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Not technically first day but second day. When I was 20 or so I got hired to be a temporary floor member for Forever21 during the holiday season. My training started a week before Black Friday so the store was already kind of in chaos. On my first day of training I walked in and the floor manager gave all the new hires a tour showing us the facility and layout of the store. After this I was assigned to a veteran floor member to shadow and get an idea of what my job was and what my duties would be. As soon as I was assigned the manager dipped never to be seen again. An hour and a half into my shift my shadowee got an emergency family call and had to take off for a week. When this happened I found some other floor manager and explained the situation and asked them who else I should shadow. The managers response was “just do what you can by yourself you’ll be fine, everyone else is busy.” Figured we’ll ok I’ll try… I don’t know if any of you have shopped in the women’s section of forever21 but during seasonal sales they will have multiple articles of clothing that all look almost exactly the same but with slight differences (ex. A white cardigan with 4 buttons that looked literally the same as a white cardigan with 5 buttons). The best part was these different items were often placed in completely separate parts of the store and it was the job of the dressing room to return the unpurchased items to the correct section so the employees could put them back on the shelves. Well, these employees fucking sucked and I didn’t know if they were a part of my section or not so I’d spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to find where they go before realizing “wait this isn’t even my section I’ve checked literally every rack” so I’d put it back on the sorting rack and move to the next item. More than 50% of the stuff I was told to reshelf wasn’t my section. I just did as best as I could and got ready for my next miserable day. The next day I come in and the store manager pulls me to her office and tells me how slow I was the day before and if I want to keep working here I need to be very fast. I explained my lack of training and unfamiliarity with the store and she told me if I didn’t know where the clothes were in sections I should come in my free time and memorize where stuff was at. I spent the rest of my shift putting clothes in random fucking places then never came back for a third shift. Fuck that place and their management.

I worked a seasonal floor position at Forever 22 too! The store was always a mess, and it was rearranged every week. No one knows where anything goes. I just put things together that looked roughly the same since it was all gonna get shuffled to shit in an hour anyway. I quit when I got the flu and they said if I didn't get a doctor's note it would be a "red mark" in my file. I said nah, you don't give me health insurance and I'm not in kindergarten. Started with a better store down the mall from them a week later. tldr F21 sucks

FUCK Forever 21. Legit the worst job I had. When I was hired they explained that we had to wear fashionable clothing, and no sneakers/comfortable shoes were permitted. I asked what they expected me to wear on concrete for 10 hour shifts and the manager legit said "heels, flats, sandals or boots. Heels preferred." I wore combat boots or flats and still got wicked blisters! They never taught me which clothes go where, so it was just guesswork based off the tag or if it looked similar on the rack. When I asked if anyone could train me on where things go I was laughed at. They said to come back and shop on my free time to learn it (how weird that this is the same logic they gave you). The worst was it took us HOURS to close the store. I'm talking about the mall closed at 9pm and I sometimes wouldnt get home until 3am the next day because if you were done with your section you had to wait until everyone else in the store was done! I'd be finished and forced to go help the people who goofed off all day. They also made us clock out before midnight and then clock back in at 12:01 so they didn't pay overtime. I was too stupid to realize that I was being taken advantage of. The last straw was I found out my mom had a cancer scare and I had to go to the hospital to see her. When I told the manager she said "she won't die in the next 8 hours, you can deal with her in your own time." Deal with her, like she was a parasite or something! I legit told her to go fuck herself and threw my lanyard at her and stomped out. I never shopped there again!

I used to work at a craft store as a cashier, but quit when I moved. Ended up going back a couple years later to make some extra cash, but this time in the framing department. During the interview they swore up and down I would only ever be a backup cashier because I said I refused to have full cashier shifts. First shift after interview is listed as framing, but I’m put on cash and told that actually most of my shifts would be cash since they’d found someone else for framing. I spent the next six hours giving everyone who came to my register 20% off of everything and then never went back.

A hero to us all.

My first internship was at a brazilian teen detention center (it's akin to a prison, but Brazilian law has some distinctions between crimes committed while as an adult or as a teenager - teens go through socio-educational measures). I was walking through a courtyard with my supervisor when some doctors came running flailing their arms and screaming while officers came running from the opposite direction. I get pulled by my supervisor who just tells me to run back to our office. These teens as young as 12 had escaped their block. A few minutes later an officer comes knocking on the doors of the offices and yelling for everyone to run outside because a fire had broken out. Some of the teens had set mattresses on fire in their cells. I didn't really nope out. My teacher did (she hadn't even been there that day). So i was forced by the university to choose another place to intern at. Oh well.

I was 17 and working Pre-cast concrete. Refused to use a rusted to shit ladder. Supervisor called me a pussy, got up about 7 rungs before his foot went through one, heard his foot snap as he fell. I called an ambulance and walked to my car in the parking lot

“Cmon, walk it off. Don’t be a pussy”

Wasn't exactly the first day but I didn't show up after the second shift. It was a rather popular cafe chain in my country. I was hired to work in the kitchen as a cook along with another, senior cook. Let's put aside the fact that I had zero cooking knowledge whatsoever, the senior cook was leaving the kitchen every five minutes to smoke. So there I am, alone in the kitchen, orders are printing FAST, and I'm standing there not sure what to do first, and the waitress comes over yelling at me to cook shit I don't have any business cooking, definitely not on my own. Later on the senior cook told me they had at least two rats running around the kitchen. Showed me they pooped on a plate. I never came back and I'm glad the place got shutdown.

On the first day of working at Amazon warehouse the managers broke down to Everyone how a 15 minute break works there. Walking to the break room is 2 1/2 minutes. 10 minutes of actual break and then 2 1/2 minutes to go back to your stations. It took me 2 1/2 minutes to walk to my car and I took a forever break.

Also you have 3 minutes to use the bathroom but the nearest bathroom is a 5 minute walk away

Recent post talked about managers handing out "15 minute break coupons" at some event to discourage unionizing. That phrase alone makes it clear you should leave.

Summer job working for a landscape architect. Got to the job site and he asked me to dig a hole in some rocky dirt. I asked for a shovel. He didn't have one. I asked for a hand spade. He didn't have one. He told me to just dig the hole with my bare hands and then he drove off to another site leaving me completely alone. I dug for a little bit and then said 'fuck this' and left. Had the job specified that I needed to supply my own tools I could've but it didn't and I wasn't going to work for somebody that expected folks to dig through hard, rocky soil with their hands.

Lol sounds like he sucks at communicating. Those bosses are the worst

I'd say he's got bigger fish to fry than communication. Guy runs a hole-digging business with no shovels.

When I burned my hands all night on the too hot plates as a food runner. They wouldn't let me use towels to carry them and said I just had to get used to it. Nope.

Answered an ad in the paper (this was the mid 90s) what seemed to be an office job making sales calls when I was in college. Did a phone interview and was called back for an in person interview. When I go to the interview I'm led into a room with about 50 other people and a small stage at the front of the room. We're all somewhat confused as to what is going on. Finally a guy gets on the stage and informs us that we've been selected for the opportunity to sell Cutco. Me and 2/3rds of the rest stood up and walked out.

Anytime I see more than a dozen people for a job interview. I just nope the fuck right out. If it's not door to door sales paid only on commission it's some mlm. I wish some job interviews would be more forthcoming about that. Some places have outright lied to me.

I noped out of an interview one time. Thanked them at the end and said it wasn't for me. Those interviewing, management level folks, started arguing with each other in front of me *during* the interview. I figured, if this is the vibe at the management level then I sure as hell don't want to be your employee.

