Whats the shortest time you have stayed at a job?

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anewbe4u said:
What did you do to get the sack within 45 minutes?
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Caused about £100K's worth of damages when I accidently pushed a pallet full of videos off the edge of a forklikft station, about 50' high. The wheels on the pump-trolley lodged over the edge and pallet just slipped off as one complete load, still wrapped in the shrink wrap. :o
 
3 weeks, was at a IT outsourcing company looked really good when I went for the interview got in there and sat in a tiny office with 3 people that hated each other and never spoke a word to each other.

Was such a awful atmosphere and i just couldnt hack it, so phoned up while on lunch and said that i wasnt coming back in.

Then a month later i ended up back in the same job i was made redundant from 2 months earlier, its a strange old world sometimes
 
1 shift.
Started a job at 16 at a pound shop, got payed really bad wages, like £2.50/hour for a 7pm till 11.30pm shift. The place was a right mess, we wernt aloud to use the label machines, had to do it all by hand, no talking to the others on the shift, no breaks, no drinks, ect;
Before i went in for my second shift i phoned up and told them i wasnt gonna turn up because it was like working slave labour.
 
I worked for about 3 hours for a company that sold racking. I was expected to shrink wrap stuff using a flame gun. I had to put a sheet of paper over the stuff before wrapping it (I think this was the first time they'd tryed it) and it kept catching fire. Surely any company should know temps+fire is a bad idea.

I'm quite lucky because I got my current job when the guy who beat me in the interview left after 3 weeks. Although I had already been offered a job by his previouse employer (I think MrBIOS is now doing that job).

I did know someone who got so bored during school work experience he went home on the monday lunch time. 10 years later he'd become a forklift mechanic.When he had to go back to the company the maintenance supervisor looked him in the eye and said "You took a while having lunch".
 
BoomAM said:
1 shift.
Started a job at 16 at a pound shop, got payed really bad wages, like £2.50/hour for a 7pm till 11.30pm shift. The place was a right mess, we wernt aloud to use the label machines,
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You needed price lables in a £ shop!!!!!!
 
1 shift

12 hour night shift

"what do we need these hardhats for , were in the middle of a field"

"it puts the gypos off bashing you over the head"

we where guarding 300k worth of cable in the middle of an open field :/

as the night went on and speaking to other guards we found out we where only hired because no one else on the security team would do the job

:p
 
4 weeks but only doing 3 days a week at Ticketmaster call centre in manchester. In 4 weeks there I never met my supervisor and when I said I was leaving and asked what the procedure was they told me "just write down that you're leaving". So i got a blank piece of paper and wrote "I am leaving" and put my name and signature. All the guy said was "you didn't need to sign it" and off I went

Not only friendly but professionally run too! :rolleyes:
 
anewbe4u said:
You are the master.

Give me tips on how to keep myself occupied please!
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I have a unique talent; I can just switch off and completely zone out.

It helps if there is a PC - I used to work with InsomniaCalls and we'd have about 20 minutes of actual work per shift.

*n
 
penski said:
That happened to me once. I got just under 8 quid an hour to do nob all for four months.

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as in literally sat on your ass doing nothing?
i can zone out and just look at the the wall for hours on end... how do i get this job!

i think my shortest was half a paper round, on collecting the second lot of papers i decided i didnt need £3 that much and i threw the papers in the bin about 20 meters down the road and went home.
 
1.5 hours doing the gardens for some wealthy couple, I was supposed to do a day a week at 12pph for them, their existing gardener didn't like me being there (he didn't know I was on nearly 2x his wage :) ) but they were all a bunch of jackasses and I phoned them up and said I wasn't going back.

Other than a number of short contracts I worked the other 2 of my jobs have been over 5 years and the one I'm in now has been 18 months so far.
 
Azagoth said:
Caused about £100K's worth of damages when I accidently pushed a pallet full of videos off the edge of a forklikft station, about 50' high. The wheels on the pump-trolley lodged over the edge and pallet just slipped off as one complete load, still wrapped in the shrink wrap. :o
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Oh that's epic stuff! :D

I lasted 45 minutes in one job, about ten years ago. The place had a bad rep in town, and I quickly realised the reputation was well founded. Food preparation in a dirty old industrial unit was simply not for me.

I asked to go to the toilet and returned to the locker room. I then slipped out of my funky white overalls and promptly legged it. In my working life, that was as low as things have ever got.
 
3 days.

Delivery drivers-mate for a well known electronics store. Sat next to some BO ridden, greasy haired, tattoo'd yahoo for 12 hours a day while we drove around the back end of beyond in Cumbria/s.west scotland.

Much worse than being a pot-wash in the local restaurant whe I was 14 and much worse than my paper round when i was 12. Says a lot really.
 
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