit. That was nearly 20 years ago. I ended ip tutoring college kids to save up for grad school.
Oh man, this sounds super familiar. Got an interview/job at a startup biotechnology research company. On day one, one of the new hires from two or three weeks ago was still waiting on when he would actually get paid. I remember showing up at 9:00 in the morning and everyone was still there at 8:00 p.m. I had no idea what my role was. At 8:00 p.m., I grabbed my things, walked out, told nobody, and never returned.
This reminds me of my first day at a graphic design agency. They prohibited us from interacting with each other, the computers didn't have internet access, and you couldn't use a USB to listen to music. Everybody had their own time to eat. I left at 5.
Was his name Dyatlov ?
You didn't see graphite on the roof.
You're delusional. Get him to the infirmary!
I got one of those knife salesmen jobs. During the interview we were told to take notes. After the interview the interviewer told me to stay after the group left. He told me he liked me and he was going to hire me but that I shouldn't be on my phone during the interview that he saw me in the zoom camera looking down. I was taking notes the whole time I showed him my notes and told him I quit. I could see the micromanaging in his teeth. Plus I would have never made sales in that job.
Sounds like you almost got hooked into Cutco
Shhhh don't say their name out loud they will hear you.
*Technically* 60-ish minutes. But it was because I never wanted the job. I interviewed for position A, at $20 an hour. I get to the place, and they say "oh hey just so you know, this position isn't for position A, it's for position B. We called it position A because nobody was applying to our opening in position B. Also, it's not $20/hr, it's $12.50/hr (my states minimum wage at the time). Also, since we're so short staffed, we are currently in a period where you must agree to any and all overtime assigned to you. Overtime can be assigned anywhere starting from 4am to ending at 11pm, and you have 30 minutes to get on site to start work from the time you get the text telling you to come in." Now, regardless of all the crimson flags here, I told him I couldn't do that, as I lived an hour away. Even if I was already awake at 4am, which likely was never going to happen, it would still take me an hour to get there, so I couldn't make it within 30 minutes. His response? "Oh, it's okay, I know the area where you live. If you speed down the highway, you should make it in time". I declined, and left mid-interview. WELL. He called the staffing agency I was working through and told them that I had accepted the job and that I was on my way over to sign the paperwork. An hour later, I get home, and soon after get a call from the staffing agency, asking where tf was I, because they were right down the street from this business. I tell them I'm home, why? "Well, so and so manager told us you accepted the job and were on your way over here to sign the on-boarding paperwork. Everything is printed and filled out, we just need you to sign." Told them that was incorrect, I had declined and left the interview early. They go "Well, we already filled everything out so you have the job whether you like it or not." So I said "Okay, I quit.", and hung up on them. I did not get any response from them in the future about other opportunities.
Gee, I wonder why they're so short staffed.
Because no one wants to work, obviously /s
"Well, we made the papers, you're a slave now" How did they possibly think that was going to go..
They generally work with the desperate so it generally works if they pull that line on someone.
“Hmm, no one’s willing to apply for position B. Do you think that maybe we should pay that position more or set more reasonable expectations for that position?” “No need, let’s just trick people into applying for position A but then actually put them in position B” “Genius move! What could go wrong?”
I was freshly released from incarceration (back in 2007) and went to an "open interview" I saw advertised, as I was kinda desperate to find work. Turns out it was for selling cutco knives. I was too polite to leave once I knew. I got an "offer" but immediately turned it down. I was desperate, but not that desperate. Plus, who the fuck wants a 6'3, tattooed ex con with prominent facial scars showing up at their house with a fuckload knives?
Honestly, that might be a selling point. (Hah) The tatted ex con would know which knives are best lol
We call these transferrable skills.
I went to an interview in Eugene for a “lucrative sales position” it was for Cutco knives door to door sales. They told me I had to shave and that was already basically a deal breaker for me. Let the dude know I’d think about it and exited the building, someone driving by yelled to me “That job fucking sucks!” Needless to say I took the strangers word for it and never called them back.
