1st day at McD's, I was corrected by my trainer for delivering food to a customer "wrong". I checked the order--all correct; napkins, asked if they wanted ketchup, etc. The issue? I smiled BEFORE I set down the tray. We were supposed to smile afterward, like we were presenting a gift we were proud of. Yeah, no. I'm out.

@jasonjamrs7413

Жыл бұрын

I hope you're still smiling wrong 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😠

@Mew_Mokuba_Akari

Жыл бұрын

You could always work for the Walmart at my Walmart. Your lucky if they ever smile. Not even the managers. It's more drop your food and go.

@melb6746

Жыл бұрын

Lol ain't nobody eating at McDonald's care about how you smile. They are there for the cheap food and salty fries. I personally do not care if the associate smiles at me or not, as long as they do not mess with my food in a nasty way it's all good

@athirarajan187

Жыл бұрын

What!!???😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣. Dang! They are literally following the template lol 😂😆

@bonefetcherbrimley7740

Жыл бұрын

That's absurd!

As a guy that worked at Amazon twice, yeah their break times are AWFUL. It's stupid to even call them 15 minute breaks if they force you to walk to the break room as soon the bell rings and then expect you to leave 2 and a half minutes early just to walk back to your station. It's not a 15 minute break, it's a 10 minute break. And 30 minutes is far too short for a lunch break considering how hard the work is at amazon. Even Walmart always offered hour long breaks whenever you're working a full shift. It's those breaks alone why I never go back to Amazon. The pay is good but it really isn't work it for their terrible break times.

@MushroomHedgehog

Жыл бұрын

Or the fact that the trailers became heat stroke death traps in the dead of summer, and the fans they have aren’t worth shit.

@KOSMOS1701A

Жыл бұрын

yeah my manager says "15 minutes scan to scan, not when you stage your cart"

@fanfictiondreamer7836

Жыл бұрын

I shouldn't be surprised since this is Amazon we're talking about

@SasukeUchiha-tc9xx

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile the employees wore diapers because the bathrooms were too far away from the work station

@D64nz

Жыл бұрын

Add to that one of the richest companies in the world feasts on government cheese by forcing most of it's staff to take benefits.

Did that guy actually want him to dig in dirt with no tools? Wtf is wrong with that guy

@paladinboyd1228

Жыл бұрын

Either he is a idiot a racist or a it's a power thing.

@aftersexhighfives

Жыл бұрын

Cocain

@ewaleokadia76

Жыл бұрын

Or at least SPECIFY to bring one's own tools.

@MrLlama999

Жыл бұрын

Used to hiring desperate day laborers

@760Miramar

Жыл бұрын

Maybe earth bending will help 😆

I literally just did this last week. I didn’t quit on my first day, but I should have. I got myself a job as a janitor for an office building and after being shown around and starting my cleaning duties the assistant manager repeatedly kept chewing me out for matters that I had nothing to do with. Like electrical problems in one of the offices. Lady I am a janitor, not a mechanic! And when I was about to leave after completing my shift for the day, she came storming up to me snarling about how terrible of a job I was doing and that I better do better tomorrow. I really should have taken that as my queue to leave, but I was naive and hopeful. So the following early morning before most of the staff arrive I am strolling into one of the offices with my trolley, bitchy assistant manager snaps her fingers at me and wipes her finger over a desk snarling about leftover dust that should have been done properly. She then said I was not leaving this office until this entire room was spotlessly clean, and as I try to ignore her and carry on with my work, I hear the audible click of the lock on the door. I remember thinking to myself, surely she would not possibly be that mental, but when I tried to open the door, I confirmed that it was indeed locked. She had actually locked me in the office with no way out. I knocked on the door and demanded she released me at once, and she just screamed through the door that I was going nowhere until I was finished with the work I was being paid for. It was then and there I decided to get the hell out of this place. And I’m pretty sure this could be classed as kidnapping. I’m pretty sure with a bit of effort I could have forced the door open, but I decided to resist destroying property and instead filmed myself trying to open the locked door and her still screaming from the other side. With my evidence now on video I posted it onto the company WhatsApp group and told them I was resigning effective immediately and if nobody came to release me within the next five minutes I was calling the police. I swear, not even two minutes later, I hear running and angry yelling and the manager of the office building unlock the door to let me out all the while yelling angrily at his assistant manager. I told him I fucking quit, threw my dirty rag at bitchy assistant manager and told her she was a psycho Cunt. The manager followed me all the way to the main entrance, begging me to reconsider and promising this would not happen again and begging me not to post the video publicly. I just ignored him, and walked out to freedom. I’m honestly seriously tempted to try and sue them.

@darknut9696

Жыл бұрын

Release the video let it go viral

@mirisoji8406

Жыл бұрын

Dont let another person have to gi through what you did! Release the video!!! WARN THR ONES WHO COME AFTER YOU!

@DerMeisterKreig

Жыл бұрын

Go talk to a lawyer. That is harassment and illegal detention. OSHA and the higher ups of that company need to know what is going on since the manager is hiding things from both of them.

@mikaaoife6557

Жыл бұрын

Release the vid then sue.

@tejaswoman

Жыл бұрын

Apart from suing, you may want to look into whether you can press formal criminal charges for false imprisonment. Okay, usually a misdemeanor for the kind of length of time you're talking about, but still worth inquiring after.

I'll never forget training a girl at B-Dubs as a cashier for to go, and we got so busy that I couldn't finish teaching her hardly anything before I was overwhelmed. The managers kept telling me to get her to help me bag orders, but I didn't get the chance to teach her how to read the tickets. Others were stepping in n helping me, but only halfway in some ways, and they still kept criticizing or taking their own stress out on me until I literally broke down in tears. To say the least, she never came back. Good for her... I had to...