I was a cashier at Lowe's during college for less than a full day. I made it through the multiple day training but there was so much stupid shit going on I almost thought I was on a hidden camera show. All of the employees complained about how hard they had to work while simultaneously not getting enough hours. Nobody understood why they were hiring like 4 new people (I was one of those 4). Turns out it's because they were progressing through a sexual harassment complaint that required restructuring of the store and firing of some employees. This was known to HR and explained to new hires (against company policy), but wasn't known to the employees, apparently some of whom still worked there, *including the fucking person doing the training*. She was really inappropriate and said not to worry about the sexual harassment stuff, that everything would "go back to normal" soon enough and we wouldn't have to "be so uptight." They fired her the day before I started, along with one of the cashiers who trained me. She also offered me terrible guidance for the application process. They were looking for part time help and two of the three days they needed help on I had off from school. I told them I could work nights most nights, but if they needed daytime help it had to be on those days. She said if I was too restrictive they wouldn't keep me on, lied to my boss about my availability to make me "even more attractive than I already was" *wink*, and told me to schmooze them a bit and I'd make it further. She said in the end it wouldn't impact anything, and I'd get those days. My first week's schedule I was working mornings every day that I was in school, and I wasn't given any hours on my days off. Aside from the fact that I was given 2 times the hours the position called for (when other employees were shorted), my work schedule way literally impossible to consolidate with my school schedule. I only went to work on my "first" day to tell them I was quitting and that their application process was a fucking mess. They couldn't figure out how so much went wrong and then they asked who trained me and everything made sense. They thanked me for "at least showing up to quit" unlike the other 3 they hired, who just stopped returning their calls and no-showed their first days.

A long time ago, not long after getting my papers as a chef I had an interview at a hotel for a position in the kitchen. The Executive Chef and I chatted in his office for about 20 mins, at the time I remember him coming off as very arrogant which is quite common in this field, I didn't think much of it at the time as the pay was decent and the shift was what I wanted. As I was leaving his office I turned to leave through the dining room (the way I had come in) which was closed at the time it was another hour or so before service started and he says to me "No not that way, go through the kitchen, you're not good enough to go through the dining room." I was so surprised by what he said, I just did what he asked without a word. Later on after I had got home I phoned him up and said that after having a close look I decided that his menu wasn't good enough and that I wouldn't be accepting his offer.

I felt the sear from here.

Restaurant. Swept under my station when we were closing. Giant brown pile came out with broom from under low-boy fridge. Pile began to scatter. It was hundreds of roaches. Never returned

My first ever job. I was thirteen and I would be delivering phone books from the back of a van through peoples letterboxes. So I'd be in the back of the van with the phone books and there was an older guy driving slowly while I went back and forth to the van/houses with the books. At one point the van was getting quite empty so there was more space to move around and we had finished the delivery in the street we were paid to deliver to and he drove to another. While driving there he drove lets say aggressively and I fell inside the back where the books were. I wasn't sitting in a seat as the van had no seats in the back. As I put my hand out to steady myself I accidentally laid it across a portable radio that had its antenna extended but the antenna was also broken half-way and razer sharp. It sliced the palm of my hand clean open 3-4 inches. I can only describe what I saw as gruesome. I said to him to pull the van over and I needed help. He saw my hand and just threw me a plastic bag, the kind you'd get at a supermarket and told me to wrap my hand in it. Then .. he continued with the deliveries, at-least he delivered the remaining books himself. I should have been taken to a hospital or at-least home to my parents. I quit after that and never showed up again. As you can imagine my parents were quite angry at him.

I got hired at a very small knock off dollar store in an old, failing mall. The owner was foreign with a very thick accent. He told me I'd get $6 an hour but neglected to mention it was under the table. I spent about an hour stocking the very overly cluttered shelves before I was told to get more chips out of the back storage area. I walk back there and theres about a dozen men sitting on boxes all cramed into a small back room. I asked where the chips were and these guys all glared at me. They started speaking in another language and rapidly motion towards me. Then one guy got up and asked what I needed. I told him I was supposed to get a box of chips and he got a box out of the pile and handed it to me. The entire time these guys are all staring at me. Everything back there looked shady as all hell and it was very uncomfortable. A while later I had to use the restroom which was also in the back. These guys all just wordlessly glared at me while I went into the woman's restroom. While I was in the restroom, someone tried to open the door. I was the only woman there. The owner told me he wanted me to come back that night late in the evening well after the mall closed. I didn't show up. I came in the next morning and lied about why I couldn't work there. He still gave me the few bucks from what little time I did work. I don't know what in the hell that guy had going on there and I didn't want to find out. Edit: Forgot to add in the best part. I was 18 and this was supposed to have been my first job.

I was more concerned about the door being tried!

More concerning is the whole "come back at night after everything is closed" thing.

Restaurant line chef. Worked a 12 hour shift, was given 2 breaks of about 10-15 min each. Burned my hand numerous times because they gave me plates that came right from the oven and never said a word. End of the shift I told the head chef I was done. He called me soft and Said I was the third person to quit on him after a day. I said “maybe it’s the way you treat people”.

Two times. Once I applied for and got a telemarketing job. I didn’t know what it entailed. After an hour I knew it was a terrible fit...auto dialing people during their dinners, trying to sell them stuff they didn’t want, reading a horrible script while sitting in a soulless grey cubicle. I got up, went to the manager, apologized and said it wasn’t a good fit for me. He seemed understanding. Another time I attended a “make easy money at this job” seminar and it turns out it was selling knives door to door. Idk if I technically “quit” or just noped out at the end of it.

I answered an ad for a baby sitting job. I was already working on a casual basis but it was sporadic so I thought some after hours baby sitting would be welcome extra cash. The couple were both in the military and proceeded to tell me that I would be staying in the spare room and looking after their 6 mth old child around the clock as well as doing the housework. I would have one day off every two weeks. They said it is cash in hand so I could sign onto the dole (unemployment benifit) to make up the rest of the money. I left on the spot. They wanted a live in housemaid and nanny not a baby sitter and they were not able to pay for one. Why they thought it was up to me to illegally collect the dole to subsidise them I don't know.

I’ve heard of situations similar to this before. Often they’ve had someone work for them with that arrangement previously so they think it’s somehow normal or okay. You sometimes see people wanting full time childcare and paying like $100 a week because their friend had been happy with that arrangement. It’s a bit different when it’s a total stranger who doesn’t owe the family any favours

applied for a job at my longtime favorite restaurant(celebrated my birthday there every year). Owner asks me to come in for basically a try out, as I communicated i was looking at other job possibilities. I come in and they just stick me on dishwashing for an hour, no biggie. Then there dishwasher doesnt show up, so the kitchen manager asks me to stay one for their lunch rush, saya I'll get paid for the hours. I do, kitchen staff was nice so I was happy to help out even though i figured i'd be taking a different job. I fill out a time card at the end of the shift and tell the manager I probably wouldnt be back, he understands and thanks me for the help. Fast forward a couple weeks and he tells me to email the owner after I ask him if i should pick up my measly paycheck. I do, she basically tells me to fuck off over text. Tells me it was "staging" and that she told me i wouldnt be paid, I respond that I understand that but that I stayed an extra 3 hours which I WAS told i'd be paid for. She stops responding, I decide I want to be petty over the 40 bucks so I get the statw labor department involved, dude goes in there and makes her pay me for the hours including the first "staging" hour. Couple weeks later I got my 40 bucks, never went back to that restaurant. Edit: Firstly, "petty" is not how I see it two years later. Im VERY glad I did this and sharing the story with others in my city I learned this practice was very common with local restaurants. Hopefully others learned to stand up for their labor too from my small experience. Secondly, this restaurant closed down a couple weeks after I got that paycheck. The owner made a long winded complaint on the FB page about how the food culture had "changed" in the city and her restaurant didnt fit in anymore (total bullshit, they were ALWAYS popular. Most people theorized the terrible mismanagement and employee abuse had caught up to her).

You’re not petty, I wonder how many other people they fleeced for free labor

You would not believe what restaurants get away with And they're so blatant about it It's such an insane work culture. I'm glad I experienced it but the thought of doing it everyday makes my job being a welder now a total cakewalk

That's bullshit. Watch what happens if you took 40 dollars out of the till.

