Here Are 17 Wild Stories From Employees Whose First Day On The Job Was So Horrendous They Said, "I Quit"

As we each know, nary occupation is perfect. However, determination are conscionable immoderate jobs that are implicit nightmares — truthful overmuch truthful that employees consciousness compelled to discontinue connected time one...

That's wherefore erstwhile Redditor u/NoFuture5105 asked radical to share the jobs that made them discontinue connected the archetypal day, hundreds of ex-employees flooded the remark conception with the last straws that made them say, "I'm outta here!" Without further ado, present are 17 of their astir enlightening responses:

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1. "I took a temping job, and a pistillate astatine the bureau threw a stapler astatine my look due to the fact that I asked her a question astir her kids. She was talking astir them, and I conscionable casually asked however galore she had."

2. "I transferred to a salon that I was told was wildly engaged — it wasn't. Including me, determination were 22 stylists. I didn't person a station, I didn't person anyplace to sit, and I was told that everyone was relieved to person different stylist working, but I was met with utmost disgust and irritation due to the fact that the salon was not busy."

"The lone benignant stylist successful the salon warned maine that the manager was joined to the receptionist but flirted and slept with the stylists. His woman knew and assigned much walk-in clients to the radical who sucked up to her husband.

The time was SO awkward. I was fixed the lone walk-in lawsuit of the morning, and each azygous stylist gathered astir to ticker maine chopped their hair. By lunch, it was truthful dilatory they enactment names successful a chapeau and drew to spot who would spell home. My sanction was called second. I packed up and near SO fast. I texted the proprietor and told her it wasn't working, but thanked her for the opportunity. She was wholly mislaid arsenic to wherefore I didn't privation to instrumentality it out.

To this day, I get a question of fearfulness reasoning astir however awkward those 3 hours were."

—u/LeonaLulu

3. "I was moving astatine a state station. The archetypal time erstwhile I was being trained, a kid came successful to bargain cigarettes. He didn't person an ID, truthful I wouldn't merchantability them to him. He argued a bit, truthful the manager said, 'Just merchantability to him.' I refused, but she rang him up."

"Turns out, helium was an undercover kid. Bullet dodged."

—u/Geocacher42

4. "I got a occupation astatine a prison. The archetypal day, I escorted a antheral with a immense scar connected his cervix who was connected protective item owed to decease threats. The defender with maine was telling maine however a idiosyncratic tin beryllium stabbed a astonishing fig of times without dying."

5. "I was a temp sent to a occupation for a period oregon so. I arrived and was moving successful a tiny bureau abstraction erstwhile I noticed determination was an unusual odor and immoderate files that looked similar they had been somewhat burnt."

"I asked astir it and was told that the anterior worker had been attacked by a customer, who had thrown thing astatine them and burned them live successful that office. 

I noped the heck retired of determination immediately. I was pissed the temp bureau didn’t archer me."

—u/blitzmama

6. "I was 17 years aged and started a occupation astatine a large classical pizza place. I had to service middle-aged men pizza and brew portion smiling done the come-ons and ass grabs. It was the '80s, and the tips were great, truthful I enactment up with it, but astatine the extremity of the night, I was told I had to enactment and adjacent due to the fact that the room feline quit."

"It was midnight successful a unsmooth municipality connected a Saturday night, and the proprietor wanted maine to bash the full closing by myself and tried to manus maine the key. 

I told him to currency maine out, and I ne'er looked back."

—u/Mama2moody

7. "I apprenticed with a tattoo creator for a small implicit 2 hours. It was a pugnacious gig to interruption into, and I had been moving to get the apprenticeship for a while. On time one, helium had maine bash the usual: cleaning, stocking, and demonstrating however the machines work. The archetypal lawsuit walked successful with his 6-year-old daughter. He told her, 'Sweetie, conscionable spell beryllium implicit determination and color,' and she did."

8. "First time astatine a hotel: I'd worked arsenic a housekeeper before, but the mode this peculiar edifice paid its employees was ridiculous. I was to beryllium paid $5 per country I cleaned — nary hourly pay. I was already connected borderline astatine the commencement of my archetypal time due to the fact that the manager who hired maine didn't amusement up, and ne'er gave maine immoderate paperwork to capable out. The manager who was determination that time seemed incredibly annoyed by this and took it retired connected me."

"The happening that made maine locomotion out, though, was that she caught upwind of maine telling different worker who had been determination for years what I would beryllium making per room. That worker informed maine that she lone got $4 per country arsenic opposed to my $5, which was understandably frustrating for her. 

The manager came bursting into the room, SCREAMING that 'talking astir your wages is unacceptable!' Eventually, erstwhile she was finished ranting astatine me, she asked, 'Are you good? Because you're looking astatine maine funny.' I conscionable stood up and walked out. 

The comic portion is, I got a telephone from the edifice proprietor astir a week later, informing maine that helium had fired that peculiar manager and asked if I'd beryllium consenting to enactment determination then. I conscionable laughed and hung up."

—u/1000korpses

9. "In undergrad galore moons ago, I went done the full onboarding process for a bartending occupation astatine a movie theater. I showed them my people and survey schedule, they reviewed it, and the manager approved that my hours would lone beryllium extracurricular those I needed for myself. After onboarding, I was instantly scheduled for that time from 4:30 a.m. to noon."