@RealGateGuardian

Жыл бұрын

You should have walked

@MiahTheStormWolf

Жыл бұрын

I think you might be talking about me. I was getting overwhelmed too. Especially by the Doordash ladies that kept asking why I couldn't log in and get their orders.

(2:30) supervisor called me a pussy, I called him an ambulance ...

Stood up, apologised and left, when the manager entered the adjacent office (open floor plan) to screech at one of the secretaries and brutally berate her in front of 10+ people getting a pre-interview briefing. The lady doing the briefing was unfazed and continued like this was somehow a normal workplace environment.

@melb6746

Жыл бұрын

Yikes I've had those managers. They are on a power trip and you dodged a bullet by getting out of there.

We once hired a new guy on a day when the boss happened to come in to yell at everyone during a lunchtime meeting. New guy went to lunch and never came back. He didnt quit. He just beamed out of there, never answered his phone or email. Guess he was like 'Nope. Not for me' Funny thing is, our boss never really yelled that much, but you know. -First impressions. 😆

It’s weird how many bosses/supervisors seem to think the job is some lifelong passion the OP wanted to pursue and they need to encourage OP to work harder like a mentor in a sports movie (“You have to put more effort into it! Remember, this is your dream!”).

It's always Cutco! I should've just left that first day. I left after trying to sell some knives to this older lady and they pretty much wanted me to pressure this woman into buying knives with the little money she had. She would've bankrupted herself just to buy it. I noted out after that

@WobblesandBean

Жыл бұрын

Same thing happened with me and SolarCity. It was grueling and soul destroying, and I didn't last the week.

@ashs1491

Жыл бұрын

I had an interview with vector lol I didn’t even go back after that

I got a second job at Dunkin Donuts, after pestering them for about a year, because for some reason I was sure I was going to love working there. I worked the overnight shift, which I did actually like, despite the fact that most of the shift involved wrangling drunk people who were sure they needed doughnuts before going home and have dramatic spills, fights, etc. The issue was that after eating there for years, I found out in one night that the restaurant was full of cockroaches. I worked the counter, and they gave me one dishcloth to clean with -- to clean everything. There was no cleaner. They just told me to rinse the cloth when it got stuff on it. Then we just wiped that dirty cloth all over every area, including the area where we made breakfast sandwiches. So every piece of food that came in contact with the counter was contaminated with everything that touched the counter at any point before that, including dirty hands and big roaches. I was used to taking second jobs on the overnight shift, knowing that that was usually when things like heavy cleaning and stocking was done, and there was none of either of that. The bathroom was not cleaned at all (I never even went in there.), and the only time we cleaned the floor was when the *manager* that was training me used paper towels to clean up a coffee a drunk guy spilled all over creation. There was no cleaner used. I never wiped the tables. I never swept the floor. Nothing was cleaned. It was the manager who told me to do this or rather that we didn't do this. I even asked her about the nasty dishcloth being used, and she actually seemed confused as to why I would think there was something wrong with this being the only cleaning. I left the job and ended up becoming a janitor at the hospital, and I feel like I was trying to make up for my participation in giving people food that night from that restaurant. I still can see in my mind that egg and sausage bagel sandwich my manager made on the counter that the roaches crawled all over. Those poor people. That DD is no longer there, and the new one is not run that way at all. I don't know what was happening there, but it was certainly not legal.

I briefly worked at a factory that made cabinetry with highly compressed wood chips, veneering, routing, and assembly involved. It got so hot and humid in there that they would open a back door and it would start to mist in there. I had an asthmatic response to all the wood dust, heat, and humidity and had to quit after Night 4. There is no way they would legitimately pass an OSHA visit.

Was supposed to start a new job as a nurse at a nursing home. My first year as a LPN in 2001. Job offer was 20 an hour which was well above average for that area. I never got past the lobby before that first day. I take the elevator to the first floor. (Entrance was 2nd floor.) The doors open and a smell of straight ammonia hits me. I see three staff members standing outside a door laughing while a man inside was yelling to please help him. One of them mocked him. I turned around and went right back up the elevator and went home. Never even clocked in. Told the Charge nurse what I witnessed and said I would never work in a place like that. They got in trouble with State not long after that and another company bought them out.

@girl1213

Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised. Nurses are not paid to bully and abuse yet the worst of people are still hired into those positions

I worked at a TGIF for an hour and a half. I finished paperwork and went through the kitchen. First order comes in, grilled chicken sandwich. The KM grabs a raw chicken breast with his bare hands and threw it on the grill. Without putting gloves on or washing his hands, he grabs the bun and puts it on the grill to toast it. I took my hat and shirt off and walked out the door.

@j.stanisic1586

Жыл бұрын

You definitely did the right thing, I would’ve reported them though.

The skirt pinching thing reminded me of something that happened to me. I worked at a supermarket as my first job and we saw a lot of turnover in certain low-level positions. One day, I'm working and a manager comes up and introduces me to this really tall old man. She said he was a new hire and wanted me to just supervise him on his first day in order to teach him how to do his job. I walked him to a podium and was showing him some equipment and this dude was ALL UP IN MY PERSONAL SPACE. He was leaning over me and basically had my whole body against the podium so that I wasn't touching him. Keep in mind that I'm 5'1 and teeter between 118 and 120 pounds. He was likely over 6 feet tall and nearly 200 pounds. The entire time I stood with and supervised him, he would talk to me about how he was a pastor and lived working with young people while constantly getting in my space and leaning over me as well as touching and grabbing my arms and shoulders. I didn't say anything because I thought I was being paranoid and misreading the situation (which seemedpossible. I struggle with reading people) until something that happened three days later. I was on break, grabbing a drink at the self check-out and waiting in line. I got that feeling that someone was behind me and I turn to see this man pinching the back hem of my jacket less than an inch from my butt. He laughed and said he was "Trying to scare me" but the people behind him were giving him strange looks which confirmes to me that I wasn't alone in being creeped out and I immediately went to a team lead to report the situation. Said team lead then informed me that multiple women had reported weird behavior from him over the past few days such as invading personal space, non-consentual touching and weird comments. After another two days, he was gone.

