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What is the shortest job you have had?
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1967 One day @ mom&pop type restaurant, someone touched my sister inappropriately, as I held a pitcher of recently cleaned fryolator grease, still warm.
99* to the crotch of individual . Owner fired me but, did give me a last meal, minus cleaning bill.
99* to the crotch of individual . Owner fired me but, did give me a last meal, minus cleaning bill.
Being a proofreader for forum posts on MacRumors.
Window installer. I lasted two days carrying heavy windows up stairs in 38°C weather. That was brutal work. I'd worked labor jobs before but nothing compared to that.
Exact same as you OP.. three shifts in to Dairy Queen and said to myself I'd rather be homeless than a fast food employee.. luckily I'm neither these days.
No offense to any hardworking FF employees, I respect your work.. it's just not for me!
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I thought you meant Microsoft Windows for half a second and I was going to say that's actually a pretty cool gig.
No offense to any hardworking FF employees, I respect your work.. it's just not for me!
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I thought you meant Microsoft Windows for half a second and I was going to say that's actually a pretty cool gig.
Howard Johnson's waitress for 1 day in college. No way I was going back.
Nine months as a systems analyst at a hedge fund. I liked that genre of work and had done it once before for almost five years. However, this time the project manager was not only incompetent but quick to cast blame and quicker to claim credit when we rescued her work. The other analyst and I had been hired at about the same time. We both quit in the same week, giving notice to her boss, not to her.
I found out that we were not the first two systems analysts to quit in the short term after dealing with that project manager. Her boss wanted to know from both of us if we would stay on "in the event the project manager decides to move on in the near future." Hah. We both said no. We felt the environment had got too toxic from the partners' dissatisfaction with the work of our boss, even after we straightened out the specs and got them what they had wanted. I don't know what the other analyst said but I said simply "You pretty much need a clean slate to make the partners feel more comfortable with your IT group." It's not like this guy didn't know he had to let that manager go.
It had been a pretty stressful situation. The worst ever in my experience and I made it worse for myself trying to stick for a year, even knowing the toll it was taking on my mental health! After leaving, I took six months off before I even called my headhunter back to look for work again. Actually it all worked out okay. You can get away with a short stint at an in-house job if it's an anomaly on your resumé and you manage to get a decent reference out of the place you left. I made it pretty clear I expected a good reference when I gave notice to my nightmarish project manager's boss, and I did get one. Next job worked out much better. Win some, lose some...
I found out that we were not the first two systems analysts to quit in the short term after dealing with that project manager. Her boss wanted to know from both of us if we would stay on "in the event the project manager decides to move on in the near future." Hah. We both said no. We felt the environment had got too toxic from the partners' dissatisfaction with the work of our boss, even after we straightened out the specs and got them what they had wanted. I don't know what the other analyst said but I said simply "You pretty much need a clean slate to make the partners feel more comfortable with your IT group." It's not like this guy didn't know he had to let that manager go.
It had been a pretty stressful situation. The worst ever in my experience and I made it worse for myself trying to stick for a year, even knowing the toll it was taking on my mental health! After leaving, I took six months off before I even called my headhunter back to look for work again. Actually it all worked out okay. You can get away with a short stint at an in-house job if it's an anomaly on your resumé and you manage to get a decent reference out of the place you left. I made it pretty clear I expected a good reference when I gave notice to my nightmarish project manager's boss, and I did get one. Next job worked out much better. Win some, lose some...
As a kid I used to mow lawns for some cash, as I'm sure many others did. One day I was strolling around where we used to live and asked a man standing in his yard if he was in any sort of need of my landscaping services, and he said sure and asked when I could start. Told him that I can start right away, so he pointed to a lawnmower in the yard and told me to get to it.
I mowed the lawn there for about an hour until the owners of the house pulled into the driveway. Imagine their surprise when I told them that some random dude had hired me to mow their lawn. Turns out they had their own kid for that, so I was promptly fired.
No idea who the guy, who hired me, was.
A psychologist could possibly read many things into the fact that nowadays, as a freelancer, many of my jobs seem to be on the shorter side.
I mowed the lawn there for about an hour until the owners of the house pulled into the driveway. Imagine their surprise when I told them that some random dude had hired me to mow their lawn. Turns out they had their own kid for that, so I was promptly fired.
No idea who the guy, who hired me, was.
A psychologist could possibly read many things into the fact that nowadays, as a freelancer, many of my jobs seem to be on the shorter side.
You lasted 3 days one of the most effort intense job? Day-um. I barely lasted 4 hours before I turned in my apron. It was during my college years, when I was in need of some pocket change. Don't see how people can deal with the "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean" constant hustle. It makes my boring desk job feel like a vacation.
Shocking how some of the most work intensive jobs are also the lowest paying. From my 4 hours experience, I have learn to be forgiving of fast food workers if they're a bit slow in filling my order.
I was about 4ft 8 inches when I started work.Is that what you meant? Car washing round as I was too young to get a paper round.
I think i did about 3-4 evenings as a telemarketer until they discovered I wasn't old enough to work there. Can't think why. I'm sure I was better at selling Double glazing at 14 than some of the adults where!
I think i did about 3-4 evenings as a telemarketer until they discovered I wasn't old enough to work there. Can't think why. I'm sure I was better at selling Double glazing at 14 than some of the adults where!
I forgot that I'd filled in for my younger brothers' paper routes when they were off to summer camp etc. Now there was a job I took only under parental duress. The customers' dogs I could manage ok with some dog biscuits at the ready, but I never got used to those early morning spiderwebs strung across the sidewalks or roads from tree to tree, even if I did acquire a life-long admiration for the skills of arachnids... just not in my face in the morning. Yuck!
As a kid, I once had a job tending the plants in a neighbor's back yard. I was soon fired, because I couldn't tell which plants needed water, a result of my color blindness. When it comes to grass and other garden plants, green and brown are the same to me, but I hadn't realized ahead of time that it was a job I simply couldn't do.
I worked at a Wendys one day. They had my working the foil the entire day while the train manager sat in a chair the entire day next to me.
3 days as a cashier in a Mobile gas station in one of the most dangerous parts of my city. I was scared to travel between the building and my car. The pay was great for what I was doing and it didn't take me long to realize why. They found a dead body in the dumpster and I never went back.
Not even a promotion? Hopefully not on the same wage!
Ha. My bad. Oh yeah, I’ve done alright for myself.
I meant working for the same company. Guess I misinterpreted the topic. Lol.
I meant working for the same company. Guess I misinterpreted the topic. Lol.
Half a day for me. I was working at a Travel Agency. Went to lunch and never returned. The owner was somewhat shifty.
