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

stevep85 said:
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!
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I remember the long haired bloke who rubbed bare memory sticks on his woolen jumper before handing it to customers. No box, no wrapping, nothing.

Wasn't you was it? :cry:
 
Catering company when I was uni, I woke up and call them I told hem I quit before going to work on my first day, as I found out they took the **** and overworked a lot of students.
 
My first job. One day in a burger joint. When I didn't cancel plans with my then girlfriend to go in the next night he sacked me.

Otherwise I haven't done too badly and I've lasted at least a week.
 
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9 months.

Started fresh out of uni at a local business.

Shared a video of a large project I was working on via YouTube (back in the early days circa 2006) and got pulled in. Tried to deny it until they informed me that it must have been me as the username was just my first and last name :D
 
6 months, one of the directors behaved like he was stuck in the 1980's. Money was @#%& too.

I've been where I am 6 years pretty much now & some months earn 4-6 times what I was getting there.
 
We had a farm and I, when I was school age, I got some casual jobs like hoeing turnips in the fields. Since then I got my degree and I and a colleague started a company It was industrial power electronics. And that was it for nearly fifty years.
 
Not counting agency temp jobs that I had no control of, just under a week for one of those awful 'not a pyramid scheme, honest' sales jobs where you sell random crap to businesses door to door.
 
dcsarge said:
Not counting agency temp jobs that I had no control of, just under a week for one of those awful 'not a pyramid scheme, honest' sales jobs where you sell random crap to businesses door to door.
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I did that for 2 hours in Leeds. Bloody pointless job. Can't remember what was the job title advertised. Went in most of the lawyers and solicitors firms down Park Row. One of the items we were trying to flog was those dancing flowers with sunglasses that were so 1990.
 
robfosters said:
Door to door double glazing canvasser. Quit after 2 hours.
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Same!

I wasn't door to door, went along to an induction for double glazing telesales and it was like something out of those BBC caught on camera/insider affairs. Student at the time so a temp job.

Shocking selling practices were being touted, akin to scammers, sucker lists, targeting elderly. Lasted until the cigarette break and left.
 
Ninco! said:
Same!

I wasn't door to door, went along to an induction for double glazing telesales and it was like something out of those BBC caught on camera/insider affairs. Student at the time so a temp job.

Shocking selling practices were being touted, akin to scammers, sucker lists, targeting elderly. Lasted until the cigarette break and left.
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Yep, I distinctly remember being told to be firm and insistent with the elderly as they were more easily persuaded
 
A month at a credit card call centre (Lloyds TSB), all inbound calls on customer services and lots of people moaning about the wait time.

2nd shortest was just shy of 3 months at a family run italian restaurant, told me it was for 30 hours a week as a kitchen assistant but the job I was doing was a line cook for split shifts 5 days a week.
Payday comes around, less than minimum wage which they kicked up a fuss about when I said that wasn't on.
I handed in my notice and one of the owners tried to convince me I had a three month notice period rather than one month as the end of my notice period put me over the time in role for which they require three months, made me chuckle.
Left to go to Amex which at the time was 10-15 minutes walk down the road and decent money for the role.
 
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Working on the phones at the DWP. I lasted 2 hours, went to the toilet and never looked back. The issue I had was the building was a shed, and the way they began to train and speak to this new team gave me really bad vibes. Knew there was no point in wasting anyones time.

All my other jobs many years and never miss a day.
 
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Five weeks building site transformers (those cubic yellow boxes that step 240V down to 110V). Got offered another job (I'd actually applied before the transformer job, but it took a while for the security clearance) and almost ran out the door. Mind-numbing.
 
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