@joeschembrie9450

Жыл бұрын

'Former youth pastor' is a BIG red flag.

@shekelman2265

Жыл бұрын

@@joeschembrie9450 Yeah they don't usually stop being youth pastor unless they did something bad or the church was doing something bad. But usually if it's the second they just go to a new church

Day 1 at a hotel kitchen job: They said that weren't going to make me work 8 hours, I then proceeded to have an 8.5 hour shift where they weren't planning on giving me a break (it was purely prep that day btw) When I asked to go on break to eat at what I thought was at least half way through my shift, I got met with a "break time already?" When I said I was getting tired (this was also my first job since the holiday season the year before, (FUCK YOU MCDICKS! Firing me on fucking Christmas Day) I was told by one of my co workers, and I quote "no one here will care if you complain we all have kids and have like 3 jobs" (as if that's somehow a flex) And it just was a generally unwelcoming environment overall. I've since found a really good job in a kitchen however, and I've learnt so much there, and am very happy every shift I go in. I'm even done my 3 months and am about to go full time

When I was 18, I got a job in a company that builds elevators and escalators in new buildings, so eventhough I was working in a especific role, for a different company than the building contractor, we were considered just more "canonfodder" as some said... so, at the end of the first day, to leave the construction site, we had like 6 to 8 guards checking everything in our backpacks, raising our shirts and even showing inside our underwear so nothing got stolen, and since it was a site in a high class residential area, police officers were assign to just make us march from the site to the bus stop, this in Costa Rica... it was degrading, abusive and there were a lot of indocumented workers from Nicaragua and Colombia, there were like 5 fights in just one day, because people stole stuff from one another, like the lunch and other foods, which was honestly sad... I didnt return after the first day...

Took a job at a factory where the work was so monotonous and soul destroying that I knew if I went back I'd end up doing the ol' self forever sleep

@shekelman2265

Жыл бұрын

Thats how every job feels for me. I don't like being told that certain amounts of my day are someone elses and I have to go to a place and do things I don't want to for money that I don't care about

@mohamedimardbrucelee8829

Жыл бұрын

@@shekelman2265 I feel you mate, I used to be the same until I took a job driving a Van doing deliveries. I soon realised that having my "office" on the go and having to communicate with people from all walks of life was perfect for me. Now I'm a taxi driver and I've just started my own company, I never expected to like what I do but if you keep trying different jobs I'm sure you'll find something that you enjoy 😁

Don’t feel like you’re being petty for some dollars or even cents that you haven’t been paid, businesses get away with that with a lot of people that miss some few dollars and overtime it becomes a big profit for them

I don't do cold calls it's just soul crushing. A company promised me that they didn't intend me to do any of that. On the first day the person that promised me that gave me a list of numbers to cold call. I reminded her of her promise and she just said "if you want to stay here that's the job" I told her I did not want to stay, asked her for the printer code so I could print my resignation and she didn't wanna give it to me so I just wrote it out on a piece of a paper and signed it. She didn't want to sign it so I video recorded me giving it to her and then just bailed.

The irony of being a temp at a place with "forever" in the name

2:59 Yup, that was me at 18 in the summer of 2010! I made it through 3 days of (unpaid) training and one (unpaid) trip to an all-day conference. When we got home from the conference, we were gonna celebrate by calling people to set up home visits, and our boss would check in on us. I got home, didn't call anyone, phone rings and I don't answer. I didn't know what to do, so I just cut complete contact and went about my life. I didn't know it was an MLM until a couple years ago, when I started my (awesome) job getting (actually paid) to teach music, with (paid) training included!

1st day at a local Chuck E. Cheese type place, I was running the game room. Got verbally abused by a parent for not letting them in to the bouncy castle area with their kid because they didn’t have wristbands. Had a meltdown and quit immediately At the time I didn’t know I had autism and I didn’t know how to handle people verbally abusing me. I’m much better with handling customers now

EB Games Crap on the Floor Story : Not sure but I think in some places fecal waste is treated as a biohazard, and as such should only be cleaned up by professional cleaners or managers (ie certification for handling strong cleaning chemicals, and get paid extra to literally deal with this shit). If it isn't in your job description, don't do it for them.

@760Miramar

Жыл бұрын

At McDonalds they make one of the crew members who are useless to them do it. Unfortunatly it was me. And once there were 3 drop locations in our area. 1 behind by the loading zone, 1 in a parking lot and another in the damn plants. And we didn't get any hazard pay for it. But one shift manager who was cool with me/most of us gave me a free meal.

@ryanmarshall1883

Жыл бұрын

@@760Miramar Can confirm over a decade ago I worked at McDonalds and the sewage backed up/broke and leaked out of the plumbing me and another crew member had to clean it up. We then (after we were done) went back to work handling customers food and working on the food line. At least we got white gloves lol.

Einsteins Bagels Pensacola FL. After a rush I stood still for a few minutes just to catch my breath and off in the distance I saw my manager pointing at me while having a very animated Convo with my team lead. Then she came by and told me if you have time to lean then you have time to clean. After that I lied and said I have to leave early for class. Got 48$ for a 7 hour shift.

@kisstune

Жыл бұрын

I hate that lean/clean saying. I get what it means but it doesn't count for the last 2 and a half hours of nonstop running around and multitasking that you can't stop and take a breath or two.

Former Amazon employee, and can confirm that third story is accurate.

@morpheusaether4485

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Although they knocked it up to 30 minutes, but the walk to get to the break room takes nearly 10 minutes

Two hours into a part time job as a fry cook, there were red flags because the kitchen was disorganized and cramped, but the "I'm outta here" moment was when I realized there was a pan of pot brownies on the counter and an employee was eating one and talking to the manager who knew what was going on. I worked in a kitchen before so I knew that it was common for restaurant workers to smoke after work, or before work, or even in the middle of their shift, but the professional standard is managers have to have plausible deniability. You don't get high in front of your boss. They don't ask, you don't tell. You don't make it too obvious. And you definitely don't do it in the kitchen!

