#1
She met the woman, she was led to the entrance of a WH Smith, where there was a pop up stall selling makeup and told "this is your stand. It's 100% commission based and you ought to nip to that McDonald's there for a wee as I'll be back to close the stand in 8 hours"
She walked straight past the McDonald's and came home...
#2
There was no paper work. Never even asked for my id. I didn’t know how it was supposed to work. I worked for 3 hours taking orders and bringing out food after they went over some training.
I then went to ask how I’m going to be paid. They said there was no pay the first 3 months since it’s a training period. I went home and never came back.
#3
A few days ago, a thread appeared on AskReddit, when the topic starter, the user u/tallieeeeee6, decided to ask: "What's the quickest you've ever quit a job? Because they either lied to you about it or it's not what you signed up for? What was it?" Well, 4.3K upvotes and nearly 2K different comments piled up faster than some employees realize they're not getting along with their new employer...
In our collection of stories, you'll find tales for every taste - from the sad to the funny and downright ridiculous. From outrageous behavior by employers or new colleagues to spectacular failures on the part of new hires. Basically, you just have to read these stories - so let's explore them together.
#4
Asked about shoring and trench boxes and the boss said "It's fine, it won't be open that long." We spent about five minutes calmly explaining how far up his bottom his head was lodged, then walked off.
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Experts are quite confident that the main reason employees leave is because of bad hiring decisions. According to this study, published on the Manila Recruitment blog, 80% of employee turnover worldwide is primarily due to this cause. According to the same statistics, 31% of respondents report resigning within the first six months of hiring, and around half of companies worldwide experience regular retention issues.
At the same time, retention is indeed important - researchers note that it takes a new hire, on average, one to two years to match the productivity of an existing employee. Meanwhile, during these first two years, 10%-20% of the employee's salary actually goes to training.
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Applied for a supervisory position at a new company in the same field Id been working in for 5 years.
Got through the whole interview process, came in for the job offer. Signed it. The person who was going to be my boss and her boss were both middle of telling me how excited they were to have me.
Guy comes walking in, regional manager or something like that (Basically both the people I was talking to reported to him but like several levels higher) announces that hes decided that all supervisors should be internal promotions, so he doesn't want me to start as a supervisor but I can start in what was basically the same job I had, but at an offer of just over half of what I was making (he didn't know what I was currently making afaik), and then in 3 to 6 months hed consider promoting me to supervisor once I showed I could do the job.
So I told the guy basically "no thanks, changed my mind" picked up the job offer tore it in half and walked out to the other two employees yelling at this guy.
(I did get the impression those two really didn't know what that guy was going to do).
At the same time, the speed of job-hopping is actually increasing from generation to generation. Just as the speed of life in general is accelerating. While it was perfectly normal for the "Silent Generation" to work their entire lives at one company, millennials, for example, according to Gallup data, are now much more open to trying their luck at a new place.
Survey results show that 60% of millennials would be willing to change jobs if they received a more lucrative and interesting offer. This is not to mention Gen Z. Forbes reports that the average tenure for Gen Z employees during the first five years of their career is 1.1 years.
By comparison, for millennials, this figure is 1.8 years - still way less than for Gen X (2.8) and Baby Boomers (2.9). At the same time, according to a Deloitte study, by 2030, Millennials and Gen Z will make up 74% of the global workforce. So job hopping can truly be considered a global trend nowadays.
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Employers are hardly blameless as well. Statistics clearly show that in recent years, the number of employees leaving due to rudeness and inappropriate behavior from higher-ups has only increased. "To our dismay, our study discovered a tendency on the part of managers to blame employees for the mistreatment they experience," the authors of a study on this topic in the Harvard Business Review sadly note.
So it's not surprising that a significant portion of the stories you'll read today are like: "arrived, encountered inappropriate behavior, quit." Or perhaps the working conditions turned out to be completely different from what was expected during the hiring process. Anything can happen, and this, unfortunately, is no exception.
#13
If you went over 40 hours they would split it between two different companies to avoid paying OT.
#14
There was no office based job, it was just canvassing, the two reps ended up bragging about how much money they made. After an hour I told them this wasn't for me, they replied they weren't leaving the village for another seven hours. I only had £2.60 in my pocket, bank account was in its overdraft, not much credit on my phone. I walked for hours in the direction of a bus route to my city. Managed to find a driver on a bus who agreed to take me all the way with the little money I had.
#15
I got a job at a restaurant down the road and a few months later one of the Managers from the Olive Garden was hired. I told him it was disgusting and he agreed and it was the reason he left too.
In any case, a complete alternative to work has never been invented in human history (the concept of a basic income is still mostly theoretical). So people will continue to take jobs, and they will inevitably quit. And there will be various stories about this, too.
The main thing is not to be afraid to leave if you're not happy with something at your job. Always remember, after Bill Belichick resigned from the Jets, he won six rings. Perhaps the best for you is also yet to come. Do you, our dear readers, also agree with this?
#16
Job was to quality check circuit boards. They sat two of us down in front of a box and said "check those". No training, no nothing. How do you check them? Check them for what? Dang if we knew. We looked at the box, looked at each other and got right outta there.
#17
We gave him a proper farewell and everything.
On Monday, over lunch, he called my boss and asked for his old job back. It took him 4 hours to realize that he was being setup as the fall guy. His boss had asked for updates 3 times already. :)
He came back and all was good.
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I had applied at Orkin only because I needed something asap and a friend that worked there got me an interview. I took a computerized test to see what the best fit would be within the company. The manager was very excited because guess I scored very high and qualified for any position they had. I took the job. At the time I had very long hair and the manager told me I would have to cut it off...I then asked if a woman with long hair came in and did the same as I did on the test..would she be forced to cut it? He replied that women had long hair and men have short hair and he wouldn't hire a woman anyway. I stood up..said thanks but no thanks and I quit.