Starting a new job can be stressful. In the midst of trying to juggle all of your new responsibilities, remember your colleague’s names and impress your new boss, it’s hard to even find a moment to breathe. But if you stop and realize that you absolutely hate what you’re doing, it’s never too soon to hit the road.
Redditors have recently been sharing stories of employees who quit just as quickly as they started new jobs, so we’ve gathered some of the most entertaining tales below. Enjoy scrolling through these examples of extremely quick quitting, and keep reading to find a conversation with career coach Twanna Carter, PhD!
#1
In our warehouse we had a trans guy who ran it better than anyone I have ever seen. New guy starts, sees him and says ” I can’t work with that. It goes against what god created” Left, never to be seen again. Good riddance.
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#2
Me. I was hired as a dishwasher at a restaurant downtown. Buses stopped at midnight, but I was guaranteed I’d be off in time for the last bus
I was scheduled to start on a Friday night, starting at 6, I was told the first shift was a training shift and shorter than usual.
I get there and they tell me “hey there’s supposed to be 3 dishwashers, but one guy was at 2 months but didn’t show up, and the other guy got pulled to prep chef tonight.”
Im busting a*s, the head chef comes by during lunch, I ask what’s the plan for when I’m gone at 12 “what do you mean? The shift is 6pm-2am?”. He strings me along most of the night saying he’ll get me a ride home with someone that lives on my side of town. “one way or another we’ll get you home”
At 1130 I go to him “hey so who’s driving me home”, “oh I couldn’t find anyone that lives on your side of town. You’ll have to cab or something”, “cool”.
And I walked out and never came back. Lol.
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#3
A coworker was sitting with our three bosses and 4 employees in a conference room meeting, she said: “This is the most disorganized and toxic work environment that I have been in, thanks for nothing because you should be thanking me for tolerating this job, and to you three”, (the employees including me) she said, “I feel sorry if you stay but you should leave too, they are not paying us that well anyway “, she got up and left, I left a week and half later and she is one of my best friends to this day.
Respect ACC! 🫡.
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#4
A woman I was training for a supervisor role at my previous job quit before lunch the first day.
I began the supervisor training and she said “I wasn’t hired as a supervisor, I was hired as an account manager”. I contacted my boss asking if there was a mixup with the training schedule, but there was not. Apparently they hired her as an account manager then downgraded her without letting her know. When she met with HR they said “strategic moves” had to be made for optimization. She quit on the spot.
I quit shortly after that because the company was up to other shady stuff.
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#5
At the door before he even got clocked in. He parked in front of the building in customer parking and in a handicapped spot. When he was asked to park around back in employee parking, which was actually closer to where his job was, he lost his s**t, went on a rant about his freedoms and that he wasn’t working anywhere that made employees use the servants entrance. Pretty sure he heard the laughter erupt when he stormed out.
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#6
I quit the day before i started. Accepted a job at x amount of pay. The day before I was to start they called me and said “we didn’t know you went to nursing school with some of our workers and we told them what you’d be making hourly and they threatened to quit unless we pay you $3hr less than what was agreed upon”
I beg your pardon? F**k riiiight off.
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#7
I had an interview and was told the salary was X. I was offered the job but I was informed a mistake had been made and the salary was a fair chunk less than I’d been told at the interview. I replied “No problem, when do I start? Tomorrow at 8am? Great, see you then”.
I put their number on silent, didn’t show up and those time wasting muppets kept calling me for far longer than I ever would have imagined well into the following week..
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#8
Didn’t quit but walked out and waited for the aftermath.
I was hired as a Production manager for a winery. Bottling, warehouse, maintenance. The first day of work was the first day of shelter in place due to Covid. Hr rep did my induction from her home. I was on site. Provided her with scanned copies of my documentation and she asked me to sign paperwork. It showed 15K less than my agreed to salary. I forwarded my signed offer letter and she said it was incorrect. I told her I would not sign.
The estate manager was offsite in Paris, was not a US citizen, and was stuck there due to Covid protocols.
