To ask what is the shortest you stayed in a job?

[Jax07]

And why you left?

Mine was 4 months and I left because the commuting. (2hrs each way) I thought I could do it but I couldn't... it also didn't help that my boss was hard work.

I've had one where I turned up at the practice to find it shut (no opening hours on the outside), called the agency who apologised and sat in Costa whilst they called the owner. After an hour went home.
Turns out that they did a late shift on a Thursday and the owner forgot to tell the agency I was meant to be working 11.30-8! Nursery pick up at 6pm rather ruled that job out.

Many years ago, when you could leave job one day get another the next

I started at 8.30 and lasted til 12 lunch time, never went back. Nobody spoke to me, not even girl that was a friend at school and used to come out with a gang of us. Hated it

One day
My abusive partner (now ex) made it such hell by calling me constantly and stressing me out once I got home that I didn't go back

Another ex did that to me after 3 days in a job (kept turning up). I had only just started dating him and it was a deal breaker.

How do I find these men?

1 evening. About 4 hours - it would have been shorter but the retail job turned out to be a bloke filling his car with students, driving us an hour away and setting us off cold calling around a housing estate some where. This was before mobile phones, so we were stuck until he decided to collect us. So bloody unsafe.

We had someone not come back to work on day 2 - 1 day with us was enough and a friend of mine was made redundant after lunch on their first day in a job they'd been relocated for....

When I was young I would regularly leave after 3-4 weeks though because I would find something better or not like it there
It was easier to get a job back then although that might be why I struggle still at times

I did one breakfast shift at a hotel as a waitress, there was a very weird vibe there and I hated every minute. Didn't even go back for dinner service. Got a job in another hotel the next day and loved it.

Telesales at 20 - lasted a whole morning of selling plain a4 paper to numbers cribbed from the phone book... Soul destroying! Walked out at lunchtime and never went back.

About three/four weeks (can't remember exactly and I don't put it on my CV!)

Very similar experience to GottenGottenGotten...was working in a small team of what turned out to be really cliquey women. Actually it went beyond cliquey, they were downright bitchy - stopping talking when I sat down at my desk, then starting to laugh as soon as I moved away again, and too many times for it to be a coincidence. Having conversations between themselves without ever including me, and if I ever tried to join in they'd all stop talking and stare at me as if I had two heads, then carry on as if I hadn't spoken. They organised a night out when I was there and made a big thing of not inviting me but talking about it in front of me, almost daring me to ask if I could join them (I didn't give them the satisfaction).

Anyway, that was a permanent job but I'd been offered a temporary contract shortly afterwards, about a week/10 days. After another week of being ostracised for no reason I could see, I rang the other company back and asked if the temporary job was still available. Thank fuck, it was I negotiated a reduced notice period and breathed possibly the biggest sigh of relief in my entire life when I walked out of there at 5pm on my last day.

1/2 a day. During school I got a job over break doing inventory in a warehouse. Perfectly fine job for a 19 year old. However, I was coming down with the flu. By lunch I could barely stand. I didn’t return for the afternoon and understandably, I didn’t get to return even after I was well.

2 days in a temp job working for a place that sold bikes. I'd finished my actual job to go travelling and had a few weeks before I went, so took any job to top up my savings.

My soul purpose was to type credit card numbers into a computer. I got called to one side and told I was taking too many loo breaks, I wasn't allowed to talk and I was literally ignored by everyone. The bloke in charge didn't even know my name!!! "You I need a word". My parent's wanted me to quit day 1 when I said what had happened, but I wanted the money.

If that happened to me now years down the line I'd have told him to get stuffed after the first hour! He was so so rude. Funny what you are willing to put up with when you are young and naive.

3 hours. Temp kitchen porter job in a large hospital many, many years ago. When the rest of the kitchen staff went on their lunch break, and all the clanging and banging stopped, hundreds of cockroaches emerged from every crack, nook and cranny in the kitchen.

I ran.

A week - I was a Christmas temp at TESCO. It paid well but I wouldn't have wanted to stay there, long hours and for some reason working on the register really made my back hurt!