1st and only day at a local fast food chicken place in my town, they ran me through a brief tour of the building, items and how to use the computers and drive-thru one time and then the guy "training" me left and I was extremely lost and confused. Everyone seemed nice but they all had a tight-knit family thing going so they all just worked and didn't bother trying to train me any more than just telling me everything once and then letting me go. I have major anxiety and C-PTSD so things did not go well. I broke down twice in the bathroom and on the drive home. Called them up the next day to quit, they were understanding though and said not everyone can work in food/customer service as it's very fast and stressful so that's a plus!

@piroshk1968

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry you had to go through that. These fast food places are so desperate and hardly do a decent job of preparing people for their workloads.. I struggle with CPTSD as well , I know how rough it can be with employment 🥲 Hope you've been able to find a job that works well for you! 🩷

@spacecrusade

Жыл бұрын

@@piroshk1968 Thank you! I work for myself as a freelance artist now and it's my biggest passion and I'm very lucky to have such great clients ☺️

didn't quit on the first day, but within the first month basically, signed on at a small grocery store as a shelf stocker. Wound up spending most of my time doing anything OTHER than stocking shelves. Boss at my old job, which I had left on good terms, called me and said i could come in to go over scheduling and be started at that place again within a week. This was on week 2 of that first job and I just stopped showing up. At least be honest with me on what my job entails DURING the interview rather than after I start. I wanted to stock shelves, but the job was mostly pushing grocery carts in and bagging groceries. Most days I'd spend an hour max actually putting things on the shelves.

I checked myself in to one of these treatment facilities for detox. The detox consisted of one Xanax. Years before, I had been a counselor at a real treatment facility and was licensed to do the job. I noticed things were very sketchy right away. You had to have a one on one counseling session every two days, all they did was read the questions off of a computer over and over. I asked the counselor where she got her training, she said she went to a seminar once. The entire staff was bogus, they were all trained in a hotel meeting room like a timeshare sales pitch. I told them I was leaving (I was there of my own accord) and they wouldn't let me leave for two days, when I told them I would find a way out of the building they locked me in a room until a very large guy in a black Tahoe arrived to take me to the airport. The whole time he was talking to me in a very threatening way, I was ready to tuck and roll out of the truck at the first chance I got. These places are Medicare and Medicaid fraud machines. When I saw the story about the guy from Jack Ass running away from a facility, I completely understood.

I have to work four 12 hour shifts in an office job this week. I get to drive a Mercedes’ SUV to work. Whenever I feel ungrateful for my life and profession I listen to these stories. It also makes me wish I had walked out in service and retail jobs I worked in high school and college where I was given more grief than was necessary. Back then I believed I was doing the right thing taking crap from losers and continuing to show up to work. I knew those jobs wouldn’t amount to anything, but decided to keep going to develop thick skin. Now all I have is resentment I conjure up when I get bored.

On the whole Amazon place. Yeahhhhh that was nuts! I hated it so much. They rush you but just move a little too fast. That’s a strike

@melb6746

Жыл бұрын

During covid they wouldn't let anybody talk to anybody. It was so boring. They were supposedly trying to stop the spread of covid but they made us use the same equipment as everybody else.

10:42 I'm a self defense instructor, and one thing I tell new students is that absolutely no one is allowed to touch you (including your clothing and hair) without permission. Disturbing how many adults are surprised by that.

I was fresh out of high school and landed my first interview. It was as a door to door salesman selling Cutco Products. After the first day of training, I googled Cutco only to find out it was a pyramid scheme. Never went back after the first day. Didn't say anything either. Spent the next 3 years desperately searching for jobs in the post-2008 job market before ultimately enlisting in the military. I'm now 6 years in the Navy and have no regrets

Last one... when three people quit on you within a day, maybe the problem isn't them, maybe it's you. My only nope out was as collections agent when I got a good look in the eyes of my supervisor and saw that she no longer had a soul. Seriously, the yawning chasm of nothingness behind her eyes chilled me to the bone. I noped out of there right quick. Especially because she was disciplining me for not trying to collect from a dead man's sobbing widow. (Not all debts transfer upon death. In fact, most do not; the debts we collected were retired after seven years and didn't transfer upon death. Not that we would tell anyone we were collecting from that information, of course.)

The first paying (non-intern) job I got after college was selling AT&T subscriptions. During the interview, the hiring manager was very vague about the method I would be using to sell to people, so in my head I just assumed I'd be put in a call center. I show up my first day, they hand me a t-shirt, send me to go change clothes, then they tell me that I'm a door-to-door salesperson. They gather all the new hires into one big room and start telling us (me and 2 dudes) the most strategic ways to move through neighborhoods. As a woman, that just didn't feel safe to me. I really knew the job wasn't for me when they told us that sometimes, to make a sale and seem more friendly, we should accept a random person's invitation into their home and allow them to give us food and beverages. I quit within my first hour.

Got hired at a Popeyes. I had never worked in food service before because I have high levels of anxiety and I get overwhelmed pretty easy, but I was being pressured by a family member that was housing me and my partner to get a job anywhere or else no more housing. I waited until he went out of town in case things went south. So I show up and the nice, calm manager I had interviewed with and explained my situation to was not there. The manager on duty was... well I bet she was very good at keeping food going! She trained me like two minutes on register, then let me loose. She kept things hopping, pivoting on one foot in a wide, ever-reaching circle. But yeah, she was quite clearly on something, probably meth. She was constantly gesturing, yelling (sometimes right in my ear), and pushing me to go faster, faster! I lasted 20 minutes before I had a meltdown and called my partner to pick me up. Called the nice, calm manager and politely explained it wasn't for me. Told the family member that they hadn't hired me because I was overqualified.

