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.

Two weeks at Waterstones.

I had money stolen from my bag in the staff room (wasn’t given a locker). Management wouldn’t investigate it.

A couple of days later I ended up in a & e in my second week. My dad spent three days trying to ring them (I was only on the rota for the first day I went in). He left lots of messages etc and then when I was home I rang them to explain. They said they’d got the messages but accused me of lying and then asked if I needed to know when my next shifts were.

I said no and then just never went back.

2 weeks and 1 day (this is relevant). I was 19 and of university holidays. I was desperate to get some direct health/clinical work. It was a Support Worker role in a small private home for people with severe LD. The first two weeks were not working with the service users but training via videos on site. On my first day working directly, the person who I was supposed to shadow for the day didn’t show. My first job was to shower a young man with severe physical and mental disabilities. I had no practical manual handling training and they hadn’t even shown me the ropes like where gloves and aprons were yet. Completely unsafe for him and me. I total them this and never went back. Part of the deal was that if you left within a month you didn’t get paid for the fortnight training so I got paid for 1 day.

Oh and forgot that I worked for an airline in the Middle East for approx 3 weeks, years ago! I was really homesick, cabin crew had to share hotel rooms, they were really strict on grooming and “standards.” Told me I couldn’t fly as I had a spot and wanted me to take Isotretinoin on prescrition. So I quit during training, they put me on a flight home and like all those other jobs, I neve mentioned it again!

Haha 2-3 weeks for me!

I interviewed for a few different jobs, and this job ended up hiring me virtually straight after the interview whereas the dream job took longer to get back to me.

So I started working at this job and handed in my notice on day 3 after I signed the contract at dream job - amazingly they still wanted me to work 2 weeks notice even though that was such a dick move on my part

@Tobebythesea was this recent? Legally employers have to pay you for time spent at work (even just watching training videos). Even if they contractually stipulate the loss of wages, they’re not supposed to deduct money to the point that you would be under minimum wage for that duration of time. Being paid for 1/21 days would absolutely meant that you worked under minimum wage

A month in my first bar job. I took the job as something to do after college as I didn't think I'd get into Uni. On results day I got into Uni and quit on my next shift.

Wasn't a bad job, in fact I loved it and went on to work in lots of bars.

Three shifts of silver service waitressing. The job wasn't bad but I spent me whole time resenting the people for sitting there whilst I served them and thinking that there was no reason I shouldn't be the one being served....

livs1987 It was 16 years ago.

An hour or so.

Years ago I worked in one of the many shite restaurants which spring up on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh festival.

All food prep was done downstairs. First time I went there, I was appalled/ disgusted / sickened etc. Zero food hygiene.

I walked right out.

After 8 hours of training, when I went for the interview I was left waiting 40 minutes until they could track my new manager down, turns out she forgot about my interview and had gone home for the day, great first impression, so a man stepped in and offered me the job there and then, told them the hours I could do as I only could have childcare until 6pm, no problem they said and we wrote and signed for the hours so I could arrange nursery, had 8hours of training basically watching videos for said new manager to walk in and say oh by the way I’ve completely changed your hours, your now going to work until midnight etc etc, I said I can’t I have arranged childcare with local nursery now and my partner works late evenings so I have nobody to mind child, she said it was my problem to sort and to start in 48 hours time. Needless to say I never turned up, and ignored her phone calls and angry voicemails.

Half of an induction

10 minutes.
It turned out to be door to door selling. None of it was mention in job description nor during the interview.
Saw the surprised and horrified faces of others, but I was the only one walking out telling them what I though about this deception. Loudly.

2 weeks in a "proper" job, or one day of temping.

I once worked with someone who vanished at morning break on her first day and was never seen again.

Minus ten minutes.

I'd got there early and was just collecting my thoughts before walking in, only to hear the very personable and pleasant manager who had interviewed me screaming at some kid of about 16 that she was a stupid cunt and had better get herself pregnant so she could do something useful with her life, and, by the way, somebody tens times smarter than her was coming in at 9 and she was to fucking show her how to do the fucking job fucking properly before she got her fucking coat and fucked off forever.

I waited for him to stomp off, walked in and gave the girl the details of the agency I'd been working for. And walked out again.

Half a day. Was cold calling and conning old people. Was told the job was inbound sales! Left on my lunch break

One day. At a greetings card factory, summer job. It was horrendous. Terrible working conditions, hostile atmosphere. The worst thing was that a friend's brother knew the son of the owner, who was an over privileged twat who swanned round town in a sports car, presumably bought by the toil of his father's underpaid employees.

At home time I walked out, and a genuinely terrified looking lady in her 50s ran after me and said "you can't go until the klaxon sounds, you'll get in trouble". I just looked at her and said "I'm not coming back".

2 days. I took a 6 month temp job. It on my second day I was offered a perm job so I resigned and they told me to leave straight away.

I lasted one shift on a cosmetic packing line. I had to bring down the nozzles to fill 6 bottles at a time. The alignment was out so I kept crushing bottles and getting smelly crap all over me. All the other people on the line kept laughing and telling me i’d work out the trick to get it right. The trick turned out to be to remove the safety cover and hold the bottles in place with your arm, making sure to move sufficiently quickly that you didn’t lose the skin when they were whooshed off down the line. Fuck that. The place was closed for H&S breaches a few years later, but not until some poor soul suffered life changing injuries. And management bloody well knew.

2 days working for an insurance company, agency job said no experience necessary, I would have done better if I'd been asked to speak Dutch, the jargon was incredible

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6581329/How-millennial-employees-GHOSTING-bosses-quitting-jobs-without-notice.html

@Georgiethegorgeouscat. I worked at WHSmith... For 2 weeks, hated every second of it lol... Which, was also my shortest job

Less than 20 minutes. Awful manager. Awful head office.
I got my bag and left. It still makes me feel sick when I think about it.

The ghosters are a real problem. I work in the NHS, every time wards are interviewing there will be people that don't turn up for the interview, sometimes like 3 out of 4. We have people who don't turn up day one to start work. Recently one announced the day before start day that they'd forgotten to hand in their notice at current job and couldn't start for another couple of months. When the students are all qualifying they routinely accept offers only to cancel a few weeks down the line when they have had a better offer.

Also I worked for an insurance company doing in depth medical interviews for a while. One summer we had a new graduate start. Six weeks training. No pressure. Mixture of learning, sitting in, role play, doubling up etc. The first Monday she was due to go live she didn't turn up. She had gone back to uni for further study. Basically it was a relatively well paid, fairly interesting, no stress way of spending the summer. Had gone through a three stage interview process too. I expect it's on her cv now.

That said, all of you walking out especially when accompanied by a pithy put down. Every single one sounds well deserved.

One month. Civil service. Almost lost my mind with boredom and the bureaucracy was insane. I genuinely felt I’d entered a parallel universe.