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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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Longdistance · 25/08/2022 23:34

I did a temping job for two days. I didn’t go back as it was so disorganised and one of their employees was a lazy fucker who was staring at the same thing on her pc all day eating nuts. I swear to god she didn’t even tap that keyboard. She should’ve been doing the job I was doing.

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 25/08/2022 23:35

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.

Why do you feel stuck?

I only stayed half a day at one job. But it was only strawberry picking you try to earn some 'go travelling money'. It was back breaking, but that wasn't my biggest issue. We had to pick them by using our thumb nail under the green bit, digging into the strawberrY, no scissors allowed. It bloody hurt after a while, but my Big Issue with it was how unhygienic it was!! I could imagine people eating them, nit knowing who the fuck had had their filthy nails dug into them 🤮

I don't know after that. I temped for a few years & was glad if many of them ending!!

can you get a new job before leaving, if you do thst, then what's stopping you?

RagzRebooted · 25/08/2022 23:39

A day and a few hours. Call centre, I was 16. It was a bit dodgy as our sales pitch made us sound like we were from a big name company but we really weren't. I felt uncomfortable about it immediately. There happened to be an article in the local paper about them on my 2nd day and I walked out around 10am.

I like to think I was just being principled, but I also really hated the job!

MummaB22 · 25/08/2022 23:40

Half an hour! 🤣 went for the job at Barclays, got the job, handed in my notice and then I got a call 2 days before I was due to start saying the job was no longer available (I signed a contract) I was 18. Went to lawyer and they started legal proceedings (letter first) then I got a call re offering me the job. Thought great. Started, wasn't the original job I went for. Left after 30 mins 🤣 fuming

marblemad · 25/08/2022 23:59

Honkytonky12 · 25/08/2022 23:29

Marblemad that sounds awful. My managers are lovely and seem very accommodating but then do sometbibg different. I actually think they are using their niceness to manipulate me though and suck me in.

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If something feels off then just leave as soon as something else comes up! It sadly sounds like they are using your kindness and exploiting you, if you aren't ok with it start searching for near enough pay bands or wfh temp roles to tie you over financially and leave! x

moggerhanger · 26/08/2022 00:02

4 months. It was a 7 month temp contract but I didn't even make it that far! (I was on a month's notice so had actually decided after 3.)

Walnutwhipplease · 26/08/2022 00:05

OP the staffing issues are not your problem. I don't think you should be worried about how your colleagues or managers will cope. It's a job so it's ok to be be business like. In my opinion working a months notice or whatever the required period is, is generally the decent thing to do and you owe no more than that. However if you don't need to work and it's causing you stress, or you find a different job sooner, put your own interests first and do what is right for you.

Itstrueiagree · 26/08/2022 00:13

A month with a weeks notice otherwise would've had to give a month's notice. It was chaotic with totally unachievable targets and I was the 8th person that left within a year! Someone told me that by mistake. Best thing I ever did.

MayISuggestSomeThickCutSteakChipsToGoWithThat · 26/08/2022 00:15

A couple of days. Not my fault though I got a phone call from the manager to say the company had gone into liquidation. The rest of the staff were transferred to Morrisons but because I was technically still on probation I just got made redundant. If you can call it that with no pay

Oldcottoneye · 26/08/2022 00:17

4 days as a student at Primark. I honest to God thought I would die.

Pigeon05 · 26/08/2022 00:17

11 months. Was a long slog.

Readaboutyourself · 26/08/2022 00:19

Half a shift at Pizza Express

TheOrigRights · 26/08/2022 00:22

One night at the onion factory. Enough said......

brownwhisker · 26/08/2022 00:23

I got a job in ASDA and didnt go back after one shift. There was a manager everyone had warned me to be wary of who pulled me up for chatting to a colleague (the girl who was training me) in a really, really horrible and condescending way on the shop floor. The way he spoke to me was terrible and I was so embarrassed as customers could hear it all.

