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

Took a job selling cellphone covers at the mall. I didn't find out till my first day that I only got paid when I made a sale. I promptly quit and took a seasonal job with the mall's JC Penny's.

Because I couldn't get out of bed the next day.....

Worked at a car cleaner's yesterday (my first part-time job). Turns out they didn't use water, so you had to get on your knees and wipe the dirt off the wheels with a rag.... Muddy, dirty, greasy wheels....

Did I mention the pay was below minimum because " I was a student"

Sorry, but slavery was abolished long ago. 15 cars in, I said I'm going home. Also, just use a jet-spray already :/

Second day was left to run place with 16 year old employee. Other assistant manager no showed when my shift should have been over. Had an event I needed to be at and store manager didn’t seem to care too much. Needless to say ended up there extra hours because I didn’t want to bail on 16 year old employee and was late to event.

Manager called when I never went back and I said if it is that screwed up on day two it wasn’t worth it for me.

Teaching, the class I was assigned to was almost 100% irredeemable little s***s mid-day I walked. I started at another school across town, never looked back. Posh kids are the worst.

Owner was too busy playing grab a*s with a waitress, in full view of me, as I was waiting for him to discuss managing his restaurant. He hired me the day before as GM. I witnessed this behavior for at least 20 minutes. When he came into the office, I shook his hand and thanked him for the opportunity then said I had a change of heart and left to sound of him giving me s**t for "quitting".

It was a call center job; their policies from dress code to attendance to when you could talk to other people or go to the rest room was too strict for the work involved.

I was going to work for a forest service company just managing and creating trails. Found out after orientation they pay once a month. I could handle that but I wasn’t fond of the 1 year contract they wanted me to sign saying I wouldn’t look for other work and if I left before my year was up I was to repay a percentage of my earned wages. I got an $8 check for 5 hours of training.

I worked at a liquor distribution warehouse for one shift. I was a lot smaller than the guys working there, but I was new and they had to put me through the ringer or whatever and stood around a lot while I lifted heavy cases of liquor for hours. The supervisor kept coming back with lists near the end of the shift saying “last one”. This happened like 7 times and my 8 hour shift slowly became a 12.5 hour shift. By the end I could barely move and the big guys had to take over for me. During the day I ran over my foot with a skid of Hennessy and on my very slow walk home I threw up on the sidewalk. Never went back. Made $130 though.

In college I was working as a radio personality and ended up with occasional side- gigs as a result. One of the side- gigs was a commercial for a local bar, where I was playing the bartender.

They offered me a few nights a week bartending, I guess to add authenticity to the commercial. I DEFINITELY could have used the extra money at the time, so I accepted.

My first day was one of the worst working days of my life. Not only did I receive absolutely no training, but the entire rest of the staff/ owner left upon my arrival. I had never made a drink professionally in my life, and I was literally alone for the entire shift, where we were absolutely packed.

It took me until nearly 5AM to finish closing the bar, as I didn’t know how anything was supposed to look. The bar was in the next town over from my school, and there was a snowstorm that night. I totaled my car on the way home, which caused me to miss my 8:00AM class.

I called the owners as soon as I was able and quit, never to return again.

Stop and Shop when I was younger. Applied for a stock position, sat down for an interview and got accepted for a stock position. Showed up a couple days later for my first day and they told me they did not need anyone for stocking and I had to work in the deli. Not just that day, that was going to be my permanent job. I explained that wasn't what happened in the interview or on the application, they came back with a nice version of take it or leave it. Figured I give it a shot, went over to the deli department and someone there gave me a two minute explanation of the cutting machine. Then it was straight to working with a couple other employees during a heavy rush. This specific store gets busy. Walked out for lunch and never came back.