"She said I should come in on my free time and learn." F**k that, that's training and they legally have to pay you for it.

So I’m a journeymen electrician, I’ve been in the trade 15 years. I’ve earned my stripes. So there’s some things that I just won’t tolerate anymore. Since I’m a journeymen, I can company shop, and have no shortage of work. I cannot stand foremen who rule with cruelty and disrespect to the workers. I started at this company, showed up on the job, walked up to the morning meeting to this foreman screaming his fucking head off, cursing out his workers etc. Then he goes, “you the new journeymen?” I say “yeap, looks like this is my first and last day”. He then look confused. So I explained to him I’ve been doing this 15 years, and I’m not gonna tolerate your bullshit very well. So go ahead and call the office, let them know I’ll be by to pick up my day check.

2:37 As soon as I heard the first sentence, I yelled "Cutco!" I fell for the exact same thing when I was 19.

@user-fg4tn8ot6b

Жыл бұрын

Was it Vector Marketing? Because that's how I ended up in a job with Cutco. I didn't last long. And I'm glad I got out. :/

2:00 This is sadly common. It was like this at Nintendo, too. 15 minute breaks were in actuality 5-10 minute breaks.

@tejaswoman

Жыл бұрын

In Texas, by law, teachers are entitled to 30 minutes duty free lunch. Nonetheless, in most places I've worked, the 30 minutes starts the second the bell rings, never mind that the kids are not out of the room yet and schools routinely include 5 minutes of passing period as part of the half hour. Even if you stayed in your room, you were never going to get the full half hour, and God help you if you needed to go get food from the cafeteria, work room, or lounge because when were you going to get the chance to actually eat it?

I have 2 stories. The first I quit after 1 week, children's swim school instructor, I got a UTI from that pool. Second, I got hired for a "sales" job where they lied by omission that it'd be door to door selling cable plans or whatever, this wasn't even a cable company. They wanted me, a very small female, going inside people's houses to set them up. I found this out on the first day when they sent me to do training. The supervisor was a huge 6'5 dude built like a linebacker. He encouraged me to knock on doors with no soliciting signs and or ring cameras. That evening I went home and looked up the amount of registered sex offenders in the areas they wanted me to cove. Itt was already a sketchy part of town, but the number that came up was alarming to say the least. I didn't show up the next day and when they called me I said I'm not coming back because I am uncomfortable doing that job. They do not have a high retention rate.

Not me, but a college mate told me the story of how he got a job at Church's Chicken. He said the first day he was just thrown in the kitchen with no training. He told me that everyone, including the manager, were yelling at him because it was the lunch rush but he had no idea what do or how the meals were made. He apparently took off his cap, apron and walked out during the service. The next day gave his noticed.

Day 1 in real estate, in the interview I said I wasn't interested in cold calling - when I got there, not only did they want me to cold call, but they also wanted me to go and knock on people's doors that didn't answer the phone, to ask if they wanted to sell their home

i didn’t like the vibes tbh that’s it i just never went back after my first shift

To the person who quit Amazon on day one, you dodged a bullet. I worked there for 4 years and I do not recommend it long-term. They do not appreciate you and they do not care about your mental or physical well-being.

I submitted a online application once, and on the application was a section about “distance from home you can drive” and I entered 45 miles. Well the next day I got a interview, and it was a 66 mile drive to the interview but I assumed it was for a different location. I arrived for the interview, was told it was to work at the location I was currently interviewing, and I told them interviewer “im sorry this is to far away from home for me to drive daily” he responded well “it depends on how bad you want to work” and I told him “not bad enough that I’d lose more money paying for fuel than what you are offering to pay me”and got up and walked out.

Day 2. Worked at a call center. Realized the suicide awareness number on the side of every cubical was not for the customers.

I interviewed, was offered the position, and quit before my first day with a company that was then a well run place for another job that was more up my alley. I really gave that one up because the commute would’ve been an hour and a half or more through a major city in one direction, 10 hours working in a plant, and really no other chances of learning new things. Years later I found out I dodged a bullet from some people I know who work there saying that management changed hands and things went south in a major way.

I did a grease cleaning job where we went into kitchens at night and cleaned the grease off the ceiling and out of the shafts. Instead of some proper tools they wanted us to climb onto kitchen equipment and lay on to scrub the ceilings with a rag and cleaning agent in a spray bottle, then you had to polish everything. The equipment isn't made to be laid on obviously and the ceiling is so close that you have to move around a lot to get an angle where you can properly move your arm to clean it. Also sometimes the grime doesn't want to come off so you have to use a razorblade to scrape it off. I also had to ride in the back of a very sketchy old ambulance with heavy equipment that was only tied down by a single bungie cord and a lot of it was on wheels too. By the end of the night I was in so much physical pain I couldn't stand or walk straight. Didn't go back

I ended up fucking up a Cutco recruiter by getting her to draw the company structure and then pointing out to the room that she'd literally just drawn a pyramid scheme.

They called me for a stage for a supermarket, I couldn’t find anything else, so I accepted. Technically I quit after the third day. I was never trained and I was constantly at the cash register, fortunately most of the people were understanding, but goddamit most of the employees were in the back minding their own business, and the manager was always out of the picture. I found another crappy job after that, but tanks to that I had the excuse to quit 👌

I applied for Buffalo Wild Wings under the server position. Got called for an interview. The first words the manager said were "I know we called you in for a server position interview but we're actually only hiring for cashier"(only $12/hr no tips). I hate that place. Waste of my time

Responded to an add for sales people. Ended up shadowing a door-to-door salesman who tried to sell pet beds to people by lying about how many he sold at the last place. I left that day and never went back.

