Shortest time you have been at a job
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Anonymous
| 8 months. Bait & switch. Terrible incompetent boss who was also an @$$ to everyone. Culture of company was clear they would not do a thing so applied to some new positions and left at month 8. Pretty sure it is going to implode at the next market downturn. |
Anonymous
same here, tried Club Fed for less than six months and had to leave/return to private sector. could not stand the dysfunction, tenure-based promotions of idiots, and frankly illegal procedures/cover-ups. |
Anonymous
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As far as real, on-my-resume jobs: 11 months. This was working for a horrible, horrible person in Congress. He screamed at the staff every day, and if you can believe it our chief of staff was even worse.
I tried so hard to stick it out a year - I just didn't want that short a stint on my already sketchy resume - but one day after an especially nasty screaming session I walked out and never came back. I wish I had one of those "and it was the best decision I ever made, now everything's been *great* ever since" stories to tell. I've had good jobs since then as well as bad ones. I am currently back to freelancing after the last company I went to work for did a major reorg and cut my department. Work and I have never had an easy relationship - but this job was especially f*cking horrible. |
Anonymous
| 3 weeks. Quit after boss groped me in car and tried to stick his tongue down my mouth. I was 21 and freaked out. |
Anonymous
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2 hours.
Showed up to national pizza chain on my first day as assistant manager. Nobody was there to greet or orient me and I basically had to run shift from the minute I walked in. People who had been there for years were asking me how to do xyz that I had no clue about. When the manager came waltzing in wearing heels, I said, hi, this isn't going to work out. Handed her my apron and walked out. |
Anonymous
| 1 day in college (summer job) at an insurance company doing cold sales calls for life insurance. After getting yelled at dozens of times and making an old lady cry (she said "I've told you people so many times my husband is DEAD!"), I was done. Apologized but said no way can I come back tomorrow. |
Anonymous
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6 weeks for a seasonal summer job during college. We all knew going in that it was only for 6 weeks, so I'm not sure that counts. Some other summer jobs were a couple of months.
Other than that, 8 months at a retail job while I finished some certifications the year after college, and no less than 10 years at a job actually related to my degree/career. I've been lucky. |
Anonymous
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13 months (almost to the day). I was considering it sooner but I got pregnant and wanted my maternity leave (I was able to take it and quit while on it without repercussion). Boss was insane, still there, they haven't been able to keep a person at that position longer than a year (the two after me were 6 and 3 months respectively). I still have friends there and get the scoop lol. She's a disaster and I wouldn't wish that upon my worth enemy.
I was recently job searching again (it's been 5 years since) and a recruiter sent me a job posting that looked very familiar. I asked if it was the same place, and they confirmed yes, same place/position lol. Yeah no, and no, I don't hate anyone enough to recommend them for that environment. |
Anonymous
| Six months - company was almost bankrupt and I had a great job offer elsewhere. |
Anonymous
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8 months. At a biglaw firm. I was recruited out of a US Attorney's Office. It was so, so awful. I actually took 16 weeks of paternity leave (I'm a man) and gave 4 weeks notice (where I made myself available to wind things up but worked from home). Essentially, it took me 3 months to figure out what an awful place it was (and that included a slow December Christmas when the office is basically empty). Found a new job while on leave and it was happily ever after.
I do have to say taking the paid paternity leave was boss. I loved getting essentially five months home with my infant and toddler. |
Anonymous
| I never even made it in for my first day on the job. It was an internship at Hopkins. I was on 95 north and there was a serious car fire. All traffic was stopped. I sat on 95 N for roughly 4 hours. I called in and just told them to give the internship to someone else. No way could I do the drive from Montgomery County every day. That was back in grad school. I managed to get another internship closer to home and a much less stressful drive to the office. |
Anonymous
| After 2 weeks at a law firm, some chick called me at home at 9pm and told me to get my a$$ back to the office because I didn't send a fax (she was still there), I hung up, went in next day and gave a week's notice, already had a job lined up for the next week. |
Anonymous
Bwahahahah. That’s CRAZY!! |
Anonymous
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1 1/2 weeks. Job was a bait and switch; boss was a complete nightmare and the flexibility promised was non existent. My day was 7:30-7:30 with an 11/2 hour commute at both ends.
I went back to my old job. Had to do some begging but it worked out. |
Anonymous
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I had so many short jobs
Club promoter Flea market Booth Janitor Ticket scalper Painter Boat captain Vacuum cleaner salesman Sold Pot Moving Man And that is just High School. Of course lots of short jobs. Shortest career was the highly paid super fast moving man job. We showed up at 902 am two moving tricks six guys in trucks rented cash under fake names. We ran out asses off for 7 filling two tricks. Wife was leaving husband Taking everything he had no clue at work. Getting close to wire and hubby coming home soon and a hot head Italian. We unloaded all the stuff in a shady warehouse and finished at ten pm. Husband most have freaked. We left nothing. That was one day only as he wouldof shot us. |