64 People Share What Made Them Quit A Job Faster Than They Ever Expected

I was in high school and I got a job at Golden Corral as a dishwasher. I told them I could work late on weekends, but not during the week (classes started about 6 am). I was told that would be fine and they'd work around it. First shift was supposed to be until 8 on a Tuesday. I wasn't allowed to leave until 11:30, and they had me scheduled multiple days after that. I quit once I clocked out that first night.

30 minutes into a new office job, I realized I absolutely reeked of cat pee. Took a bathroom break and just kept on walking.

We had just driven across the country for a new life and didn't realize the scared little guy used my fresh laundry as a toilet.

Somewhere out there, a few folks love to tell the story of the guy who showed up smelling like a litter box and then ghosted after half an hour. Well, that guy was me.

It was a door to door sales job vs what I applied for. I walked out during the orientation.

May not be as quick as others: but when I was 16 I spent maybe 8 weeks as a bag boy at a local supermarket chain in the winter to make some extra cash. It was the holiday months so it helped me buy gifts and buy myself some stuff.

I worked December till February. The reason I quit?

On the literal coldest day of the year, I came in ready to bag for my shift. The manager said "You're going outside to go collect carts."

"?! but I didn't come dressed for that, I came to bag like you guys scheduled me"

"Yeah? Well that cart guy has been out there for 2 hours and he needs to warm up!"

I was out there for maybe an hour tops - I was grabbing one cart and then running back inside to spend 5-10 minutes letting the heaters warm up my frozen numb legs. I was super, super pissed that they didn't call me prior to prep for something like this, but I wasn't going to let them do it to me again.

I requested 2 weeks off before the next schedule because "my family is going on vacation for February break." The day before I went on "vacation," I came in to give my 2 week notice because "my parents want me to focus on my studies." The manager noted right after documenting it "wait...you're starting a 2 week vacation tomorrow?" "Oh, yeah. I learned here how important it is to give a heads up. So I wanted to make sure I gave you one. Good luck!"

Walked out with not a care. I didn't need the referral for another job or college - they just used terrible judgement on an employee they needed more than needed them.

One hour into working at Sears. After two days of ‘training’ and them admitting they would lay most of us off after Christmas (didn’t tell us this in the interview) which would be when my employment insurance would run out. Was supposed to have someone shadowing me or me shadowing them but they avoided me like the plague and I ended up with a lineup. Called the manager (the one who told us we’d be laid off eventually) and said thanks but no thanks and walked out. Ended up in another job two months later that outlasted Sears itself.

Vet Tech. 5 days because he (the doctor at this practice) told me i lied about my skill set and reduced my pay by a dollar an hour each day every time I did something he didn't like. But at the same time, he was reusing needles and syringes between patients and also using the worst unsafe anesthetic protocols and didnt even have any monitoring equipment. His instructions to me were to "Make sure they were still breathing." As if I had any way to ventilate them? They weren't even on flowby O2.

Anyways. Started on Monday, walked by Friday, then got a real vet tech job.

I worked at a Dunkin Donuts in my mid 20s and quit within a month. The place felt shady. I was told I lost $100 when counting the cashier and that if it happened again they would charge me for it.

Something was definitely off and I could tell. Several weeks later after I left, that shift lead was arrested for stealing thousands from the Store.

I worked at a big name car dealership. On my first day, I came out of the bathroom and there was this old man waiting for me. He said, "I'm the owner, pleasure to meet you."

All the other sales people laughed when I came back out and said, "he's never around, he only came out for you because you're his type." No idea what they meant.

I googled the owner up, and turns out he has a lover that fits my exact physical features. The next few days, he'd always wait for me outside the bathroom to say hi and offered me free rides home. I got out of there after the third attempt.

I was front desk at a hotel. Hotel had no managers on duty and tons of complaints. Every person checking out wanted to talk to the manager because of things like:

Waking up with ants in their hair
No hot water, no one came to fix
Heater not working well enough
A sneaker wave got them (it was on the beach)
It was dark in the room

And I was not allowed to give a discount. I could only tell people a manager would call them to follow up.

I had almost every customer upset with me, one came around the counter to berate me in my face, etc. I kept telling her there wasn't a manager on duty so she went to the restaurant on site to look for a manager.

The owner of the company sent out a company wide email naming me, saying what I did was wrong and not to do that ever again. Like I had any control of the situation.

