30 Times New Hires Were So Dumbfounded On Their First Day, They Immediately Quit

Started at a daycare and they were hitting children. Like full-on slapping them in the mouth. Shoving their heads down on the table when they wouldn’t eat lunch. TWO YEAR OLDS. I started hysterically crying and told the owner, she said “Maybe this job isn’t for you” and I walked out. I only worked there for 4 hours. Called corporate and everyone else I could think of. Heinous place.

When they said I would be expected to do unpaid overtime.

"oh really? Bye then".

Interviewed for a barista position. Showed up the first day, and they asked if I was ok with a few days of “unpaid training”, which I know that they knew was illegal. I said no.

"Besides, we are reducing all clocked in hours automatically by 10 hours per week on Friday."

"I have a 40 hours contract, you you expect me to work 10 for free?" (We are in Austria).

"Yes, everybody does."

*hands over keys and access cards*

*takes the leaving sysadmin I was expected to replace for a coffee*

*turns off phone for a week*.

Landed a gig fresh out of high school at a local print shop, was told I'd be designing cool graphics for local businesses. First day, they hand me a broom and tell me my job is actually to sweep floors and clean the machines, with graphics being a "sometimes thing.” The place was filthy, like it hadn't seen a broom in decades. As I swept, I found a dead rat behind one of the printers. I was then told to dispose of it and continue cleaning without gloves or proper gear. Took my lunch break early and decided no amount of "potential graphic design opportunities" could make me come back to rat-sweeping duty. Left and never returned.

Not quite the first day, but I’d been promised a quite generous pension scheme as part of the overall package.

Induction day comes along and the pension scheme is described. And it’s not generous at all - in fact, it’s the legal minimum.

I made every effort to address this, but they were quite clear: that’s the rules, sorry you were misinformed, take it or leave it.

They were astonished when I chose “leave it”.

Went to the first day of training and realized it was a MLM. Stayed for the lunch they provided and then dipped.

I was hired to work at a sandwich shop. I did an hour up front figuring out where things were and then I was told to go to the walk-in fridge to get something. The smell… my f*****g god. There was unwrapped food on the floor, open pails of stuff with no lids, rotten vegetables. It smelled like a corpse and looked like a dumpster. I gagged, took my apron off and just left.

Kept me waiting at reception for 45 minutes. If you don't have a plan for a new start, your workplace is probably a s**t show.

A Subway sandwich shop back in 2013.

-The recruiter/hiring manager/HR rep had me go in on my first day on a Monday from like 12--4PM. I walk in and the manager was like "That stupid b***h knew I wanted you in here on Wednesday. God damn that f*****g cow can suck my c**k. What a stupid b***h." Those were some really nice examples of the s**t he said.


-I wear a large sized t-shirt. The manager game me a 3XL. It smelled like BO had had a bunch of food stains on it.

-Manager had very visible track marks on his arms.

-Manager didn't wash his hands after he smoked a cigarette. Dude was taking a smoke break like every 30 minutes.

In those four hours I decided it wasn't a good fit.

I worked for a bread factory that put me on the first shift, within the first 10 minutes of being there an employee asked me if HR had told me they have been forced to work 17-hour days. Most of the employees were single moms, one employee told me about her struggles with child care. She wanted to leave so badly but it was the first time she had health insurance. She lifted up her shirt and showed me a big hernia she needed to get taken care of. It felt like prison, I left and never came back at lunch.

First day as waitress at a sports bar in Fayetteville, NC. Large, actually huge guy from the kitchen corners me and tells me that any “xtra jobs” I get he will be taking half. I guess he was trying to be my pimp. I left.

Taco Bell told me I'd have to take out all of my piercings and let them close up. For minimum wage? Lol no.

My manager came into the women’s dressing rooms.

I once took a job that was more of a, “Well, we need some good people but we aren’t really sure what we will have you doing. We will figure something out” kind of thing.

After a few hours of being walked around meeting everyone, signing paperwork, etc. a long-shot dream-job employer I had applied to called me and offered me almost twice as much money to come work for them.

I was at lunch with my boss when I got the phone call. I excused myself to take the call, accepted the offer, and went back in to resign.

That guy (boss for half a day) and I are still friends many years later, but damn was it awkward. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since.

The job I took really was awesome though and totally changed my career trajectory. Absolutely no regrets.

Got hired at Diamond Mazda of Baton Rouge a while back in their used cars team. I explained in the interview process that I wasn't a "car guy" but had incredible sales numbers in every sales job I had. The manager assured me day one I would get a brief on car info to get me started.

Day one, I show up and he tells me no, I am not getting a brief on car data and I can forget about that. The rest of the sales team spends the days creating fake calls and pages for me that 4 times send me walking across the lots and properties to people and buildings that don't exist, each time to come back and find the contents of my desk and my chair in the ditch out behind the offices.

They wouldn't tell me how to read the numeric code on the windshield that had the price on it. Finally when a customer asked me to tell them about a car I explained "it's purple" we both laughed hard, I quit about 7 hours into day 1 right then and there.

I was a carnie for a single day.

Responded to a Craigslist ad for a traveling carnival in my area looking for help immediately. At the time, I was actually a fairly talented street performer already just looking for a more stable gig during the week.

The thing I didn't know about traveling carnivals is that some of the employees aren't really traveling with the carnival but more like.... enslaved by the carnival.

All the other employees were from far-off states, broke, optionless, earning $1 per customer of whatever attraction they operated. They just lived with the carnival and that was their life.


Maybe 50 people total came through the entire carnival during time there. I earned $1 for a days work (this was in like 2011)

I took my carnival shirt off at the end of my shift, handed it to the guy who hired me and quit on the spot.

When I had fought hard for a promotion which I got, but then the owners son got out of rehab for the 3rd or 4th time and was "serious" about staying clean. They gave the position that I was given a week before to him and demoted me back to my previous position. He also took away the 15% raise that I was given as part of the promotion which was almost the final straw. About 2 weeks later the bosses son was drunk at work and blabbed about the fact that he was making nearly double my income, and that even gave him a signing bonus when he started working there. I went to the owner just to let him know that his son was intoxicated, and he started to read me the riot act about minding my own business. I just looked at him rather shocked and told him I done and walked out. I ended up turning down 3 invitations to return to that job for 6 months after the fact.

I got hired on at a Bob Evans. They were complaining how nobody works and nobody stays for longer than a few weeks. The plan was to do a good job, maybe advance in the career path some here and see where things went from there.

First day-

The main kitchen head walks around critiquing everything that anyone does, sprinkling in personal insults.

Kitchen head refuses to clean saying she is paid too much to clean

Half of the equipment needs major repair or is so dirty it has an odor, nearly all are unsafe

Head Refuses to wash hands after smoking or using the bathroom, “just wastes water” she says

During one successful effort to get her to talk to me some she admits that her religion makes her hate former friends and her daughter (theyre gay)

Shift manager sits in office staring at video screens of staff and customers “because you cant trust anyone these days”

Two wait staff get into verbal altercation and none of the manager staff do anything to stop it. It goes on for 20 minutes before a customer gets them to stop

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I finished my shift and left, didnt go back. Not worth it.

I went to orientation for a call center job and it became quite apparent to me that their process was to scam older people. Got up started to walk out and the instructor asked me what I was doing. 'leaving' I said. 'oh why? We're about to get to the good stuff'. 'I'm leaving because I have ethics particularly in business' and walked out.