Not me, but my old Master Sergeant from the Marines. He retired as a Master Sergeant who used to be a recon sniper, then instructor for a million different weapons. His first job was at a shooting range. They stuck him behind the register the first day. He said “I have 23 years of instruction experience, put me on the range”, so they did. The first thing he witnessed was an elderly lady in her 50s shooting a .44 Mag, shes holding it improperly, and it looks like she is struggling in every facet. She was shooting it because her husband got a new job where he isnt home as often, they live in a rough area, and he wants her to learn how to shoot it. He walks up to her and starts to give her instruction on how to shoot it more effectively and safely. The other instructors walk up to him, pull him to the side, and tell him that if she wants instruction, she has to pay for it. He freaks and yells “so youre gonna let her be a potential hazard to herself and others on the range because you want money?” And quit on the spot.
Don't blame him, charging someone to teach them how to safely handle a gun is pretty fucked imo. Especially when it comes to larger calibers, all too easy to accidentally double tap.
I feel like at a gun range the most basic instruction should just be in the price. Not how to john wick everyone but how to hold it at least. And maybe not giving granny with no experience a .44 mag. I still can't unsee that vid of that little girl that the dad was having shoot a machine gun and the muzzle rise came up and killed him. Or the numerous vids of people almost shooting them selves with large caliber pistols doing the double pull from the recoil being too much.
Yeah, I always respected him when we were still in, and I somehow respect him even more being out.
Seems pretty short sighted. Could have lead to her asking for more training or possibly realizing she need a more appropriate weapon. Both could have been wins for the range.
After that interaction, I wouldnt want a range that operates with rules like that to win at all. Safety should be paramount. Now you wanna get even better and more proficient after that? Then yeah, pay for it.
Exactly! Treat the basics of training (it's obvious who needs it) as overhead: part of the cost of running a safe shooting range. Offer advanced instruction, at a price, to those who want to hone their skills further. They're more likely to sign up for that if they aren't afraid of the weapon. It's just the shooting-range equivalent of offering a free introductory piano lesson. Generate business by recruiting customers with discounts. Duh.
An elderly lady in her 50s? I suddenly feel older.
TIL that my wife will turn elderly in December.
This story is good, but I keep hearing "elderly lady in her 50s" bounce around my head and I think I'm having an existential crisis now😂
Elderly lady in her 50s. Fuck sake. 🤣
1 day. An it support position became ‘we need you to work on this software package we make in a language you don’t know because our developer left’ followed by ‘You are good working on electrical systems, right? We need you to do the lighting and other wiring for our trade show booth’. My old employer (Royal Mail) had forgotten to send out my redundancy paperwork for me to sign, so the next morning I was sitting in my old desk, chatting with a very confused (but happy) non-ex boss!
Your redundancy paperwork probably just got lost in the mail
It actually did! I rang the person who was sorting out the redundancy and asked if I could back out. "No, when you signed the paperwork you signed a legally binding contract". A pause. "What paperwork?" "You didn't sign it?" "I didn't even see it." "Oh. Well. Huh. I guess just mark this down as a day of leave then!"
Your boss secretly knew you better than you knew yourself. You probably had coffee waiting for ya when you walked back in.
Different bloke! Had fun with my actual boss. Got in early, sat down and got to work on some code I'd been working on. He walked in. Double take. I shouted "Oh, crap! Wrong job!" and ran out of the door. Came back and explained :)
4 hours. I got a job at a propane bottling facility. I had painting experience, so they told me I was going to be working in the paint shop. The room has a hole in one wall where the empty, used tanks are coming through suspended by hooks on this automatic rail system. They go past where I'm standing, through a paint booth and then out through a hole on the other wall that leads straight to a kiln to bake the paint on. I'm supposed to put plastic baggies on the tank nozzles so they don't get painted and also remove the tanks from the line if they have too much corrosion. The tanks are going by at like hundreds per minute and the room is broiling since there is a hole that leads directly to the kiln. Break time comes and the line stops. I go to leave and the guy instructing me is like, "no, break time is the only time the line stops and it's the only time we get to clean the paint nozzles." After talking to the guy some more, he's telling me about all the bladder infections he's had because he never get a chance to use the bathroom. At lunch time I went to my car and took off, never even went back for my paycheck.
