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What has been your shortest job?
enudzio
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Mine would be a 3 day work experience i did at a college - i was only required to come in on the Wednesday , Thursday and Friday.
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enudzio
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My shortest 'proper' job was with HSBC. I was there for 3 months. I hated it.
Edited to say - I forgot one. My shortest job ever was 3 days. I worked in a flower shop. I thought it would be all fragrant and wonderful, but it was bloody hard work and very early starts. After three days I scarpered.
I lasted until lunch and gave it up. I never used that agency again.
By the end of my first shift I had massive welts over my hands from having to handle potatoes straight out of the oven with my bare hands. By the end of the second a few of them had blistered and gone manky. So I was asked not to return, for which I was grateful
Otherwise, 18 months in a building society.
First one was a temporary job packing mail order plants and bulbs. That just came to an end.
The other was a full-time job in a cardboard box manufacturing factory that I quit. Started on the same day as someone else and was supposed to be learning to set the machines. The person I started with did get to do that whilst I was being asked to throw away rubbish, sweep the yard etc. I felt misled and just stopped going in one Monday after the weekend without telling them I was leaving. Got a letter after a week or so to say I'd been sacked which was funny as I'd already left in my own mind.
I was cold calling factories and all I was told were stories of redundancies and people being laid off. Depressed the **** out of me and I didn't go back for day 2.
(I failed the interview)
A. Salmond
Walked out at lunchtime and never went back. I just didn't like it. It wasn't one particular "thing" I didn't like. I just kind of knew immediately I was going to hate it there so got out at the first opportunity.
When I got there the next day I was shoved onto a computer, had a head set stuck on my head and expected to get on with taking for flowers to be delivered, no training whatsoever. I didn't have a clue and was shouted at for making several mistakes. The manager was vile and the other staff ignored me. I stuck it out till 5.30 and didn't go back the next day, when I phoned the next day the manager was genuinely stunned and couldn't understand why I didn't want to go back........
???? WTF?! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I wasn't comfortable and the employer could tell. He was nice enough to end my six-month contract with no repercussions and a friendly handshake.
It was fantastic!