Then, they switched my weekends. I was off sunday/monday, and they switched me to thursday/friday. I worked 9 days in a row with 0 overtime because they started that at the end of my week. I'm baffled this is legal.

So, as soon as I got another job I called in to quit (which happened almost every day there). Night auditor said no, I had to call the manager and tell them myself. I hung up and never looked back.

The manager messaged me on indeed to ask why would I want to leave a place when they treated me so fairly. Psh.

During Covid I took a job driving to post offices. They lied to me about my pay that I would be working at. They were making me download all these apps in my phone that were draining my battery and data instead of having a company phone. Many things weren't in the job description so I told the manager that after the shift that I am not a good fit. He guilt tripped me about how they "pulled strings" for me to get this job and didn't mention the loads of danger that came with the job. No regrets!

Quit a job as a bus boy at Bennigans after an hour. I was a broke college kid needing a little cash. Got hired, was told to wear all black, including shoes. I showed up wearing my black nikes with a white swoosh. The manager told me I needed to go to the shoe store next door and buy myself totally black shoes. I went and bought some cheap black off brand sneakers and immediately was slipping all over the greasy floors with no traction on the shoes. Later the manager called for all staff to come to the kitchen to give the start of shift pep talk. I joined in the circle with the other wait staff and once the manager noticed me standing there he announced, this is for wait staff only and asked me to leave the circle. I left the circle and walked out the door and never returned.

Left a job of IT Team Lead after 4 months as soon as i heard the boss shout/rause voice at people and insult them.

I cannot handle it when people think they are above someone. Respect is very important.

Line cook at an East Side Mario’s when I was like 17 or so. Made it a day. I just hated it. I hated needing to reply with “yo” instead of “yes” or “ok” or “got it”, I hated how hot the kitchen was, I just hated it.

I gave my immediate notice when I was done and they called me the next day asking where I was.

I got hired to run a childcare program. I showed up for training and they treated me like I was going to be working under the current director. Later the owner called and told me that he hadn't told the current director she would be fired yet and that he wanted me to get in there to learn covertly while she was still running the system. I backed out immediately and later learned the whole place shut down a month later because he refused to renew their childcare licenses or insurance. Turns out it was his soon to be ex wife's business and he was tanking it deliberately.

I got a job cleaning silk screens in a toy factory. I didn't get started till after lunch the first day. The next day I left at lunch and never came back. Didn't ask for any pay, chalked it up to a lesson learned.

Was working in a tiny room, probably 100°F, with no ventilation. Scrubbing the screens in a big tank of some volatile solvent.

Calvin Klein sales associate. Manager just gave odd vibes during the group interview (first red flag), and was completely off putting during orientation. Made it sound way more important than it was, tried to stoke all this weird competition between us and we were all like wth, and then she gave me the wrong time for my first shift then lied about it.

I confirmed twice and wrote it down immediately, so I know it wasn’t my error. She was reading off the schedule and when I came in and looked at it, it was very evident that she read the wrong row. They said they’d give me another chance with an on-call shift on boxing day, I confirmed an hour before, and no showed. The best feeling ever lmao.

Lmao off. cutco. I had no idea, thought it was a sale job like sitting in a Costco or something.. it was not. It's a pyramid scheme. I went through three day orientation and given a quota for the week, after which we were going to promotion event with the CEO. I get there, it's just a bunch of rude rich guys smelling their own farts while making money off of us.. a girl and I sitting next to each other exchanged a look of, is this serious , are they for real? They were pompous owners who wanted a crowd to feed their ego. So we both said let's go get a coffee. Lol we left, they fired us, lol but I got a new bestie out of it and we still friends 10+ years later.

I think it was a total week before I walked out with her.

Fu cutco, you vultures.

I lasted six months in a job before I didn't see any way forward with it. I was miserable, alone, and unsupported by a boss that just oozed stress.

"Six months is a while though" you might say. I lasted longer than the previous three people combined, one of whom took a day to bolt.

1 day. Worked for Verizon in a mall. The boss wanted me to scam people out of money. Anything for a sale. Noone gets to hurt my soul.

Signed up for temp agency. Got sent to Pepperdine University to wash dishes for a day. I mean, not great but how bad can it be? I show up and get led to dishwashing room behind the cafeteria. More dishes than I’ve seen in my life. More coming in every moment. The washer is this massive industrial thing that no one shows me how to use. I think I tried to do two loads, burned myself with scalding water, did not feel safe operating this huge machine alone with no training. I just left. Probably 45 minutes total.