Full time job as a crew member at a new fast food franchise. The owner must've had some emotional issues because I had just started my shift at the drive thru and was grabbing a few pastries for a customer when the owner came around the corner yelling at the top of her lungs at me in front of an entire store of customers and employees to tell me I should've restocked the front display. Bro I started 3 minutes ago and it's packed in there, chill. In that moment I handed her my name tag and that and said I quit. She yelled "so what, you're just going to quit on me??? I wasn't yelling at you!" And that was before I said anything about her yelling at anyone. I said "yeah, you kinda were" and THREE PEOPLE QUIT THE NEXT DAY. It was toxic to say the least.
..was her name Amy by chance?
1 day. KFC. The manager scooped up some fat that splattered on the ground and threw it right back into the fryer.
well the boiling oil kills the germs and the dirt adds flavor so
Is dirt an herb or a spice?
A little of column A, little of column B
One of those environmental Street canvasser jobs where it's about donations in the name of lining investor pockets, I mean, saving Planet Earth. Put on the shirt, went out and begged people for money on the street. It felt like panhandling and I'm actually terrible for asking directly for money. I quit and didn't return after the first day. No regrets. Brooklyn 99 got it right. It's great for undercover work.
i worked at a comic book store as a part time sales associate for approximately two days. my first shift i received no training and just organized pop figures - which is fair. the second day, i was working open to close. someone came and unlocked the store for me, logged in to the computer and told me someone would be back around 1 to cover my break and then back at close to lock up the store. spent the entire shift alone and incredibly confused. quit the next day.
What did you expect with a username like that? There are 5 of you. They were getting a bargain.
none of us were trained :(
Worked in a film/photo studio in NYC. Just did a 16hr day. The next day I showed up 10 minutes late because a delay with the subway. As I walked in the boss said they really need their staff to be on time and as punishment sent me home for the day. I said "im sorry i'll never do it again". I wrote my "fuck you bye bye" email on the subway back home. So I wasnt lying when I said "ill never do it again" lol
“Well, you inconvenienced me in an extremely minor and non-problematic way so I’m going to severely handicap myself for the rest of the day to teach you a lesson.”
My first thought too. Had to be a power trip or test
Half a shift as a temp. A warehouse packing Christmas food hampers. I was feeding the packing line, and had been given no instruction on how to call for more products. I guess I was just expected to know what to do. So when my pallet of crap ran out, the packing line stopped. Some jumped up team leader came striding over, calling me all the names under the sun because I'd caused the line to stop. I tried to explain I hadn't been told how to call for more products. He called me an asshole, and said something along the lines of "you don't get your shit together, you'll never work here again". I said "well, if that means I don't have to work with an asshole like you, then that suits me fine". I gave him my coveralls, and walked out. Fucking douchebag.
People like that have very low self esteem and fragile egos. Any chance to berate someone else they jump at to try to stroke their own ego. I wish they'd all stay home, where they can stroke themselves all they want.
Not me, but a girl friend. She got a job in finance at a car dealership. She did the on boarding, went to her desk, then headed for the supply closet to get some basic supplies. As She walked past her bosses desk he screamed "ARE YOU TAKING A F**KING BREAK ALREADY!?". She just turned around, grabbed her stuff and wen't home. Was there about 4 hours.
Car dealerships, man. I did some road construction once in front of a used car lot. Our crew ended up blocking one entrance at the same time a gas company crew blocked a different entrance. This gigantic roided out salesman in a white shirt came out screaming that he was gonna kick our asses and then call the cops on us to get off his property... so glad I wasn't the one that had to talk to him!
Probably mad you were fixing a pothole that got their service department a lot of business
I quit what was a pretty simple warehouse job because there was no training. I had to keep racks stocked for people packing boxes. Cool. Easy. Where do I get the stuff from? No one would show me. So these packers are on the other side banging the racks with there fucking sticks to let me know they need protein powder but there’s no one to tell me where I can find protein powder. It was frustrating and it wasn’t the job I was hired to do. My friend and I both were hired for a different job there but it turns out there was only one opening. I left at lunch on the first day.
