“60 Shocking First-Day Stories: What Made These Employees Walk Out for Good?”
I got a summer job as an HR/Office Assistant while in college.
They told me on my first day that they had to fire some people later in the week and they needed me to do it because they didn’t want to.
I didn’t come back the next day. Not only did I of course not want to do it, but I was shocked at the callous disrespect they had for the employees that they wanted to fire. If you want to destroy someone’s lively hood, have the balls to f*****g do it yourself.
I was assigned to a middle school grade 6 as a student teacher. I was supposed to be under the guidance of the classroom teacher. She was all too willing to let me be in complete charge and told me I could just do “whatever.” I called my faculty advisor and requested to be reassigned. The next day I was at a different school with a teacher who knew what she was doing.
I remember starting a job at a call centre for a particular company that has such a bad reputation, they need to change their name every so often.
They were telling us how we have 7 minutes alotted for “personal time” like bathroom breaks. There was one bathroom in the building, WAY down at the other end of the building…so on our first fifteen minute break, I walked to it..Took 4.5 minutes to get there. So when we came back from break I asked “so what happens if you go over the alotted time?” And the trainer goes “well then the mintues are tracked and deducted from your pay”…I got up and walked towards the door and the guy goes “see that’s an example of complete unprofessionalism, and that’s ok this type of job isn’t for quitters”…I spun around and went “I can handle the job, chucklef**k. What I won’t do is degrade myself by working for a place that monitors how long it takes you to s**t”.
Not quite the first day (I have a mortgage), but:
Been through the entire interview process: small payrise plus quite a generous company pension. All confirmed in writing.
“Cool!” thinks I. Leave my existing job and start at the new place.
A week or two in, HR does their induction. And the “generous” company pension doesn’t exist. It’s statutory minimum.
Obviously I raise this, because that’s not what I signed up for. The answer comes back: “Tough, that’s the pension”. Er… excuse me, but we agreed in writing that it wasn’t. “Don’t care; that’s the pension”.
They were astonished when I put in my resignation about a month later.
I took a job as a residential maintenance tech for a 500 unit apartment complex, the company that owned the complex owned about 2000 units all over the city. I’ve been doing maintenance for 10 years at this point and I know my s**t. Anyway they send me out with this m*th head looking dude to “train” me. We do a few work orders and I watch him ghetto rig stuff instead of actually fixing it. I kept my mouth shut until he decided to duct tape a clearly busted sewer stack, I was like “bro i saw furncos is the shop, let’s just get a furnco” he litteraly tore into me about him having “seniority” and he won’t be told what to do by some guy who just started. Whatever, I bit my tongue cause I had bills to pay. The next work order after that, we go into this womans apartment while she was at work to fix her sink, he tells me the tenant is “hot as f**k” and goes into her laundry basket and pulls out a pair of panties to sniff.
That was it for me, I walked out, went to the leasing office, explained what my last 4 hours were like and I would be contacting the authorities and the news about what I witnessed.
They offered me 3k to keep my mouth shut. Unfortunately I needed the money so I took it. .
Got hired as a farmhand for a potato farmer as a summer job from college; minimum wage through the local job office where I was told, “this guy has gone through a lot of workers”
First thing he told me to do was change the oil in the tractor and pointed to where things were. Now I had changed the oil in my car, but that hardly compared… I managed
Next, I was given a “s***ide jack” and told to walk out to the field where a 40” tire on one of those huge sprinkler systems had slipped off the railroad tie going over the ditch and use the jack to get it lifted out of the ditch and somehow use my 130 lb frame to move it back onto the railroad tie…I managed
Lunch time came and I had trudged back from the field with the jack. The farmer sees me and says, “I’m going to the house for lunch, please eat in your car.” Luckily I had brought my own lunch, but it was 90 degrees out and I was a sweaty filthy mess from what I had done so far and had no way to clean up… I managed
For the afternoon, the farmer had me perch on the back of the potato planter while he drove it down the field and I had to hop back and forth between the planter bins and manually make sure the potatoes were dropping into the feeder tubes… I managed