I interviewed once for Kirby vacuums in a repurposed funeral home

Don't work at Stanley Steemer in Madison, Wisconsin. They have no benefits, you always work late, and you're not paid for drive time. That's right, it's all commission. I quit on the second day. The biggest red flag was that everyone except for two people had been there for three or fewer months, suggesting that there's a high turnover rate. I did get my measly $200 check after three months of not working there. I am still pissed and that's why I suggest you stay away from there.

I started a job as a line cook in hopes to eventually become a chef. I went to orientation, got my cook's uniform, and taken to see my line chef. She told me what to do and I listened. At the end of the instructions, I said, "Okay, I am going to wash my hands and get started." My line chef then said, "You came here to work! You wash your hands on your own time!" If that was not disgusting enough, I looked around to see if she was joking or not. Every cook was covered in sauces, food chunks, oil, grease, and some even had mucus on their sleeves. I worked that day and saw much worse. It was like working in a landfill, complete with cockroaches, mice, and smells. At the end of my shift, I left never to return. I did not even get my day's pay. I just grabbed a security DVR on my way out and called it even. I still have the DVR activated and recording with my security system today.

I technically didn't quit, but I was between jobs and was hired by a Meijer's, they were starting to open up in my state around this time. First day on the job my manager said after a couple hours on the floor they'd talk about my schedule. My whole shift goes by and my manager never talks to me, they ended up leaving and the next shift manager had no idea what was going on. I called their support to see if I was supposed to come in at all later that week and they said they had nothing on file for me. I get that they were setting up and it was all new for them, but with no way to contact my manager other than going in and hoping it was their shift I felt somewhere else would be a better fit for me.

This is a long one. So, sit tight. I accepted a job at a private daycare connected to a convent. On my first day I went in with only eight hours of shadowing and no training, hopeful that I could be a good classroom assistant. After signing in, one of the nuns takes me down to the Tulip room for the preschool students and tells me they’re getting ready for show and tell and circle time as well as some other things I couldn’t understand through her thick Vietnamese accent and broken English. After trying to ask for clarification three times and still having no luck, I had no choice but to tell her I understood and she then proceeded to leave the classroom. Figuring she was just taking a quick break, I sat down and waited for her to come back. When she didn’t, I realized she thought I was there to be a teacher, not an assistant. So, I tried my best to get things started but I still felt like I had no clue what I was doing. One of the kids kept trying to get my attention but I couldn’t understand a word he was saying and there were no other adults around to help. If you think that was bad, let me tell you what happened when I got to the hibiscus room for the young toddlers. It started out simply enough with me giving them their snack and watching them play. But when I looked at the schedule, I noticed “Jesus time” was posted for the upcoming time. I thought “There is no way in hell that they expect me to take five toddlers who aren’t even two years old down to the chapel and expect them to sit quietly.” So, I ask another nun and it turns out that’s exactly what they want me to do. Once I finally got them lined up per Sister’s request, which was more like roping cattle, I take them down to the chapel. They then proceeded to start running around, making a mess, and climbing on the pews. Once I got one sat down, two more would run off again. Thankfully, Sister wasn’t mad and she came by to help me out. Just when I thought the worst was over, I had to deal with the babies in the lily room. The nun in that room told me to give them their bottles, change them, and put them down for a nap. Simple, right? Unfortunately, I didn’t know all the names of the babies, so I had to guess which bottle was for which baby. When I tried to feed them, they kept screaming their lungs out and wouldn’t even take the bottle. Sister had to step in, I had a meltdown as soon as the babies were asleep and sister left the room. Needless to say, that was my first and last shift at that place.

First day at Boston Market. Hired as a dishwasher. There was no dishwashing machine. Quit by phone the next day. It's a bank now.

11:00 He'd have one less eye if he did that to me.

I worked for a cold food production manufacturing place. Payrate was good but we were yelled at every day. The turnover rate was high. On some days in winter, most of the job called out. Your breaks felt insanely short. We’ve had people leave ‘for the bathroom’ and not come back to the line. One person lasted an hour, some less so. Others weeks, months, years. I got out when I couldn’t take it anymore.

Once left a dishwashing job after the first day because they had me working 3pm to 12 am. Only I wasn't told when I was good to leave. Or anything else about what I was supposed to do. No communication, no managers came by to check up on how I was doing , it felt very weird being there. Some other poor soul was in the dish pit as well and clearly frustrated as I didn't know where anything was.. Worst first day of my life and never went back after that first weird shift. F*ck that.

In my first day of training for the LL Bean seasonal call center, I was told I need to ask for permission to go to the bathroom like I was in elementary school. Screw that

I wanted the morning shift. They trained me on the night shift and I didn't get home til 2am (my commute was like 10 minutes) I called the next day and told them to throw my application in the trash.

The landscape architect who wanted the guy to dig a hole with his hands sounds like he was drunk. Chronic alcoholics can control their voice and mannerisms so that they don't seem drunk, but then they say whacko things that gives it all away.

I got a job as a local truck driver. By local I mean home every night. My job was to go from Phoenix to flagstaff and back one or two times a day. Easy peasy! As I was in my interview he asked if I would do one today to help them out. A driver got shut down by dot on his way so the boss had one of thr shop guys drive me to the truck. I get there, enter address into my GPS, it's in the middle of the literal forest. Turns out I was supposed to take empties there and bring wood chips back. I got lost getting into the place because it was all dirt roads and rainy. Ended up getting stuck. Boss said they'd be there in the morning and would use the bulldozer to get me out. He also asked if I had food and if I did to get rid of it because there are a lot of bears up here. Then I found out the truck didn't have a heater and it was the middle of winter so it was like, 40 degrees up there... I ended up walking about 3 miles to the road, waved a passing motorist down, got a ride into town to a hotel, then the next day had my friend pick me up and take me back to Phoenix. They never called me or anything the following day to see where I was or anything...

Slaughterhouse. When the guy said the best way to drag a pig was to stick your fingers up his nose and just hook the back.

