Shortest Non-Minimum Wage Job You Ever Held

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

6 days. Quit.

See? I always said you were a quitter!

 

[Joffrey]

In high school I helped a diplomat prepare his house before a move abroad. It was probably $2-3 more than minimum wage. Work involved painting, garden work, and more ****. Don't remember how long I did it for, probably no more than 3 months.

 

[HRoi]

1 hour. I was recruited under false pretenses. Turned out to be a ******* pyramid scheme

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

I almost quit one job on my first day. I was marketing director for a boat manufacturing company. First hour on the job I'm in a department head meeting, sitting around a big U-shaped conference table. The CEO was in the crotch of the U, and he turned to the person sitting at his left (I presumed for a department update) and proceeded to berate and belittle the poor bastard.

The CEO pointed at the next department head, and before she could utter a word, ripped her up one side and down the other. Horrible stuff. He continued on, moving from dept head to dept head, chewing them all out voraciously. He finally got to me, pointed, and started in like he was going to go off.

"Oh, wait," he said. "You just started today. You get a pass."

It was all I could do to not walk out the door right then and there. I lasted one year there.
This reminds of a recent prank that we played on a new director in our firm at her first staff meeting. Same scenario except no profanity or belittling. When it came to the new gal (who was wide eyed and pale) we all cracked up laughing

 

[Douglas]

I sort of accidentally ended up as a bouncer at a gentlemen's club once. Went in on a slow night, was sort of chatting with the bouncers b/c nobody else was around, and ended up with a shift the following week. I worked 4 shifts in total over about a week and a half. It sounds pretty alright, but it was the crappiest job ever. Girls are strung out whores, you get fired in a second if one of the girls dislikes you for any reason (let's face it you're not the reason ppl come), and essentially you just stand there all night waiting to get into a physical confrontation, often with some pretty bad dudes. And the rule is you have help getting them out the door - a one-way door with no handle on the outside - but if you end up in the parking lot with them you're on your own.

After sweating it out for 4 nights I just stopped showing up.

 

[nootje]

within a month. Wanted the job for its description, left it because it was nothing like it.

 

[rvan]

worked as a production assistant for a small local newspaper for 10 months before being laid off because the industry was going under.

 

[Don Carlos]

I've never voluntarily left a job before lining up something else, but Lord knows, my current firm (which I hate for any number of reasons) is pushing my limits. I've been here for a little over 6 months, and it's driving me to the brink of insanity. Probably want to give them a full year, just for symmetry's sake. But wow, this is testing me. Doesn't help that the place is going to ****, so a climate conducive to extreme politics, paranoia, and backstabbing has begun to flourish. I work ****** off, I am sociable, and I am a decent self-promoter -- but I am not a politician. Never have been, never will be. I do not thrive in super-politicized environments.

Prior to this job, the shortest I've ever been employed at a given firm was a little over 1 year. The leave was involuntary, on account of a closed division and 100% layoffs therein.

 

[Michigan Planner]

About 8 months - I was working as a social worker for the state and dealing with adults who had money/income but for some reason or another could not manage their own bills. After a few months of the same folks coming back with the same problems week after week, I realized that the clients were marsupials and morons who there was no help for. The pay and benefits were good but not worth it to be a babysitter to a bunch of idiots. I only stuck around as long as I did because it took that long to find another suitable full-time job.