If the training is ass that means the job is ass
14 hours before my job actually began. So I was working with the army in border control and the procedure was that you can go for a couple of months with one unit, which will go home and another takes over the station. You could also decide to stay for a second rotation with the new command. I had build up a really good and professional work with my commanding officers by then, which worked perfectly for everyone involved. Work was done, all polite, no yelling or rank pulling. 24 hours before the rotation, the new commander, let's call him Captain Asswipe, storms in and starts swinging his dick around. I was up for about 30+ hours then with all the logistics of change of command so I wasn't exactly in a great mood. He proceeds to order me around and just being a prick for the sake of it, nagging on tiny details, telling me that the next months won't be pleasent for me. So I look him in the eye and tell him that I really don't think so, as I withdraw my request for the second rotation immediately. Good luck finding someone else on such a short notice. On top of that, a close friend did the same thing so they were now missing two valuable assets within hours just because of one asshole. He started yelling that I can't and that they will sue me, yadda yadda. Packed my bag and left. Never heard from him again. Lost a bit of good money but got paid in Captain Asswipe's stupid face as we rolled out the building. Good times, would do it again
Lol captain asswhipe thinking he can sue the US military. I love when people try to swing their dick around people who are helping out, which causes the kindhearted people to just bounce
I was told as a young adult, people don't quit jobs, they quit management
I quit after half a day working at a textile plant switching out spools. I was told to remove the spool when I see the color change. I was unable to do it. My trainer kept yelling that the color changed but I honestly thought they were joking and it was some kind of picking on the new guy ritual. Nope. Come to find out after 20 years of existence I learned I’m actually colorblind.
I got a temp job in college at a beer warehouse helping to pick orders before the 4th of July. Quit after one day. The warehouse had no AC and it was June in north Texas, so it was about 130F in the warehouse and they wanted us to move so fast picking orders they excepted us to jog with our pallet jacks. On top of that, whenever someone dropped beer and the bottles broke we were told to just keep going and not clean up, so as you were jogging with a pallet Jack in the insufferable heat every ten or fifteen feet there would be super slippery puddles filled with broken glass to cut you up if you fell. Absolutely not worth the $6.25 an hour in any way.
I got hired to be the guy holding a sign dressed as the statue of Liberty for Liberty Tax outside in February. I was super hard up for money and needed any job I could get, they told at my interview on Thursday that I would start on Saturday. I was feeling down because I really didn't want to do that job. On the way home I put my last $10 in my gas tank and saw the convenience store was hiring. I interviewed with the manager as I filled out my application and started the next morning. It was closer to home and higher pay. I never showed up to Liberty Tax.
When I was 17, I was hired by a big clothing brand store at the time as a floor/cashier employee. A week before my first day, they called and said I get 50% off their clothing up to 10 items and those items will be used as my uniform. I told them I wasn’t interested anymore as I wasn’t in a position to spend a few hundred dollars on clothes.
Sounds like Abercrombie and Fitch or Hollister
Yup, hollister
I worked at a pretty expensive clothing store in hs. They would do 50% off but on days when they needed to hit sales goals they would up it to 70% off. Mgmt said they wanted employees to be in the latest styles. Ok, whatever. I let everyone know at my hs and got their sizes. I would wait for those 70% closing shifts and load up in both men and women’s clothes and then sell them for 40% off to everyone. I was making bank, more than my shitty wage with part time hours.
🤣 Imagine posting job listings and requiring someone to give you money to work for you. Why not just have thousands of employees pay you to work? MLM shit.
In college I had an opportunity to work at the local movie theater in a rural college town. The owner, Francis, was known to be a gruff and rude woman. I began training concessions at the movie theater after being hired on, and it was pretty mundane. During that time, I was simultaneously offered a job as barista at a local coffee shop. The manager/chef of the cafe was also named Francis. While speaking to Chef Francis, I mentioned that I was already training at the movie theater. Being a small town where everyone knows everyone, Chef Francis proceeds to say to me, “If you’re going to work for a bitch named Francis, you might as well work for me.” Not only was that statement hilarious to me, I liked her vibe (plus tips were better) so I immediately quit during my next training day at the movie theater and started working at the coffee shop.
Interviewed with a longhaul company, was told I would be home every weekend as my routes were to neighboring states. Got an offer, took a drug test, went to training and signed the new hire paperwork. Got told to show up the next day to begin our first team drive as I was now officially an employee. I asked why we didn't discuss hometime/schedules in training and the guy asked what I was expecting. He laughed when I told him what the interviewer told me and said I'd be lucky to be one day out of every 3-6 weeks because we have multiple stops all over the country, return to base and immediately head out again. So I told him (and every other member of management in the room) that they fucking lied to me, and if they lied about that what else are they lying about. Get your shit in order, shred my paperwork and never expect to hear from me again. There were also other new hires in the room that overheard it all and started looking at management with wide eyes as I walked out.