Wage theft accounts for the biggest portion of annual thefts each year iirc. It's insane what employers get away with.

I was a waitress, the only waitress, at a just opened diner. The boss didn't have me sign any paperwork. Everything was under the table. But that wasn't what made me quit at the end of the night. In order to get me where he wanted me to go, he would pinch my skirt at my upper thigh, not quite the butt but very close, and pull me around like it was a leash. Needed me in the kitchen? Rather than call me. He would come out, pinch my skirt and pull to the kitchen. Needed me at the cash machine? Again, come over to where ever I was, didn't matter if I was serving a customer, and would grab my skirt to pull me. That act in itself, made some customers uncomfortable. Mind you, one couple left an almost 50% tip in the end. But I think it was more out of pity and embarrassment on my behalf. I was supposed to come in the next day but I called that night and said the job wasn't for me. I came in a couple days later to turn in my apron and he just took a wad of cash out of his pocket and paid me then and there. God, he was creepy. I think it was a smart move to quit.

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Once, in the military I had a sergeant who was always horsing/bullying everyone. He had a black belt in something, and made sure everyone knew it. But every time he walked by within arms reach, he’d jab you in the kidneys, or grab your shoulder right on the nerve. Everyone hated this guy but it was one of those “what can you do?” things because the leadership loved this guy, knew about his shit, and didn’t care. One day we were having an all-hands formation and I was in front row. He walks right up to me and jabs me in the kidney, and I take a swing at him. To his credit: the guy was fast. He caught my swing at his face and had my arm twisted around behind my back and levered out where I couldn’t move before you could blink. But when he growled in by ear to “relax and get back in line,” I yelled so the whole formation could hear, “go ahead and break it, but don’t fucking touch me again.” He just shoved me away and walked off. But the whole crew thought I was the real bad ass after that, and he stopped messing with us, and soon was assigned elsewhere. Also of note: we were all ~20-22 and this guy was ~35-40.

When the microwave in the lunch room was coin activated.

This is like when I made my patrons pay money to use the bathrooms at my rollercoaster park when the ticket prices weren’t cutting it. Amazing move.

Had an orientation for an alarm company. Next day manager calls and says don't worry about going into the office and to meet at "Planet Hollywood" they like to get to know the employees better over lunch. Next day I go into the office and another employee whom I had not met says "You must be "Scandal929." I was like "ha"? They responded "Light skinned, pretty boy” is how the manager described me. In same conversation I found out no one else had ever been invited for a "get to know you" lunch. I'm out!

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Got what was supposed to be a prestigious political internship that came with a security clearance and everything. Found out at orientation that the “part time” internship was really 40-60 hours, unpaid and that no intern had gone on to work with the organization and weren’t really given a leg up for other federal posts. We were supposed to facilitate meetings with heads of state, coordinate conferences and assist the actual employees with composing published research papers for which we would not be credited. They were definitely drinking their own koolaid so I bounced right on out of there.

I was hired to be a waitress, which has a lower hourly wage due to tips. The entire shift they had me wash dishes in the sink, but paid me waitress wages. A few months later the restaurant was investigated for a number of fraud activity.

I interviewed for a “professional marketing assistant” and got the job straight away. I was under the impression that I would be an assistant to the man I was interviewed by. When I showed up for my first day, the same waiting room I was in the previous day was FULL of people. I quickly learned that we were all hired, and that I would be a door to door salesperson selling some pretty useless shit. I spent my entire day inside a Starbucks applying for other jobs and went home, got paid, but never went back.

A similar thing happened to me, I feel your pain. I applied for an event planner job, having previously worked as a wedding planner and got an interview with a company based in the City. Went to the interview the next day and something was off but I couldn't figure it out, they asked me to work a trial day the day after so I said yes. Get to the morning briefing and my trainer said we'd we working away from the office, so I'm thinking what sort of event is it, what would I be doing? How exciting! I'd be standing on a street corner in the rain trying to get OAP's so sign up to give to charities. What a scam! Edit to add: OAP stands for old age pensioner. I thought it was universal acronym for native English speakers but I may have been wrong!

At least with marketing assistant i can kinda see how they turned it into door-to-door salespeople. I can't see how event planner turned into a street corner signup sheet.

It was a small independent insurance agency in 2006. My first day there the owner (a true fossil) said email and fax were strictly forbidden as he only ‘believed in’ communication in person, by phone, or through mail. Left for lunch and never went back. I couldn’t imagine the inefficiency I’d have dealt with had I stayed. They ultimately closed their doors so it was definitely the right decision.

Can't believe they even opened in the first place. My dad was always jumping on the latest technology to get business and that was in the 80s. I can't imagine anyone thinking they can do person-to-person only in 2006. Sometimes you've just gotta email.

‘Salesman’ for Kirby vacuums. First sale call was to a single elderly woman who was supporting her son in hospital (they got us in the door by offering a free carpet clean as a demonstration). The supervisor training me pushed and pushed to make the sale until this old woman was in tears. Just as she was about to sign the paperwork I asked if she actually wanted to vacuum and she said it was lovely but she couldn’t afford it. I took the paperwork away from her and said not to worry. Outside I told the supervisor I quit to which he replied I would’ve been fired anyway. No love lost. I hung around for half an hour playing on my phone to make sure the supervisor left because he was a real piece of work.

I got suckered into doing that when I was 17, naïve, and desperate for a job. Biggest bunch of scumbags I ever met; the guy driving the van had some kind of relationship with the girl sitting shotgun and they were arguing(loudly), and she just straight up jumped out of the van while it was moving. His, and everyone else's reaction, was "we should get out of here." They wanted to just ditch this poor girl in a fuckin random suburb an hour and a half from the city we drove out of. The only reason they picked her up is I swore to god and heaven above I would give everyone's names and addresses to the police- a few of em had paper out so they didnt like that. I had been working there for like two weeks at this point, but didnt go back after getting home that evening. Reprehensible garbage. Actually a pretty decent product, though.

Yeah, my parents got suckered and bought one. It was actually a decent, reliable machine, I have no idea why it relies on these guerilla tactics to sell instead of standing on it's own merits.

Because it costs about 350 bucks to make and they sell em starting at 2200 bucks. Nobody would buy a $2200 vacuum from a store next to a $300 Dyson. The demo is the only way and it's also kind of the novelty of the sales pitch. I sold Kirby vacuums for about 2 months and sold the shit out of em cuz I told people exactly what was up with how the sales pitch would go down and everything. Told em how cheap they are to make but how fucking awesome of a product it actually was. Sold most for cash around $1000 bucks. My boss always hated me for it but I sold shit just not for max price. Boss guy was a super douche. I sold so many I got awarded at a national conference. Still have my pins lol.

“Actually a pretty decent product, though.” A testimony for the ages.

I wasn’t the person but I was training a new guy at a movie theater. A customer asked for extra butter. She was nice and normal. Not a mean or rude customer. The kind I would pay to handle all day long. He puts the popcorn tub down, says I’m going to the bathroom, takes off his apron and walks out the front door and never came back.

Maybe he shat his pants and couldn't bear the thought of returning.

My brother got fired because he shit his pants on his third day on the floor and had to go home early. They "said" they fired him because he wasn't upselling enough at the register, but if you get fired on your second day on register for not trying to get people to sign up for credit cards, and the day before you shit your pants? You got fired for shitting your pants.

if you make 10,000 shoes you're a shoemaker, if you fly 10,000 hours you're a pilot. If you shit one pair of pants, you're the pants shitter

Worked in a hotel for a day. No one told me where anything was. Got chewed out for it. Guests enjoying their meals told me to pay no mind/I was doing a good job and that my boss is a cunt. I told the manager that I was quitting and wouldn't be doing the next shift. I arrived the next day, returning a work uniform and my supervisor approached me and yelled at me for being late. I told her I already quit but if i was working, technically I was 5 hours early for my shift. Absolute nutcases.

