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Posted: 4/21/2018 12:12:43 AM EDT

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:13:17 AM EDT

[#1]

3 years

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:14:49 AM EDT

[#2]

33 years (family owned business, it's all I have ever done.)

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:16:30 AM EDT

[#3]

Stayed at my first job out of college for 24 years. 5 years into my second job.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:17:06 AM EDT

[#4]

Right around 90 days

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:17:20 AM EDT

[#5]

Got a job flying a Lear Jet, 10 days later walked out when the owner acted like a lunatic.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:18:36 AM EDT

[#6]

10 min

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:19:10 AM EDT

[#7]

Two months.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:19:49 AM EDT

[#8]

I once decided to not show up to a job I was just hired at the day before. Short of quitting at the interview, I think I'm the winner.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:20:57 AM EDT

[#9]

1 month.

Shitty retail job. Store lost more to theft than it made. Spent the whole time chasing off vibrant locals

Fuckers would steal ONE SHOE. ONE.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:25:02 AM EDT

[#10]

10 days. It was a gyro stand at the state fair.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:25:34 AM EDT

[#11]

Two days as a Fuller Brush salesman.

ETA: Three hours selling red, blue, and gold horns at the UCLA-USC football game (where Gary Beban led us into glorious defeat... because of Zenon andrusyshyn)

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:26:00 AM EDT

[#12]

Bout three weeks

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:26:58 AM EDT

[#13]

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Posted: 4/21/2018 12:27:31 AM EDT

[#14]

About 5 minutes.

The actual job was completely different than what they stated it would be. Didn't want to waste time in a job that gave me zero experience. Asked why, they gave some excuse, and I told them it isn't going to work out.

They seemed to take it in stride, I was a bit miffed.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:27:52 AM EDT

[#15]

One day.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:28:37 AM EDT

[#16]

Made it to lunch on a commerical/track home framing crew. I was about 20-21 at the time left a Custom home crew that was pretty good but pay was average. This company was paying about 20% more. The reason I quit 1 Foreman was drinking on the job, and the crew was shitty. They framed a patio 1' too high so we had to remove all bolts and ledgers and drop it down. While working on that I stepped on a nailer that was held on by 2 nail and almost came off a wall. Told them at lunch didnt think it was going to work out, wasnt worth the extra money to deal with the headaches they had going. Ended up working out well for me. I ended apprenticing as a super intendant and years later starting my own company as a General contractor.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:29:53 AM EDT

[#17]

1 week, machinist reworking fuel nozzles for aircraft. Worst job ever at the time.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:29:59 AM EDT

[#18]

Not counting internships or summer jobs in my first couple years of college, the shortest would have been 6 months. I had planned on 5 months though and told them up front at the interview I was only looking for something temporary between when I left active duty and when I was going back to school. Ended up giving them a little more time than planned. Funny thing was, I didn't really need the job, just did it to earn some bucks. I knew the job was frequently a revolving door for them but they needed someone in it, so at five months when they asked how much longer I could stay, I said, "Start looking now and I'll stick around until you find someone you like. That way you won't have the usual pressure to fill the job with someone you don't think will work out." I thought I was giving them a great deal doing it that way. A month later they had still had no interviews, no ads, no effort to find a replacement. They asked me again how much longer I could stay, and I told them I was gone in two weeks. The office manager said, "Oh....that's pretty soon."

Been at my current job 6 years and change now.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:30:44 AM EDT

[#19]

I have been with the same employer since I was 19, I'm almost 40. Did I win

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:31:04 AM EDT

[#20]

Didnt even show up for my first day.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:31:35 AM EDT

[#21]

1 day.

When I was 19, I decided to get a second job (part time). Didn't really need it, but wanted some extra play money. Got a job as a "kennel keeper" at a local vet's office that also boarded dogs. The job decription said it entailed cleaning kennels, walking dogs, etc. I love dogs and don't mind cleaning. I figured it would be fun.

Turns out they didn't have any dogs boarded and didn't have them very often at all, besides during the summer when people are vacationing. So I spent the day cleaning the office areas and front end. Then also helping hold a dog still for an ultrasound. It was very boring and I told the vet that I was sorry, but I wouldn't be back. He understood.

I went into it expecting and hoping this was gonna be me:

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:31:43 AM EDT

[#22]

8 hours.

Working the ramp at Boeing Field for a corporate jet company. Guy who hired me quit before I started. Promised me the morning shift so I could still fly and go to night classes. Gave my school schedule to the new manager and he said "not gonna work". I worked my shift and said "See ya". Best decision I ever made. The guy was pissed but I told him to fuck off for being a dick the next day on the phone.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:32:39 AM EDT

[#23]

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Posted: 4/21/2018 12:32:39 AM EDT

[#24]

4 1/2 Hours

I had a Journeyman's Electrician license at 17 and a Master's at 19 ( it was all test based back then...you just needed one recommendation and a passing score)
I took a summer job with Brown & Root while in college, on a Nuke Plant project, as a crew leader on a cable pulling and termination crew. I was ignorant back then on what UNION meant.

