30 Times Employees Realized Their New Workplace Wasn’t For Them And Dipped On The First Day, As Shared Online

Was very clear about my schedule. Needed to work days because I went to school at night.

The first shift I was scheduled for was 8PM-8AM. I quit on the spot.

If an employer is going to f**k with you that early on, its not worth giving them a chance.

This happened about 5 years ago during my senior year in high school. I used to work at restuarant washing dishes. This one saturday(my day off) they called me in for an afternoon shift because the pm dishwasher called off. So i go in around 4:30 pm and to my horror i walk in to the kitchen and see that everything is dirty. Almost nothing is clean idk how thats possible. I ask the owner and he says that the am dishwasher also called off. They decided they didnt need anyone till pm. I start trying to catch up and the manager comes in and starts yelling me to hurry up and asking me why theres so many dirty dishes, pots and pans. I try to explain but he keeps yelling so ignore him. Not even 30 minutes later he comes back and starts ranting again. After that i just walk out.

I was working minimum wage at 16 directing car traffic and parking at the local fair grounds. It was hot and I was told in the same sentence that I was both not allowed to carry a bottle of water and all of us kids were expendable.

So I walked off.

I've said this on Reddit before but I am an auto mechanic and I left a shop within half a day before when they wanted me to sell shocks and struts to a customer who only needed wheel alignment.

I was working in the woods cutting timber and making good money. I could pocket $200 in half a day's work. I was waiting to get into the Boilermakers apprenticeship program, so I just needed spending money. My dad was convinced I needed to be working a 40 hr/week job for someone else, so got me a job at his friends sawmill. He thought I liked working with wood,or something. It paid $5.15/hr. I went along with it to make my dad happy. A couple hours into the first day, some jerkoff tried to hurt me on purpose. I had been warned he would do it. I walked the f**k out of there and completely changed my outlook on advice from my father.

I had qualified to be a high school teacher, but as the summer wore on, I had not found employment. I accepted a job at a camera shop, and just before my first day began, a local principal called me and said he desperately needed my qualifications to teach two different subjects and if I showed up for a 10 A.M. interview and passed it, I would have a job. I went to the camera shop and apologized saying I had found a teaching job and would not be able to work at the shop. They were disappointed but they understood and I ended up at that school for thirty years.

I walked out halfway through my first day. The job was nothing special, just going to be washing dishes on weekends while in high school. The guy who was supposed to be training me was a real jerk, made comments about my breasts getting in the way, so I left him with all the work. Who in the hell thinks to make stupid comments like that. Still makes me mad.

Edit: sorry about language

Just did this the other day actually. I'm a care aide, or nurses aide depending on where you're from, and I was hired privately. I went in for orientation and left after 4 hours. They wanted to to lift and carry the person who couldn't weightbear, no gloves, leave them alone while not steady and some other stuff. Noped out and reported to appropriate places.

Got a job doing deliveries of very heavy products that was supposed to be a two man job. Showed up to find out the other guy was just training me and I was on my own. Not worth destroying my back for $10 an hour

Because a guy said he was going to slit my throat. It was my second job. A newsagents in 1997. I believed him so I f****d off sharpish.

The guy has been in jail repeatedly for stabbings over the years since.

I walked out of domino's after 3 days because nobody washed their hands and the stress of making 20 pizzas in 10 minutes sucked. I also realized I couldn't hear well answering phones

On the positive side I was really patient with this nice old man over the phone and he came into the store to compliment me by name. Thankyou old man wherever you are

Took a job as night auditor at a hotel. As I was being trained by a 30-something guy I was supposed to replace for the weekend shifts, he told me that because of being understaffed, the manager had made it impossible for him to take his one week of paid vacation the previous year before he hit the “use it or lose it” time.

If the management was going to f**k over this guy who had just lost his wife and had two young kids with the one little benefit they bothered to offer, they would f**k me over too. I told him he deserved better and walked out.

Was at a McDonalds night shift.
Got no training, the other four people there including the manager was high as a kite, and they all smoked in the managers office, while leaving all the work to me.

They yelled at me when I had no idea how to operate the silly little drive through machine when a customer came through with a large order.

Decided that wasn't a good place for me to stay ;P

I was hired at a shoe store to take over when the current manager left, which was in 2 weeks. The day is started, the district manager came in to talk to me. He said I was "too young" and he wouldn't even consider hiring me as manager, but I could stay as a minimum wage sales person.
I had left a good job as manager of a sprint store for this, and only left because I was hired to be the store manager. I told him that wasn't okay, I was hired as the manager, and if he wouldn't consider me then I was going to look elsewhere.

He said "this is what mean. That immature attitude of 'if I'm not getting my way I quit' is why I won't consider someone so young." And called me childish for leaving.

Went to audio school (like studio practice), and the 'recruiting/resources' department found me a spot with an audio tech company.

It was essentially "set up super heavy equipment for 15 hours, and get paid 10$ an hour, no overtime; at the opposite end of town, find your own way there".

Start of the day I quickly realized it was all construction workers, and 3 of us from my school. There was nothing audio related, it was just unloading equipment for a concert. Setting up trusses and lighting.

About 3 hours in, I was asked to grab one of the spotlights and hoist it up on the stage. I picked it up, and it must have weighed at least 80 lbs. The guy yells "DON'T F*****G DROP THAT!" super angrily, before I even moved.

We got a dinner break, and I was just like "f**k this s**t" and took a 70$ cab back across town to get back home. I think I lost money, but learned that work environment is not for me.

My girlfriend did this just this week.

Had gotten a job at an office where there was maybe 5 minutes work an hour, but due to the nature of the work bags had to be left at the door, phones weren't allowed, and the computers had no internet access.

She was apparently told "you get used to doing nothing".

After a full day of being around people who just stared into space for 7.5 hours a day she refused to go back.

Selling home water filters on commission. Asked a question "What happens if the water purity tests are in range?" Got told loudly..."Lie."

I walked out so fast that I'm highly surprised that the doors didn't spin around in circles.

Was hired to be a “PRN” dietitian at a very small rehab/step-down facility. Everybody there was very nice and welcoming, but they let it slip during the orientation that I was only hired to fill-in for a 2-week period of which the currently employed dietitian would be taking a vacation.

Wasn’t comfortable going through all the b******t that is working alongside a new set of nursing staff and MD’s in a new work area, then being told that I was no longer needed. If they would’ve told me from the beginning that I was hired for only 2 weeks, I would’ve rightfully told them to go f**k themselves.

I watched my boss (white woman) touch a black employees hair (who was obviously distressed by this) and say "I wish i could just switch hair with you, having WOOLY hair must be so cool" Nah girl, we ain't doing this.

I had no specific job, I was pretty much doing everything (dishes, making food, cleaning) which wasn’t really a problem, but the boss told me I could work for 8 hours and only get paid for 4. I walked out without saying anything