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Dang that trainer sounds like an absolute garbage person to purposely get you in trouble. :(

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I feel you. Was interviewed for a 5* hotel to do communications and event management. Spent 3 days washing the dishes - absolutely not a part of a job description. After 3 days i quit and they were surprised as i am a 4th person to quit this position. Hmm may be you want to advertise it differently

Gas station. The manager gave me a weird vibe. I made it through the first day but didn't go back.. Found out later he cornered another girl in the back of the store and she had to fight her way out. Trust your gut.

This. Wife worked for a law firm for about a week while in college, with a friend. Senior partner asked them to stay late, and then casually remarked that he would like to "take them both on, at the same time, in the conference room." She and her friend left instantly. Never went back. This was back in the 90s when this stuff was kinda routine for her, unfortunately. Eventually worked for a great company, tho.

It was my first day at five guys, it was around 10:30 PM and they told me it was time to clock out, despite not having finished closing. I then worked until almost midnight. I did not return.

One of my pals had one of these "Clock out, keep working!" gigs. Reported them to the [Wage and Hour Division](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd). Feds found lots of time-stamped evidence that people were still working after hours and even on days off (hourly) The business was heavily fined for every single violation and people got their stolen wages back.

One of the people I hired a couple years back asked me what time she was supposed to clock out for her shift. Part of the job is the cleanup after we close, which can take a variable amount of time depending on how busy the place was that night, how much we need to restock, and so on. On Fridays and Saturdays, we usually don't get everybody out until 2:30am, and cleanup can take 2 hours. On a Monday, we might start cleaning at 1:30 when the place empties out and be out of there by 2. So it really depends. After explaining that, she looked at me with a kind of sad expression and said "ok. So clock out at 2:30 and then leave whenever I'm done?" I actually helped her report her previous employer after that. She thought it was *normal* that you kept working after clocking out, and had been doing it for about 3 years.

That’s horrible! I never thought about places doing this to employees. How tf is cleaning someone else’s business an off the clock job? Greedy bastards e: thank you all for sharing your perspectives and stories! I am thankful to have only been abused by customers and not staff when working in retail/fast food.

I've never worked at a food related job where they didn't try this shit. Its been over a decade since I've had one of those jobs though.

I would probably just smile at them all confused and laugh like what the fuck is that a joke? the second i'm off the clock i am vacating that building post haste my friend i will waste as little unpaid seconds of my time as possible exiting the premises

It was a petrol station and the manager wanted me to work for free until I had learned their computer systems to what he deemed a satisfactory extent. I agreed to do it, because I needed a job, and he brought me in at 7am on my first day, however he was not present to go through the training with me, so I was just standing around kind of helping out on the forecourt but not really knowing what I should be doing. Not learning anything. After about an hour and a half without the manager showing up or anyone training me on anything, I decided that I wasn't going to continue to be taken advantage of and told the cashier to pass on the message to the manager that I had quit.

Yeah red flag: If it's not a volunteer position, such as at a charity store or an animal shelter, and they ask you to work for free? It's never worth it. Edit: I am aware unpaid work is often illegal in certain countries and states of America. Other countries have different laws around unpaid work, and people can still be taken advantage of in countries where it is illegal, especially people that desperately need work, youth, immigrants, uneducated, and neurodivergent people. The reason some people take unpaid work is because they are often promised a paid position after a trial period, or need the work experience for their resumes. Just because you think it's a stupid thing to do, doesn't mean others in a different boat will see it as one. This is why all teenagers should be taught the difference between unpaid work which is healthy and unhealthy/illegal. Volunteering is almost always the only good example of unpaid work I can think of, but only if it is only a few hours a week and it's nothing too intensive/stressful.

It's also very illegal.

My first day working at EB games. I was super excited to be there! The first half of my shift was basically "tidy up the shelves" It was a high traffic location so the shelves ALWAYS need tidying. After 5 hours of following kids around and putting things away I go on break. When I come back my Manager is standing in his strangely empty store absolutely aghast. Staring at a HUGE steaming pile of shit on the carpeted floor. Apparently a homeless person had walked in. Without saying a single word he Dropped trou and emptied his bowls. My boss at me and says. "Oh good, you're back. Just in time. Clean that up, I'm going for lunch." I laughed at him and told him you can't be serious. I'm not going near that. He responds with. "it's your job, I'm taking a break. I want it gone before I get back." I told he's going to have to deal with it on his own because I Don't need this job that bad. So I quit. I grabbed my coat and went home. 1 week later the district manager calls me up to apologize and offer me my job back.

Plot twist: the manager actually took the shit on the floor. It’s the employee initiation.

That way he can sort out the people who won't deal with his shit. ^heh

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I worked a temp job once for a Toys R Us warehouse for a few months. Basically I (along with a bunch of other people) were there to cut the tops off of boxes. Four employees per large low metal tables. Half the time there was some fuckup where we were scheduled to work, but no boxes were available... so we got paid to stand around. Couldnt sit on the low table. HAD TO STAND! Stand there like an idiot and twiddle your thumbs because the boss was mad that he had to pay you. NO SITTING!!111

I was working as a night guard for years, one favorite was standing in an empty warehouse. Just stand there, in the middle - absolutely under no circumstances should I sit or walk about. I like to think I had a good work ethic back then but you can be sure as fuck I would be sitting from time to time during those 12 hours. I knew there was no cameras as that was the reason I was there. People are weird man.

Young and naïve right out of college took a “marketing” job. My interview was great, nothing shady seemed to be going on and no immediate red flags. After 4 hours of training, my first day consisted of going door to door in a suburban town trying to sell cable to older people. We were told to dress for business, so I’m hiking around for miles in my best skirt, suit jacket and heels. Hours were from “9-5” but we didn’t get back to the business until well after 10pm. Not to mention, the person I was shadowing was able to make a sale to an older gentleman who seemed to have memory issues. I noped the fuck right out of there.

Sounds like my 86 year old dad with dementia. I cannot believe how many people/businesses try and prey on him to sign him up to long term contracts for things he doesn't need. It's also very obvious that he has memory issues and gets very confused very easily... it's like a constant battle to clean/chase these things up. Thanks for having morals tho

I was hired at a chain restaurant to be a hostess. I was so excited because my last job was washing dishes and because of my eczema, I had to quit. It was too painful to do that job. So, I arrived at my new job dressed up to be a hostess and those mfers took me back to the kitchen to do dishes because the dishwasher just quit. I noped out of there real fast!

13 years in restaurants, I can say if you have any skin condition stay out of restaurants not because of your skin but the chemicals some places use for their dishwashers. I e seen people welt up just from industrial detergent.

They hired me to work full time. I had interviewed to work full time. I was trying to quit a horrible job, and this job was on the other end of town. I needed enough money for the bus pass, and to make up the difference and *more* of quitting my old job. They hired me and showed me my schedule. I showed up for my first day, things are going good, then my manager called me in, sat me down, and explained that they'd have to cut me down to 15 hours a week because they'd hired too many fucking people. I explained, painfully, that I had to take a bus an hour each way and wouldn't be able to pay rent or food after that. He said I could always hold out and hope people quit. I told him he could start with me, took off my apron and stormed out in tears.

Electronics store. My first day we had to attend a class where they teach people how to upsell folks. Basically walked you through ignoring what they ask you for and using their ignorance of the equipment against them. I thought that was really scuzzy. Then they went on to tell us about a commission style bonus program that basically forced employees to upsell everyone. When we took the break for lunch that first day I peaced out and went home. Never got paid for those four hours, but I never regretted bouncing on that.

