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post 10000147818 05-01-2026, 05:06 AM
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Shortest time that you've spent at a job.

Just one day for me. Low level cold calling job in run down office. I even told one of the sub managers that I didn't want the job by about 3pm. Misunderstood job when I applied, and had no interest working there.

Was temping at another place for 3 weeks or so.
Cook the man some eggs!
post 10000147822 05-01-2026, 05:10 AM
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I sold insurance for about a month before I got activated to go to Iraq. I left the office that day and just didn't return the next day. Didn't tell anyone I wasn't coming in.
post 10000147825 05-01-2026, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted By hendrixfreak70
I sold insurance for about a month before I got activated to go to Iraq. I left the office that day and just didn't return the next day. Didn't tell anyone I wasn't coming in.
That's wild because they're legally required to hold your job while you're deployed. Some employers will even maintain your benefits and profit sharing. And at union jobs you'll keep moving up in seniority.
post 10000147828 05-01-2026, 05:14 AM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective
That's wild because they're legally required to hold your job while you're deployed. Some employers will even maintain your benefits and profit sharing.
Dang! I guess I never thought about that back then. It was with Liberty National. It was a small base salary and then mostly commission. I didn't really like the job but the first two paychecks got us out of a lot of debt. My mindset was I didn't want to have to work a ton before I was about to leave the wife. We had been married about two months at the time.
post 10000147834 05-01-2026, 05:21 AM
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Landscaping job in my teens for one summer.

But for an official W2 job, I’ve never lasted less than 2 years srs.
post 10000147845 05-01-2026, 05:37 AM
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30 minutes to an hr. Low level sales job, where you're given a manuscript etc and when one call is done, the system just calls another prospect.
post 10000147890 05-01-2026, 06:24 AM
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one summer in college I got a job at a direct mailing house...I stuffed 8 pieces of literature into an 11 X 14" envelope 8 hours a day for 2 months.....
post 10000147895 05-01-2026, 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted By steffo99
30 minutes to an hr. Low level sales job, where you're given a manuscript etc and when one call is done, the system just calls another prospect.
i thought i had everyone beat by 2 hours at a sheet metal union job. i was under the impression i would be putting my welding skills to work but that wasnt the work. plus i didnt realize how gay unioners were bunch of wiggers vaping and acting stupid. i left for 10 oclock break and never returned. best thing i ever did cuz i got into forestry after tht
Trust me when I say, the FEDs are watching.

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post 10000147901 05-01-2026, 06:35 AM
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7 months

I got fired and was running out of money so took a job selling foreign exchange contracts

It was awful … 100 cold calls a day and I sucked at it
post 10000147914 05-01-2026, 06:43 AM
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4 months and I honestly feel like it was two months too long
Not in the AM
post 10000147939 05-01-2026, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted By MustardTiger17
4 months and I honestly feel like it was two months too long
Actually, this for me as well. It was fuking miserable.
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post 10000147987 05-01-2026, 08:14 AM
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I’ve never had a job nor have I ever even applied to a job
Oh Wow!
post 10000147993 05-01-2026, 08:21 AM
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When I was in college, I took a job at the best Country Club in my area as an assistant server. Worked there for the Summer, and then was still kinda hanging on grabbing some extra shifts once the Fall semester started up. There was one day some old lady who was a total loser and had been a server there for like 20 years started trying to be a bitch and order me around, and I kinda said fuck it and walked out mid shift and never came back.

This is one trait that has been engrained in me sometime during my life that has been a major benefit. Never get in a habit of taking orders from low status insecure people. If you ever find yourself in a position where these people feel comfortable trying to place themselves above you, it's time to move along.
post 10000148002 05-01-2026, 08:33 AM
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Your mom gave me a blow job does that count
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post 10000148011 05-01-2026, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted By TFcrew
I’ve never had a job nor have I ever even applied to a job
Based af
post 10000148027 05-01-2026, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted By johnvee73
Your mom gave me a blow job does that count
Cook the man some eggs!
post 10000148029 05-01-2026, 09:04 AM
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0.00 seconds

I probably win
post 10000148030 05-01-2026, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted By TFcrew
I’ve never had a job nor have I ever even applied to a job
Based! same.
post 10000148066 05-01-2026, 09:47 AM
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A lot of companies will tell you what you want to hear to get your hired on, but once you get there you find out real fast it's all BS. Get everything in writing is a good tip, but even then, there are a lot of things you can't put into writing. A big red flag is if the person you are dealing who you are interviewing with and doing your onboarding is in a "recruiter" role. I know it's work, it's not going to be all sunshine and rainbows, but there is a point of deception and what I consider fraud.

