What is your shortest job or role you've held?

2.5 days as FD for a business that was struggling
It took me 2 days to figure out why.
I drove home lunchtime day 3 and rang them to say not coming back and no need to pay me for the couple of days.

The person who followed me in (came second to me at interview) made it a whole week.
Guess he was a slower leaner ;)

Surprisingly they did survive and are still trading now. No idea how that happened!
Maybe someone sacked the board (the board was the issue)
 
Just under 2 hours. It was the summer vacation when I was at uni. A temping agency gave me a role.

Went to the factory. I was asked to put a folded piece of cardboard in the shape of a washing basket onto a larger piece. Then to insert a money off coupon with a sample of washing liquid. The ‘basket’ had to be done properly otherwise coupon and sample wouldn’t fit.

The whole group then went on break. I took my opportunity to escape! During that time, I wasn’t asked for my name or ask the others what other things they did in the factory.

More fool the agency who paid me for 2 days (14 hours) a week later!
 
I was temping at a building society. They seemed quite keen on me as I made a good impression within my first couple of days. I was then asked to check just over 37 thousand individual files in the store room for a particular customer. It took me around 5 days. After I told them I couldnt find it she shrugged and said dont worry we'll get the information from head office and then proceeded to give me two more names and wanted me to go through them all again. I laughed and walked out. I was probably there 2 weeks.
 
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Chrisc said:
I was temping at a building society. They seemed quite keen on me as I made a good impression within my first couple of days. I was then asked to check just over 37 thousand individual files in the store room for a particular customer. It took me around 5 days. After I told them I couldnt find it she shrugged and said dont worry we'll get the information from head office and then proceeded to give me two more names and wanted me to go through them all again. I laughed and walked out. I was probably there 2 weeks.
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Imagine if you had been smarter, log all 37k in a spreadsheet. Then each search would take you 15 seconds to narrow to a box.
Few minutes work per week, pretending to work for the rest of the week ;)
 
4 hours at Sainsbury's. Was doing replenishment i.e. stacking shelves. I'd taken another job in a nightclub. Sainsbury's weren't happy with it so told them to shove it and handed the uniform back in an Asda bag.

Had another at Franky and Benny's for about 4 weeks. First they were saying they could only accept my Long form birth certificate which neither me, nor my parents had ever had. Then they told me I was supposed to bring my old pens into work to take bar orders. Told them to shove it too.

Started working in an office and ergo my proper career (if you can call it that) afterwards.
 
3 months working in the warehouse at my local Asda, when I was 17-18 couldn’t stand it. Makes me laugh my wife worked at the same Asda about 10 years after I did. She was in the George section and she last 4 months. She hated it also and vowed to never work in a supermarket again.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
2.5 days as FD for a business that was struggling
It took me 2 days to figure out why.
I drove home lunchtime day 3 and rang them to say not coming back and no need to pay me for the couple of days.
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Reminds me of an FD that started at a company I worked for. Business was dying and I don't think they told him his desk was in a portacabin either. On the morning of his second day I saw him drive away from the office with a big grin on his face.
 
I went for an interview at a dry cleaning place. The guy doing the interview told me I could start straight away as they were short handed. About 15 minutes later I walked out and went home. It was a proper rubbish job.
 
Probably my best was getting paid off to leave a company after mass redundancies, took on a better paid role, but an hour or 2 away depending on traffic. Got paid a discretionary bonus after 2 months so I could move to new location and not be knackered all the time.

Then refused to lie in a board meeting and got paid off to 'leave quietly' a month later. Kept my bachelor pad in the city on the company for 6 months having a blast.
 
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