Shortest Employment?
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Being a strange year and looming lockdown things hitting again thought I should get a job for someone else for the short term till after Xmas and see where everything is.
Found a 3 month temp worker listed as a fairly interesting sounding but un educated role. On a 4 on 4 off rota, pay was decent compared to what else was available local. Boy was I wrong. Job description was wildly misleading.
Lasted one night shift before wanting to jump off a bridge and blow homeless men for money as it would be more interesting.
The job was basically putting leaflets for inside of boxes onto a tray for 12 hours. About 18 people there doing similar jobs but different steps. One of them is having a mini going away thing... she has been at it for 20 years and is dropping to the 2 day a week shift. Manager asks how many other people have been with her for this time, 6 people put their hands up. I think I used 2 brain cells all night.
Don’t think I’m cut out for that type of work!
Anyone lasted less than a day?
Found a 3 month temp worker listed as a fairly interesting sounding but un educated role. On a 4 on 4 off rota, pay was decent compared to what else was available local. Boy was I wrong. Job description was wildly misleading.
Lasted one night shift before wanting to jump off a bridge and blow homeless men for money as it would be more interesting.
The job was basically putting leaflets for inside of boxes onto a tray for 12 hours. About 18 people there doing similar jobs but different steps. One of them is having a mini going away thing... she has been at it for 20 years and is dropping to the 2 day a week shift. Manager asks how many other people have been with her for this time, 6 people put their hands up. I think I used 2 brain cells all night.
Don’t think I’m cut out for that type of work!
Anyone lasted less than a day?
I'm built like a racing snake, got some work on a building site via a mate, it consisted of moving bricks from a pallet onto a conveyor belt. After a few hours my arms were burning, I had stretch marks on my forearms, I wasn't even aware there were muscles there. Thought sod this and ducked out at lunch time.
Shortest gig I had was with some outfit called AmTech at University of Essex in Colchester to install racking for Dell servers... it only paid £50, when I got to site, it had been done the day before 
still got paid, despite putting that same price in fuel in the tank just to get there 
On site for 5 minutes 
still got paid, despite putting that same price in fuel in the tank just to get there On site for 5 minutes Once when out of work I was contacted by an agent who had found a reference to an out-of-date cad system on my CV. With nothing to lose I agreed to be put forward and got the job without an interview. Started next morning. Modify a drawing? I couldn't even open a drawing. I had hoped it would come back to me when I got going but I couldn't remember anything about it at all. In and out in about half an hour. I went home and deleted the reference to it from my CV. Didn't even have a cup of tea at the place. That was a first. My wife said I should invoice for an hour. I didn't.
I got work experience at school for 2 weeks and lasted until 10.30am the first day.. lol
In real job terms was a 4 month full time job at a cash n carry during break from school and uni. They still ask me back over 10 years later now I'm a customer. Really liked that job hanging out in the huge walk in fridge/freezers all day and saving the reduced to pennies stuff for myself lol.
In real job terms was a 4 month full time job at a cash n carry during break from school and uni. They still ask me back over 10 years later now I'm a customer. Really liked that job hanging out in the huge walk in fridge/freezers all day and saving the reduced to pennies stuff for myself lol.
One I witnessed was starting a job at a completely out of control project building the new sorting office for Heathrow. Jeez, it was a mess*. At the induction there were seventy programmers and me, a cad operator. Invited to stand up, introduce ourselves and explain why we were there, one of the programmers stood up, said who he was and, in front of sixty nine other programmers, said he had been taken on because he was the best programmer in the country. Well, you know, full marks for confidence. Few others would have said it even if they thought it. The induction ended and we all started our new jobs. A little later the best programmer in the country went out for lunch and didn't come back.
*When the project manager spoke to us he said we were to work 12 hours a day, twelve days on, two days off. This was January. He said all the hours for the project had been used up by the previous September. I was there for a year, got laid off but taken back on some months later for the hand over.
*When the project manager spoke to us he said we were to work 12 hours a day, twelve days on, two days off. This was January. He said all the hours for the project had been used up by the previous September. I was there for a year, got laid off but taken back on some months later for the hand over.
4 days.
Alarm bells were ringing by noon on the first day when my new colleague told me she wouldn't have time to show me stuff and seemed to be fuming at my presence.
I learned about a split in the company, realised my junior pay would be for senior work, suspected my colleague was training towards a career change, everyone seemed joyless, then I was chastised like a schoolboy for some light banter.