I show up the first day, meet the three numb nuts on the crew, and get a page of prints with cable runs to be pulled. We knock three short runs of control cables out before noon (three pulled and two terminated). These guys are bitching the whole time.

As I am finishing my lunch, the job super calls me over. I get a lecture about productivity. It seem that we are to pull and terminate ONE RUN PER SHIFT, unless it is long or big, in which case it will take longer.

WTF? I've never been dressed down for doing too much work before.

I told them to keep their check for 4 hours and left.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:32:44 AM EDT

[#25]

Two days.

Commercial painting company. Owner was a shithead.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:33:31 AM EDT

[#26]

16 yeasr old. Mcdonalds. Got a better job offer right before my first shift. Training on the register. That stuff was not for me. Walked out 45 minutes later ??

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:34:25 AM EDT

[#27]

Less than an hour on one welding job.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:35:20 AM EDT

[#28]

1 year. most of my other jobs where around 4 years.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:35:41 AM EDT

[#29]

3 days.

In the words of Popeye,

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:37:50 AM EDT

[#30]

About a week, a couple of times.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:38:25 AM EDT

[#31]

One week.

I knew it was a mistake three days in.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:38:28 AM EDT

[#32]

Four years.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:38:52 AM EDT

[#33]

8 hours

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:39:06 AM EDT

[#34]

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This, fucking place sucked bad.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:39:31 AM EDT

[#35]

Two weeks. My then girlfriend was in another state and I didn't want to be apart from her.

So I quit, got a job where she was, and she dumped me a few weeks later.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:39:58 AM EDT

[#36]

24 hours, I was hired by an outgoing boss on the K&O RR, next day I called and he was gone and I was no longer "hired"

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:41:13 AM EDT

[#37]

Right after I left an interview. Accepted another job that called me right as I walked out the door from accepting that job.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:42:17 AM EDT

[#38]

2 months as a grocery store stocker working graveyard. Boss was an asshole of a human. Fuck you Shoman!

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:43:39 AM EDT

[#39]

I have only ever had three jobs before I retired - I enjoyed all three jobs and only left for advancement.
First job out of college lasted two years.
Second job went six years.
My last job and the one I retired from was 28 years.
I retired at age 56.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:45:23 AM EDT

[#40]

Shortest that I recall was about a week.

Supervisor handed me a roll of friction tape and told me to find the places where the insulation on the 220 volt extension cords had worn through or split, and wrap them up with the tape.

I wasn't allowed to unplug the cords, because they were being used.

There were puddles of water scattered through the area where the cords were run.

That was my last day, and the only week I can ever recall working at a place with a "XX days without a work loss accident" sign at the gate (the numbers were hang tags).

ETA: A guy that started the same day I did, made the news some time later. Apparently drove around looking for kids he could talk into taking a ride in his car, finally found one, then dumped the body in the river.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:48:04 AM EDT

[#41]

One year. I was captain on a charter yacht and my wife hated that job. It was the only one she ever complained about.
It was all nights and weekends, too many pretty girls (guests and crew) and too much booze. It was the only time I have ever seen her jealous. I stayed just long enough so that I didn't screw up my resume.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:51:43 AM EDT

[#42]

1 night lol

Back story, a store location of the business my girlfriend at the time worked for was closing and they needed help. So I said I’d help, turned out they “hired me”, filled out new hire paperwork. I helped out, got a check in the mail a few weeks later. Never quit lol soooooo technically, does that mean I still work there!? Bahahaha sooo maybe that means I’ve worked there the longest!? LoL

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:56:34 AM EDT

[#43]

40-45 seconds.

I figured that's how long it took me to walk out after the "you're hired" interview.

Posted: 4/21/2018 12:57:18 AM EDT

[#44]

87 seconds

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:04:52 AM EDT

[#45]

After college I was looking at multiple places. One of which is a National well known manufacturing company. You probably have multiple products from them in your home. I interviewed and negotiated a wage and accepted employment. I was given a start date a month away. During that month I was called by the Navy to work on their depot level line. It was more money and started sooner. I accepted that and didn’t show up for the other company. They called and I quit on the spot. So 0 hours.

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:08:38 AM EDT

[#46]

3 hours, I don't put up with yelling.

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:11:26 AM EDT

[#47]

Myself and a friend both sat though a 4 hour orientation. 2 days later I got the job I really wanted. I told a friend of mine when he shows up to tell them I quit.

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:16:19 AM EDT

[#48]

about 4hrs... owner came in mid way thru my very 1st shift, blew a raving spit inducing gasket at literally everyone, looked at me (the newbie) grabbed a nearby boom and threw it at me, yelling something about cleaning up my mess..it wasnt my mess and he was damn lucky he couldnt throw worth a shit. I grabbed my stuff and got in my car and left without a word. Odd thing was...everyone else acted like that was a pretty normal thing. On both aspects.

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:20:09 AM EDT

[#49]

About 3 months.

I hated being in the union, and i didn't give a shit about most of the people there. I walked out 2hrs into my day on xmas eve.

Posted: 4/21/2018 1:20:32 AM EDT

[#50]

I won't make to the probationary point. Just using this position to fill a void in the resume. And they pay for my clearance renewal

F-15s are better and more exciting than lawn darts any day.

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