Wasn’t sure whether to throw this into an ask community or here, but ultimately chose casual convo because I am lowkey also looking for advice lol
I landed a job last week (hired me on the spot, did training 3 days later) as one of those people who stand outside shops/etc. asking people to donate to charities. Reputable charities for the record and without cash donations, so not some scam. But the way this is organised is miserable!! I literally get told where I’m supposed to go the night before I go there. I also get paid exclusively based on how many people I get to donate (this was not on the job ad on Indeed). The job itself is fine, is whatever, but between the chaos of having to schedule my day last minute and never being sure how much I’ll make in a month… I need to hightail it out of here.
I get paid on the 15th of May, would it be inappropriate for me to quit right after? I’ll give two weeks notice of course. My team leader has been super sweet to me and is already telling me I’m a natural and she wants to promote me inside her team… I did hint at the fact this is just a temporary thing for me and what I really want is an office job, but she keeps insisting I should stay and can earn a lot more here (and tbf she makes €3000/month). To be honest this whole structure feels very pyramid scheme-ish lol minus the fact people don’t pay into it.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this or any experience you want to share!
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This was decades ago.
Not even an hour on the job. I was early 20ish, new to a city, answered an ad for an art gallery receptionist. Had the interview at the gallery, guy seemed straight-forward, I got the gig, was told I’d start in a week. That night, around 2am he started leaving phone messages, saying we needed to have a meeting immediately. I needed to be at his house by 6am. Went from inappropriately sweet to hoarse with yelling down the phone at me within a day. Call after call at all hours for a week. Told me at 8pm on a Saturday I needed to bring him donuts at his house by 9. That I needed to go shopping with him for a new skirt that would suit the office better. That I needed to respond immediately whenever he called. Literally did the “Don’t you know who I am?” “I can destroy you with a snap of my fingers,” “Don’t you understand what an opportunity this is for you?” whole shtick.
Didn’t even make it to the first day of the supposed job. Changed my phone number. Moved again.
The other was half a day, but not making it past the training phase of a call centre job probably doesn’t count.
“Don’t you know who I am?!”
“Yeah, the guy who was going to be my boss starting next week. Goodbye, don’t call back.”
Not me, but about 4.5 hours including half a day of induction. The company I worked for did a lot of crunching data in Excel and producing reports based on that data. This girl started, did her half day induction (“fire escapes are here”, etc, etc) then was assigned to me to work on a project. I sat down with her for about an hour and a half and talked her through the easiest part of the project that I wanted her to work on. She nodded, said she understood, then asked what the process for quitting was.
I’ve no idea how she got hired because she said she had been expecting the job to be mostly creative, not working with data, and that it didn’t interest her at all.
Not me, but I started working part time at a Wetherspoons bar in Manchester, UK when I was about 19. Me and this other guy (similar age) started on the same day.
We got on well, and after a few hours we were given a break, he would go first and then I would go second. Before the guy went on his break, he told that he wasn’t going to come back. I was shocked but kinda got it, bar work sucks.
After 15/20 minutes the manager was frantically looking for him, even demanded I tell her where he was, but I just feigned ignorance. Chuckled to myself that this guy had the gall to walk out and not tell anyone.
I worked there for another year, in that time he turned up again with his mates, we both recognised each other immediately. I told him how everyone was pissed at him and that I was jealous. A manager asked if he used to work there, but I feigned ignorance once again 😅.
I was maybe 50 minutes into the training of a job that I had gotten.
It was at a home for mentally and physically challenged individuals. I have had some experience with it but here they had an individual who did regular massive self harm. Like 200 stitches every week, and they happened to start doing selfhalm right when I started that day.
It was a pass for me
I worked some side job cleaning a medical building. The cleaning company used a fungicide as one of the chemicals. No one was wearing a respirator so I didn’t think I’d need one. Worst mistake. That chemical burned my nose and lungs for a few days after. I just ghosted them and didn’t go back.
One month because they suspected me doing drugs during work while it was legit meds from my doc, they didnt even consult me just straight up rejected me after my trial period.
Under five minutes.
I interviewed, accepted the job offer at the end, showed up for my first scheduled shift and found out my manager wasn’t the polite manager I interviewed with.
For the record, I was supposed to start at 9am. It was 8:45 when I walked in.
