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About 20 minutes. When I was much younger, I was desperate for extra money and so I took a telemarketing job. After a two-minute interview just to establish that I could read and speak clearly, I was "trained" for about 10 minutes, given a script, and sat down to do what I now think is called robo-calling. After about ten minutes of that, I just got up and left. I can think of NOTHING that would be worth doing that. (Btw, this many years later, I can't even remember what the company was or what they were selling.)
What was interesting is that I was told that I would complete the necessary job-starting paperwork AFTER my shift. It makes me wonder how many people did the same thing I did!
P.S. I would love to read posts from people who do robo-calling telemarketing work. How can they tolerate it?
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!
Wow, have things changed that much? The last time I had a full-time job, about 20 years ago, it was standard in most non-professional jobs to work one full year before getting paid for ANY time off (sick pay, personal, or vacation). However, the length of lunch breaks were usually up to you, although it was frowned upon if someone regularly took more than 60 minutes (except for salespeople with clients and upper management, of course).
However, I have never heard of any workplace actually taking attendance! That does seem highly draconian and more suited to children.
I was 18 and applied for an Electrical Assembly position. Was tested on my soldering skills and electronics knowledge and passed with flying colors. When I got there, they put me on a line and had me breaking breadboards. This on top of being 2nd shift which was about the worst shift you could have socially as a teen made me up and walk out.
I got up from my seat, walked to the nearest guy who looked like he knew what he was doing, and asked him to show me the door.
I never did get paid for that day come to think of it lol
If you don't count the 2+ years I was a permanent temp floating from assignment to assignment, then my shortest was 5 months. HOWEVER, it was working for the same boss that I had worked with for the prior 8 months at another firm (when she left, she took me with her). After five months she announced she was leaving to move out of the country. Just before I could begin looking for another job (I didn't want to stay and work for someone else - she's the reason I was there), one of my old companies called me to see if I was interested in coming back.
so if you count the two jobs as one since I had the same boss at both, then I'll change my answer to 11 months - my second job out of college was during my heaviest party days and they let me go after 11 months because I called in sick all the time on Mondays and Fridays due to my party weekends.
after hauling 50lb bags of sugar and flour up and down the rickety basement stairs....I had had enough.
No breaks and I was exhausted.... finally the boss went to lunch and so did I, permanently!
2 days as a motorcycle mechanic. It was over 100 degrees all day in the humid south. My clothes were soup 15 minutes after getting there. The pay was supposed to be $400 a month salary with a bonus if i did x amount of work. At 5:00 when i was supposed to leave they made me stay and help put all the bikes up and assemble a few dirt bikes really fast at 6:30. I went home and split up the $400 into hours and realized without the non-guaranteed bonus I was actually working for less than the minimum wage. The commute to work was 45 minutes one way. On top of that I had to supply all my own tools and realized i was going to have to buy some new tools. I came in on thr 3rd day and told the boss to not even bother paying me for the past 2 days. Loaded my tool box i to my truck with the forklift and drove out. Evidently the past 2 guys I replaced didn't last very long either.
1 hour. worked for a well known company for 1 hour and walked over to the supervisor and said 'sorry, i'm leaving, this isn't for me'
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