These People Quit Their Job Almost Immediately After Getting Hired, And Their Reasons Range From Incompetent Bosses To "Wow, That's Illegal"

 

I've had quite a few jobs in the past that were so intolerable that I quit not long after my first day. So, when I saw that u/FlintTheDad asked, "What’s the fastest you ever quit a job and why?" on the Ask Reddit subreddit, I had to check out the responses. I felt extremely validated reading the comments filled with people who left their job after being improperly trained, working in vile conditions, and, of course, dealing with horrible managers. Here are 19 of the best — and most relatable — responses:

1. "About five minutes after being hired — enough time to be shown around by the director of nursing and meet the admin. I introduced myself, and he said, 'Why should I care?' I just went, 'Screw this' and walked out."

2. "I worked at one of those quick-lube oil change places when I was about 18. They had me down in the pit (under the vehicles) draining the oil, and I kept getting burned by hot oil and hot exhaust pipes. On the second day, I said I had to use the bathroom, and when I walked around to the side of the building, I took off running and didn't come back."

3. "I'm a vet tech. I quit a clinic after about three weeks when the doctor told me to start reusing needles. He wanted me to pull up a vaccine, administer it, then pull the next vaccine up into the same syringe with the same needle and repeat. That was the final straw. The first straw was finding out that we (it was a small practice with two other techs and one receptionist) were required to bring our own toilet paper to work. :)"

4. "It took me about two hours in telemarketing to realize what an asshole I felt like, and then I left."

5. "15 minutes. I applied for and accepted a job that was advertised as solely data entry. When I got there, I did the quick intro/meet and greet thing and then was handed a mobile phone. No word of a lie, the supervisor said, 'It's actually a cold calling role. No one would apply if we said that, so we tell people it's data entry.' I said, 'Sorry, what?' He replied, 'Yeah, we cold call people for this idea my friend has — asking for investors! You'll get a commission if you do well!' At that point in time, I was a salty, snarky young lady, so I told him to shove it, that this was probably illegal in so many, many ways, and that I applied for data entry, not cold calling and swindling people, etc. I called my dad to come pick me up and never looked back."

"I took a legit data entry offer the next day. I found out many years later that the dude and his friend with the great idea both got hit with some serious fraud charges shortly after my run-in with them."

6. "I was hired by a temp agency to file documents in the office of a factory that made paint. When I showed up, I was put on the assembly line with zero training or instruction, and the cans came down the conveyor belt at 10,000 mph. I don't even know what I was supposed to do — I just let every can whiz by. I quit end of day one."

7. "I worked at a sandwich shop. When the health inspector showed up, he found mop cleaning solution in the tub where we kept the utensils used to make sandwiches (tongs to grab the meatballs, a sandwich spreader to spread tuna, etc.). That explained the very odd, burning chemical smell from that area. The mop cleaner was mixing with the meatballs and sauce and just cooking all day in that pot. The owner argued that it was safe to use it that way, but the health inspector made her dump it out in front of him. The second he left, she filled it back up and put all the utensils back in it."

8. "About two weeks. I applied for the university center’s info desk. They hired me after they’d already trained the other new hires. It was something like eight to ten hours of training, but I only got about half an hour of 'here’s where this is' hand waving. I was a new freshman, so I was unable to answer most questions off the top of my head. And we were supposed to sell bus passes from a special register I never got trained to use. I did my absolute best but kept getting yelled at for not knowing how to do things. When I asked for training, they said no because they’d already held the training. I got sick of getting scolded and feeling lost and set up for failure, and I finally just told them I wasn't coming back."

9. "In college, I got a summer job through a temp agency at a factory that made boats. I showed up first thing, and they had me sit in the break room, which was on the second floor overlooking the entire plant. I waited an hour for someone to come get me, and then I heard a commotion. I looked out and three or four people were running out because a dude cut off his middle and ring fingers with a Sawzall. The dude behind him had his fingers in a towel. At the time, I wasn’t what you might call 'tool handy.' So, I noped right the hell out."

10. "I used to work at a party store. Someone pooped in the bathrooms, but not in the toilets. Poop was on the floor, the walls, the stall doors, in the sinks, in the SOAP DISPENSERS…and for an added effect, whoever did it had smashed the dispense button a few times. Vile. I was NOT on bathroom duty that evening, but for whatever reason, my manager on duty, the living embodiment of Shrek, told me to clean it up. Hell to the no. I told her I wasn’t cleaning up that biohazard and that my $7.25 an hour wasn’t worth it. PLUS, there was no way in hell I could clean all of that up in the 30 minutes before I had to clock out (if I clocked out late, I'd get written up for being over). My manager said she’d write me up for failing to complete my closing checklist (again, I wasn’t on bathrooms that evening). So, in my best judgment, I clocked out, left, and never came back. I was scheduled to open the next morning, but nope."