I finished the crap task they should have given to a temp office administrator, left at 5pm Thr without a word to anyone, e-mailed my resignation and never went back.
They were the most depressing 4 days of my working life. The clowns had the cheek to send my online payslip showing £0.00, but the lesson learned was worth it.
Alarm bells were ringing by noon on the first day when my new colleague told me she wouldn't have time to show me stuff and seemed to be fuming at my presence.
I learned about a split in the company, realised my junior pay would be for senior work, suspected my colleague was training towards a career change, everyone seemed joyless, then I was chastised like a schoolboy for some light banter.
I finished the crap task they should have given to a temp office administrator, left at 5pm Thr without a word to anyone, e-mailed my resignation and never went back.
They were the most depressing 4 days of my working life. The clowns had the cheek to send my online payslip showing £0.00, but the lesson learned was worth it.
Edited by DWDarkWheels on Tuesday 27th October 19:58
ive has some very s
t jobs since being laid off about a year ago.
I lasted 1.1 days in one, itv was cutting sanding blocks, doesn't sound too bad, but too loud to talk or hear radio, the dust gets everywhere.
Another was full of eastern europeans laughing and joking in their language i thought i was in another country. Most could hardly speak english to have a conversation.
I found a job that suited me, worked well, had a laugh, pretty chilled, then found out on the 2nd day it was closing down..
t jobs since being laid off about a year ago.I lasted 1.1 days in one, itv was cutting sanding blocks, doesn't sound too bad, but too loud to talk or hear radio, the dust gets everywhere.
Another was full of eastern europeans laughing and joking in their language i thought i was in another country. Most could hardly speak english to have a conversation.
I found a job that suited me, worked well, had a laugh, pretty chilled, then found out on the 2nd day it was closing down..
I used to know a carpenter that had three jobs in one day back in the 50's or 60's, he started on site one first thing in the morning and an agent from a different site offered him more money during his mid morning tea break so off he went.
Come lunch time he was approached by someone wanting some work done in their house so once again off he went!
Come lunch time he was approached by someone wanting some work done in their house so once again off he went!
Started a job with an engineering firm building a part for the Dyson Ventilators for the Covid outbreak.
We started, did nothing for about 3 hours, did some basic work and were asked outside an hour later and told the whole thing had been cancelled.
So did 6 hours and did sod all.
Damn shame as these guys had spent a fortune and done some great work, on getting it laid out etc hope they got some money out of the bugger as he told them 10k were guaranteed sold!
We started, did nothing for about 3 hours, did some basic work and were asked outside an hour later and told the whole thing had been cancelled.
So did 6 hours and did sod all.
Damn shame as these guys had spent a fortune and done some great work, on getting it laid out etc hope they got some money out of the bugger as he told them 10k were guaranteed sold!
We had a girl who arranged to do her one day induction and then go on holiday for a week before starting the job properly.
She arrived, and at lunchtime said she had to do some shopping for her holiday. We didn't see her again. On the day she was due back, a ten year old boy claiming to be her brother hand delivered her resignation letter, giving a month's notice.
A few weeks later we got a solicitor's letter asking where her pay cheque was, because we owed her for the week she'd spent on the beach, plus a month's notice.
She arrived, and at lunchtime said she had to do some shopping for her holiday. We didn't see her again. On the day she was due back, a ten year old boy claiming to be her brother hand delivered her resignation letter, giving a month's notice.
A few weeks later we got a solicitor's letter asking where her pay cheque was, because we owed her for the week she'd spent on the beach, plus a month's notice.
Doofus said:
We had a girl who arranged to do her one day induction and then go on holiday for a week before starting the job properly.
She arrived, and at lunchtime said she had to do some shopping for her holiday. We didn't see her again. On the day she was due back, a ten year old boy claiming to be her brother hand delivered her resignation letter, giving a month's notice.
A few weeks later we got a solicitor's letter asking where her pay cheque was, because we owed her for the week she'd spent on the beach, plus a month's notice.
Brilliant. What was your response?She arrived, and at lunchtime said she had to do some shopping for her holiday. We didn't see her again. On the day she was due back, a ten year old boy claiming to be her brother hand delivered her resignation letter, giving a month's notice.
A few weeks later we got a solicitor's letter asking where her pay cheque was, because we owed her for the week she'd spent on the beach, plus a month's notice.
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