Whats the shortest time you have stayed at a job?

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1 day, temping at a pensions company. Their computer system was so mind numbingly **** i knew i couldn't work there. Things like a 20 bullet pointed check sheet for every action you had to perform, and checking an item created about 5 seconds of system lag.
 
I stayed 4 days at a computer seller/repairer.

I'd just left a job for a large (at the time) UK Computer firm.
I had a few clashes with the area manager and felt it was better to elave before things came to a head.

Another company in Cambridge was interested in me, knew my background as an IT Technician from the other company.
I also had customer facing experience and so fitted his "needs" exactly.
So I was employed as a technical support person to answer any questions over the phone and take-in PC's and laptops for repair.

Day one I arrive and I'm given a sheet containing the phone numbers of loads of companies in the area.
Told to cold-call them, find out their IT Managers name, update our records and then pester them into using us as a supplier.

In the four days I was there I never once did any "technical support" - so left on rather unfriendly terms.
 
Less than a week at Comet ages ago. I realised how awful retail was and after watching the induction DVD you get made to sit through enough was enough!

Oh yeah and the other workers on the Sales floor who once they get back from a training session with brand X suddenly have a sense of "I'm better than you because I was trained by the people at brand X HWOAR HWOAR HWOAR! Now watch me drop some knowledge on this unsuspecting elderly couple"...
 
2 weeks at a place called TechZone in Selfridges Birmingham. Had to leave because I was bored stupid by the place.
 
IIDeathCubeKII said:
You sound like you care about this a little too much.
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Not really, merely a musing on the subject.

Just for you, my shortest job, technically a morning at a building site when I left when the boss asked us to enter an illegally dug and unsafe hole to do some work. But as I wasn't paid for that at all, wasn't a job, shortest actual paid job? 3 days at a call centre selling phone plans hen travelling. Only did the 3rd day for the $$$ and bummed through the hole day. Result.
 
3 years, hospitality work at the local football stadium.
Started of the job getting treated like rubbish, but it got better when the managers and supervisors learn't I was actually god at my job, and I had my pick of all the shifts which was very handy for fitting work in around study. I left for uni, but was still on their books, so I came back for a few shifts in the holiday. Now this place has a massive turn over, so I was working with staff I've never seen before under managers that were new. None of them knew me and I got put under the lesser experienced staff. Two shifts of that was enough then.
 
Well this is a blast from the past :p

And I still hate that place and have only ever gone in 2 or 3 times since I left! :p
 
4 Days (bus driver)

After hearing all the horror stories from the other drivers I was outta there!

The worst one being if you were robbed while out they would take it out of your wages! :mad: Stuff that for a game of soldiers! :(
 
1 hour, I attempted some physics tutor as a side job.

It didn't go well on the first day, this 10yr old korean girl just wanted to go out and play in the summer holidays. I felt it was pretty harsh of her parents to push her.

I got paid £7 quid in cheque and didn't get a callback nor did I call back.

It was too far away anyways
 
I survived 1 evening at McDonald's when I was 16. Being ***** and blinded at by the poison-dwarf female manager called Barbie had a lot to do with that. Crikey that job sucked.
 
Only on my second job now, but I stayed at my first one for three months. I was a general office assistant as the job role described. They obviously didn't need help at all because I think 75% of the time I was there I was sat in a small, cold office, on a knackered old computer doing sod all. The computer broke during my first week there (hard-drive failure) and they tried accusing me of trying to "Speed it up by messing with it". No-one would give me anything to do unless I asked (even then they struggled to find anything for me to do) so in the end I decided to just go in for 8:30AM and sit at the computer all day browsing the internet and listening to my iPod until 4:30PM. So I basically got paid £6.20p/h to sit around on the internet all day.

Most boring period of my life ever, but easy money.
 
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