“Weirdest 20 Minutes”: 52 Times It Didn’t Take Long For People To Quit Their Job

My wife started at a Mexican restaurant and after she cleared her first table, she went to dump the salsa from the bowl and the manager told her to put it in to the next tables salsa container. She quit after her first 45 minutes and then we turned in the restaurant to the health board. The were shutdown about a week afterwards to never reopen.

Edit: to those who think it's not real that they were shutdown just about some salsa, that was the least of the concerns that they were shutdown about. And my most up voted comment is of course this incident.

A telemarketing job. I lasted two hours before I had an anxiety attack from the script they made us read. I realized I was not cut out for being yelled at by strangers for minimum wage. Never went back after lunch.

IT job where I learned on day one I was the only IT guy in the building. Like 300 users. About 3 days in some department manager asked if the 100 new desktops were going to be ready by tomorrow, no idea what he was talking about. I reached out to corporate and their IT guy said something like "Oh yeah, there's like 100 boxed PCs in the warehouse you'll have to set up and image, forgot to mention that". I laughed, handed my badge to HR, and walked. On the way out HR told me the last 4 people in my position had quit in the first week.

Got fired after almost 3 days. It was a telemarketing job on my lunch break during my 3rd day I got an email that was an acceptance letter to law school. This old dude that literally looked like Tom Smykowski from office space I’d met that morning asked why I looked excited and I showed him the email and he said “go, leave this place and don’t look back” he left the break room and about 10 minutes after my lunch I was brought into the conference room and the boss said I was not a good fit and will “fire me so I can file unemployment”. I said okay. 2 weeks later I was living 1,000 miles away from my home town in my first apartment alone about to start a new career. I really wonder how that dude I met on that lunch break is.

Worked in a children's hospital for a week in an ICU. The combination of children crying, parents crying, and seeing kids with all sorts of tubes sticking out of them broke me pretty quick.

Was told it was customer service. It was actually cold calling so I walked out.

Probably there 30 minutes total.

Got hired on at a major ski as a member of their marketing team. First day was formal training where I was told to sit in on “Snowblower” training.

Long hours, middle of the night up a mountain in the freezing cold. Yeah, not my cup of tea. Maybe they were just doing cross training, I thought.

Next day, we are picking up equipment, I was expecting a walkie and my lift pass for being an employee. I was given sub zero gloves, heavy jacket, multi tool. Again, just thinking it was for safety.

Got my schedule for the 3rd day and was scheduled for an overnight shift… immediately went to HR. Their response “that position (the marketing role) never existed.” Quit on the spot.

A fashion studio. Walked in to “interview” for the job and they expected me to sit down and work for free for the exposure. I asked them point blank, “what the hell is going on?” And they said they didn’t like my attitude and asked me to leave. Weirdest 20 minutes.

Took a job umpiring indoor cricket because I was broke and needed the money. After my second shift I asked who I should give details to to get paid. Was told "Oh you're still training, you don't get paid"

I walked out.

Buffet. Spilled pan of chicken tenders on floor. Manager told to pick up, take in back and bring back out. Even my 23 year old not caring self knew that was wrong.

Got hired as a CNA got assigned my first job and never showed up because the lady who’s relative I was going to be taking care of called me to give a brief intro and she goes “are you black, you sound black”.

Dishwasher at a small restaurant. I lasted one shift.

Asked the owner/chef when we got paid and he said next week. I told him I wasn’t going to be coming back after that night, asked for $40 cash and we’d call it even. He obliged and ended up giving me a bowl of risotto too. He was a cool guy.

Fun fact. About a year later a couple of my buddies got jobs as servers at the same restaurant and had nothing but good things to say about the owner.

Got hired to do QA at a chemical plant. Walked in, spent a full hour trying to find who was in charge and who I was supposed to report to. After more than 90 minutes, I just walked out, never having found out who my "boss" was supposed to be.

Did lawn care, landscaping, and other household chores for an older lady down the street for a few weeks. She was a micromanager, condescending, holier-than-thou. I could put up with it cause it was really easy, right down the street, and was okay money for a 14-15 year old. Crossed the line when she backed her car into a phone pole and tried blaming me for it.

Worked McDonald’s grill for about 6 months months when I was 15. I asked for Mother’s Day off with 2 weeks advanced notice so I could take my mom out. The manager told me I was “too new” to ask for time off, so when my shift for Mother’s Day rolled around I walked in and handed her my uniform.

When I was 18, server. Quit after 30 mins on my first night. Give everyone props who can restrain themselves from either punching someone in the face or dumping a drink on them.

Dominos. I went through training, then argued with the manager about the type of khaki's required. He said "you'r not Domino's material" and I answered "you're right, I'm not made of polyester." Never worked a single day there, got paid $20 after taxes because it was paid training.

EDIT: I suppose I should add…I had khakis, but they weren’t the right “shade” or brand. I thought it was ridiculous to require an employee to buy a uniform from a specific store & manufacturer, and not get reimbursed either. Especially when I had very similar pants.

I've quit two jobs on the first day. One was at a theater where I was hired to be a ticket seller (this was before it was all done online), the manager yelled at me because I had dark green pants on. I left to change and never went back.

The other was an oil change place. They sat me down in an unairconditioned box in August in south Texas and made me watch videos all day. No one talked to me. I didn't go back.

McDonald’s, I worked there for like 3 days in which they just kinda put me to work, no training at all, , literally had to trial and error my way through those days, and when they said “you’re not learning fast enough so we may have to let you go” I stopped working there the next day lmao, I was 16 with decent savings and no expenses so I had nothing to lose and got a job at Walmart which was way better like a month later.

I took a position in a factory that makes the industrial shelving for grocery stores once. At the orientation the instructor asked me to take it easy the first day and equated to football practice. Show up on the line and see seven dudes ranging from 20-40 all built like amateur boxers. Turns out the job was to grab these big 40 pound shelves, two at a time minimum, lift them above your head onto a moving hook belt for 12 hours with only a 30 minute lunch break. My ride wasnt going to be able to pick me up until the end of the day. The next morning I was physically unable to move. I couldn't have gone back to that job if I wanted to.