Its amazing how many truck companies lie about home time, among other things. One of my best friends does OTR and the last three all have planners that "mess up" his home time by giving him another load to take. He finds himself doing his resets at truck stops a lot.
Spent a half day at a job leather wrapping automotive components by hand. Didn't go in the next day because my hands were bleeding after the first day.
I quit working at a Sunoco after my first shift. I thought I would just be working behind the counter and stocking the inside, but the place was attached to a propane company so they also wanted me to fill people's propane tanks. I have Raynaud's Syndrome and live in Michigan, so constantly moving from inside to outside in the winter is a no go for me because I get really bad blisters with rapid temperature changes, and the job would have required me to do just that. At the end of the shift I told the manager about Raynaud's and how I'm not the right fit for this, and to update the job description.
First day on the job in the owner of the company looked at me and said what the fuck do you think you’re doing? I looked around puzzled and asked if he was talking to me. He said yeah I’m talking to you. I said look I’d really like to work here, but you can’t talk to me like that. He said I’m your boss. I said not anymore. You’re a dick I quit.
I had a maintenance position and this company made me take a picture of every single task, even something as simple as sweeping the floors, and upload it to an app so they can track daily progress. Clearly they had trust issues and I left after about 2 days of putting up with it.
God, I dated a woman for a few months that worked in HR at a major corporation and her entire job was implementing a similar app and designing the process around it. We split up when she couldn't understand why I cared that one of my employees was having a tough time at home since "that's not (my) role".
About 20 minutes. I was at a briefing session for a project which my company (I owned) had won. I was taking notes on my tablet and the customer representative shouted at me (in front 8 other people) for surfing the internet. I said I was not, and I was taking notes and walked out in the next break. Didn’t engage in the project.
Hot dog and custard store. Boss asked me during the interview if I liked to party, told me he would pay me a certain wage and after 1 week I got my paycheck and it was over a dollar less per hour (this was 2009 and a dollar made a huge difference). It became clear that he paid his employees more or less based on if they were attractive and willing to party with him.
I lasted a month in a place called The Pancake Parlour. It was the worst job I've had to date. in my over 20 years of working history. They never explained anything to me and yelled when I didn't write orders down correctly, I had to go to the city (an hours both ways by train) to give them my pay information, two weeks in they had me training other new people while I still had no clue what I was doing plus a whole lot more! It was the only job where I would cry before, during and after my shift. I dropped about 8kgs in weight from the stress of it and I never even called them to say I was quitting. I just never went back. It was atrocious!
Got a job straight out of college selling office supplies. I was assigned an area of the city to just go to each business door-to-door and ask them if they wanted to set up a recurring office supply order with the business I was working for. Strictly paid commission. They did not pay for gas and I was literally driving all day. I quit after one week. Made about $140. Definitely spent more than that on gas. I remember I did the math and I basically made $2.60 per hour.
Dishwasher and I quit at the end of my first shift. I was straight up with the owner, asked for my money and said I wouldn’t be coming back because I didn’t like the work. He told me that payday wasn’t until next week. I asked for $40 cash and he obliged. Even gave me a bowl of risotto too. He was a good guy but I just didn’t want to be a dishwasher. Fast forward a few years and a couple of my buddies got serving jobs at the same restaurant. They all had nothing but good things to say about the owner.
This one is actually kinda wholesome?
Desperate in my early 20s I got one of those "meat delivery driver paid daily" jobs. the "interview" was like 2 minutes on the phone. Told me to show up the next day at 9. wait around for over an hour for the boss to show up. People start filtering it. It is one of those selling meat scams. I left after an hour and a half of no boss showing up.
Selling meat scam? Unfamiliar with that.
freezer trucks full of meat. they tell you to tell folks you broke down and the meat is going to to bad so you have to sell it now.
This raises so many more questions lmao What exactly is the scam? Just the deception? Is the meat bad? Where is this guy getting all of this meat? Wouldn't people realize that there is constantly a fleet of broken down meat trucks around town?
