Fastest Resignation?

[XCashier]

At an office I worked at we hired a new girl and someone was showing her a few things she would be doing on the computer. She asked if she could go to her car to "get something" real quick - and never came back...

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I had one temp job where I only lasted half an hour. I went to the location, boss met me and we walked through where I was to be working. Everybody in that badly lit, crowded office was a chain smoker. Every desk had an overflowing ashtray, and a thick haze of smoke hung around inside the building, like a badly ventilated Las Vegas casino. And I'm very sensitive to cigarette smoke. I couldn't even breathe in there! I called the temp agency, and said, "You didn't tell me this was a smoking office!" "We didn't know!" they said.

[tropicsgoddess]

the fastest resignation on record for me was 3 days. I was working for this hole in the wall telemarketing company that would call homes asking for donations to various charities for the police,firemen and EMS. The training was for one day,then BOOM you were on the floor. After I was in the middle of my third day, I logged off my phone after I made my last call and told the supervisor that this wasn't for me and walked out the door.

[Finduilas]

One of my present coworkers got a job a long long time ago working for a seedy telemarketer selling magazine subscriptions.
She worked there three weeks, desperately trying to sell them. She finally sold one subscription... then she went home and, out of curiosity, did the math. The subscriptions would have cost the buyer multiples times what the magazines were actually worth.
The next day, she went in, called the person she had sold the subscription to, and told them that she was tearing up their form because it was a bad business.

The manager was standing behind her during the entire call and fired her before she could quit.

[smileyeagle1021]

the fastest resignation on record for me was 3 days. I was working for this hole in the wall telemarketing company that would call homes asking for donations to various charities for the police,firemen and EMS. The training was for one day,then BOOM you were on the floor. After I was in the middle of my third day, I logged off my phone after I made my last call and told the supervisor that this wasn't for me and walked out the door.

I can beat you for short training... when I was working for western wats doing the customer satisfaction follow-up calls (the job that lasted 3 months, my shortest job) our training was half an hour, we went in, they said here's your employee number, here's how you log onto your computer, here's a sample script take a shot at it, great now go log on, your first project is going to be for american airlines... that was training.

[Pedersen]

I've got one that is somewhat entertaining: Myself. Shortest time? 0 minutes.

Found a new job through a temp agency. Left current job (yeah, left perm for temp, I was that sick of the perm). Showed up at the new job. Said hi, I was sent by the temp agency. They said "Really? We aren't ready, not for at least two weeks." I said "Woops, sorry, they told me today" and went home.

For some odd reason, I didn't go back in two weeks.

[myswtghst]

My record is technically about 2 weeks, though I actually only worked twice during that time. This was while in college, decided to get a second job for the summer (I was working admissions at the local zoo during the weekdays) so I applied at my fave local bar - a dueling piano bar that expected waitstaff to be able to sing and dance, etc.

Applied, basically was given the job on the spot, as the manager put it: "You're pretty, got some attitude, and have musical theatre background, perfect!" My "training" involved watching a video in the basement before my first shift as a shot girl. During my first night there, I was harrassed, nearly groped, and basically just disgusted. And I hated bothering people, trying to get them to buy overpriced shots. After my second shift, a week later, I was done. This was right around the time my car was nearly totalled, so I at least had a good out - no one wanted to drive me to and from work at that hour!

[gunsage]

Mine was one 12 hour shift. Of course, this requires explanation. After I quit my second security company, I had made the decision that to get back in shape, I really wanted to get into physical labor. I applied at a temping agency that hired for a lot of factory work, explaining that while I had no prior experience, I was eager to learn and still quite athletic and energetic. They put me at a plastics molding plant. Under normal circumstances, I'd have been fine...but then they didn't have anything for me to do at one point so they had me sweep an area in a different section.

The problem? Most areas were ventilated very well. This one was not. In fact, it was almost as though there was no ventilation at all. Imagine huffing a bunch of burning plastic...for an hour. Yeah, I almost passed out, especially since this was third shift and right at the end of the final hour. I was tasting plastic all the way home. I apologized to the temp agency and expressed that there was NO way I could continue working there under those conditions. It's a shame, really, because up until that point I believed the job would be repetitious, but manageable.

Now, I'm assuming that by fastest resignation, you're referring to start to finish of job...but yeah, I've got some other good ones of how I quit previous companies.

[draftermatt]

My fastest was 2 months a Burger King.

But, the Car Wash, BK, and the Auto Parts store/warehouse all had quite a few who never came back from lunch, or never showed up, etc.

At this job, the fastest I've seen was 4 hours. Guy shows up, I'm training him and then his girlfriend comes by and asks for him to call her. He goes into the parking lot to talk, comes back and says "Who do I talk to if I need to leave for a bit" he leaves, comes back 20 minutes later, leaves again, and despite swearing he'd be back never came back.