I informed the HR rep that I was leaving and would not be returning. Within a couple of hours I received a call from the Estate Manager apologizing for the mistake and asking me to return the next day. I explained that I was reluctant to return to a company that tried to change terms after agreement. He ended up offering me an additional 10k and I returned. The HR Rep the next day was not the same person as before.
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#9
I quit literally five minutes into a job. The interviewer made it pretty clear it was a delivery job, *not* a sales job.
I go into work the first day and the manager tells us we need to load up the trucks and start selling.
No.
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#10
I had a guy from Nigeria start nightshift. We warned him there might be some racism from locals. He said he’s used to it from working in kebab shops.
Even I wasn’t prepared for the amount of abuse he got. He called the next day to say he can’t handle it.
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#11
I guess me.
A college retail job, I showed up the first day and they said there was a mixup about how much they were able to pay me vs. what they had told me on the phone.
It ended up being slightly less per hour than I was making at my current job, instead of slightly more. Luckily I hadn’t quit the current job yet.
I said I was only staying on if they could give me the rate agreed upon…they called or pretended to call somebody, came back and said there’s nothing they could do.
Welp, sorry it didn’t work out. I think I got a paycheck for the exactly 1 hour of standing around talking about it that we did. .
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#12
I once saw my new coworker quit during their lunch break on their first day. They went out for lunch and just never came back. Turns out, they ran into an old friend who offered them a job on the spot, doing something they actually loved. We all laughed about it later, saying they must’ve had the shortest commute from new hire to ex-employee ever!
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#13
When I worked at Nabisco, at about 10 AM on his first day, another contractor turned to me and asked “Is Nabisco owned by a tobacco company?” I said, yes, but that we really had nothing to do with them. He got up and walked out.
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#14
I started as food prep for a steakhouse while on a semester off from college. Got there a few minutes before my scheduled start at 7. Manager showed up at 7:40 to open the doors.
Worked 10 hours, no break, because when ai was supposed to go on break they needed help washing dishes, and my break was “delayed”.
Saw one coworker dump a bunch of cut lettuce into an unwashed sink that had just had raw meat in it. Dropped a carrot on the floor while shredding them for salads and the MANAGER picked it up and tossed it straight into the shredder.
Finished my day, went across the street to the Wendy’s where I used to work, was hired immediately, and started there the next day.
The steakhouse closed a year later.
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#15
Our previous timekeeper was going to resign so they hired a new guy. Guy comes in for his first day, realized how big the company is and without proper training or handover he was just expected to do it immediately. Dude never came back the next day. Everyone panicked coz there was no timekeeper and pay day is 2 days away.
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#16
45 minutes into her first Dunkin donuts shift. I was showing her what buttons to press on the cream and sugar dispenser when she suddenly said, “I can’t do this.” And she walked out and started walking 5 miles home. The local bus passed by ten minutes later.
Yeah, I don’t know. She had something going on with her personal life for sure.
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#17
I was a trainer (“Learning Ambassador”) at an Amazon fulfillment center when COVID hit. Nearly half of my coworkers quit before my next week began. Until I transferred to a different facility 3 months later, every week involved training dozens of new hires, and most of them would quit sometime between day 1 lunch and the end of their first week. It was nuts.
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#18
I worked at a golf course and we hired a guy and sent him out to rake leaves all day. We just found his rake up against a tree. Never saw him again.
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#19
When I was in a really bad place with anxiety and depression, I got three jobs in a 2-3 week period. I quit two after the first day, and quit the third job after two days. I’m doing a lot better now though.
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#20
When I worked at the nursing home, the maintenance/housekeeping supervisor quit without notice. Two weeks later they hired this guy who supposed managed the maintenance department at a 400 bed facility. We had a two hours long meeting with this guy where he was telling us how he was going to whip the place into shape and how he was going to do this, that, and the other. Had us voicing all of our grievances, he was taking notes, etc.. He really seemed like a gung-ho type of dude. He left the facility on his lunch break that day and never came back.
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#21
I was working at a book publisher and we hired a graphic designer. She came in at 9, worked till lunchtime, then announced that she was having carpet delivered that afternoon and had to go home early. We never saw her again.
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