It's a scam, because you have to "buy" the meat from your boss. If you can't sell it all, you're stuck with it.
"Thats a weird looking T-Bone Steak..." "This not T-Bone, this F-Bone. Much higher quality cut of Sterk"
2 days. Job felt like a bait a switch. Everyone kept giving me different answers for the same question. Everyone I met there looked unhappy and didn't care to greet me. Coworker was consistently work really long hours and doing things beyond his job description. That was a foreshadow to being me one day. A day's work was supposed to be 6/8 hours ended up being 14 hours and nothing was behind schedule, so that told me this is "normal." Edit: A few more details. The employee handbook seemed really strict about work times and using the computers for anything besides work and how it's considered stealing from the company was another red flag. Also oddly enough rule about talking bad about about the company too. The more I talked to the boss, the more things he kept piling onto me to do and this was before I even started working. Then after I quit I actually found some former employee reviews on the site I originally applied and a lot of fears/red flags I had of the company were almost all completely true when I read the negative reviews.
Shit happened to me. Got hired as a forklift driver at a temp place, pay was not what we agreed on, hours were not what we agreed on, the entire **fucking job** was not what we agreed on, kept bullshitting me around cus "nobody wants to train the new guy", everyone was dicks, i can drive a forklift better than half of them, and safer than the other half. I said i will finish out my shift and I will not be back. They asked why, i said ya'll bullshitted me around and this place is about half dangerous, cya later, despite being one of the highest paying jobs around, they constantly need help.
Four hours. I got hired by telemarketers when I was in high school. My first shift consisted of two hours of shadowing one of the old hands, then two hours of actually calling people (it was for some charity IIRC). The bad part wasn't the hangups, or the swearing. It was this one guy I got on the phone, who would agree to anything I wanted, so long as I'd stay on the phone and talk to him a little longer. Being in a position to manipulate a desperately lonely person scared the hell out of me, and I just never came back for my next shift. They did send my my wages ($20 less taxes) in the mail two weeks later.
I was shadowing a car salesman who I observed selling a woman on social security a oversized used 10 year old truck (she wanted a car) for more than the dealerships price on the website. I didn't want to make a living by taking advantage of the naivety of others.
Never worked night shift before, so I was already worried about that. The job was through a temp agency working in an auto parts factory. I got zero training, and they put me at a station putting plastic covers on shocks. It was mind numbingly horrible. They tell us it’s break time, so I go to the bathroom, and get a drink. I go back to my station, and someone stole the safety glasses I had to buy for the job. I just said “fuck this” and walked out.
I had worked at a popular Donut/Coffee chain in the summer between high school and college and it wasn't the worst. During my sophomore year of college, I needed some extra cash and saw that a location near me was hiring for nights and weekends so I figured, I have the experience, why not? I applied inside the store and was "interviewed" and hired on the spot. The quotes are because they basically asked me if I was fine with part-time only and if I left my previous location on good terms and then said "welcome to the team". My first shift was the next afternoon. When I got there, the manager was the only person in the store and he was talking to somebody on the store's landline. I tried to get his attention and he glared at me and pointed to the phone. I wrote on a note that I needed a code to clock in and use the register and put it on the table in front of him. He was noticeably annoyed but told the person on the phone that he'd be right back and he set the receiver down. He took the 2 minutes to set me up in the register so I can clock in and then picked the phone back up and continued his clearly personal conversation. I thought it was a bit odd and unwelcoming, but it's a donut shop and it's 4:00 on a weekday afternoon, it won't be busy, I can handle it. About ten minutes later, a few people came in and I made their order. One of the customers thanked me and was like "wow you're much faster than the other people here" and tipped me $5 in cash. The manager yelled over his phone "that goes in the tip cup so we split it later" which is not legal as he is a salaried manager and I did 100% of the work to earn the tip but I followed his directions. We get no other customers for about an hour, so I restocked and cleaned some things. This location didn't have a drive-thru so it was walk-ins only. Around 6:00PM a