As fun as the idea of unemployment might seem while you’re working, most folks need a job to get by. Finding one, as it turns out, is often easier said than done. So once you actually get a job, it can be exciting to finally start, but some workplaces have vacancies for a reason.
We’ve gathered stories from people who walked into a new job and left almost immediately because they quickly realized that something was wrong. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section down below.
#81
Kohls; bc how you hire me and then forget that you hired me and then just give me a radio and told me to work the floor and sell credit cards 😂 it’s my first day idek where the radios are 💀
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12points
#82
I worked one day at a gas station and it was so bad the moment I stepped out I blocked everyone there and denied I ever worked there
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12points
#83
3 hours.. it was a gas station. They did not have a working toilet and told me to go on top… they’re so lucky I didn’t report them to the health department.
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12points
#84
i walked in, got the uniform, signed the papers, got put to cook, almost fainted from heatwave and quit right there, i think i was there like 2 hours
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12points
#85
I worked at my local chicken shop to get their pasta salad recipe, left 45 mins in after learning the recipe.
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11points
#88
Drove up to a place bc all the interviews were virtual, didn’t like what the outside looked like so I left
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10points
#89
I worked at Wendy’s for 2 weeks. I was immediately working from 2pm-2am closing the front alone with almost no training and I lost two toenails. I was so depressed I had to go back to therapy after
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10points
#90
30 minutes before my shift started I was crying on the floor in my living room. And then it hit me… I’m never going to let myself get that burnt out over a job that would have my job posted faster than my obituary if I died ever again.
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10points
#91
It was Tim Hortons , quit after three days because the manager yelled at me on the floor in front of everyone over giving a customer one two many napkins ONE OVER
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10points
#92
I left within an hour or two from my first day working at a hibachi restaurant. I went out for a smoke and just ended up walking off and never coming back. The person training me was just really rude and impatient
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10points
#93
Lowe’s working in the lumber department, the amount of lazy rude customers was insane.
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9points
#94
13 days … a Law Firm filled with Middle aged women that did not want to teach me the right way to do things … had me literally RUNNING errands in 34° heat in formal uniform because no work car 🏃🏻♀️
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8points
#95
It was at a boba shop, they had me using a torch on the first day of the job, there was no training there just made me start making drinks for people, found out the owner was sleeping in the washroom
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8points
#96
Kohl's I pulled into the parking lot 2 mins before i was supposed to start and realized I did not to want work there
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7points
#97
McDonald’s, lasted 2 days. They told me to make the sundae on the FLOOR. And the lady teaching me mixed it with her FINGER.
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7points
#98
McDonald’s made me remove my fresh full set, short nails btw.. and my friend who worked there had foot long nails, then they gave me my schedule on a paper napkin.. never went back🤣lasted like 5 days
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7points
#99
I worked at Hollister in highschool, they made me walk around the store, standing like a mannequin in corners, changing clothes every half hour. Left after 5 days...
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7points