I've never left a job because I've wanted to, I've always been on temporary or casual contracts. So happy to have my first permanent contract job so I can stay as long as I want _

I lasted 2 months as a hotel waitress when I was just 17. I had just started my A-levels and took it as a part time job around college. It was awful - we never finished before 2am and the owner/manager was an obnoxious twat. The rest of the staff weren't much better.
In the end I just didn't bother going back because I found a new job. I didn't even tell them

I had worked waitressing in a restaurant for 3 years prior to that so it's not that I had no staying power! Only left the first place because it closed down when the owner retired.

38 minutes. Showed up to interview for a factory production line job in a cake factory. Got it, started work immediately. Stood still on a line, tidying up fruit cake with a tool.

It was so mind numbingly dull I quickly went from ‘oh god... I’ll just do it for a month... I don’t think I can. I’ll do a week. No, I really can’t imagine that, I’ll do this one day at least that’s £30 or so.. oh god I can’t wait eight hours, I’ll just go home at lunch. I can’t do three hours, I want to sob, I’ll just go at break in 90m. Actually, if I’m gonna go then I might as well just go now, I think if I stay even five mins more I might die’

Downed tools and walked out. It was horrible. So loud, got shouted at for trying to put my shoes on an empty locker by staff members, but it was the boredom, I can’t handle it at all.

5 minutes! And I'm not exaggerating! Said I thought I'd left my car lights on and then fecked off!

I’ve done a lot of shit NMW jobs, dunno what I was expecting, but it was worst than my worst nightmares could have come up with. Just knew I wouldn’t be able to switch my brain off to get through it.

3 weeks. Retail.
Signed up for 3 afternoons and one weekend evening. Found myself rota'd for all the lates including Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Despite pointing out the difference in what was actually happening and the job I applied for the rotas stayed the same. Handed in notice and got the hell out of there.

Awful place, they actually pulled a fiddle after I left to claim my shifts as overtime for themselves. It meant I didn't get paid and took head office 3 months to solve. Never again.

My first ever job at 16, I did 1 shift waitressing in a pub that served food. The uniform was black skirt and a white see through blouse. The manager sat and just watched at a table, he was gross and made you feel very uneasy. The men in the pub were horrific with the leery comments etc, not helped by the uniform. I was 16 and it was just grim. I didn't return and they refused to pay me. I think it was £2.50 an hour so £20 for an 8 hour shift in the early naughties, was that even min wage?!

Managed one shift in a care home. There were two managers, an assistant manager, a senior care assistant and me. When it was tea time for the residents, the two managers, assistant manager and senior care assistant sat around a desk discussing the rota while I hared around like a blue-arsed fly serving everyone tea. They were nasty bitchy women as well. When I got home I rang up and said I wasn't coming back. The relief!

Three Months.

I was totally mislead at interview and left my old job, where I had been for years, as thought grass was greener.

New employer turned out to be a complete crock of shite!

They never paid my salary on time. It was always one to three days late!

Employer expected you to work hours of unpaid over time too.

Boss was hard work too. It was a small family business that I left a big corporate firm to go to. Awful.

4 hours. It was a waitressing job in a fancy new restaurant. Turned out I was the only waitress because nobody could stand the chef, the manager had never worked in catering before that night, there were no vegetables, no ice and no first aid kit. So when I cut my finger I got blood all over the plates and the manager just told me to wipe it with my apron. He sent me to the pub next door to beg for a bag of ice. I had 20 tables wanting to know why there were no vegetables.
I was given a five minute cig break, so I just kept walking and got the bus home. The place closed down after about a month.

2 hours

I was tempting at the time had lots of different admin, accounts and book keeping experience. I went to a telecoms headquarters and was shown to my desk (in a room of misirable looking people) then shown the 3 massive filing cupboards of filing to be done! I don't know when anyone had last filed, as they had just been lobbing the paper work in the cuboards out of the way. I did half an hour then rang the agency and said it wasn't what I was told it was going to be, the agency said "but the the pay is really good!"

I'd forgotten all about the job until this thread

7 days and I only stayed that long as it was then the christmas shutdown which was paid, so free time off (resigned on Jan 2nd)

It was my first time back in an office environment after 7 years and.. well lets just say I don't get on with offices. If I'd been literally chained to my desk I couldn't have felt more confined.

4 days. Was still doing my induction and got offered another job. I rang them up Friday morning and said I Wouldn't be coming in.

3 months. I Hated every second of it.