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What was the shortest amount of time you have lasted at a job? What was the reason why you left so soon?

After graduation my parents immediately forced me to either go to college or to get a job. Not knowing what I wanted to study I decided to get a job. I worked at a sub shop and I lasted not even two months due to being dumped on by the other employees. I was one of the youngest there by far and I felt completely dumped on by the other employees. The majority of them liked to hide in the back and laze about and I was forced to be out there by myself on the floor because someone has to be out there. I was hired as a closer which wasn't a huge deal but I got saddled with doing the lobby every night on top of the lions share of closing tasks. There was this one guy in particular who gave me the hardest time over every single thing under the sun and even the moon and stars. He would nitpick my sweeping and mopping even though I did nothing wrong. He would make me redo it or yell at me for having too much water on the floor when I rang out the mop to begin with prior to mopping. He yelled at me for not taking apart the tea containers which I had no idea about because I was never told nor shown. He yelled at me over how I did the dishes because I accidentally missed a spot on a large bin that held shredded lettuce during the day. This kid thought he was a hotshot and he was the same age as me if memory serves correctly. Every chance he got to make me feel stupid he happily took.

I decided to put my notice in because I was sick of being treated like a whipping boy and I had found another job elsewhere that paid more. My boss was shocked I put my notice in and asked me how come and when I told him he couldn't believe that the guy in question was a problem because nobody else complained about him. He said I didn't have to leave because of him and he wanted to keep me on but my mind was made up. On my last day there I was stuck doing dishes like usual and accidentally dumped water on the ground pulling the tea container out of the soapy water to rinse and scrub. It was accidental and of course bully boy saw it and shouted at me for it. I told him it wasn't intentional and that he was lucky I even showed up for my last day and that I could leave right now. After I clocked out for the last time I never went back to that place not even as a customer. Nope.
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JRVanguard · 26-30, M
3 weeks or so from a petroleum testing lab
The job was the exact opposite of what I was looking for but a family friend got it for me so my parents were really pushing for me to stay but I was miserable
The absolute worst job I ever had
They didn’t train me at all and then would try to hold me responsible for not knowing the things they didn’t train me (and these weren’t like obvious things, some of these tests were ridiculously convoluted) and I did bring up my concerns and they said they would address them at the end of week meeting we always had and when the time came they tried turning it all back on me
So I left