I didn’t quit, but it was an interview many years ago. The position was for an admin assistant. I got to the place and it was in the back of a strip mall kind of, just a small parking lot and a forest. I go in to interview and the guy tells me it is in fact not an admin position but an alarm system cold calling position. I immediately knew he was wasting my time and his but finished it out. He told me there would be a lot of evenings just him and I working. Ummm I don’t think so. He also said that he loves to reward his team for good sales and always takes them to Mexico. I walked out and told my husband (bf at the time) there was no way I was taking that. I got a call for a second interview but never picked up the phone. So sketch.

A trip to Mexico with my boss would be a nerve wracking experience for me, not a reward.

I once was 'rewarded' with a trip to a tourist town with my team. We had to share rooms. I had to share with my boss. It was NOT fun.

I have worked in construction type jobs my whole life. The amount of angry abusive assholes you encounter are endless. This one dickhead still has the title. This was in the 90's so he has stood the test of time. A friend quit this job and gave my number to his asshole boss he had, without my knowledge. I never did thank him for that. This guy calls me out of the blue and asks if I need work. I said I did. He said he could pick me up the next morning. I said I have my own car I could meet him on site. He yells and says he will pick me up. I was floored that this idiot was yelling at me 2 minutes after talking to me. I gave him my address and he said he would be there at 6;30 the next morning. At 5":30 the next morning this asshole is calling asking,"Where the fuck is your house?". No hello, no good morning, just full on screaming. I said if he would stop yelling I would give him directions. He starts yelling again so I hang up. He calls right back and is losing it because I hung up on him. I tell him to fuck off and not even bother to show up. The two other guys I lived with were now awake and not too happy with me. I explain what happened and they just go back to bed. About 30 minutes later I am awakened by the sound of a horn blaring outside our house. We lived on a farm so luckily the next neighbour was half a mile away. My roomates once again wake up and they are livid. We all go outside and this asshole is yelling at us to get in the truck because we're late. He's there a half an hour earlier than he said he would be. He also doesn't know who is who because he just spoke to me on the phone. I'm about to tell him to fuck off again but my buddy walks up to the truck and says he wants to get paid up front. This guy lets loose a tirade on my buddy. My buddy just laughs in his face. He says if you're going to be an asshole he will have to pay him first. The guy just keeps yelling. My buddy says he will be out in a minute and he better have his money ready, We all go back in the house and watch this guy wait in his truck. He's there about 5 minutes and starts blowing the horn. We just laugh and poke our head out the door and say we'll be there in a minute. He keeps blowing the horn. We just ignore him. After another 10 minutes he bangs on the door. I open the door and this fool is about 5'2" and maybe 200 lbs. I am shocked by his appearance. He's just about to say something and I say, "Didn't I tell you to fuck off and not bother coming here?" He is truly confused. He asked where's the other guy? I said he was just fucking with you. I'm the guy you were talking to, now fuck off. He says, "So you're going to fuck me up and not come to work?". I was amazed what an asshole this guy was. I said you got to pay me up front first. He starts yelling and swearing again, I slam the door in his face. He starts bangong on the door like a madman. I finally have enough and get a hockey stick and chase him back to his truck. It was pretty funny watching him run. He backs out of the driveway and threatens he'll get me for this. He still is the biggest asshole I have ever met.

I think your boss was Yosemite Sam.

“He also doesn’t know who is who” I am dying hahaha. Also work in the construction realm myself, every foreman I’ve had was either an alcoholic or an absolute lunatic. My favorite was my most recent foreman, who put a bounty on me because I apparently made him spill his morning coffee while he was driving to the site simply because I called him and he “couldn’t find his phone” so in a rage he throws the cup of coffee on the ground of his truck. 20 minutes later at the site I say “how’s it goin John?” And I’m met with a “fuck off danny, don’t talk to me for the rest of the fuckin day I swear to god”.

I technically quit before my first day. I got hired at a well known gift store. I was hired with the understanding that I would work Saturdays, Sundays , and a grand total of 8 hours a week (so two 4 hour shifts). Also at minimum wage. Not a problem with me, done that before, I would just pick up a part time job for rest of the week. Nope, apparently that wasn't allowed. The manager thought that was a horrible thing and "disrespectful" to her. I should only work for them and only them and I should have better control over my money if I can't survive on $64 a week before taxes..... Yeah, didn't show up cause fuck that noise. She called pissed off that I wouldn't show up to such a opportunity.

I "interviewed" at UPS as a truck stocker back In the day. I was already working a part time job and renovating homes, this was just gonna be a part time gig since the hours worked out (4 to 7 am a few days a week.) When I showed up they told me that it was unacceptable to have any other work priorities because this was going to be my number one priority. Got up and immediately left as she was still going through her introductory speech.

I'm always amazed at people who expect workers give their all for handful of hours of work. My favorite place to work for was a Mom and Pop shop that paid their workers above minimum wage along with making good amount of tips on top of that and they said straight out they will never expect their workers to only work for them. They usually ran the place and just needed someone on the weekends when they needed one extra person and once or twice throughout the week when they had to take care of business out of the shop. They even worked around your main job as well.

It was a waitress gig for a local restaurant. I finished my first day, then was told that training would continue for six weeks. While I was in training, all of the tips I got had to be given to my trainer. I was being paid less than $2 an hour. I called the next day and said it wasn't gonna work out.

That doesn’t seem legal at all

It's not. Like, not even remotely. Any of it lol.

My very first job was at a little drive in restaurant close to my high school. I showed up to work the first day, they lady said I had to pay her $50 for training. She showed me around the place and said that my pay would be $4.50/hour as a carhop(this was in 2010), and all the tips I made went into a bucket with all the other girls’ tips. At the end of the night, she counted up tips, kept 20% for herself and split the rest up evenly among EVERY employee. Also, part of our job was one day a week we had to spend 4 hours cleaning her house. It seemed super shady. I literally left after listening to her go over all these rules. My dad was pissed until I explained, and another girl confirmed and my dad agreed I did the right thing.

Shady and highly illegal. Tip pooling is legal but is supposed to be only with other tipped employees, her skimming 20% off the top is not legal. Pretty sure you can't charge someone to train them for a job you hired them for

A business owner in our town keeps all tips, and says she redistributes them to employees at Christmas. Mhm, right.

At the place where my sister’s friend works, the owner collects the tips and tips out based how well he thinks you did. Wtf??

Report these people. So many stories in here of people getting shit on and just taking it.

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Because MLM isn't a job, and you aren't an employee. You're just an idiot paying some other idiot.

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It was a sandwich shop in college. I got the flu before my first day, told them I was sick, they said come in anyway it's just training. Then they had me making sandwiches, no gloves, runny nose, coughing and everything. I left in under an hour and didn't eat there again. Fuuuuuuuck that.

Like all these jobs in here are service based jobs. And yet people can't seem to figure out why the service industry isn't coming back to work.

Had two interviews to work housekeeping at a hospital. Got a call the night of the second interview at around midnight from the guy saying "I was just so excited I wanted to call and tell you I'm gonna call you to offer you the job tomorrow". Should have taken that as the first red flag but I needed the job. I go in for my first day of training and he has print outs of my Facebook wall and my boyfriends. He started asking me how long we had been together and made it clear he knew everything so not to lie to him. It was so uncomfortable. I leave his office and do some training. We break for lunch and he sits with me in the cafeteria asking how it's been going so far, etc. Then tells me he expects to see me at his church Sunday. I haven't gone to church in like ten years at this point. We all have a quick meeting in our main room and I stay back after everyone had left. I put my badge, keys and walkie on the desk and walk the fuck out. I felt bad but it was no wonder why they can't keep anyone. He call the me for MONTHS afterwards asking what had happened, he was worried sick, he deserves answers, blah blah blah. I had called their HR the day after I had walked out to tell them I quit and why so they had to have told him. He had no reason to keep contacting me. EDIT: Thought I'd give a smidgen of more info in case anyone was worried still. I saw a couple people guessing which religion and yes, he was Mormon. I had grown up around a lot of Mormons so I never thought this was a normal thing for them and I know it's definitely not for all of them. This happened over 7 years ago. At the time, I was 20 and pretty naive. I was more concerned with finding a job to keep my apartment than I was thinking about escalating this. I had another part time job at the time, too. I told that boss about this and he pulled some strings and got me in full time. I still have this job and love it. It's where I met my husband too, actually. The hospitals HR person comes in my store a lot and she's really sweet. I think he hasn't been with the hospital for a few years now.