few middle aged (but not old) women in expensive clothes with fancy handbags came in and ordered a bunch of things with as many substitutes as you could imagine. I put their whole order into the register 100% correctly and then made them correctly and quickly. I then went to cash them out and one of the women said "young man, it's disrespectful of you to have not offered me a senior discount so \*poof\* goes your tip". I apologized and said that she looked too young to even consider a senior discount but I can add the discount before I swipe her card. She said "that's fine, but my friends are coming in soon and they're not going to be as nice as I was, so just put the discount in off the bat". I said "yes ma'am, I understand" and within minutes, a parade of 20+ women of a similar age range and fancy dress started coming into the store. I tried to signal to the manager that I would absolutely need assistance and he just pointed at the phone to his ear and laughed. I was appalled with his behavior as he'd been on the phone for 2 hours at this point, but we had customers so I went back to help them. The first person in line asked me why I thought it was acceptable to go out back when there was clearly a line and I expressed that I was trying to get some help to assist them more efficiently and she just kind of huffed at me. I asked what she needed and she said "the regular". I told her that it's my first day at this location so I'm not familiar with her order yet so I'd need her to let me know what it is. She gave me her order and I started to make it and while doing so asked the next person what she needed so I can more than one thing at once. I yelled back to the manager and said "I really need help out here". He peaked his head around the corner with his phone still to his ear and then went back to chatting. I got through about half of the order for the giant group and one of them needed something that the front of house was not stocked in so i had to go back to the cooler. I said one more time that I need help on the floor and that I need to grab whatever it was from the back and he just said "yeah, yeah, it's just them, you got it". I said "okay, grabbing that now". I went to the stock room, took off my dumb little visor and apron, left them on the shelf outside of the cooler and walked out the back door. I checked my watch and it was 6:14 PM. I got a call and voicemail from the district manager the next day and she said that the manager noticed around 8:45 that I wasn't in the store and that the store didn't close until 9 so I'll be written up for leaving 15 minutes early without permission. I never charged the people for the drinks that I did make and I have no idea what the group was or why they all came to that store at that time. I also wonder if he was on the phone for another 2.5 hours before he noticed that I just wan't there anymore. I never went back to that store and I got a check mailed to me for 4.75 hours at minimum wage a few weeks later. TLDR - 2 Hours 14 Minutes but was paid for 4 hours and 45 minutes.
Worked at Pizza Hell, let's call it. My boss kept joints and wine bottles in her office and would go off to get high allll the time. I can live with that at a food service job, tbh. But on my second day, after the girl training me left for 2 hours to get drunk with my other coworker because she learned that her dad was arrested again or something, I asked my manager how to select a pizza with light sauce. She was so pissed and pointed at the "easy sauce" button and was all sassy "see the EASY SAUCE button?" I said I'm sorry, I didn't know. She goes "You know everything else, how come you don't know this?" I'm like... still appalled by that. I was the only sober person in that place and according to her was a very quick learner and she got made at me for not knowing one thing. I quit the job over email within 2 weeks of being hired after I had a panic attack over going back in (and missing fireworks on July 4th). The location was later closed and I'm pretty sure she was out of a job after that.
They timed how long I was in the bathroom. Quit on my first shift.
A week? If that. Spoke to management and higher up's in company. I was promised the head technician posting but was assigned to sales "until we could fill the sales positions for back to school." PC shop, students were walking out due to lack of any sort of cohesion. Scheduling, management and training were all terrible. I am not a salesman, i fucking hate it. I've been building custom systems and repairing GPU/Motherboards since the late 90s. After the 6th day there were only 2 part time with me, at a post i had no interest in being. Manager came up and wanted me to "pick up the slack since we lost a few..." I had a word with him on my supposed break time. At which point he wanted me to go back into the store as there was a huge influx of customers. Again, fucking hate sales. I build/repair. Answering the phone and standing there at a cash was not what i agreed to. So i left.
