Ask Lemmy

Yeah, because the shitheads lied about the job.

"Oh, yeah, you have to go to remote sites, but the average is only about a 20 minute commute."

And then once they gave me the job, they assigned me nothing but clients that were all 60+ minutes out of town. I interviewed with other companies on the clock and then quit with no notice.

Fucking assholes.

Sounds like a burned bridge. Be careful if you burn too many you'll be stuck alone on an island

Stringing them along and wasting more of their time and money was the not a dick option? I'd say that's the be more of a dick option. I'm all for walking out on a shitty job, but it sounds like their worst crime was not giving you as good an offer as somewhere else.

Yeah I’ve done this a few times. I used to work in construction, so jobs would often not be quite what they seemed from the job description, and sometimes the hiring people would lie. At one former job, I found out I was getting paid less than I was told in the interview, so I walked out. One job I worked for a day or two until we had to go up on a roof with bare joists and no one tied off. When I mentioned safety concerns they called me a pussy so I walked off. Nothing is worth falling off a roof into a bunch of construction debris.

I once quit during orientation.

I was a nurse's assistant. Was looking for better pay than what I had. Applied to a nursing home. They jumped at a big dude with experience.

So, it comes to orientation. We're doing a tour of the place, being given the usual "here's the gloves, here's the laundry" look-see.

This is during the early morning. We come down one hall, and there's patients sitting, naked, in the halls in shower chairs. There's feces on a couple of them. There's feces under some of them.

The admin giving the tour just walks past like this is normal and acceptable.

I'm getting kinda pissed, but I figured that if they were hiring this hard, maybe it wasn't the norm.

We turn the corner, and there's a fucking patient being slapped. Repeatedly.

I flip my shit, start moving towards the douche doing the slapping. It's the fucking director of nursing for the place.

I saw that name tag and told her to expect a call from every damn agency I could think of.

I walked the fuck out, right to a pay phone and called the cops. It didn't amount to anything, since there were obviously witnesses that said I was full of shit.

But the state agencies and dss were not so lax. The place ended up shut down until it got sold to some chain company.

I was desperate for a job after I had started over in a new city. I had a month to figure out how to pay next months rent. I got a call from Little Caesars to come interview, and as much as I despise food work, I felt I had little other choice.

They put me on the dough for my first day. It was hot and awful. Boring AF too. $8.00/hr. I got a phone call after "lunch" and it was for an interview to run a boost mobile on the other side of town... I walked straight out of Little Caesars and was hired the next day at Boost, which was more to my liking.

Once upon a time I got a job working at a swimming pool supply store. For a total of about 15 min during my very first shift I was in the main room putting price stickers on things and whatnot. For the remaining hours of my shift I was back in the chlorine room filling up chlorine tanks. Tbf the pool store was following regulations as far as I know. I had goggles and gloves and the room had a big ventilation fan and all that. But even still, I got chlorine all over my skin and clothes and was perpetually dehydrated from the fumes. Had to run to the water fountain like a million times. Afterwards I decided there was no way I was going to work with chlorine all day every day until it killed me so the next day I came in and asked the manager if there was any way I could do other work and not be in the chlorine room. He was like, “unfortunately that’s the job”. So I told him, “ok I understand. In that case I don’t think this is going to work out. Thanks for the opportunity though!” And I left after only one shift. Shortest job I ever had.