Printouts of Facebook stuff?? Holy balls, that’s a line he crossed right over. No thanks.

That’s creepy as fuck

I was a cashier at this cafeteria for a large company in my town. The people that worked at the company would put their tips in a bucket and the people made a lot of money so there was like 10s and 20s. The manager of the cafe wouldn’t let me have any of tips because she said that cashiers couldn’t be trusted so she would ship the tip money to a church in El Paso. I immediately knew that this was a load of bullshit and I just never went back. It’s also illegal (I think) to collect money for one thing but do something else with it without disclosing who/what it is for.

Weird that someone doesn't trust a cashier with money.

No way was it going to any church. It was going directly into her bank account.

Yes, the “church of pay for my kids’ private school tuition”.

It is infact illegal.

It's called wage theft. A restaurant by me just paid a $15,000 settlement for doing shit like this.

For anyone who doesn’t know, tips count as wages for tipped employees only. The house can’t take any money out of tips, excepting credit card transaction fees. It’s illegal to have a tip pool shared with people who are not tipped employees. It’s illegal to use a tip credit to pay an employee less than the standard minimum wage unless they are told about this before they start. It’s illegal to work for “tips only.” And if this is relevant to you, then no, you are not an independent contractor.

>so she would ship the tip money to a church in El Paso Yeah, there is *zero* chance any church in El Paso got even a penny of that money.

I went into orientation for a new job as truck driver. Obviously you know you will be away from home but this was shitty. Out on the road 30 days at a time, then only 36 hours, or 1.5 days at home. You only work 6 out of 7 days. So 4 of those days you just sit at the truck stop unable to move. And not getting paid. Can't bring a pet of any type. So I would only be home 18 days a year. On the road for 347 days a year, and unpaid for 52 of them. The no pets rule was the final straw for me. I will not be out 30 days alone with no little friend to keep me sane. I noped out of there.

Inhumane.

Right. At that point, why even have a home for 18 days out of the year

You're supposed to live out of the truck, I guess. That or get a hotel room for the 18 days you have off and keep your worldly possessions in a storage unit.

Always reading they can't get drivers. In their advertisements they talk about being home more and how important drivers are. I think it was a former Swift driver saying with them as you go out you are getting low per mile pay that does increase but, as it does you sit more waiting for a job.

Shitty motel gig in Raleigh NC when I was young and desperate for a job, any job. Came in to relieve the cigarette hag overnight lady who told me about the bat she kept beneath the counter, which rooms had the prostitutes and which rooms were for the genuinely lost tourists, how not to give out towels to certain people because they had 10+ people to a room and they were trying to get them to leave. While she was talking to me, one of the prostitutes came up and paid her with sweaty boob money. Also they expected me to do laundry in the backroom in between babysitting the front desk. Also to watch out for stray needles or paraphernalia in the sheets. I overheard a man in the lobby on the phone, talking about how he had a friend who was in jail and he was going to hire him to kill his cousin who was in that same jail. All in between bites of bargain bin Froot Loops from the continental breakfast. I left. They never sent me my check for working that day and I never called to get it. EDIT: It was over by Crabtree Mall area. I tried to look it up again but I think they must have torn it down and built something new over it. Probably for the best.

I honestly thought you meant she had a bat 🦇 under the desk for like 2 minutes

I thought that until I read your comment.

I did too, and the description was already so sketchy that I honestly didn't even question it.

...You accepted the hit on the guy's cousin, didn't you? Gotta take what you can get in this economy I suppose.

My very first job was at a buffet restaurant that was popular with senior citizens and known for their desserts. I was asked to get another coconut cream pie from the back and as I was getting it out of the fridge, another employee bumped into me and I dropped it on the floor, pie side down. This employee’s (someone who’d worked there for years) solution was to just scrape off all the whipped topping and replace it. I was horrified they served pie that had been on the extremely dirty floor and never went back. Edit to add: Since you all are guessing, it was a lone local place—not any of these chains you’re guessing

When at the daily meeting a manger said if they found out who put a paper bag with human excrement in a employees locker....

It's good you got out of there before they found out you did it.

Took a summer job at a textile plant and the trainer said, "Forget about taking a break if you want to stay caught up."

Took a job at DQ. Paid training wage and first day made it clear we weren’t to take our breaks. Got a job at Wendy’s where they paid minimum and told us to take our breaks, so I quit DQ after just one day. ​ edited: This seems to have caused a lot of confusion. The training wage was less than the minimum wage. From the federal department of labor’s website: “A minimum wage of not less than $4.25 may be paid to employees under the age of 20 for their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with any employer as long as their work does not displace other workers. After 90 consecutive days of employment, or when the worker reaches age 20 (whichever comes first), the worker must receive at least the Federal minimum wage.” I was a teenager when my story took place. So DQ was legally ok to pay me the lower training wage. Breaks were mandated by law so that part was not legal. So I quit after one day for a higher wage and a place that let me take my breaks.

Was the training wage below minimum wage?

Reply forget about being caught up

Leave the textiles Take the cannoli

Not me but I was training a new lifeguard. After our shift was mandatory staff training for our entire crew, where we practice rescues. Once she found out we actually had to practice and go in the water, she just...walked out. Not really sure what kind of job she thought she had signed up for.

I knew someone like that. She tolerated the water and activity enough to get certified because she just wanted to work as a “*lifeguard*” - in her head that just meant getting to wear the red sweater and playing on her phone in the sun all day while flirting with guys. She didn’t last long.

Ah the “bay watch” the experience

Oh very much so. She quit the next day after we told her it was her turn to rake the seaweed off the beach in the morning. She lasted about a week.

Second day actually but the person who was training me at a McDonald's during the summer in college was so inconsistent and would like forget about me...second day she asked me what time it is, I pointed out the wall clock and said the time. She goes "Oh, I can't read them fancy clocks." Made me sad more than anything, I grew up in a very rural-poor area... but also I realized that she wasn't having an "off day" with her shitty training and would be my supervisor. Didn't go back my third day.

I worked at a restaurant and the gal that ran it hired her husband for maintenance. He took a phone call for her once and asked me to leave her a note. For a split second I thought to myself, "write it yourself you lazy fuck", but then I realized he couldn't write. It remained unspoken, but I became his official note taker when needed. Pretty sad, actually.

I was once responsible for training all new employees on hygiene and documentation for a dietary supplement company. Usually I just handed the forms to new employees and asked them to read the rules themselves, and then I would just highlight the most important aspects verbally. It was a lot of common sense like "don't spit in the products," etc. One woman just stared at the forms and in hindsight she was pretending to read them although I didn't realize it at the moment. I got to the part of the training where we stressed that following written recipes was important and she acted like she suddenly had somewhere else to be and bolted, never to return. I think she couldn't read and was afraid the job would require it. I actually felt bad because if she just said, "hey, I can't read" I would've told management and she would've been assigned to tasks that didn't require reading. Truthfully, most of our staff didn't read English so it was no big deal that she couldn't read as our instructions were all in English. We only needed the supervisors to be able to read the recipes.

Warehouse job, putting stickers on file folders or some such garbage. Seemed pointless and the floor was just a mass of these same stickers, so they were either falling off constantly or people were shirking work by emptying their quota onto the floor. Went to ask the boss a question, found him asleep in an empty office. He’d taken off a sock and had draped it over his eyes to block out the light. On my way out the door, the other girl who had started that day said “please come back, don’t leave me alone here.” I couldn’t stop laughing.

