shortest time spent at a new job
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- PonyBoy
What the shortest span of time you've spent at a job?
- kerus0
3 hours. landscaping.
i straight up got tired of pulling up grass with a trowel and just walked through the woods to a main road and found a ride home- that's something I would doLlyod
- are you mexican?Llyod
- nos, i was desperate for cash tho. apparently not THAT desperate.kerus
- awesome story. wish there were some woods by my office. I'd walk through that shit and try to find a ride to the CaribbeanPoint5
- that's really, really funny. i bet the cohen brothers could make a 2 hour movie of itenjine
- Meeklo0
bank robbers should be able to answer this one...
- Jaline0
2 months.
- Llyod0
2.5 weeks
- ninjasavant0
4 days: Took surveys in the mall. When I picked up my check at the end of the week they asked "What days can you work next week?" My reply was "I'm never working here again."
- That's the kind of thing I avoid. Anything to do with interacting with other customers / people.Jaline
- Oh fuck. When I was in college I did a door-to-door survey thing. I only lasted one day, and I really didn't have my heart in it after lunch.AndyRoss
- yeah, I wouldn't put me in front of peopleninjasavant
- AndyRoss0
As a freelancer, I can say that some jobs I've worked on have lasted less than 3 hours. And some of those 3 hour jobs took considerably more than 40 hours of sales work to get!
Of course, since I had put more than 40 hours in, I had to bill them for a week of my time. People should just surrender sooner; I could charge less!
- utopian0
1 hour do this.
- what are these guys doing?Llyod
- Repairing and or modify the electronic signal strength of the antenna on top of the Empire State Building.utopian
- I wonder how many days the first day jitters lastLlyod
- i'm sure they wake up every night screamingsikma
- oh dammit, there goes the vertigo. time to vomit into the trash can...StratusGD
- Frying their testicles with microwaves while avoiding falling to their death.TheBlueOne
- kerus0
ohhh and there was this time i got an offer to work for an art gallery........ and when i got there it was actually an art print company...... door to door cold sales of fucking print knockoffs.....
i hung out through the free pizza & orientation, then laughed and walked out in the middle of the peptalk- And thereby surrendering over $2 million is commissions to cute little scumbags who actually believe.AndyRoss
- Randd0
2 hours
- flashbender0
2 hours - telemarketing in college. I didn't make it through "orientation"
- OSFA0
2 songs.
- vwsung18t0
people have left after one day at our company before. it was never surprising.
- czawada0
Between 3-5 hours before I finally decided that sanding walls in a crappy apartment with 30ºC heat outside wasn't for me.
- jaylarson0
20 minutes at a grocery store.
- Llyod0
After thinking about all of my jobs I have to say that I'm pretty much unemployable. I'm just a malcontent. I can't stand having a boss. I automatically hate him/her. Any else have this problem?
- It's not that I hate them... I hate the idea of them... someone being in charge...PonyBoy
- ... watching you... judging you...
... screwwwww that. :)PonyBoy - ur just shymikotondria2
- emokid0
i don't have a job
- ornj0
2 weeks at a grocery store. I came in one day only to have them look at me confused and telling me that they over staffed and had laid me off, I should have gotten a phone call (didnt). They told me I could work the day and pick up my pay. I asked if it was ready now and when they said yes I just went over to the manager, took my pay, grabbed a box of lucky charms and walked off. fuck em.
- Daro0
1 week of training for a bank teller position. I decided that the stress and temptation was too much to handle.
- MrOneHundred0
1 day, twice. First at some outfit not unlike kerus’ “Art Gallery” and the other at a milk packaging and distribution plant. I don’t even want to talk about that one.