What's the shortest time you've stayed in a job you hated?

I am so very happy I found this thread. I just started a job and want to leave after one day!

• 12 shifts

Another one. I lasted a total of 12. I knew by the end of the first day that I hated it. I cried everyday on the way to work. Went on the sick, got another job. If anyone is miserable at work then leave. Being in a job you hate can take a huge toll on someone's mental health.

Apprentice hairdresser after I left school, many years ago. The stylists were 2 young women who were horrible to me. They'd bark instructions at me 'shampoo my lady', but all at the same time and I could only do one at a time, so whoever had to wait had a go at me. A horrible, rough woman worked there part time shampooing clients too, and she bitched about me to them, so that they all ended up giving me dirty looks. She had a daughter my age who shampoo'd on Saturdays. God, she was rough. Talked in a loud voice about her and her boyfriend having sex. I was there 3 months. I hated it.

One shift. It was cleaning in the evenings at Asda. Apparently it was 6 days a week, "Monday to sunday". I was 17, why oh why didn't I just say at the interview "so which day is the day off?" As it seemed to be 7 days not 6 just worded stupidly. Also the manager was a complete prick.

I walked into a new job and knew there was something wrong in the team but it was in a professional role.
So I stuck it out until I had a breakdown after 6 months and didn't work for another 6 after, it was that dangerous and toxic. I never really got back to the level I was after that experience.
To this day I should have listened to my gut instinct and left that day but I didn't want people to think I was stupid

6 hour shift, walked out at the end and never went back. It was in a fast food restaurant when I was 16.

Op I know this isn't the point of your thread but what was being a care assistant like? I am thinking about it. Did you need to drive? What were the pros and cons?

Oh and when working with adults with complex mental health needs we were on a training course for managing challenging behaviour. A bloke there was in his first week. There was a lot of talk about how to defend yourself if you are attacked. He went out to get a sandwich from the local shop at lunchtime and we never saw or heard from him ever again.

50 days.
Even the the jar of salad cream had a longer shelf life than I did.😭

One morning. It was a well paid job in a credit card company. I attended a meeting about their latest product which was a new card designed to rip off low income people. I walked out half way through the meeting and went home in disgust.
There psychometric tests showed I was a perfect fit for the job haha.

Had the same working in a pub did just one shift and she said i had to stay 2 hours after close to clean up, there was a huge box of crisps and bar snacks that were over a year out of date so i threw them out and she went mental, i walked out, another time another pub again one shift the landlord had hired me, the wife/landlady walked in ( i was young and attractive and she wasnt) and she said 'what the hell is she doing behind my bar' i just walked out i didnt need that..

3 days. Left when they tried to make me go to Scotland stating “it’s only gonna take you a few hours” - no mate , the place they wanted me to go is at least 8 hours drive and then back again .

About 2 months. The job wasn't at all what had been advertised or what we discussed at interview. I was hired because of relevant experience and they then gave me some intense training relevant to the job I thought I'd be doing but the job they actually had me do was just simple data entry a trained chimp could have done. I've never been so bored.

Years ago when I worked in a care home I was training a new carer and he walked out after about 2 hours. He just said "this really isn't for me, I'm off" and left the building.

One day.

I sat in an office where nobody said a word the entire day. It was completely silent. I thought I had gone deaf.

Told the manager as I was leaving that it wasn't for me, and got a much more enjoyable job a week later.

I'd love to leave my job but can't afford to, and need the flexibility I have with it and small children, ridiculous shifts you'll only get from
being somewhere for years 🤣 Everytime I pull into the car park the light behind my eyes dulls a little bit more though! It's a super market, enough said I think.

Three months, I knew straight away something was wrong. Public sector org, completely dysfunctional. Couldn’t afford to just leave and thankfully something came up about two months in and I managed to turn it around quite quickly and gave my one week notice

Resigned after 3 months but knew on Day 1 it was a shit show and should have left then

I’ve been in the job I’m doing now for just over 2 years, I did walk out on my second day though!!
i absolutely hate the manager and her mother in law who also works there!
They come as a double act! If you fall out with one the other turns against you!!
Anyone would think that the mil is running the place because the manager is always running to her when problems arise!!

im in the process of looking for another job unfortunately I only live in a small place and there’s nothing around here as I don’t drive

DW's was 25 minutes.

She was doubtful to start with but when she got there she found there was a whole lot of stuff added to the job that nobody had mentioned at the interview.
Basically, they wanted a "clerical assistant" type (on a "clerical assistant's" salary) to take on certain management responsibilities.

She started work at 9am and was back home by 10am.

I stayed 18 months in a job where I was bullied relentlessly. I didn't want to let them 'win'. In retrospect, I think I should have left much earlier, but it turned out well enough in the end, as I got a job where I was valued. If you can afford to go back to care work, and that's where your interest lies, you will surely be happier.

Half a day.

I went into the job agency next door in my lunch break and they got something for me starting the day after. Apparently I wasn't the first person doing the same. At least that crazy boss was keeping someone happy.

1 month. Wetherspoons, felt like I was in a time warp where 10 minutes lasted an hour, I got 5 minutes training then left to it, so had no idea what I was doing, the bar was so long and then and there was easily 15 of us behind it and we kept bumping into each other, I was in sixth form at the time and had only just turned 18 myself and a load of boys from the year below so 16/17 somehow got in and expected me to serve them because we were mates so I'd spend every Friday/ Saturday night avoiding them like the plague.

Had to stay till 2 in the morning every shift to clean up which is part of the job, there was 3 areas, kitchen, bar, and dining area, the dining area was massive and it was always me and 1 other girl who would get given that job. But she'd drink on shift all night and then pass out in the toilets and leave me to do the whole seating area myself. I went on the Halloween night out with the team and never went back.

3 months absolutely dreadful place to work and I hated going into work. I left without a job to go too but was employed again within 2 weeks

8 months.

It was in a nursery set in someone's house and she was the business owner/nursery manager.

She was cruel to the children and also cruel to her dog.

She also had a 16 month old on the books that she tried to pass off as a two year old.

I left after securing another job and whistle blew to Ofsted.