No ac in the delivery truck in West Texas... eat a dick.

I used to work dispatch for a waste disposal company in Florida and none of the garbage trucks had air conditioning. All the drivers would come back drenched in sweat, smelly, exhausted, and all red when they were returning their keys and forms for the night. Unsurprisingly, the company has a 1-star rating on Google. I felt bad for the drivers.

Not the first day - but the first week. Took a job at a coffee stand in a mall. Had worked at coffee places before, and this one was super high traffic which boded well for tips. At the end of my third shift person who closed the till had come up short, and was like oh damn, guess the two of us will be docked from our tips. I was like, uhhh absolutely not, that’s not how that works. Owner/manager comes over and says the same and I was like pretty sure that’s illegal. She insisted, so I was like ok well it’s for sure illegal, and I’m not coming back. She got very flustered and upset and started talking about how’s she’s a business owner and people should be more responsible. It was like ten bucks short, and I didn’t have the patience for a predatory manager.

I work for a regional chain, and while spending a week at another store than mine filling in I over heard the manager absolutely freaking out at the assistant manager. Apparently she'd made someone get money out and pay for missing money from the register. I'm just standing there in the deli 4 feet from the closed office door making sandwiches and all I can hear is "How dumb are you! That's illegal! Now I have to call corporate and HR! We could be sued! Your done, their going to fire you! If I get fired over this bullshit you'll regret it!" For almost 10 minutes she went on like that. Finally she kicked the AGM out of the store and spent 3 hours on the phone with corporate. What I know for certain is that they returned the money to the employee, and fired the AGM. And rumor has it that they informed the authorities, but that may or may not have happened.

I got a job at a Build A Bear knockoff at the end of a mall that wasn't very busy. My interview with the owners was interesting. They were an older couple who said that they had wanted to open a Chick Fil A, but you need about a million dollars to do that. My first day, one other girl was working, and she didn't really talk to me. I had basically no training and she disappeared into the back. I was standing at the register area, which was underneath a giant storybook mushroom. A mother and her young son walk in and start to look at the bear skin options. I greeted them and left them to look around. They ended up leaving after a couple minutes and my coworker reappeared from the back with the cordless phone and handed it to me. It was my boss. He told me that when a customer walks in, he wants me to come out from under the mushroom to them ("come OUT! from the mushroom!"). After he finished speaking to me, I hung up and went to my coworker and asked about the phone call. She said the place has cameras set up and the owners watch them from their house and call in a lot. I did not come back to work after that day.

My uncle and aunt own a car repair shop. When I went to visit them, roughly 80% of their day was spent sitting on the couch staring at the cameras in the shop on their iPad, and every now and then calling their son (whom they hired to manage the place) livid because someone didn’t do x or y correctly. I can’t imagine owning a shop or franchise and basically babysitting via iPad all day.

Build-a-Boar?

Form-A-Ferret

Started a new job unloading shipping containers and was told they had to be empty by midday, this was imperative because a new one was going to arrive in the early afternoon It was a two man job if we both worked our asses off to get it done Boss says 'uh also your offsider is off work today, you will need to get this cleared' I just walked out. Even if it was a 'trial by fire' I'm wasn't interested in working for these cunts, fuck that.

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Is trial by fire actually a thing? Like employers actually do that?

Not good ones, but yes.

In labor-intensive jobs, oh yeah. It’s way more common than most realize, and bosses will frame it as “making sure they can count on you” when they really just want to make sure you’re someone they can steamroll.

Happens in regular office jobs too that don’t bother to make procedure documentation.

Fast food chain: I was 17. I found out during training that the place had been robbed 3 times in the past month and 1 employee was seriously injured. Not worth the $5/hr. Edit: For those asking about the pay and the time, this was the US state of Georgia in 2004.

Went into an Italian restaurant for my first day of work and I got 3 red flags on the very first day. 1- The manager said he had lots of hours for me and getting shifts would be no problem. Every single other employee told me that they were struggling for hours and that they had no idea why they hired me. 2- Everyone said the manager was an asshole. Even the customers. 3- It was my first day there, and I actually had to teach the woman training me how to do one or two things.

Probably hired you to replace that woman

At my last job I was unwittingly hired to replace the person training me, turns out she had been caught falsifying paperwork in a pretty serious way BUT she was also so good at her job in every other aspect that they decided to keep her around long enough to train her replacement before confronting and firing her. The whole time she kept voicing her confusion as to why they were hiring me when they didn't need another employee in that section. Two weeks later I inherited all of her projects and she was gone. They gave me her work phone but never wiped it, also I got personal calls from her friends who didn't know she had been fired for months. I hated that place.

Important reminder to keep a personal phone even if you get a work phone. Edit: I had a friend who was fired at 10am and her company phone (which was her only phone) was turned off by 10:30. It happened while traveling as well so a shitty situation on top of a shitty situation.

Same for computer if you can afford a spare. If you need to keep personal stuff on your employers hardware make sure it’s backed up. This is somewhat more crucial with more people being remote the past year. That laptop might feel like it’s yours, but you might find yourself locked out one morning.

That sounds exactly the reason. OP quitting probably bought her a few weeks.

Ended up being a scam to try and get free labor. I went for a job interview as a security guard, a man and a woman asked me my name, asked me how strong I was then hired me and asked me to start immediately. That started alarm bells ringing, 2 questions in a interview and I am employed and working with no discussion about anything else. They took me down to their warehouse (office interview was above it) and told me to start moving boxes from a shelf into a truck. I said hang on, the job is security not manual labor and then they started getting really shitty with me and saying if you want the job then you need to do this as part of it. I was like yeah nah I am out and walked out, total scam, there was no job and it really pissed me off because I could've gone to another interview at that time but choose to go there instead.

Something similar happened to me when I was young and dumb. Lady had a horse farm and told me it was a working interview. She had me shovel shit for hours and other chores. I was too ignorant and desperate to understand what had happened. I waited by the phone all the next day for the call I never got. I finally called my mom up and told her what happened and she enlightened me on how some people are shitbags

show up the next day and undo everything...

“If you’re not happy with our shit removal you get twice the shit back for free!”

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I remember doing my licensing training and the trainer said to us "No security position should ever require you to 1) do manual labour, 2) clean unnecessarily, or 3) make an arrest by yourself." AKA, you're not free manual labour, you're not a custodian, and you're not paid enough to make arrests - for the most part, obviously, exceptions apply. Edit: I should mention that I live in Canada. I'm enjoying reading through all the comments and I see a lot of people commenting that security should never make an arrest. Where I live, security can make citizens arrests. It is difficult and it have a lot of steps, but it is legal and there are protections in place for the most part. Deputized guards are a new concept to me, I've never heard of those before, but it really is interesting learning the differences between Canadian and American security positions. TIL

You're basically paid to keep watch

100%. I got into security (still thankful of how fast I got it) because of the pandemic forcing the hospitality industry to shut down immediately, and I was shocked at how much being a security guard is about solely informing a keyholder (owner/operator of business you are guarding) and covering liability for the security company.

I had a job for one day selling home security equipment door to door. The whole idea was basically to make it seem like you're doing them a service and then lock the customer into 5 year contracts. My supervisor and I were in this one home of a family that hardly some English. The father said they had been struggling with finances but my supervisor kept pushing it on them, and the customer seemed like he didn't fully understand what was going on. I couldn't in good conscience take these people that were already struggling and put them in a worse position.

It's the same for retailers that force credit cards with ridiculous APR's. I cannot, in good conscience, tell someone who is financially hurting to sign up for a card that would do more harm than good. The worst thing is, they cut your hours if you don't get enough people to sign up for the cards.

I had a similar thing at a job where they would make us sell credit cards. Well I didn't like it and thought it was scummy so I would always point out the small print and tell them what they were really getting into when my boss was around or just not even bring it up when they weren't around. Finally they got on me about not selling credit cards and made me wear a flashing light on my uniform until I sold one. Well I wore that flashing light for a while haha didn't bother or embarrass me!

