what is the shortest period you've had a job

Coveredinbees!!!!

3 months at what turned out to be a doing a completely different job to the one it should have been. Hated every second of it but luckily found another job, I even worked my notice stupidly then half a day into the new job had to go home sick. Spend the next 3 months on the sick having suffered a nervous breakdown caused by job A. Luckily employer B was very understanding. Ho hum you live and learn.

GillsMan7

Worked for three weeks at Huntress as a recruitment consultant. Terrible job, which I managed to leave with a few extra weeks pay when I recorded someone telling me to only recruit British people for the role - I found a guy who schooled in Britain (so was probably British) but had an Indian name and was told only to find "white hat" people - whatever that means. Hated the job anyway so blackmailed them I guess and got paid for a full month despite only working for three weeks.

Left that job and spent 5 years at the best job I'd ever had which I eventually outgrew. Went to work as an IT Training Consultant at a God-awful place and left after two months. It was terrible, decent money, but I had nothing to do and was working with a bunch of idiots. However, the small amount of experience I garnered in that job allowed me to start working as an IT contractor and I'm now earning silly money. :cool:

ellanutella

3 weeks temping for a logistics company. 5 hours a night, 2 and a half data entry which was fine, but then 2 and a half scanning pieces of paper into the computer which was so boring and the scanner hated me. I ended up working an extra week and by the end of that I'd got used to it but by then a full time temping job had come up. I've never walked out of a role, been lucky in that although the jobs were rubbish, the management were really nice and I'd feel too guilty to leave them short staffed.

Emma_N

3 months working as a trainee firefighter with the London Fire Brigade. Let's just say the fire service wasn't for me!!

snowqueen555

Yes mine was the first day. It was doing some accounts stuff for this small sole trader. It was just me and the owner in this small office and it felt awkward and ergh. I had to quit, I didn't take any money for that days pay though lol. Another awkwardness came from the fact that I didn't get the job from an interview, but from recommendation from a friend, so it was uber awkward

In retrospect it would've been nice to get that accounts experience

emilyteach1

scooby088 wrote: »

Well as the title suggests, in terms of service what has your shortest job you ever had been.??

I start this off at 2 hours..

Paid job - 4 hours [1 part-time shift] in a busy shop. The manager treated us like dogs, and I've had some rubbish managers in my time!! Thankfully, I was at uni at the time and had a tiny bit of money to keep me going. Thank God for student loans, because I couldn't have coped if I had to stay there.

Other - I walked out of a voluntary position with the CAB after about an hour. It was part of a uni course on career development. I jacked it in because I had to learn the ins and outs of several dozen state benefits in existence, including really obscure ones, and be tested on them before I was allowed to give advice. I was a mere English Language student looking to doss for 6 weeks and gain academic credit for it!! Shame, because it looked like a really good voluntary position, but it was really poorly advertised too. It would've been ideal work experience for someone interested in social policy, but frankly I didn't have a clue.

All other jobs have lasted for a fair amount of time [usually 2-3 years or more], unless they've specifically been temporary, or casual, etc.

Thankfully, I've never been dismissed or made redundant, I'm one of the lucky few!

bigcraigwilly

3 hours!

i lost my temper a little after being screamed at that i wasnt mopping the floor the "mcdonald's way"

i dont think i left any doubt that i was probebly not suited to the job and left

i got a job in a warehouse up the road instead

santacruz_2

1 Day - I'd quit a job for this office job in customer services. Spent the day (the 1 day of training i would be getting before being shoved in at the deep end) with the realization I would be mainly dealing with complaints. Bearing in mind the company had so many that the experienced staff member couldn't even finish writing the a4 report sheet before the next call. It was just not my thing at all.

I went home and cried all night, begging my boyfriend not to send me back. He was mad, my parents were mad at me. I went AWOL and never returned to the job. Its really really not worth the stress and worry. I got another job shortly after.

adouglasmhor

zyxd58 wrote: »

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Anyone who thinks Hamburgers are made from ham is thick; FACT.

Do you also think Frankfurters are made from blokes called Frank?

There's no Scotch in a Scotch pie or in Butterscotch.

BexInLondon

I worked a 4-hour shift in Woolworths and never went back. The manager was a sexist, lecherous twit, and the last straw was when we were locking up and he said "run up and get my lighter for me babe, I've left it in the staff room". It sounds so petty now, but at the time I was furious at his arrogance. I was 16, had two other jobs and didn't like the area so I never went back. I took great pleasure in not answering their calls.