What is the shortest amount of time you spent at a job?

Question

Where you fired, or did you walk out?

Side note that no one has to comment on, but that I'm just venting about. Four hours after being hired yesterday, another girl who had put her application in showed up and asked if the job was still open. On the spot, I was fired and she was hired. Texas is a...what do you call it where either employer or employee can terminate employment without cause or reason?

Answer 1

yeah, here, too. Look at it this way, that job just wasn't right for you and God has a plan. So let it go and don't take it personally.

On to you question, about an hour, I walked out. A MD MUMBLED something to me, walked in the patient room. I asked eeveryone else what he'd said, no one had a clue. He came back out about 10 minutes later and yelled at me for not doing what he'd mumbled at me to do. I told him I wasn't ignorant, it wasn't my fault he couldn't enunciate, and that he could take his job and shove it. That was like 15 years ago and to this day his office has a perpetual ad in the paper for help! AS I side note, I am stuck doing his dictation from time to time as I work for the local hospital now; however, he doesn't mumble nearly as much as he used to! lol

Answer 2

1 day selling magazines over the phone. Walked out. Made 4 sales the 1st hour and was griped at for talking to another employee during our break that afternoon. Made 4 more sales that afternoon; told the manager to 'p-off' when he said 'see you tomorrow' - and ignored him when he followed me out the door asking 'what's wrong? what did I say?' (Iowa, 1974)

Texas is a 'right to work' state...and you were treated shamefully. There is NO excuse for that. If you found the job through an agency, make sure they know what happened. There's also a thing called the 'labor board' - the unemployment people can tell you where to contact them. It won't do you any good personally, but you can get them flagged, and possibly warned in writing. Sort of a residual 'feel-better' thing. Good luck!

Answer 3

The term you are looking for is "at will employment". To be fired after 4 hours and another person hired in front of you is absolutely enough to go to an attorney. Run don't walk.

As for me, I left a job at about the 6th hour into it. The person I was hired to support was a MAJOR dick and I wasn't having any of his crap. Apparently, he was used to yelling at people all day and expected everyone around him to cower and deal with it. Uh uh buddy not me. I told him, in front of about 8 co-workers, with a huge smile on my face that he was the biggest dick I had ever had the misfortune to know and that I sincerely hoped he would f**k off and die. I then picked up my bag and left. On the way out the door, I was told that his personality was why they have another manager interview people because if he interviewed people no one would ever work there. This was 20 years ago and of course, I can never ever put that job on my resume but to this day whenever a boss pisses me off I remember that wonderful feeling of telling that jerk exactly what I thought of him.

Answer 4

Two days. I quit a job I loved and went to a place I hated for more money. I lasted 2 days and my previous employer wouldn't take me back. That was a life learning experience - lol. Kentucky is also an "at-will" employer. I guess that means the employer can fire you at any time without reason and you can quit at anytime without reason. Good luck.

Answer 5

That's terrible!!...really sorry to hear about your bad luck...but if they were that willing to treat you like that then maybe you are better off looking elsewhere anyway. Whenever I've been fired for silly reasons I was always happier in my next job. Good luck.

To answer your question: When I planted trees I was fired after 7 hours but I was in so much pain anyway from twisting my ankle that it was a good thing. I crawled around the house for 2 days, unable to walk.

Answer 6

About 30 minutes actually!

Years and years ago I was given a job on an assembly line at Iomega (the people who later would develop Zip drives and stuff). I was 20 minutes or so into my training when I realized that looking through a microscope holding tweezers and wrapping wire 8 hours a day wasn't for me...and I got up and literally said..."Wow...I so can't do this...I'll go mad. Thanks...I'm outta here." They looked at me like I was crazy. But the next day I got a job as a prep cook...which was such a blessing and a fun job!

Answer 7

I'm so sorry to have IM'd you before I read this question! I think you will find someplace worthy of your niceness though, they didn't deserve you chick!

The shortest job I've ever done was working as an instructor at a riding school. I was there over 12 months but got fired with a loaded shotgun pointed at me! Not a nice way to leave!...

Answer 8

3 months. I worked third shift waiting tables and I just couldn't handle the drunk customers anymore. Plus I was behind in school. I had to quit or get kicked out of school.

Can they really fire you without giving you a chance? I hope that girl they hired screws something up big time.

Answer 9

a million week. I worked @ SMithfield and ultimately suggested, "F this! This sucks! I hate having to positioned on all this crap I HATE getting up @ 5 in the morning I HATE operating 6 days per week. 3 days shortest job I worked earlier being "enable bypass"

Answer 10

I spent exactly one day at a temp job when I first moved from Seattle. I bottled tanning lotion in a factory, and when my day was over, they told me they didn't need me anymore, that they'd just needed a few extra people for that day. I was kind of mad, but I sure don't miss bottling tanning lotion! That job was real work, messing with the machines and making sure the caps were screwed on tightly. And of course I spilled lotion a few times and ended up ruining the pair of jeans I'd worn that day!