“60 Shocking First-Day Stories: What Made These Employees Walk Out for Good?”
The job was misrepresented, I showed up on my first day and they said- we’re decided that you should do this job instead of what we hired you for… I said no, and walked out.. (an interesting outcome) a few weeks later I received a days paycheck from them… considering I’d only been there less than a hour.
A bartending job – the person training me found a giant shard of glass in the ice. And then poured more ice over it. Bye.
I applied at this massive night club/event space/conference center as a busser. I thought I would be grabbing drinks etc.
when I arrived for my first day they got what had to be 1000 chairs stacked in this massive warehouse room, and they ask me to carry them one by one (you could do 2 or three at a time but it was quite heavy) outside and into a different space. across the street keep in mind it was winter and freezing outside, and I was dressed to be indoors for the day.
anyway, I carried about 200 which took hours before saying whatever. I was freezing and tired and this was gonna take more than the 8 hour shift and the same thing next day. I didn’t even tell anyone I was leaving I just dropped off the chair and went home. I didn’t ask for my pay for the 2 or 3 hrs and they never messaged me about it lol. i was so happy to get home.
the position was advertised as event bussing, which I get can include cleaning and set up but this was just manual labour.
i wore a really nice black collared shirt, dress pants, a belt and my only pair of leather dress shoes btw. they told me to dress this way, did my hair etc. as it was advertised to be fancy events. lol I was not dressed to move chairs for 8 hours in the cold.
When I was 21 I got hired on the spot at a Village Inn. I didn’t know enough at that time to know that’s a huge red flag. When I showed up for my first shift I was shocked and appalled at how disgusting the kitchen was. When I watched a server drop somebody’s pancakes on the kitchen floor, pick them up and put them back on the plate, then walk out and serve them to someone, I was done.
My sister had two companies in play for her first job out of college. She really wanted Chicago, but it fell through, so she took the job in Detroit. (This was before the revival; back in the decay pØrn days)
It all moved fast, so she took a guest room in a friend’s place. Her first day driving into the city, she just felt dread, like “ugh, this is where I’m going to build my life?”
She did a u-turn, picked her stuff up from her friend’s place, called the HR lady to say she wasn’t coming (lol) and went back to mom and dad’s. It took her a few more months to land a dream job in Chicago. Sometimes you just have to hold out for what you want.
I got employed by a fast food place and went in for orientation and training for one day. after it was done, the manager said to me, “I’ll call you to tell you when you can come in to work.” she never called. after 4 days of waiting, I finally called her and asked why didn’t she call me? she said “oh I shouldn’t have told you that. we were wondering where you were. you can come in tomorrow.” no thanks.
Oh you’re on call so whenever we need you, no matter where you are if we call you you have to come in.
I started a job in an office, normal, cubicles , offices and reception. I went to the wash room and it was locked, I asked someone if there was another washroom. They said ask reception for the key. Really? I went to reception and felt really humiliated, but, I asked for the key. She handed it to me, and asked if I needed toilet paper?
I said it’s alright, false alarm, got my stuff and left.