I walked out there and then and told them to ram it

Scampski1220 · 26/08/2022 00:24

I worked at Michael's the craft store for 2 days. I decided to work there during the holidays to make extra money for Christmas. The 1st problem was how they treated ppl. The 2nd problem was I requested one day off - my birthday. They has said that they don't give anyone off the 5 days before Christmas. Problem was my birthday is Dec 20th. I asked for that day off well in advance and explained there were tickets that were purchased and I was off at my day job. And quite frankly I didn't need the money but was using the money for holiday gifts. So you didn't want to give me off for the 3 measly hours I worked. I just never showed up again. I lasted 2 days - 6 entire hours. Never again.

MumofSpud · 26/08/2022 00:24

I started at a school and by the second day I was redoing my CV - unfortunately I then managed to load it onto the staff shared drive and HR suggested that it didn't need to be thereBlush
I did last a year there on the end!!

RopeyOldBird · 26/08/2022 00:24

4 hours. Hideous place

TheFormidableMrsC · 26/08/2022 00:50

About 6 weeks. When I took the job I didn't realise the CEO had dumped his wife and installed his OW as a "manager". OW had previously been a receptionist. She was a vile, power hungry cunt who thought she could behave how she wanted as she was shagging the boss. She routinely humiliated me in front of clients and colleagues and was disgustingly disrespectful to everybody regardless of their role. I walked out after one particularly awful day where she mocked me in front of a room full of clients and never went back.

They went bust eventually. A really successful advertising agency. 100% she was the cause of that.

Lovegossip · 26/08/2022 07:15

Half a day

9 years ago. Having just been made redundant after 11 years in same jobholder, I signed up to agency asking for office work and they gave me a 3 month temping assignment, in short it was a small warehouse that sold cds, dvd's and records, I was expected to climb shelves that were 20 feet high to collect said items, I gave it a go and got fed up, I was hot and tired and hadn't expected the agency to give me such a manual role so I rang and told them I was leaving, still got paid for it lol

Lovegossip · 26/08/2022 07:16

Oh if only I could edit. No idea what happened above. Line should say 11 years in same job

Crayfishforyou · 26/08/2022 08:05

Two hours. I had told the recruitment agency I wouldn’t do cold calling. The company told me it wasn’t cold calling.
It was cold calling.

Redqueenheart · 26/08/2022 08:32

2 days. It was a freelance marketing role for a theatre and we had not signed any contract yet.

I hated the atmosphere and the team was quite 'bitchy'.

They had not been honest about the amount of work that was expected and they also wanted everyone to pitch in to man reception and tickets sales on the nights that they had performances.

This was of never mentioned before and I refused to be exploited in this way so I walked out after two days...

I also left another organisation after two months during the probation period because I had ethical concerns about what I was asked to do.

OP the probation period is not just for the employer, it also gives you a chance to decide whether this is the right job for you. If you are not happy with the role then resign.

CharlotteSt · 26/08/2022 08:37

Three months. But then I went back six years later and stayed 12 years.

illiterato · 26/08/2022 08:37

excluding temp jobs that were only ever meant to be temp (holiday jobs, agency work, paid internships etc), 2 years. I really hated that job but in hindsight I'm glad I stuck it out as I learned a lot in terms of resilience and dealing with difficult people. It also paid well so I paid off all my credit cards and got a flat deposit together. Never had sunday night blues like it though.

MrsMoastyToasty · 26/08/2022 08:43

Half a day.

It was a placement through a temping agency. Working in a call centre that handled calls for a number that was given out on an advert on TV.

The training was done 9-5. What they didn't tell me was the shifts were evening shifts and the first calls usually came in after prime time TV like Coronation Street. I wouldn't be able to get home from work. There was no staff parking, the area was really rough and I wouldn't walk through it to get back to my car and the last bus left 2 hours before my shift finished (I lived outside the city).

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