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.

5 days.

I went from years of outdoor working, to working in a factory with no windows. Got my pay packet and never went back.

An hour. Was through and agency, sent to a college to do admin work, was put on a desk and told they didn't have anything for me to do! I went on a break at 10am and walked out

Four months.

I'd just moved with DH, and took the first job I could get as we ended up in an area where jobs were scarce.

It was awful. I had no work to do, at all. It was a civil service job that was basically used as a place holder, in case work actually came along. After three weeks of doing courses, I snapped, I fell into a ... state of depression I guess. I just ended up feeling worthless and employable, and spent most of my time crying in the loo after months of asking for things to do, and being told not to bother when I was trying to be proactive. I dragged myself in every day till I got a new job.

Wish I had walked out on day one in retrospect, when my line manager said to just play on my phone for two hours on my first day.

@WakeUpFromYourDreamAndScream your job sounds perfect! Sit there doing nothing and still get paid!

A day, I did a day door to door selling of Sky i was really fucking good at it too second day I turn up to be given the contract to sign. Nothing like what had been told to me. I was told given days, fuel expenses and wage (not commission only) read the contract with the guy at in front of me - 0 hours, commission only, no expenses - looked him dead in the eye and said "I don't think so" handed the contract back and flounced out. His face was a picture!

@Otterses I actually wish someone would pay me to play on my phone

I was only 19 at the time too

@WhirlieGigg the novelty wears off after a few weeks but if that's what you're after I can highly recommend the department I was in. The lady in the next cubicle used to look at photos of mansions on rightmove all day.

Tbh it probably wasn't the lack of work that depressed me, more the isolation. We all had cubicles, and despite having nothing to do, no one spoke. Was all very odd.

One month. After my MA I got a job as a teaching assistant in a public boarding school. Once I was in there they used me as a teacher...I had full responsibility for planning and delivering certain key stages and then the head of the department kept buffering off and expecting me to teach her GCSE and ALevel groups which I wasn’t technically allowed to - I didn’t have a PGCE. I also had to do a lot of her admin and she got out of her houseparent duties by getting me to do some of her evening duties - so I’d finish at 11pm, have an hour’s journey home and be on morning duty at 7am. She would say “I’m not in tomorrow afternoon so can you cover? I’m going to (city an hour away) to get my hair done.” or she’d go off early on a Friday so she could fly away on a city break.

For all of this, I was paid the princely sum of £9k per annum. After I worked 70+ hours one week, I got the hell out of there.

2 months on a 0 hour contract care job, my preference due to being a full time student.

They called me over 20 times in 4 days asking me to cover a shift I'd already refused because I didn't have any childcare. They kept on asking if I'd "had chance to find a babysitter" and wouldn't accept "no, my partner is working, family are unavailable, and I'm not paying a stranger to look after my toddler overnight."

They found DPs phone number, and called him to ask him to swap his shift at work so I could come in to work

The final straw was when they blamed me for leaving the service user without care, and said I'd be responsible if anything went wrong

Two weeks, found another job in the same firm and moved.

One day in a terrible care home.

Haha @WhirlieGigg it does in theory but I couldn't have done it 9-5 mon-fri, the days would have dragged and been mind numbing

5 months was my shortest ever, brilliant job on paper but the reality was awful. I escaped as soon as feasibly possible to my current job where I have spent 4 happy years. I'm moving on now and I'm excited but a little nervous.

I was working at a council years ago and a lady started at 9am and at 9.30 she asked if she could go and move her car and she never came back. I have no idea what could have gone so wrong in that 30 minutes. It was a really nice place to work as well .

5 days.

It was an awful job.

One day.
It was a guest house and the owner scraped the breakfast leftovers into a plastic tub to re cook in a stew and serve it for dinner! 🤢

I could not stay in that job.

When I left my most hated job ever my dh did give me a hard time over it. I might show him this thread to prove I'm not the only one who leaves a job they really cant stand and I really wasn't suited to it. He seems to think I'm the only one who ever has done this and it was all my fault for not staying on.
Life is too short sometimes to do something your not suited to and is making you ill.
Carers / hospitality /retail comes out worst sad to say. I think it's really sad. If only employers treated their staff a lot better!

2 years, but with hindsight there are at least 2 jobs I should have walked out of after a week or so. A job is not worth being bullied or treated like shit. It's amazing how badly some employers treat people (and how many fools like myself put up with it!)

One shift in a pub. No training, thrown straight in at the deep end pouring drinks and taking food orders, I was clueless.

Also one day. Sales job. Turned up in office wear, including heels (I was young, never would wear heels now) and then was told it's door to door. Never went back.

2 hours! Telesales for double glazing company!!

Do over the years I have done many jobs, obviously the short term stuff isn’t on my CV and nobody knows!

Breakfast waitress aged 16 in a 4 star local hotel. Left after a month. The breakfast supervisor wasn’t very nice and somebody else who worked there (same age as me!) lied to me about my rota dates and the supervisor rang me at home to ask why I wasn’t in and was really snippy with me so I resigned! The other staff were very bitchy too. They have a Starbucks in the hotel now so on the rare occasions I go in for a coffee when at my parents - I see them - still working there! Not that they recognise me. This was years and years ago too!

Working on the hospital bank whilst a nursing student, I only did a few shifts before switching to the clerical bank. I had a horrible shift when a patient shouted at me and I walked off and didn’t go back. It should have been a sign that nursing wasn’t really for me!

Medical secretary in a private hospital. I quit after two weeks. The practice manager wasn’t very nice and the other med secs were very snooty and much older than me and weren’t very friendly.

PA at the HQ of a huge bank at Canary Wharf. I hated how corporate it was and how unfriendly the other people were. Left after 3 months.

PA to Directors at the HQ of a rail company. They expected so much and the PA training me was nasty.

Compliance Administrator at the HQ of a financial company. Good money but I discovered compliance is really dull and nothing was really sinking me - lots of Excel spreadsheets. The girl training me wasn’t very encouraging or pleasant. Left after 2 months.

I had an internal move in the Civil Service to a project planning and scheduling role. It involved lots of training and again lots of Excel and nothing seemed to click. I then got a move to a different job role. The funny thing was, whilst waiting to move to a different job the team I was training in didn’t want me. So I spent two months “working from home!”

Temping at a council office. I was executive assistant to a bitch of a director. I walked out one lunchtime after 4 weeks and never went back!

About a hour.

Boss lady set work vaguely. Went to her office without actually giving an opportunity to ask questions.

She then came out, told me I was stupid because I hadn't followed her vague instructions.

I told her I might be stupid, but she was now a team member down. I walked.

One evening in a pub. I lied and said I had experience but couldn’t pull a pint and dropped a massive tray full of glasses which smashed everywhere. Not my finest hour!

Many I left at lunchtime.
1 x agency fuck up they booked me the wrong day. Client was so rotten about it, i left.
1 x got fed up cutting pieces of newspaper and glueing into a book.
1 x fed up with bitch screaming "you there, you there, Coffee!!!!!!!"
Many, many more.