Got hired at this one place and after a couple hours of working they pulled me in and said they couldn't pay me what they originally quoted me, but after 90 days they would give me a dollar raise instead of the fifty cents raise we discussed. It was fifty cents an hour lower for that first 90 days. I'm not going to work for 90 days so they can lie to me again. Clocked out and left. Owner even called back later and said he could make that fifty cents happen now. The icing on the cake was it was a privately owned business and the owner telling me this, as though he had to go through some corporation. Bro, you make the rules, you are the policy.

I have walked out of orientation twice.
post 10000148089 05-01-2026, 10:01 AM
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Bussed at a restaurant for one day when I was 15. That's all it took for me to realize I never wanted to do that ever again in my life srs.
post 10000148091 05-01-2026, 10:02 AM
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post 10000148094 05-01-2026, 10:04 AM
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post 10000148099 05-01-2026, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted By Silence3
On the other end I’ve never lasted longer than 4 years in any job. And in that job I only lasted that long because I was making tons of money and my boss was awesome. But I still quit after 4 years lmao
My longest stint with one employer was 13.5 years. Got made redundant and got a respectable package at the end of those 13.5 years.
Cook the man some eggs!
post 10000148445 05-01-2026, 01:18 PM
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2 hours. Realized they wanted bodies to go around different neighborhoods "Canvassing for doners for some bs charity". Dipped out without saying bye.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
post 10000148452 05-01-2026, 01:25 PM
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4 hours of work

I guess an employee for a week

Then they tried to not pay me. I had to harass them to get paid


It was a Subway. The sandwich shop. It was a franchise location and the owner was an idiot

Came in the first day for "training" for 4 hours. But it was essentially training as you go, said I would make practice sandwiches but every sandwich I made they sold and learning the register on the fly.

Promised me eventually I would get a schedule and to just wait.

The next week She still wouldn't give me a schedule..she essentially wanted me to be on call for a minimum wage job. She called me up one day at like 9am and wanted me to come in that day for 2 hours only to cover lunch rush and I told her that is ridiculous just send me my check

This is when min wage was like 5 bucks an hour. I am
Not going to be on call to come in on short notice to make 10 dollars pre taxes. She is fucking crazy

Then I had to keep calling because they never entered me in the payroll system and she eventually sent me a personal check. She wasn't going. To pay me.


Oh and she had more than one location. I saw the sign at the one close to my house, applied there and then when I got the job was told it was for the store 10 miles away across a toll bridge. The only thing good about it was all the hbbs in bikinis coming in from the beach
Send her to Papi Chulos
post 10000148521 05-01-2026, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted By Sigmund_Evil
i thought i had everyone beat by 2 hours at a sheet metal union job. i was under the impression i would be putting my welding skills to work but that wasnt the work. plus i didnt realize how gay unioners were bunch of wiggers vaping and acting stupid. i left for 10 oclock break and never returned. best thing i ever did cuz i got into forestry after tht
I remember when I worked for a hvac company they used to hire “welders” and put them to work digging ditches and whatnot lol
post 10000148628 05-01-2026, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted By Basedbabyy
I remember when I worked for a hvac company they used to hire “welders” and put them to work digging ditches and whatnot lol
their "welders" were just tackers and hardly did any welding
Trust me when I say, the FEDs are watching.

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post 10000148659 05-01-2026, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted By Sigmund_Evil
their "welders" were just tackers and hardly did any welding
This is why I can’t take welding serious as a career option everybody thinks there gonna make so much money welding then half of them end up doing something completely different
post 10000148665 05-01-2026, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted By Basedbabyy
This is why I can’t take welding serious as a career option everybody thinks there gonna make so much money welding then half of them end up doing something completely different
it is a srs career u just need to be a on the road stick welder/mobile heavy equipment welder or high pressure pipe welder. if ur stuck in a shop every day with a mig welder ur just a monkey anyone can do that. being on the road with a stick welder is problem solving
Trust me when I say, the FEDs are watching.

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The great journey waits for nobody.

post 10000148673 05-01-2026, 04:19 PM
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I think it was four hours. Selling newspaper subscriptions over the phone (yes, I'm that old).

Went in for my first shift, they gave me a script and had me start autodialing. Most people hung up on me, a couple actually let me get past the first few words. On the first break I heard people talking about their jobs and it sounded like hell so I just walked away. Didn't even bother to ask about getting paid.
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