“60 Shocking First-Day Stories: What Made These Employees Walk Out for Good?”
So I drove back to campus, called them up, and quit on the phone. It was just way too much BS to deal with and did not bode well.
Not me but a friend. This friend is a very good looking woman. It was to be her first job out of college working as a research tech in the lab of a Nobel Prize winner. She thought it was weird that at her interview he told her she needed to wear a skirt to work since he wanted people to look professional – but in a lab? Since he was older from a more formal time she thought “Oh well okay.”
At the first lab meeting he sits next to her at the table while one of the students/post-docs is making a presentation. As soon as the lights went down she feels a hand on her thigh and it’s the Nobel laureate and he is working his hand up her thigh. She squirms but doesn’t do anything and quit that day. I asked her why she didn’t go to HR and she said she didn’t think it would matter since he was Mr. Big Shot. Later turns out she’s heard stories about him from multiple female employees. He died before he could get Me-Too’ed.
When the manager said, ‘We’re like a family here.’ Bro, my family doesn’t make me clean a bathroom for $12 an hour.
The boss hid the bathroom key and had everyone ask him for permission to use it.
I have IBS and I got the runs the first day (of course).
When I asked for the key the second time after 30min of using it the first time, he asked me: “again???”
The third time he started chewing me out.
I literally turned around on my heel and got to the locker room to take my stuff and go.
He then tried to block my way out when I sat on my motorcycle to drive away.
It was a food truck owned by this Russian dude. His cash register was so convoluted. He’d be like “to sell hotdog push burger, then subtract 2 sodas and a small fry.” Then he just left me alone. It was overwhelming and I just didn’t come back.
It was supposed to be a B2B sales job. First day I get paired with a “highly successful, veteran salesman,” and we go downtown. Next thing I know, we’re walking into a Jiffy Lube waiting area, and the guy I’m with busts out a box of makeup samples and starts trying to sell makeup to the people waiting for their oil to get changed. We leave and I’m like yo WTF, I thought this was B2B sales? He’s like “well, I do go from business to business doing sales.” I’m like mother f****r that’s door to door, not business to business lol. I asked to be brought back to my car and never called those fools back.
In highschool a friend of mine talked up this warehouse job he had for an online surplus store. They gave him a bunch of free electronics and sports equipment. As a highschool student that seemed pretty cool, so I decided to try working there for the summer. Now I realize that was a red flag. On my first day they asked me to package a commercial range hood that had to be shipped to Alaska. They had no packing material or boxes and refused to buy any. I created a box by piecing together scraps of cardboard and covered them in a ton of tape, then I filled the box with crumpled printer paper from the office. The manager saw me doing this and proceeded to yell at me for 10 minutes, because I wasted their printer paper. I laughed at him and walked out of there. Of course, my friend later told me the range hood was destroyed in shipping and the manager was livid. A year later the business was busted for selling stolen gps units.
I was a Cold caller trying to solicit donations for an organization. Called a guy. His widow answered the phone saying he had recently passed. Supervisor said I should try and get the widow to make a donation. I was done.
I was injured and they told me to keep working. I was loading trucks at RPS by the way. Went to the boss and said “Who do I tell if I want to quit?” He responded “Me.” I said “Ah OK, I quit.” He asked my to finish my shift but I laughed in his face.
I was a GM car salesman half a day. Family of 5 come in and settle on a Pontiac Catalina. Sales manager told me to squeeze another $275.00 from them. I went to family, cut $500 from the contract, turned it in and sent them home in a new ride. Told sales mgr I was done and left..
I was laid off from my first job back when I was in high school due to the housing crisis in the 00s. I was a dishwasher at a restaurant. When new management took over, they offered everyone their old jobs back, and I accepted.
I tried to take my CD player that I had left there before the layoff home with me, and I was told that I was stealing as it was company property since it was there when they took over. Everyone in the kitchen attested that it was my CD player, but the new manager wouldn’t hear of it, so I just walked out with it. I was called later that night by HR telling me I was fired for stealing company property. I guess I didn’t quit, but I was going to do it anyway.
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