I worked at an auto detailing shop for about 6 hours. The guy that was supposed to train me didnt, just handed me a can of spray paint and told me to spray the trim on the doors, the owner yelled at him for not enough getting done and he blamed me for not knowing what I was doing, owner sent me to lunch and said we would finish the conversation when I came back. I didnt go back. That was the first of 2 jobs I had that didnt last right out of hs, second was big boy. Worked at a blow molding shop for 2 years after before enlisting in the US Navy.

I worked at Bass Pro. They would reward us for getting people to sign up for our rewards credit card. Some douchebag in the clothes section took advantage of non-English speakers by pointing at the $100 bonus for signing on and not attempting to describe anything else. They would come up to the register, clueless and excited for a crisp benjamin and unwittingly sign up for a credit card. The caveat is that you not only have to sign up for the card, but pay for your cart with it once you have it. He got hundreds of sign his per quarter and was constantly lauded as employee of the month, and got mountains I'm bonuses while people had credit card debt they didn't know about. The interest rate was obnoxiously high and the only benefit was the points that you earned which you could use to get free shit but most of these guys were just trying to get work clothes for the industrial sites they were working on. Bass Pro is all nice on the outside but a super slimy cesspool on the inside. They refuse to work you over 35 hours so you can't get benefits and will give you random schedules no matter what you applied for. I quite two months in and found a better job at a hotel.

Unarmed security officers have a unreal turnover rate. Maybe not day 1 quitters but very common same week quiting.

This wasn't day 1 but during the interview. I was going to work for some company that delivered food before DoorDash and Uber Eats became a thing. Was supposed to be some company that delivers food for people who for whatever reason couldn't leave home because they were too old or heavily disabled or something like that. (Can't remember the name, but I do know it was definitely not Meals on Wheels) I got in there for the interview, and something just... did not sit right with me in that office. I wish I could say exactly what it was, but my gut just told me that this was a bad idea, so I asked them where the bathroom was, and then I went into the bathroom, (it was an office in a big building, so the bathroom was out in the main lobby, away from the office), pretended to be in there for a bit, then walked out the front door.

16:20 I worked at 2 locations. The OFFICE I've seen were kind of small like the size of a handicapped bathroom stall (or a bit smaller) and the computers and "desk" were like those high tables/ bar height so even if the put a chair it wouldn't fit to their desk height. Every location will very and the management is usually walking around from office to front to other areas. Another thing they really needed to add was a money counting machine. I've seen managers count large wads of cash by hand and I don't fully understand why doesn't the franchise just buy a machine on Amazon to speed up the process.

Applied for a factory job that i have several certifications to operate their machines. My first and last day there lasted 30 minutes. I began working with a smile on my face but suddenly the boss and manager shows up to tell me that I'm only there as an unpaid intern. I told them that we had discussed my salary and working hours. They laughed and said I was lying. I told them thst I have the contract we signed to prove it. They tried to convince me otherwise. I turned around and walked to the staff changing room and then left. Sued them later and won a small sum of money. I still have that contract as a memory. Those idiots made the interviews at our local unemployment office were thry have cameras. Suck it Bert and Stefan!

That one poster who didn't receive training and then got bitched at, who then proceeded to put clothes items in random places kinda made me chuckle. Good move!

Not work, but college. This teacher was for calculus. While I'm generally a math whiz, this guy was a tech hating boomer to the point he didn't even have a Canvas page to reference. That also meant that I had no contact with any of the other students through means of Canvas, so I couldn't invite all of them to a dedicated study group Discord server I worked really hard on. All assignments had to be physically turned in, office hours was completely physical, and he refused responding to emails for help. As a tech loving millennial, a lot of my learning tactics involve machines. They help me clear up tough bits teachers can't beat into my brain, and help me get around my introversion, in that I can be socially awkward on occasion, and afraid to let it show. If this man hated machines almost as much as I loved them, I knew right then and there that he wasn't gonna work and I'd need to save calculus for the next quarter over.

Pro-tip, Managers: Never expect an employee to spend their own time or money just to make an entry level position possible to work in. Turnover and training are more expensive than actually doing your job. 😮

Worked as a dish washer for 1 day making like $9/hr in HS. The chefs would throw hot pans into the sink from 5 feet away without saying anything. Came around the corner and took a pan to the face. Then they yell at me for not saying anything before I came around the corner. I was like "Okaaaayyyy, you could also say something" and turned around to wash something in the sink literally 10 seconds later another pan comes WHILE I'M IN FRONT OF THE SINK IN FULL VIEW and slams me in the back. I walked.

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I would have picked up that pan and threw it right back at them.

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I worked at big boy for one weekend as a dishwasher as my first job out of high school, they only wanted me on weekends because it was there busiest day, only got paid 5.15 an hour and only got 20 hours a week. I couldnt keep up because I was working solo i quit aftre the first weekend and got a steady 40 hr a week job with optional ot at a blow molding plant for 7.81 per hourmin wage was 5.15 at the time so I felt like I was banking.

I went to a temp agency since I had great luck with them in the past. First thing they wanted me to do was open an account with them. I read the fine print; anything I was paid went into that account, with ridiculous fees for using or transferring money. Just walked out.

1:35 this on the same level as telling someone to go to the moon. How do you expect me to get there? Jump. This Madlad even tried doing it and didn't ask the Boss if he escaped some sort of hospital this morning.

Not me but my best friend got a job as a first year lawyer at a quite well known firm. On the first day he found out that the entire litigation department had mutinied and left en masse to start their own firm, leaving only a couple of junior lawyers to handle the massive backlog of cases they left behind. The boss is extremely egoistic and said that my friend should expect to work 7 days a week, more than 20 hours each day, with no overtime pay. His first assignment was to draft a merger, and despite informing beforehand that his specialty was civil litigation with absolutely zero experience in corporate law, the boss still ripped him apart for turning in a "subpar" contract after being given only two hours with no guidance. He noped the fuck out of there by the end of the day.

