Fastest Resignation?

[GingerBiscuit]

My shortest Job was 3 hours. I was being tried out as a waitress for a posh hotel. I was about 15/16. It didn't work out.

The shortest time I've seen someone work for our company was two days. She was in her trial period so could just walk out if she wanted... she found a job that paid more for less hours. Fair enough, really.

[Damien]

Whoa... sorry to hear that, but now I'm curious as to the joke that led to your injury. Care to give details?

One of the first tasks was to chop up some fallen branches - so one jerk threw a large log piece and say "Hey Noob, CATCH!" - I did, with my face... the collarbone injury was when I was trying to get up, the jerkoff threw another log before the boss screamed blue murder at him...

...my dad (a cop then) scared the living suitcase out these jerks

[Geek King]

My fastest was about a week. I had been temping for an eyeglass factory, doing everything from ultra-thin plastics to real glass lenses. They were union, and had the most useless union reps I've ever seen. They just collected dues for the bigger union organization and complained. They couldn't even tell me when or where union meetings were!

When my trial period was up, they were supposed to hire me right away, but kept putting me off week after week. Too bad for them, I noticed the print factory across the street was holding open interviews, so I went. Better pay, better upward mobility, real training, and no union: I was sold. They told me to wait for a call.

Monday morning, the eyeglass place offered me an actual position. I took it, thinking "bird in the hand..." and all that. Not five minutes out of the office where I filled out the hiring paperwork, and here comes the union reps (who were supposed to be working ) wanting me to fill out the union dues sheet so they can debit my paycheck. I put them off, saying my work was backed up.

Somehow, I dodged them for two more days, until I got the call for the job I really wanted. I took the position, and immediatly resigned from the eyeglass factory. Bosses were understanding, as the union pay scales just sucked ($7 to start, .30 raise every year, no matter how well or poorly you worked). By agreement, I finished out the week (I offered two weeks notice, but they waived it), and went to work for money that would have taken 10 years to earn at the eyeglass place. By the time I left the paper plant, I had gotten a promotion, gotten praise for working on the biggest, fastest printline in the factory, and was on my way to moving up to operator. I only left because of an out-of-left-field oportunity to get back into IT, where my training really was. Been here ever since.

[Fawn]

I'm sorry to hear that, that whole situation was pretty unfair to you. I can sympathize because I used to suffer from really bad anxiety and panic attacks all the time too, before I learned how to cure myself. But back in 2005, I was in one of my bad periods where I was hit with panic attacks whenever I left my house, but irregardless I still had to find a job. I got called back for an interview for this job I really wanted, doing data entry, and in restrospect it was kind of funny because I was having a full blown panic attack during the entire interview. So I'm sitting at this table across from my prospective supervisor, trying to sound impressive and personable and responsible and perfect for the job, and all the while I'm trying so hard to hide the fact that I am having this giant panic attack! LOL! I was lightheaded and my mind was all fuzzy, my heart is racing and I'm afraid I'm going to pass out. It was the same thing during the tour of the office. But somehow I just pulled it out, got through, and then I was hired the next day. Damn, that was a challange though.

I hope you've been able to overcome your panic attacks. The way I've found is that you just have to ignore them and keep pushing forward regardless...mind over matter.

I've had it for 10 years now. Unfortunatly, when it goes away for a while it always comes back. So, its something I'll have to deal with for my entire life most likely. Thank you for sharing your story though. I know what it feels like to go through an interview while your insides are screaming at you.

[princess4life]

I've seen one, the person made it through the 2 weeks of classroom training, which really doesn't count... and then on their first call they told the guest to "f*ck off" and was very promptly escorted out of the building.

I thnk that was my sister. LOL just kidding but she did do that at an inbound sales job she had.

[technical.angel]

Looks like I have a winner.

I had a girl last *5* minutes. She walked in, clocked in, I explained her hours. She told me that she was offered another job with better hours. She clocked out, walked out.

My call to the DM about the situation lasted longer than her employment!

[KellyHabersham]

Back when I first started at the library, the woman who'd been hired along with me for our work area apparently quit before she even went to get fingerprinted and have paperwork filled out. My understanding though, is that it had something to do with her being on Social Security, and having trouble keeping benefits if she was working......I don't know the exact details of the situation.

[unholypet]

From a co-worker, he went to work on one of the lines at Tyson nearby putting nuggets in bags.

Well.

He hated the building, and the people, so he worked 2 hours, and napped the rest of the time.

Next day, they called him to see where he was, and he was in the Worker's Care area turning in his uniform n ID.

