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

Two hours was doing some agency work whilst waiting to start my Nursing at University so I worked in a pub Friday and Saturday evenings and needed some extra cash. So my first one was a place that made Large Entrance mats you find in supermarkets etc
My Job, cut the excess rubber off it, fold it and put it on a pallet. Went to the toilet after two hours and never went back.
Got another one working for Dabs.com in the warehouse, stuck with that till Uni, enjoyed it to be honest, lots of fancy computer parts worked with some great people, few from Poland, one from Iraq and some British!. That was 2006 been in the NHS since.
 
Putting apples into bags for supermarkets. Lasted a day but mainly left because they had daily compulsory overtime and I didn't get to leave until about 8pm which they said wasn't unusual.
 
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When I was younger I landed a job as extra for a famous pop star in HK and got paid daily £250, a Van will pick up 8 of us teens and drop us back. 6am start and 9pm finish, actual work time is around 5 hours and the rest is just make up and waiting around for the star to stroll on set. We are talking about 1998 and £750 goes a long way
 
I was a "broadband technician" for BT and I managed 4 days! Basically, BT took on 100 new technicians back in September 2002, so when broadband was still pretty new. All hired via an IT agency. Then on day 4, I had a call from the agency to say that BT has massively over-recruited and was sacking off half (50) of them. I thought it was pretty cowardly of BT getting the agency to break the bad news to the staff than BT themselves.

Thankfully I have been with my current organisation for 12 years, so at least I have done something right :p
 
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Ooh intriguing to find out what you did to get fired. Hopefully not just turning up late.
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No they secretly record some of your calls. I think the one I was pulled up on was where the guy was having a go because I didn’t care. All we could offer them was a pretty useless ‘help to quit’ pack which was just a bunch of leaflets, so I would offer them that, and that’s about it.
 
2 years as a barman needed the extra money whilst finishing off my apprentiship plus thought it be a good way of saving money by being on the other side of a bar

jacked it in after spending all week working on building sites then working all weekend behind a bar for 2 years was making me ill
 
Overclockers! I did one day back in about 2004 on the front desk and it was awful. I was pretty much thrust straight into it with no training and spent most of the day on my own literally winging it until the queue became so big it went outside (those old enough will remember those days ).

I’m sure things have changed since then!

I left Sports Direct to join but found myself back as Mike Ashley’s slave 2 days later!
 
Kitchen porter. Split shifts, in twice a day with a few hours off in the middle washing up never ending piles of dirty pans and plates. Left after the first day. There are some proper crap jobs out there.
 
Two weeks at a motorway service station when I was 18 during uni holidays.

Spent 5 full days in the first week training, which was alright, then did three 8-hour shifts in the shop. It was pretty terrible: much worse than working the tills of the local supermarket as I'd done previously. Especially the day I'd been out drinking until 3am before catching the staff bus for my shift at 5:30.... Felt utter **** for that shift, but couldn't leave as I was stuck until bus time :D

Meals were included, though: full English in my morning break, then a Burger King for lunch. Apparently only management get meals included nowadays.
 
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