After a discussions with some friends last night we were talking about the shortest time we had been in a particular job for, mine was the shortest.

I was sacked after working only 6 hours because " I wasn't geling with the team"

It was a b****y sandwich shop for gawds sake, how much "geling" do you need.

So can anyone beat 6 hours.

Are you sure it was for lack of gelling and not because you put too much axle grease on the sandwiches. :P

I might have done if I'd known they were going to sack me

Unfortunately not. Day and a half is the most for me. Decided to go back home that lunch!

Mine was just a day, i was doing some call centre work and i hated it so i phoned up next day and quit!
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a paddle boat attentant when i was 14!!!

i was pushed in the boating pool by a trailer trash liverpudlian girl and filled my waders.............

i left after 30 minutes

I remember when I was an oompa loompa... that was short! :D

2 1/2 months is mine working for a computer company in Milton Keynes. I hated the owner, he hated me. We got on like a gallon of 4 star and a zippo.

I was so glad to hand in my notice, which I did with a gleeful grin on my face, and get out of there. From what I understand some of the no account non entities are still there ........ 6 years on! :loopy:

I worked at that Bassetts allsorts factory in Hillsbrough for about 3 hours, I left at lunch time. Didnt bother going back for more misery.

When I was about 15, started work at a place that sold wallpaper, the owner showed me to the store room and told me to tidy it up....it was an absolute tip! I stoppped for a couple of hours before I'd had enough!

Well I think this will take some beating!

I worked for coldseal windows for 1 hour!
It was in the telesales bit (yes I know but I was desperate)
I saw the advert for telesales £7:50 an hour. When I got there they said it was £4:50 an hour, I didn't say anything, I was too embarrassed and desperate for a job.

Anyway they gave me this induction thing and then said 'right off you go, we'll try you out for one hour, to see if you like it and to see how you get on, if you do continue with the shift'

Well after reading the 'script' and calling people for an hour I had to leave.

They are the most unethical people I have ever come across. In the 'script' it said to try and keep them on the phone till they made an appointment, it also stipulated that we should take advantage of certain groups of people, i.e. the elderly and people with mental problems. I was disgusted as they said that as long as they could get someone into the house, they would get them to sign an agreement one way or another.

They also said that if people on the phone said they couldn't afford it, to tell them that they could buy now and pay later, but that wouldn't be in the actual contract, so they could forcibly take the money from them.

Anyway

At the end of the hour I said I was leaving and didn't want to waste any more of their time. When they asked why I was leaving I told them that I couldn't work for people as unethical as them and that it was a disgrace what they were doing. They said that they didn't want me there then if I 'couldn't hack it' and they all started shouting after me that I was pathetic and a loser.

Unbelievable. I have had some really bad jobs but that was just taking the p*ss.

The people who I phoned and who expressed an interest in it, I hung up on, cos I felt sorry for them. I know that was wrong, but I couldn't bear the thought that I would play a part in tricking someone into something, that they didn't really want.


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i worked at fletchers for a very long 3 days, i literally had to remove my brain, it was terrible, 12 long hours!!

The shortest job I had lasted 0 minutes and was one of the worst days of my life.

I was hired by a company as customer service director and quit my old job. On my start date, I walked in and was informed that the job no longer existed. They did a major reorganization and outsourced their customer service functions the day before and apologized that they had not informed me.

If this was not bad enough, I had turned down 3 interviews and another job offer the week before because they had hired me. Needless to say, my old employer would not hire me back and I spent several months trying to find another job and had no income.

:(

I had a job temping at Council Nursing Homes (cooking) and the agency sent me to one Loxley/Stannington way.

There were three wards/corridors served by heated food trolleys, a lunch club for 45 people, sheltered accommodation units in the grounds that the minibus driver took meals to, and the staff in the home and day centre. The lunch club were having a special Christmas menu and half the residents on the wards were diabetic (no one would tell me how many or which ward).

The second cook had booked the week off and the chief cook was off with stress. When I confronted the manageress of the home and asked her to see if the agency could send someone to help the next day she looked at me like I was mad. So I told her that I wouldn't be back the next day and they could sort it out themselves.

The attitude is quite common, people attach little if any importance to the catering and think that it's easy. In contrast I went back time and again to a lovely home for Alzheimers patients where the staff were great and you felt really valued.