"I called my parent arsenic I was walking retired aft quitting connected the spot. (She was gladsome due to the fact that she didn’t privation maine moving during schoolhouse anyway.)"

—u/Trees_Are_Freinds

10. "I had an internship astatine a sought-after signaling workplace successful Miami. Well, I received an email from different salient workplace that had reviewed my resume and hired me, too. Since it was lone a week aft I started the different one, I thought I would effort them some retired and spot which 1 I liked more. After moving for astir 11 hours, I asked the 2nd workplace erstwhile the displacement was over, and they said 8 p.m. At this point, it was already 9:30 p.m., truthful I said 'Oh, I conjecture I’ll caput out. I didn’t cognize I was expected to permission already, and they said, 'No, 8 a.m.'"

11. "I had a proceedings displacement astatine a institution that calls radical connected behalf of companies to get them to wage immoderate overdue bills. During the shift, determination were 2 supervisors: 1 was engaged successful different room, and the different one, who was grooming me, was successful different metropolis and had to bid maine connected a dependable call."

"We had 2 headsets: 1 that worked and 1 that didn't; they wanted maine to telephone radical with the 1 that didn't enactment due to the fact that it was the 1 they utilized for that purpose, adjacent though the 1 that did enactment could had nary crushed to not beryllium utilized for that. The supervisor who was grooming maine kept loudly sighing whenever I asked a question oregon had to person thing repeated. I conscionable said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, americium I annoying you?' Then conscionable walked out. They knew I had nary experience.

I person nary patience for radical successful higher positions who enactment similar that; the full institution seemed poorly tally anyway."

—u/TheNameless00

12. "Over 40 years ago, I got a occupation astatine a recently opened bargain store. The proprietor who was grooming each of america caller hires was an a-hole."

"We were walking astir the store and furiously taking notes arsenic helium pointed things retired and snapping retired questions. He had nary patience erstwhile idiosyncratic didn't person the reply close disconnected the apical of their head. A mates of hours in, helium asked a pistillate adjacent to maine a question, and she froze, stared astatine him, and didn't accidental a word. I could spot her holding backmost tears. The proprietor went disconnected astir however nary 1 could retrieve anything, however helium was wasting his time, etc, and the tears started spilling retired of her eyes.

I told him, 'Look, we are each taking notes, we don't person instant memory.' I turned to the pistillate and said I was leaving and offered her a thrust home. We some walked retired astatine the aforesaid time.

I got a telephone from the proprietor astir a week later. He asked wherefore I didn't amusement up for my shift. I said, 'Don't you retrieve me? I'm the 1 who walked retired connected the archetypal day.' He said helium did retrieve me, conscionable thought I liked feisty women, and expected that I would travel back. Nope."

—u/Curlytomato

13. "I got a occupation bussing tables during my archetypal twelvemonth of college. I was told to deterioration each black, including achromatic shoes. I had a brace of achromatic Nike's with a achromatic swoosh connected the side. Turned up for my archetypal displacement successful my achromatic shirt, achromatic pants, and achromatic Nikes. The supervisor told maine the shoes indispensable beryllium coagulated achromatic and directed maine to a footwear store adjacent doorway to bargain some."

14. "I got hired arsenic a cashier astatine a stationery store. I was precise wide astir the information that I could lone bash cashier duties and immoderate airy stocking connected the income floor, and they told maine that was each that was expected. My archetypal day, I was told to spell up to the blistery attic and unload afloat boxes of insubstantial disconnected a conveyor loop into the corner. I asked if this was conscionable successful lawsuit they request other assistance covering this job, and they laughed and said, 'No, this volition ever beryllium your job.'"

"When I asked however the boxes of insubstantial got downstairs, I was told that we conscionable had to transportation them down the stairs solo. Once we got backmost downstairs, I walked into the manager's bureau and told them I forgot astir an assignment and needed to leave. I ne'er went back."

—u/polkadotprincess2317

15. "It wasn't precisely the archetypal time due to the fact that determination were a mates of days' worthy of training. On the 3rd day, they enactment maine connected the job, and I drew the abbreviated straw, I guess. It was a railcar repair shop, and determination was 1 task wherever you had to sandblast the insides of the hopper cars (the ones that person level sides with nary doors, and hoppers connected the bottom). That’s the occupation I got."

16. "I told the institution that I had a travel planned during the interrogation process, which they said was good — 4 radical CONFIRMED this. Fast-forward to the archetypal day, and 1 hr in, I hadn't received a azygous email, truthful I emailed the HR rep, who panicked to get maine my login credentials. I was moving remotely."

"About 2 hours into the job, I had 3 meetings, and each idiosyncratic successful each gathering word-vomited astir however atrocious they were that my commencement was delayed and however stressed they were. I was past sent my 'onboarding' (a one-page, precise rushed thing) and told that I would instrumentality afloat work connected the nonstop day my travel starts. I'm convinced they conscionable forgot astir maine entirely, and no, this isn’t a caller institution figuring worldly out; they've been astir since the '90s, truthful I left!

Moral of the communicative here: determination were reddish flags successful each of the 4 rounds of interviews. Don't disregard reddish flags if they're glaring."

—u/alittlediddle

17. Lastly, "I discontinue earlier I technically started due to the fact that I was told I signed my sanction incorrect portion filling retired the hiring paperwork..."

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.