Manager, literally yelling from about 300ft away: YOU’RE LATE!
Me, confused: I’m 15 minutes early?
Manager: I EXPECT YOU TO BE HERE HALF A HOUR BEFORE EVERY SHIFT, IF YOU’RE LATE AGAIN YOU’RE ON THIN FUCKING ICE
And I turned my happy ass around and walked out.
I don’t care if it was some bullshit tactic to “weed out” people, that is completely unacceptable behavior and in my younger years I have gotten into fist fights over someone speaking to another like that.
I had another job inside a week.
I don’t care if they had someone to fill my spot the next day. It wasn’t worth the time.
Why is it so hard for employers and employees to understand the most basic principle of professionalism? The employee works and is paid for it. If the employer wants them to work longer, they have to pay for that time. If the employer does not want to pay, they cannot obligate the employee to do that work. If the employee wants to be paid, they have to show up and do the work. It’s not rocket surgery.
I approve. If that’s how he’s introducing himself, he’ll make your life a living hell
24 and a half hours. I showed up the first day and found out the training period was unpaid. They advertised $15 per hour W-2-style position, but when I showed up, they offered a totally different 1099 contractor position where most of my time would be unpaid. I went home and researched, and confirmed my suspicions that Vector Marketing was a total scam. I came back the next day and chewed them out in front of all the other trainees they were trying to scam.
Ha my friend sold cutco knives briefly as a teen one summer. I think he managed to convince a few of the parents in our friend group to buy a couple knives, which I’m pretty sure is the majority of the vector business model.
Good on you for warning others honestly! That wounds dreadful, yikes
Started in the morning. Resigned by noon.
As far as I was concerned it wasn’t a business I was working for, but rather a criminal enterprise (the crime being fraud), only a really incompetent one.
They were a “tech firm” but their product changed literally daily, depending on who they were trying to sell to. They had no actual product. They had a couple of programmers who would be told every day what the product actually was today who would gnash their teeth and cry. Then they didn’t even have that much. Which didn’t stop them trying to sell it anyway.
Oh man sounds crazy lmao!! With how incompetent they sound I find it hard to imagine they lasted much longer after you left
I didn’t keep track of them. (I kept track of the programmers. They were nice and they landed on their feet.) But it would not surprise me, actually, if they landed in jail.
Was it crypto?
Oh, this predates cryptobros by decades. No, they were “consultants” who were making a “CASE tool”. Except their programmers sat me down and had a very long talk showing me their “product” and mentioned they already had other jobs lined up and were just waiting so they could give their 14-day and walk into the new job. So I handed my resignation in promptly.
Well done, good luck!
Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy’s face. It wasn’t a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn’t really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn’t worth the risk and I didn’t come back the next day.
Never hold your breath when your superior tells you that they’d promote you.
I’ve had a boss who was telling me from the start that he had plans for me. Three years passed by, no promotion, no raise, nothing.
Then I moved to a new job. My boss never promised me anything. I never got my rank promoted (yet) but I’ve had more raise than I could ever ask for.
Six months. It was an IT-job, but the owner was related to criminal circles and acted like a criminal, with regular emotional and insulting outbursts directed at various employees. Imagine working with Tony Soprano.
I think we worked together.
98?
One week.
Was asked to be the community manager of an online casino. I couldn’t deal with the morality of trying to encourage people to keep gambling away money they didn’t have.
In the places I have worked the first 3 months are generally a trial period and both parties can terminate employment at any time.
This place is very upfront about the fact they expect people to quit since they mostly hire high school/university students (another reason I don’t like it here, I’m in my 30s and older than everyone…) so that’s good, my problem is that I’m unfortunately a people pleaser and hate the idea of letting my team leader down after she’s been so nice to me haha. I know it doesn’t really matter and it’s something I just need to get over but it’s easier said than done lol
About 6 months when I was 19 years old. 3 months in I tried to book a week of vacation 3 months in advance (they asked for at least 1 month notice) and the power tripping substitute manager declined it immediately without checking the schedule or anything. As far as I remember there was no “first come first serve” BS, he just wanted to be a douche about it.
So after another 3 months the time came and I went on the most epic camping trip with 8 friends and had the time of my life.
Came back to civilization to a full voicemail inbox of my direct manager asking where I was, sighing, and eventually saying I was fired for it.
I regret nothing.
