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What is the shortest time you have stayed in a job?

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Honkytonky12 · 25/08/2022 22:21

I've been in my job for 2mths and I really hate it. I keep putting off handing my notice in but it's just getting worse and worse. Help me feel better 😭

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AnnaFri · 25/08/2022 22:21

A few weeks

When it's not right you know quite quickly

Whataboutno · 25/08/2022 22:26

Half a day haha! I wonder if anyone can top that. It was so bad, they were smoking in the office/shop and this was after the smoking ban came in! I phoned them on my lunch break and told them I wasn't coming back.

Whataboutno · 25/08/2022 22:27

If you still hate it after 2 months I think you owe it to yourself to leave, as long as it doesn't leave you in a difficult position

BogOffTraceyBeaker · 25/08/2022 22:28

I dated a guy who started work on Monday went Tuesday and at lunch on the Wednesday he walked out and hasn’t been been back it’s been roughly 30 years

FarmerRefuted · 25/08/2022 22:34

Minus 60 minutes, or however you'd phrase 'an hour before my first shift'.

DC was ill, I was due to start my new job but DH was there to look after them. DC got rapidly worse and had some worrying symptoms that needed a visit to the walk-in so DH went and had no option but to stay and look after the other DC as we couldn't find anyone else to sit with them at such short notice.

I rang new workplace a d was told that if I didn't go in, I'd be sacked. There was no way for me to go in that didn't involve bringing two children with me so I got sacked.

DramaAlpaca · 25/08/2022 22:36

Three days. It was more than enough!

TheUnquestionedAnswer · 25/08/2022 22:43

Half a day. Strong smell of sewage in the reception area where I was working.

IckyPop · 25/08/2022 22:43

About 3 hours. Arrived late, took early lunch, didn't go back Grin

NameChange7684 · 25/08/2022 22:43

A day. Nobody would explain what I was supposed to be doing/who was meant to be training me and when I asked, I ended up in an endless loop of 'ask Bob', 'ask Jane', 'ask Bob', (Bob told me to ask you), 'ask Jim then'... Couldn't face a second day of it.

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Honkytonky12 · 25/08/2022 22:43

I wish I left the 1st day but everyone told me to give it a go and now I feel stuck.

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longtompot · 25/08/2022 22:44

A day? I was 16 mind, and it was just a Saturday job. I went next door where my friend worked on my lunch break and got a job at her work and started there the next week. I was there for well over a year

CatDilemma123 · 25/08/2022 22:45

1 day Grin it was a professional job, well, it was meant to be! And no, it isn’t on my cv

nancy75 · 25/08/2022 22:45

Also half a day. As I left for lunch I told them I wouldn’t be coming back.

Abaca1 · 25/08/2022 22:46

1 day - was bored to death so I rang in the following morning and said I won’t be back.

Walnutwhipplease · 25/08/2022 22:46

About two hours!! It was a pizza takeaway place. I was only 15/16 with lots of Italian men shouting at me. I was sent out back to chop meat. I was vegetarian and stood out back crying over the ham before leaving by the back door.

OP, it's miserable going to a job you hate. Two months is a reasonable time to have tried. Can you afford to leave though or do you need to find something else first? Sometimes knowing you can go and starting to look for other jobs can make it now bearable.

Christmasiscominghohoho · 25/08/2022 22:47

About 2-3 hours x

Walnutwhipplease · 25/08/2022 22:48

In what way do you feel stuck?

sorrysaythatagain · 25/08/2022 22:50

2 weeks.

Vapeyvapevape · 25/08/2022 22:51

4 days but I'd already decided the job wasn't for me after the first couple of hours.

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Honkytonky12 · 25/08/2022 22:54

Walnutwhipplease · 25/08/2022 22:48

In what way do you feel stuck?

I probably because I do like the staff just not job. Feeling guilty as I will be really be dropping them in the shit as so short staffed.

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ginghamstarfish · 25/08/2022 22:55

3 days, pie factory summer job when I was a teenager. Put me off pies for life.

Doyoumind · 25/08/2022 22:56

A morning. But I was young and it was a holiday job and it was clear it wasn't going to work.

In real jobs, I always used to feel I had to get to at least a year but now if I really knew it wasn't right I would start looking as soon as possible.

merrymelodies · 25/08/2022 22:57

Three days. Telemarketing in Paris for Disneyworld opening weekend deal. Hellish. I quit.

Alexaspartyline · 25/08/2022 22:58

ooh i had a good run in my younger years, did the uni stint, but only wanted an arts career. Did that and it's a struggle but i love it. In those days I literally walked in and out of jobs. Could not tolerate the idea of office politics, nosey, bored coworkers, struggling to be a drone in the hierarchy of a capitalist, cut throat half life.

Most of my friends thought i was wacky, unrooted, weird, but I couldn't deal with a life that didn't sit me. There are distinct drawbacks to how I live now, 20 years on, but if i went back, i probably wouldn't change a thing. I was lucky enough to have family support (lucky is such a wet, MN word admittedly), which assisted in keeping me above the gutter. Still, I am pretty much the quintessential quitter. But more so because I know my own limits, however socially unacceptable they are.

Redshoeblueshoe · 25/08/2022 22:59

I lasted a day. I worked with a bloke, well I never actually saw him - he lasted 2 hours ! Just get a new job.

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