As much as anyone may want to quit a job, at the end of the day it's easier said than done.
For one thing, even if people are working soul-sucking jobs that barely cover expenses, they still can't afford to lose the paycheck, until something better comes along.
Even when people realize a job isn't a good fit on the first day, they still might stick with it for a year or more, so they don't burn bridges or add any red flags to their resumés.
However, on rare occasions, people might walk into a new job and realize on day one it is not going to work out, and when they left for the day, they had officially left for good.
Redditor limecrissy was curious to hear from people who quit their job on first day, and the circumstances that led them to do it, leading them to ask:
"People who quit their jobs on the first day, what made you say, 'I’m done with this'?"
Cat Was Out Of The Bag...
"I used to clean apartments and a lady hired me for a weekly 3 hour clean."
"On the phone she asked if I have a problem with cats, I said I don't, she said she's got 'a few cats'."
"I got there and she had TWENTY SEVEN CATS (27) in a two room 4th floor walk-up apartment."
"There were stacked kitty litter trays and car beds in every room, on every surface."
"Even in the kitchen up on top of the fridge and on the counters."
"Many of the cats were sick, there was cat vomit and cat sh*t everywhere."
"This was about 20 years ago and I can still smell it."- activelyresting
Definitely Wasn't "Lovin' It"
"Backline at McDonald's."
"No training. No mcvideos."
"I was the only one on backline."
"Literally no one said a word to me."
"I just kinda left."- Alex_is_Lost
Not In The Job Description
"Went to work at a hotel."
"The owners had an apartment off the office."
"First day, they wanted me to cook them dinner and clean the apartment."
"I was hired as a front desk clerk."- Appropriate_Ruin3771
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"No Quiero..."
"I tried working at Taco Bell once."
"I knew it would be chaos but I wasn’t prepared."
"The manager was friendly at first, but they wanted me to go right into the line for assembling food."
"The screens & program they use look like they’re about 30 years old, so it’s really complicated figuring out the orders - everything is abbreviated so they can fit a ton of orders on the screen, and I didn’t know what the abbreviations meant."
"The manager watched me for a second and told me what was on the first few orders, then…he just left me there."
"I had no idea what to make."
"Desperately, I just started making soft tacos for every order."
"Which was not correct."
"Then I find out he’s in the back smoking weed with the dishwasher."
"As I was tracking him down, the other guy in the assembly part was yelling that he was 'left there alone' (newsflash, I was useless, he was alone the whole time)."
"I ended up leaving 30 minutes after I started."
"F*cking sh*tshow."- Tsiatk0
When You Gotta Go...
"When they said 'You're alotted 7 minutes of personal time, for if you need to use the washroom, after that it gets docked from your pay'."
"Only issue was the only washroom was five minutes across the building."
"I ended up walking out."
"Refused to work for a company that monitors how long it takes you to take a dump."- Sarge1387
No Sale...
"I was hired as an office secretary."
"I got there for training and it was a sales job selling vacuums."
"You couldn't be a secretary until you were a salesperson first, AND you had to sell a certain amount of vacuums."
"Nope."- Elegant_righthere
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Hand Waving Seemed Popular That Day...
"Worked at a distribution warehouse."
"I had to scan the boxes on the conveyor belt and put them in the appropriate bin to go out for delivery."
"One hour in, my scanner stopped working, and they had no extras."
"I asked my supervisor what I could do in the meantime, but they told me to sit tight while it was fixed."
"Four hours and a lunch break later, I finally got back to work."
"Not ten minutes go by, and the same supervisor pulls me aside to let me know my productivity was lower than the expectation, and if it continued, I'd be fired."
"I reminded them my scanner had been broken most of the shift, but they literally waved their hand in a dismissing motion and reiterated what the expectations were."
"I went back to scanning, did maybe two boxes, said f*ck this and left my badge on the supervisors desk on my way out."- Resdizeix
Can't Say They Didn't Put In The Effort
"In the summer of 1973 I got a summer job carrying shingles up to the roof for the skills workers."
"I lasted all the way to lunch."
"I should add that I was 16, 5’ 3” and about 100 lbs."
"The boss stopped by my house and gave me a check for the half day."
"Great guy - EXTREMELY helpful life lesson."- OnlyAMike-Barb
Basic Expectations...
"Walked into an office job and discovered my 'desk' was literally a cardboard box turned sideways in a dimly lit closet."
"Manager said it was temporary but couldn't tell me when I'd get a real workspace."
"Grabbed my purse and walked right out."- TemptingDoll
The Beginning Of The End...
"I worked at forever 21 for a grand total of 16 hours."
"The first 8 was paperwork and training, the second 8 was an overnight shift where they were resetting the store."
"The staff was getting pissy with me because I - being a new employee - did not know where anything was meant to go."
"Each part of the store was a type of girl, described as goth, boho, etc."
"There were many, I didn’t know them, it wasn’t included in the training, it was a literal shop based on vibes."
"Time came for the end of my shift and my dad was there to pick me up, it was like 4 am."
"The manager wouldn’t unlock the door to let me out because they were not done yet, but my dad was literally outside and we lived 30 minutes away."
"I did not have my own car just yet."
"She refused to unlock the door and told me to get back to it, and that my dad would have to wait.. which no, it isn’t what I was scheduled for, or what I agreed to, so I quit!"
"Now I’m glad the company is literally falling apart."- Camaendes
Everyone Should Know Their Worth
"I was doing framing for condo construction right after being laid off from a previous job."
"It was low wages, all coworkers were young and unqualified, working outside in -30C from dark to dark."
"On the second day, I was talking to another guy about how much overtime we're getting doing these 11+ hour shifts, and he said they didn't get overtime."
"Lol."
"Bye."- Camelsoop
So Many Questions...
"Caught chickens for a day."
"Nope."- 604kevin
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Literally Doing The Work Of Three People...
"A family-owned copier company hired me, and the three family members told me to do different things for each of them at the same time, then yelled at me for not doing them at the same time."
"Enough."- indictmentofhumanity
Paging The Health Inspector!
"Did a trial shift at a nightclub that didn't clean down draught taps or beer mats, literally just rinsed them under a hot tap."- Cyanide_Revolver
No Eating On The Job, Eh?
"Tim Hortons, 25 years ago."
"First hour into my first shift."
"Charged me for a company outfit that had the pockets sewn shut, apparently so staff wouldn’t steal cash."
"Then they brought the old donuts into a back room to be thrown in the trash, and I ate one before they went into the trash."
"The manager snapped at me and said, 'If they are good enough to eat, they are good enough to pay for'.”
"And she seriously wanted me to pay for it."
"I explained to her that they are about to go in the trash, and she told me it didn’t matter."
"I quit on the spot and told her that I couldn’t work for a company that would rather throw good food in the trash than feed their staff."- Ok-Bullfrog9311
We've all worked a job we didn't love, if simply to pay the bills.
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But there's a sizable difference between jobs we don't love and jobs no one on earth should work.
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