[agirlfromnowhere]

We had a girl come in her first day, for four hours. She called in for her second shift and then just no call, no showed after that.

[Banthor the Unruly]

For me it was 5 hours over two days. I went into a pizza chain I had never heard of (and no longer exists) that had a help wanted sign in the window for a driver. Filled out an application and got the job on the spot. Never signed anything, never got a uniform "we'll take care of that tomorrow". Got the two-cent tour, got to clean some equipment, got sent home after 2 and a half hours, "come back tomorrow".

Came back, got to do a ride-along with another driver. All I can say about that trip was that everything on that car make a scary noise. There have been very few times in my life where I have been more afraid for my life than I was riding in that car.

But I would be using my own car, so I would never have to be in scary-pizza-delivery-car again. What did it in the end for me was the guy who hired me, still had not given me anything to sign (thus never officially making me an employee or legally obligating him to pay me), and still not given me a uniform (everyone else had one!) and my first time officially on the schedule I was on phones.

I have a speech disfluency, it's worse on a phone since it relies so solely on my deflective voice.

The pizza place is in a college town.
The pizza place is less than a block from campus.
I have heard stories, horrible, horrible stories. That is why I wanted the driver position.

I left and never went back. I'm not sure if the boss wanted to pay me under the table, didn't want to pay me at all, or thought I was going to quit on him. Guess I made the decision for him.

[LemonZest]

A couple hours or so.

Went to work for a woman who did medical claims processing. Her office was in a guest house at her home. I started on the same day as another woman.

We sat down, she talked at us for three hours about processing claims. OK, fine. We go to lunch, come back, supposed to start working.

The first thing the owner told us to do was clean the bathrooms in her house. I went out to my car 'for something' and never went back. As I was backing out I noticed the other woman who started with me getting into HER car.

LZ

[smileyeagle1021]

A couple hours or so.

Went to work for a woman who did medical claims processing. Her office was in a guest house at her home. I started on the same day as another woman.

We sat down, she talked at us for three hours about processing claims. OK, fine. We go to lunch, come back, supposed to start working.

The first thing the owner told us to do was clean the bathrooms in her house. I went out to my car 'for something' and never went back. As I was backing out I noticed the other woman who started with me getting into HER car.

LZ

wait, your boss did what
yeah, i'd have walked out too

[Lyger]

My shortest? One week.

I was working as a barista at a coffee shop that just opened a few days after I was hired. After seeing how slow customer intake was (probably because nobody knew that they were there yet...) they decided to "cut the fat" and let some people go, me being one of them.

What really irks me about all that is that a guy who was stealing tips from the tip jar wasn't let go, when I, the guy who showed up on time to every shift he was scheduled for, was let go. It's no small wonder why the business, as I found out later, had to be sold due to the owner getting on a lot of people's bad sides.

[Kat33auS]

I've clocked 3 hours at a local fish and chip shop. Only reason I applied there was because an aunt who was working next door told me they were hiring and I didn't want to walk in the wrong direction in front of her.

It solidified my decision not to work around food.

A couple owned the shop, the hubby being the manager that day. I was warned that he used to be a chef.

It was horrible. When I got there, he told me to stick close to the fellow workers and watch what they were doing. Next thing I know, I pratically get a kick up the arse and expected to know what I was doing.

As soon as that trial was over, I went home sore and burnt and never heard from them again. No call with my next shift (if any) and no paycheck.

On the plus side, the girls working under him were very vocal about their dislike of his bossyness.


There was a story in the local paper about that time about businesses who weren't paying people for their work trials, so I guess that might have happened to me, not that I wanted to be payed for my "work" anyway.

I have a heck of a lot more respect for people working in takeaways now!

[Thrifty]

In theory I really worked about four days at this job, but I still consider myself resigning after a hour.

Ya see I got hired at this drugstore to work the photo department. Well for the first three days they send me to another location to be trained. The woman who trained me was awesome. She showed me everything, and I enjoyed the job for the most part.

So day four I'm scheduled to work the evening shift at what is to be the store I'll be working at. I get in and begin by putting the film through the machine that actually prints out the pictures. Error messages start popping up, the manager tells me "oh they do that all the time just ignore it." Errr I wasn't very comfortable with that but okay whatever.

So then I go to get another roll of film that's been processed and see there are no viable pictures on it. Manager tells me that's the customer's fault and oh well.

I just had this image of a ton of angry customer's that probably had every right to be angry about their pictures (because the machine's weren't really taken care of) and walked out.

Of course now I wished I hadn't just walked out, but man I wished they had just trained me at that store so I would know how to deal with the broken machines.