Whats the shortest time you have stayed at a job?

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SidewinderINC said:
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!
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Yup. I was supposed to be trained to fix bits and bobs on site but my manager (only guy in his department) went on holiday after a week and never came back. Four months later we found out he had died on holiday and I got sacked.

I turned up every day at 8, punched in, sat and read books/listened to music, punched out at 6pm then went home.

*n
 
About 6 months at a Safeway. The managers were the classic supermarket A-Holes and the stock ordering system was a joke - we would get tons of stuff we didn't need and none of the stuff we actually did need. The supervisors had to sit down and try to correct it all manually on their lunch break :rolleyes: I had to do the daily reductions in the fresh meat and dairy section and it was ridiculous - half the department was getting thrown away because it was full of stuff we didn't need and wasn't selling (obviously meat & dairy doesn't keep very long...) and it took forever to process.....I never left on time. It all came to a head when they tried to write me up for missing some reductions and basically tried to use me as a scapegoat for the bad waste figures in that dept. I handed in my notice the next day. I've never experienced such atrocious and incompetent management. To try and help the wastage numbers they actually made us give bacon and sausages that were going out of date to the customer café! It was a horrible, horrible experience.

On the plus side, it paid for a nice TV and DVD setup and I dated one of the girls there very briefly :)
 
I think two days (on two occasions) is the shortest I've ever worked anywhere, once I got a better offer (more money, better hours etc) and for the other job I just decided that it wasn't worth my time because it was trying to sell something that I didn't believe in.

Currently my job is massively boring, I can do pretty much all of the days 'work' within about an hour and the manager knows this so I've asked and just got told to read the news or play sudoku which apparantly is absolutely fine with them even though they are paying well over £10/h for my services(not that I get anywhere near that as I'm agency staff). :)

//edit sgx.saint, nope I don't list them, I've had about 5-6 jobs that were too short to bother listing for various reasons and I've got enough solid periods of employment not to care.
 
//edit sgx.saint, nope I don't list them, I've had about 5-6 jobs that were too short to bother listing for various reasons and I've got enough solid periods of employment not to care.
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Same here, I've left two jobs over the years within the space of a month for various reasons and never bothered listing them.

Besides, there not even relevant now due to my recent shift in career direction.

I'm currently trying to find some temporary work to help pay the way through University as a Mature Student, but finding it difficult :(

I'm hemmoraging cash like I don't know what and need a salary to stop the bleed!
 
1 day. Agency placement, Was asked to open replies to a mailed letters. Placed the replying address' in one pile and the question asking which prize they wanted in the bin.

Got through a huge amount, was talking to a friend next to me also on an agency placement. They asked me in the afternoon to be quiet and not to speak to him as I wasn't working hard enough (I was). So I worked until the end of the day and didn't go back again.
 
Mohinder said:
I got a job and then never turned up once, do I win?

I got a free t-shirt out of that one.
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I got offered a job which I didn't accept and 3 months later they sent me an invite to their christmas party.
I didn't attend. It was in Swindon.

I've left jobs after a morning before now because I really hated it. There's always more agency work around.
 
tomato factory just outside of doncaster.

1 day. There was suppose to be 3 people working at the start of the production line pouring tomatoes out of crates into the top of the machine then pushing them onto the line. I was one of the people pouring them in out of crates, after 10 minutes the other 2 people had to go and do something else leaving me to do the work of 3 people. thanks for that!
 
About 30 seconds, so I think I win.

Several years ago now I went to the office to start work for a data storage company only to receive a call, literally within a minute of turning up, to say I'd got the other job I'd applied for.

They weren't happy.
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
You needed price lables in a £ shop!!!!!!
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Yeah! Because not everything was a £! lol.
Seriously though, the point was why have the labeling machines there if we couldnt use them?
 
Deluxe1 said:
3 hours before i slipped out of the back door.
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Is that a euphemism? :eek: :p

I lasted 2 weeks at my shortest job.

The shortest I've seen anyone else last was a lass who started at BTHC at 9am, only to disappear during her first break at 11am never to be seen again! :p
 
Mine is the shortest time in a position.. although it wasnt that short, but its the only job ive had in my young life :p

Position as potwash, anyone that has done potwash will probably understand, its a hideous job, id go in regular as way and nothing had been cleaned all day until i started at 5 which kept me there til the small hours and i usually had to walk home (4mile) at 1am or more. Ive walked home in heat, snow, rain, wind, freezing.... lol.

But its the fact your the lowest in the kitchen and you are made to feel it because i you have to get anything anyone else asks for, sometimes you can be in the freezers for ages looking for something whilst the plates keep on piling up.

But i used a bit of iniative and kept my toungue quiet and helped out preparing meals and that when it was busy (and it got incredibly busy) so i built myself a platform to threaten to leave because i got good at doing other things to the point i was relied on.

So after 8months of being a "potwash" i handed in my notice and the manager after talking to the kitchen manager offered my a pay rise and a chance to have shifts no as potwash and to move up in the kitchen.

not bad for a part time college student at the time :p

p.s. it did help my case that potwashes were coming and going, one lad only stayed for less than 10mins id say, he saw the piles and left. In a funny way i felt proud of myself for sticking at it.

anyway after 3yrs i left last september for uni, left at the end of the day with relief and sadness :)

but thats my shortest job so far :) lol
 
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1 week at a new tesco store after i finished uni. Done the "training" got paid and left for a better job. Sweet :p
 
Homebase, 4 days and I quit.
The personnel manager kept barking orders at me, which weren't my job, then complaining I wasn't doing my job to.
So I had a rant at her, spat on the floor and walked out.

Ahh well, the pay was rubbish anyway.
 
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