He cheated on said girlfriend, who found out when the other girl got pregnant. He left because she was throwing his stuff out into the street.

We once had a guy who quit because the bathroom was dirty (it was but there's a clean one he could have used) and a guy who walked out because he was asked to weld something. He was hired as a welder.

[AngryCas]

My fastest resignation was two weeks.

My girlfriend and I both worked at Borders, but it took us anywhere from 1-2 hours to get there because of traffic. We were both hired as IPT (the people who put new books away in the morning). Her section was the arts, and mine was the children's.

IPT shifts started anywhere from 3-5 in the morning, depending on the day. So, it takes us up to 2 hours to get there, and one hour to get ready. Some days we were waking up at midnight to go to work until 1-3 in the afternoon. By the time we got home, we would go to sleep, only to wake up and get to work again. In the two weeks we worked there, we called off twice because we were so freaking tired.

Well, we stuck it out for so long because my girlfriend was offered management. The GM made it seem VERY promising. Then, out of nowhere, she hires some other guy that was working there. Later, we found out the GM was sleeping with him.

My last day ended up being on a Saturday. They took me from my usual IPT shift and had me scheduled to cashier from noon to 8PM. Considering I usually went to bed around 5PM because they had me used to this schedule, I just couldn't do it. I called in and told them I was sick because of the lack of sleep, and asked if there was anyway she could transfer me somewhere closer to where we lived. Well, she must have been having a bad day, because she fired me on the spot.

It was either a lack of communication, or a lack of empathy. If I had someone working for me who had to come in at 3 in the morning, I certainly wouldn't make such a harsh change in their schedule.

[Saydrah]

The fastest I've seen was when I worked at Petco and a new hire started on the busiest day of the year, when we hosted the state's largest-ever pet adoption event. Something like 29,000 people came that day.

The new cashier first off got thrown onto a register with very little training because it was panic, all hands on deck, way too busy to breathe time. She handled that okay, but then she went to lunch. She called 15 minutes later to say she'd been in a car accident and wouldn't be back that day because she needed to see a doctor and deal with her insurance.

The manager replied, "Isn't there any way you can just come back in?"

*click* and never saw her again.

[AngryCas]

The manager replied, "Isn't there any way you can just come back in?"

*click* and never saw her again.

If she actually got into a car accident, that was a sucky request.

My first day at Petco, I got absolutely no training and was immediately thrown on the register. It wasn't the customers who made me want to quit -- it was the sucky employees/management who drove me to insanity. I kept asking questions because I honestly didn't know how to do certain things, and they got PO'd because I kept distracting them from the delicious goodies at the treat bar. If anything the customers made things better for me! (Me: I'm sorry, this is my first day, and they haven't showed me anything. C: That's ridiculous! I'm surprised you're still here!)

How I managed to stay there for 6 months is beyond me.

[Saydrah]

I made it almost a year Should we form a support group now?

I had plenty of sucky customers there, but yeah, management took the cake! My GM made me come in and work on the register when I was throwing up literally every 15 minutes- you could set your watch by it. She just told me to call a backup cashier every time I had to throw up, and that she'd be nice enough to give me the register closest to the bathrooms!

[AngryCas]

My GM made me come in and work on the register when I was throwing up literally every 15 minutes- you could set your watch by it. She just told me to call a backup cashier every time I had to throw up, and that she'd be nice enough to give me the register closest to the bathrooms!

OK, I know we are taking this off-topic, but I just have to respond! (maybe we need to start a Petco forum? I imagine we could fill it up in minutes!) Well, I had the exact same thing happen to me! I was in the ER for my stomach ulcer. I had doctor notes! I was supposed to let the medication sink in for a week, but they weren't having it!

"Oh, we're really busy today. Can't you just come in for a little?"

I explain to her what is going on. I tell her about my medical history. Her response?

"Just call for back up and run to the bathroom." The bathroom was at the other end of the store! I decided to be an ass and put a bucket next to my register, so customers could ask what the bucket was for.

It wasn't until then, they let me go home.

[Severen13]

Egads. My personal record is one night. At the time I was broke and unemployed and got a job bussing tables. Sounds easy, right. Well, the brilliant folks decided my first night was to be the night of their 10th Anniversary Party. I was basically thrown into the middle of tornado and left to fend for myself. Loads of fun, I tell ya.

I was so demoralized by the whole thing I didn't even go back to pick up my $12.00 paycheck.

[Saydrah]

OMG, do you think that maybe they have something in their managers' training about "Employees are always faking and even if they are sick they should work anyway, weaklings!"