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Mine was four days. I had talked to this company for a month and told them what I was looking for in a company and was specific that I did not like to be micromanaged. Not only did they have me do work that was not related to the position that I applied for, but they micromanaged me. I told the boss, "sorry, I'm out"
4 hours. I left at lunch and never came back. I was handed a stack of papers and thrown in front of a windows 95 machine (in 2007) and said, process these payments. Didn't tell me what program they use and offered no training. I saw no one until they told me to go to lunch.
1 day, fast food restaurant when I was 15. Burned my hand in the deep fryer and they kept me working with no concern about my fairly severe burns. Finished my shift and never went back.
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One day, or in fact, two hours. I had applied for a really good job, but after out of desperation had applied for a substitute custodian job at the school district. As a sub, you could go online and check for shifts and claim the one(s) you wanted. I went in for the 2 hour training and after I got home had the email inviting me to interview for the good job the next week. I ended up getting it, so never did any custodial work. I did get a small check though, because the training was paid.
2 hours. I was placed with a construction company as part of a ''women in the trades'' job placement program.
At a job site these two ''good ol' boys'' ordered me to jump down into an unsupported dirt trench with greater than 45 degree loose dirt slopes while they worked a backhoe along the top.
I refused and walked off the job site. Hiked to a house and used their phone to call a taxi to take me back to my car.
Years later I heard that the owner of this company died in a trench cave-in.
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Three days. I was 18 and had gotten a position through a temp agency at a factory being a "picker." It was 8 hours per day of retrieving numbered items from a wall of bins and placing them on a conveyer belt, which led to the area where the "packers" would box it all up. On what should have been my 4th day of work, I woke up with a sore throat and aching ears, so I called in sick. That day, I got a call back from a dental office, where I had interviewed a month prior. Apparently their new hire hadn't worked out. Did I want the job? YES!
I worked there for six years, only leaving when I decided to be a stay-at-home mom. That was actually a great office to work in.
1 day = (NYC) It's a major IT company. It's extremely corporate. A HR Specialist takes attendance every morning at 8;15 AM. If you are late 3X you are fired. You have 0 vacation days to start. You have to work 6 months to attain 5 paid vacation days. (yes, ONLY 5 days). You get a 45 min lunch break. The job site was near the WTC so security was super crazy. You had to pass 3 check points. I said fack that!
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