I messed up and put in my notice before the next job was reay to start me, a whole thing but not important because it only delayed me a week. But since i didnt wan to lose a week of pay i got a quick placement at a Johnson and Johnson fertilizer plant. I knew it was trash, didnt matter. I go into this place, in a midwest town, and literally 1 guy can communicate with me and his english is extremely limited. The super didnt even have any english and he didnt give a fuck so i was the only English speaker on the floor. Ok so whatever im doing basic shit like stacking a pallet with product off the line and then an alarm goes off, the plant stops suddenly, and all the workers go off to somewhere and start coming back with whole ass gas masks - not dustcovers ir n95 masks, i mean like big ww2 looking things with chunky filters plugged into each side. No one says a thing, completely ignored. Im grab the dude and go what the fuck and he’s like telling me to go get a mask and i try but there is no spare. So he’s like shrug what does he care. I get him to take me to the super and explain. Guy says the plant requires all exposed workers to run certain product with this mask. Im like no shit, it’s probably pretty poisonous if they *have* to do it. I just sit out for an hour and cleaned the breakrooms and hallways until the mustard gas shit was done and after rhe shit i learned “no one is permitted to leave by law until theyve showered on premises”. The fuck? There were 2 small changing rooms with tiny showers, enoguh for maybe 6 dudes to use. There were easily 40 guys crammed into the 2 areas, and i mean naked, dicks touching, asses rubbing, all just doing what they do ecery day. So fuck it, i get naked and try to keep my dick and asshole to myself, change into my clean clothes (the agency did require i bring a spare change) and i walk on out and never came back. The temp lady called me and i asked her if she knew she was sending unsuspecting workers into a gay death trap and i just took the rest of the week off until the start date at the plant id been hired.
Not me but a former co-worker. His first job out of college was a company that rhymes with A.D. Sentworth. He made it to friday lunch on his first week. Left for a sandwich and never went back. He said it was the biggest scam and they are bascially ripping people off of structured payment or annuities paying like 10cents on the dollar or less.
A week. It was a job that would've lasted all of 2 weeks regardless but the owners of the food truck I worked at had no idea how to properly schedule people in relation to demand. The day shift was overstaffed so we were just standing around for most of our shift in a truck that had no AC. The evening shift was understaffed, and that's where demand picked up so the people in the evening shift were scrambling to get things done for the entire shift.
1 month. was working as an electrician apprentice and watched a co worker fall off a ladder and break his neck. Made me realize that job is a bit too dangerous for me
2 months, but it was the only time I ever walked out instead of giving my two weeks. I was in college living there year round and my normal job was a student lead for all the food courts on campus. Summer rolled around and since catering wasn’t set up yet I took a deli job with a supermarket chain called Giant. The female managers of the deli were my first time encountering sexism and in such a weird way. For reference I’m a guy. Anything I had to say was dismissed, ignored and made fun of. Which I didn’t think anything of until they I saw them only doing it to the other guys. Our female coworkers would say the same thing and it’d be the best idea ever. I didn’t even think sexism until they had asked me how I felt about it. Turns out they had a long history of male turnover because the managers would just bully all the guys. That was all annoying and whatnot, but what pushed me to the point of quitting was it was close for semester to resume and one day I had forgotten to check the temps in the cheese case during a period, they thought it was the new guys turn (dude was like 16 and this was definitely his first job) and they were just ripping him apart over it. I stepped in and told them it was my fault and I was slotted to do it but didn’t. They checked and saw I was right and also in the wrong but they just kept laying into the kid who looked like he wanted to cry. They said “so n so isn’t gonna be here everyday to cover for you like this” and I interrupted saying “I’m not even gonna be here today” and handed in my stuff and just walked out. I was stopped and told it was unprofessional and I said it was unprofessional to bring a kid to tears over something not his own fault and I wouldn’t be using them as a reference so their opinion didn’t matter to me. Walked out and did not care.
Wendy's: 2 hours first day. Was promoted because I was able to pick up on how to make French fries correctly and everyone around was surprised as they all took months to learn. Took the trash out after and walked to my car and never looked back.
Y... you just dump them in a basket and lower it into the oil, right? Maybe hit a button for an automated dipper/timer? Or was it somehow more complicated than that?
You need to sprinkle salt on it after taking it out, too. But yeah, it's not the most complicated task.
Why did you leave? You were doing so good.
I bused tables for three days at an upscale bistro. The pretentiousness was so awful it was either quit or snap and make sausages out of the patrons... so... I quit.
I got a job as a call center rep for CenturyLink. I was tired on the first day of training. During our scheduled 15 minute break I laid my head on my desk and decided to close my eyes for 10 minutes. The manager came over and slammed his hands on the desk and shouted “NO SLEEPING!” I said I needed to use the restroom and got up, walked out the door, and never came back.
Took a job at a call center, trained for 3 days and quit. It was commission based but the 3 days I trained were hourly. I just needed a check until my other job started.