I worked for a place called polygem in west Chicago Illinois. This boss started screaming at me five minutes in. I quit in six minutes. I think that might b a record

When we got no breaks and were told our lunch would be whatever was left in the rooms after checkout

Got a job selling newspaper subscriptions over the phone. Ad just said it was some small community paper, figured it was like those ones you see at the laundromat advertising yard sales and stuff. When I finally got a look at it, the headline was something about removing "parasites". It was not a medical journal.

Hurts Donuts. I don't know what I expected but it wasn't getting home covered in icing and smelling like unicorn vomit.

Well here's my one and done story. I picked up a job at a job fair fresh out of high school. I applied to a job at Ace Industrial supply not knowing it was a sales and cold call telemarketing job in some cramped room out in the middle of town. I get there with a couple more guys and the boss comes in, gives us a script to read for 15 minutes, and then takes us to the back rooms where about 20 other guys are shouting into phones telling customers to buy a bunch of random things from them. I spent the next four hours struggling to call customers on a printed list of numbers and couldn't make a sale, let alone get payment details since I didn't actually know what I was selling or how to do my job. The atmosphere in the work room was so thick too you could cut it like butter. After the boss got back from his lunch break I told him this wasn't for me and walked out, worst 4 hours of my life and I never cashed the $35 check they sent me a week later.

If 100s of roaches came out under the fridge some ice would go into the fryer that moment

Lack of respect for beginners. Punched out the senior and kicked his ass while boss was watching. Body checked the boss right after and kicked his ass too. HR got a hold of me and congratulated me for sticking up for myself and wanted me back told them "Nope" and hung up... A week later same guy I punched out wanted a rematch kicked his ass again, broke his nose and gave him 2 black eyes. Cops were watching and just let it happen. They asked what happened and just said "past work related stuff" they took the guy to the hospital and that was the last time I heard from or seen him again. This guy was bigger than me but being big means nothing if you can't fight.

Went to a mass interview/hiring for the new arena in Detroit in 2017. Best job I ever had. It’s why I’ve seen Charlie Wilson like 5x. Still work there sometimes.

The problem with going on the dole is that you can't keep receiving dole money unless you can prove you are actively looking for work. And if the Job Centre finds you work, you _must_ take it else you lose your benefits entirely. So, by signing on the dole that means the babysitter would have to dip out of the babysitting gig anyway. It's an absolutely pointless and circular state of affairs.

Took a summer job as an order picker in a warehouse for a large grocery chain. During the interview, I asked what the working conditions were like. They said hot, wear shorts and drink lots of water. I showed up and did a few hours in the dry goods before the supervisor came and told me to go over to refrigeration. It was dark, everything was wet it was dripping ice-cold water from the ceiling and the guy showing me around said they do this to everyone. They had no intention of letting new people work in the dry goods section it was all a ruse to get people in that dungeon. I was gone before lunch. It didn't help that I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt because...that's what they told me to wear. Every single guy in that place was coughing like a chain smoker from the massive shift in temperature and humidity while doing a cardio-intensive job. *Coughing all over your fresh produce.

That five guys is not universal as a manager we will go out and smoke before clocking out

lesson of the day: dont take "marketing" jobs

I took a summer job when I was 16 at a mom and pop video rental store (yes, I'm that old). On the first day, the owners go to lunch and their stoner 17 year old son walks in as soon as their car pulls away. He walks right through the little curtain that led to the adult room, then walks out with four videos in his arms. I tell him he needs to check those out, he tells me he doesn't have to. I tell him that you do, your dad told me specifically that if any of his kids come in to get videos, they have to check them out. Son starts yelling at me, calling me names. I call him names back. He ends up throwing the videos at me, one of the edges cuts me across the forehead just enough for blood to drip down on the register. He sees the blood and runs out. I'm pissed. I know I'm quitting as soon as the parents get back, but I remember to take the security video tape and make a copy . It was black and white with no sound (typical of the time), but it clearly showed their son throwing those videos at me and running away. When the parents go back, I quit, telling them I'm headed home and they'll hear from my parents later. End result: Their stoner son had to work ALL summer in the video store to pay them back because (drum roll) my dad went in and got my entire summer pay plus a few hundred more. So I basically got all the money from a summer job having to only work half a day. Oh... stoner kid later stole money from the register (was caught on the security cam) and his own parents had him arrested.. so, happy ending all around!

1st day working in some shop a dude wanted to lit a crack pipe before paying for the pipe. I was at the counter at that moment and we had to stop him for obvious reasons. Never came back to that store 💀

Quit after a week. Project management was a mess, I was expected to do the job of a full development team and other stuff nearing the ilegal. I made my decision once I realized that management saw me as working with the team but not part of it. If something legal happened I would have been thrown under the bus.

The correct response to the person that calls you a pussy is “I am what I eat”. Did that to a supervisor that was trying to make me do a two person job by myself. Apparently he had me on speaker in the office and the HR lady was walking by when I said it. She thought it was hilarious.

*casually swing my baseball bat over my shoulder as Nero status music plays* Oh wait, wrong group of 1 day quitters. 😆

Day 1. Wal-mart. ‘nuff said.

I did a very very short stint in the hotel industry. I already had sales experience at the time and was hoping to combine it with some hotel experience to eventually become a hotel sales manager. So I go get a job at this chain hotel that was run by an Indian family. Was told originally I was going to work morning shifts only but an hour before my shift ended I was literally told by the manager to go home eat something and take a nap because they wanted me to come back that night and learn how to do the night audit position. He told me that my training would be like that for the first 3 weeks I was there. Worked that first shift and then called him later and told him I wouldn't be returning. He laughed and said he was it not shocked as I was a young person with no work ethic. No sir you're just a slave driver that doesn't need to own a business. 😁😁