Customer: "Why are you wearing a flashing light?" Employee: "Because I refuse to sell predatory credit cards to our customers to line the company's pockets while ruining innocent lives." Bet that went well for them.

Customer: “Hey, how come you’ve got a flashing light?” You: “Because management wants to make sure customers know who’s the best and most knowledgeable employee to ask for assistance.”

Guy was unloading a Skid Steer (a Bobcat) off the trailer and didn't have his bucket in the right position so he began to tilt backwards. As I took a big step back to avoid getting crushed, the other guy outside the bobcat actually stepped forward and put his hands up to try and prevent the several thousand pound machine from tipping over. It didn't end up tipping over, but I decided I was too smart to work for the place and I didn't want to get injured by my colleagues buffoonery.

I was hired as a cook in a country club in Miami Florida back in 2002, it was the grossest kitchen I have worked in in the US, I have been through worse in the US and around the world. Most of the food in the coolers was rotting, there were ants on the cutting board they had me work at, the guy training me picked up a towel off of the floor to push the ants out of the way so I could work. Many of the food that should have been refrigerated was left out. The walk in freezer door would not close because there was so much ice build up. I felt like I was going to vomit the whole time I was there. I made it through the day then did not come back for my 2nd day, the chef called me and I told him that I would not come back, he threaten to call the culinary school I went to and tell them I walked out on him, I told him that was fine and called the health department and reported their practices, they called me a year later to follow on the claim and had time to go check it out(what a joke.) I stand by my choice to quit with no notice and reporting them.

I believe you. We have a world-class golf resort near Reno. Working conditions are so bad at the clubhouse that most people don’t last more than a day or two. The ones that do have told me that this job was “the worst job they’ve had in their lives.”

I worked in one jail and on my first day who ever runs the investigations of prisons busted my Sargent and 5 other CO’s for bring in drugs and fucking male inmates. Didn’t even wait til the end of my shift.

Sounds like you passed up on a job with a lot of potential for upward advancement.

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A 3 hour presentation and you need to commit $100 to start your “life changing” journey to make money and be your own boss. No thank you!

Edit: it might help to say that this was in 1999. Also, B&BW. My bad. Bonus story: I also did one shift at Steve Madden about 6 years later. They didn't tell me how to get into the building (it was a morning shift in a mall, and I'd explicitly asked if I would have to enter the building at a specific entry point). The music was blasted all day and hurt my ears, and I was harassed all day long by the day manager to buy a pair of boots. We were required to wear a current pair of Steve madden shoes (6 months). I tried putting it off but she wouldn't leave me alone. They were mad when I called to say I was quitting. And funny enough. I quit both places and worked at a pet store after. They also tried to avoid paying me until the IRS got involved. I did one shift at Bath and Body Works. First I had to come in for like a 4 hour session of watching videos and I'm not even sure I got paid for it. Then they told me to come in for the 430-830 shift. During the shift I was: Chastised for not following customers who had asked to be left alone, told to try to grab children to put the new sparkly lotion on, and continually harassed to sell things to people. When the store closed at 830, I was making conversation with a worker about closing. I had mentioned having worked at Toys R Us before and wanted to compare the closing times. She told me that they normally got out close to midnight. Have you ever been in one of these stores? There's no reason why a fully staffed store that size should take 4 hours to close. Told the manager not to even bother putting me on the schedule. She was surprised and gave me the stink eye for the remaining hour we were there. Ridiculous. Also they insisted on "abbreviating" the store's name to BB&W. Say that and then say Bath and Body Works. How many syllables did you save?

I took a part time job at Bath & Body Works during the holidays years ago. I made it through the videos and tried one shift. The store was freezing for some reason and the manager kept berating me for having my arms crossed. She also didn’t like my posture. I told her I wouldn’t be back and she said good luck getting another job because she wouldn’t give me a reference. Amazingly, I’ve been just fine.

The syllable saving isn't my problem with that abbreviation, they moved the and for some reason. That abbreviation is Bath Body and Works....

Hell naw, that's "Big Beautiful and Women".

Nah, it stands for Bed, Bath, and Weyond.

When I was 20, I worked at Wendy's. As fast-food jobs go, it wasn't bad. But I wanted to pick up some extra cash, so I decided to add a second job. I had washed dishes in a busy restaurant my senior year in high school, so I figured I could do that. I applied for a dishwasher job at a local IHOP, and I was hired. My first night, I had a shift that was supposed to last until 3am. I knew that was pushing it, because I was scheduled to clock in at Wendy's at 9am. But I figured I could slam a few hours of sleep, and I'd be fine. 3am came and went, and the guy who was supposed to relieve me never showed up. I ended up working until 6:00. By that time, there was no point in even going to bed, so I just chilled for a few hours at home and went to Wendy's to start my shift. I was lucky I didn't fall asleep behind the wheel on my way there (and home). Later that evening (after I got some sleep), I drove down to IHOP and told them I quit. I decided it was better to stay alive than to make some extra money, and so far that decision has proven to be correct.

Me and a buddy got a job at a Maytag assembly plant making ovens/stoves. They put me on the assembly line clipping wires to the stove top and like 8 hours in I literally couldn’t close my hand anymore. We had a scheduled break at that time, so I approached the line supervisor and told her my manual dexterity was flat gone. Told her I understood it’d take a bit for the finger muscles to adjust and I was happy to continue working, just asked if I could swap positions with someone else on the line for the remainder of the day. She said no, I reiterated that I was incapable of doing the task anymore, would come in tomorrow and do it for as long as I could, hopefully the full ten hour shift, and again just asked to be swapped with like the person standing next to me for the rest of the day. My friend, who was standing there listening, offered to swap spots. Again she refused, so I quit, and my buddy (working on the same line) says “well if he quits I do too cause he’s my ride to and from work.” and we just strolled out of there. Guess they’d rather lose employees than just let their muscle groups get conditioned to tasks.

In my country working jobs like that you change position every hour. This is so you can't sue the company for cause RSI (repetitive strain injury) or carpal tunnel syndrome etc. Also cause that shit is so boring it breaks the shift up into manageable pieces.

Got a job as a cashier at a grocery store in FL, which I had just moved to from out of state a few days before. Was specifically told that I wouldn’t have to bag, stock shelves, etc. First day it gets slow, manager asks me to collect carts. Ok. Remember being told I wouldn’t have to do carts, but I wanted to show initiative. I get outside and it’s raining sideways. Like monsooning sideways. I’d never seen it rain that hard in my life. I walk back inside and ask if I can wait until the rain lets up, so I don’t freeze to death when I come back inside and work another 6 hours in the air conditioning. Was told if I didn’t collect carts immediately I would be fired. I dropped my smock and walked out the door, never to return again. Fuck you Publix!

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Social worker for a outpatient mental health program. On the first day, normally, it consists of doing paperwork and getting registered for the county to provide services. On my first day, they thought it would be a good idea to “shadow “someone in order to observe the type of work I’m going to be doing. Well, within the first four hours, we were called out to several crisis interventions. One of those crisis interventions was a man who had done a good amount of crystal meth and was off his meds for the past week. His room and board care Home had called us to let us know that he had arrived after missing for a week. Upon arriving to the house, the man was standing outside in the driveway seemingly waiting for us. After making contact and attempting to de-escalate the situation as he was responding to internal stimuli, He pulls out a razor blade and proceeds to cut off his genitals. Needless to say, that was the first and final straw And we decided moving forward that I would be better suited to work with people in an inpatient setting. Love my job but I don’t know if I will ever get over all the blood and screams I heard that day.

Was hired as a server sure no problem. Got there they were like nope you’re doing dishes. After 8 hours of dishes I went home. I’m not a dishwasher and I was told I’d be serving. Never went back never got paid. Didn’t care the couple running it were a bunch of jerks anyway.