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

I did a 4 hour shift in an ice cream/donut shop. I could not get out of there fast enough and never went back. I did learn that tourists will Door Dash half a dozen ice cream cones at a time, though.

2 or 3 weeks, can’t remember which

it was a part time job at Starbucks while I was already working another full time job. I specifically requested that I don’t be scheduled super early mornings and long shifts when I already have an 8 hour shift at my full time job.

The only thing I was getting was long super early morning shifts with maybe an hour between getting off and having to go into my full time job. It wasn’t working so I just quit.

Very much a different one but 3 weeks. As a yacht captain we don't speak about politics to yacht owners/guests. But some how he found out I didn't support Donald Trump and he became openly hostile towards me. Didn't fire me just forced me to quit.

Technically I was never an employee there, but I went in for 1 hour for a HOA Accountant job.

Everything was sketchy, the details just didn't add up, and I got a super weird vibe.

Shook hands and I was supposed to come back 2 weeks later at the beginning of the next month.

I just didn't feel right, so I ghosted the guy who kept calling for months. I felt super bad, but eh, going with my gut has always been my way of life.

Years later I somehow run into a woman who worked there. Turns out the guy embezzled a hundreds of thousands of euros around the time he kept trying to hire me as an accountant, and was now facing a few years of jail time. If I had worked there, I would have been the fall guy.

Worked in a veterinary office and it was my first time ever doing so. I was just supposed to walk the dogs and give them their meds. I was there for several hours and at one point I had a question about one of the meds and after searching all around the building I realized everyone had left. It was my first day, and I never went back.

I quit a job at a grocery store after about 4 hours because the manager was walking around with his hands in his pockets watching everyone work, and didn't even talk to us. He was just acting like a prison guard. Everybody said that was all he ever did. I'm not going to work for lazy management that's going to watch me every second of the day.

Worked a night at this little dive bar. The grease trap had never been cleaned. I couldn't stand the smell 🤢.

1 day. I worked in a UPS distribution facility. In Tennessee they're not required to provide breaks. So, they didn't. We would go in, 2 hours later have a 30 minute lunch, then clock out 6 hours later. I did the first day, went in the second, did my lunch, 2 hours later I asked if I could take a break, they said no, so I went home. Been on break for about 16 years now. .

I got a job as a receptionist at an animal hospital. They knew that I had no experience working at a vet clinic, only experience as a receptionist, and they advised there would be no need for me to have specific animal care experience. Worked my first shift and quickly realized that wasn’t true. The 3 other receptionists were going above and beyond the standard job and providing insight into care and medications when pet owners called. Their computer system was also extremely complex and was difficult to navigate. During my second shift, all the other receptionists were away from the desk and the phone rang. I let it ring knowing I did not have enough knowledge or expertise to even navigate the system, let alone take a call. One of the vet techs happened to be at the desk said to me ‘you haven’t been taught how to answer a phone?’. I was young and embarrassed and intimidated so I picked it up. Shocker - I had no idea how to respond to the callers question. I fumbled around and then put the guy on hold. When one of the receptionists came back, she just about reamed me out for answering the phone, while the vet tech just stood there and took no responsibility for her part in it. Worked the end of that shift and never went back.

Chimney sweep. Quit after 1 day when I realized the boss just wanted me to tell people that their chimney was in terrible shape and needed all kinds of high dollar work.

As a kid I wanted to pick up some extra cash however I could. So I walked into an ice cream place and asked if they had any jobs. The owner said that he'd pay me to wear the inflatable ice cream costume and wave at people by the road for a few days. 

So I did. It was actually pretty decent in there. There was a fan pointing in that kept the suit inflated, and also moved enough air around my body to cool me off on a very hot day. Things were going pretty good for the first half of the day.

And then it happened. And I swear to you this is no lie. I farted. Not even a lot, just an absent-minded outdoor fart. But good God, that fan blowing air in immediately injected it directly into my face, and would not let it out of the suit. I almost hurled. After a few seconds of absolute hell, I opened the suit up, took it off, walked back in, sat it down, and left. Didn't even come back for a check. That was enough of that.

2 hours. First thing they had me do was drag wet carpet out of a flooded basement, the guy training me said "dont worry, youll figure it out" and handed me a busted shop vac. I figured it out by leaving at lunch.

A week.

I was hired as a host at Olive Garden, but no one told me how to do it…. Waitresses would get mad at me for seating people in their section and I had no idea why. It sucked.

14 hours but only because I didn't have access to my own vehicle. I showed up and it's hop in the truck, we're going to go repair a water main. No training. No explanation what we are doing. Then when we got on site everyone was pissed at me for not knowing what to do.

I reffed a single U8 soccer game and that was it.

14 year old me could not handle 35 year old parents calling me a blind idiot lol.

Applied at a clothes store as a teen. They had me fill out one of those questionnaires, you know— “What would you do if you saw a coworker stealing” etc.

After I was done the hiring manager looked at my answers, started erasing and “fixing” them, then said I was hired. Then she told me I had to meet quotas of signing people up for credit cards, 25 APPROVED apps per week. Keep in mind, this was not a high volume store like Old Navy or Gap.

Anyway I never reported to my first shift lol.

Day 3. Terribly ingoranized. Nobody gave me any kind of schedule or told me when to come to work, so I just didn't go. Never even went back for my paycheck.

Four days. It was a restaurant. I had a lot of experience and was hired on the spot, & started the following Monday.

Everything was so highly micromanaged, I just couldn’t effectively do my job. A manager was required for splitting checks, for example, so I spent more time chasing down managers to split checks than I spent doing anything else. It was ridiculous.

Started my shift, clocked in, said I left my keys in my car, went to my car and left. First day on the job, first hour of my day. Learned I would be putting 1 piece of 8x11 paper in the bottom of an empty box coming off a line for $9/hr. It was so mind numbing I couldnt handle it. No music, no corowkers to talk to.

I worked a shift at a pizza hut and the manager had a weird relationship with her twin brother who also worked there.. they got into a fight because he kept flirting with me. I wasn't even into him and the whole thing gave me the ick so I didn't show up the next day.