What is the shortest job you have ever had?

[HHH67]

three days working at a Fast food place never again.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Three months but that was decades ago. Most recently was about a year.

 

[lxskllr]

Delivering newspapers. I did that for about a year and a half starting when I was 14.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Guess my summer jobs, since they were only for the summer. Cleaning the school between high school years, then server tech between college years.

My dad worked at a mine for a few days. He wanted to try something new and drove a 45 ton truck and then he realized it was not for him. It's the night shifts he had trouble with.

 

[skyking]

plenty of two and three day jobs, but that is the nature of the work. I did a 3 day gig in June, doing an emergency repair on the grain conveyor on a shipping facility.

That thing got pranged against a hold

 

[dasherHampton]

Delivering pizza.

My first day went well. My shift was like 4-10 and at the end of it I had around $30 in tips. That was pretty good for the time and where I lived. So I got back to the store around 10:15 kind of wiped out and was looking forward to going home and vegging.

The cooks were all gone and I noticed another rookie driver was mopping the floor. I remember immediately thinking "He must be making extra money by doing this janitorial stuff". I was mistaken.

The assistant manager on duty told me to grab a mop and help him. We had to mop the entire fucking store, plus clean some other stuff. I don't know how it is now, but back then delivery drivers made less than minimum wage because of the tips so we were pretty much slave labor. We didn't finish until almost midnight. The manager stayed in the office watching videos the entire time.

The very next day I tried to pull an end around: I told the prick I needed to be the first driver off for some bullshit reason so I could get out of there before it was time to clean. No luck. I got handed a mop as soon as I returned from my last delivery around 9:30.

This time there WERE cooks still in the store, but they just laughed at me when I complained that I had to leave. I knew right then and there that this thing was hopeless. The next time I was scheduled (I think the next day again) I called them and told them my car wouldn't start. That was the last time I spoke with anyone there. I don't think they even mailed me a check for my two days of work.

My pizza delivery career: 2 days of work, around $50 dollars of profit. I think they did give you a few bucks mileage reimbursement but it wasn't much.

 

[dmcowen674]

I don't remember exactly how long or short I was working there I think around 3 months but when I was working at a Company that makes diet food (is all chemicals). My parents came to pick me up because my Grandfather in the next state died. The Manager said unless it was my funeral I was fired.

 

[shortylickens]

A handjob.










(my dick is so tiny)

 

[Captante]

Approx 3 hours in Burger King.

My bad/good luck there was a carnival across the street on my first day ... I literally ran out the back door and never looked back.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

<8 hours at a grocer deli. When the meat slicer treated me just like the roast beef I was slicing I decided not to go back.

 

[purbeast0]

31 days at Best Buy.

But it was my plan all along. You had to work 30 days in order to use your discount. So on my 30th day I bought about $5k worth of shit for about $3k, then quit the next day.

It was a second job at the time and was a busy/tough month but worth it to get my first nice TV (Sony Wega) and a 5.1 surround system, as well as getting a new TV and DVD player for my mom. This was in 2001 I believe.

 

[repoman0]

Two days at my first “real” job. Started Thursday and quit by Monday for another offer that came in $12k more and way more interesting work.

 

[rh71]

I did a crap-ton of part-time jobs even before college. Quite a few were data entry when I was in high school and while it was monotonous, it paid the best out of all part time jobs - $7.50 when avg was $5. I wanted to continue doing it in college because it was easy money - listen to your walkman while punching on a keyboard. But on the same night I started, I realized how tough it was to mentally do after going through a day of classes. During the 3 hour shift, all I kept thinking was I had enough. It was pretty embarrassing to have to tell them, but I felt so much relief afterward.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

1-day. Basically some kind of office assistant job for students that I got through my school at the time. Decided I hated wasting after-school time working (and especially something so boring - just being an assistant to an old lady secretary or something). I could be doing much more important things like.... playing more World of Warcraft

Oh probably what also made me quit was I hit a car in the parking lot. I was entirely embarrassed and was a stupid teenager that didn't know what to do. I just got the feeling of "Oh shit oh fuck I wish this didn't exist and I never return" kind of thing.


First "real" job that was shortest... hmm... I was with my first accounting firm for only about 1.5 years. Boss was a douchebag micro manager and got tired of it

 

[snoopy7548]

Probably a month or two, I forget. One summer when I was home from college I worked with a temp agency and had two jobs doing data entry. One was for some stupid youth-baseball card place, and the other was for a substance abuse center which was pretty interesting. Lots of DUIs; I came across the paperwork for a friend's brother which was surprising.

 

[sdifox]

Rice packing. Take a twenty kg bag of rice and break it into two ten kg retail bags. Lasted one day. I did a ten hour shift and couldn't move the next day.

 

[BoomerD]

I've had a couple of jobs that I quit before I actually ever started...yet still got paid the minimum show-up...
One, I got to work, the crane hadn't been delivered yet...boss wanted me to do manual labor for a week...mostly setting up the office trailers and stuff...at laborer's pay scale. "No thanks. See ya."
Another one, I went through the pre-hire piss test and safety briefing on Friday, Showed up for work on Monday, the crane was a piece of junk. Climbed in the cab, the armrest that had some of the controls was broken from the seat...previous guys had been propping it up on 4x4's...I climbed back out of the cab, grabbed my thermos and lunch box, and headed for my truck. "Hey, where are you going?" the foreman yelled? "I'm outta here. Life's too short to run junk. Call the hall."

 

[Exterous]

After the odds and ends jobs in HS my shortest job was around 16 months so not that short. Got my degree. Started working in the field and realized what a mistake it had been and that IT was a better idea

A handjob.

(my dick is so tiny)

I was going to say "There's a joke about shorty in here somewhere" but I see that's already been taken care of

 

[LikeLinus]

2 1/2 years was the shortest. Was fortunate not to have to work during High School and College.

 

[Eno Safirey]

The summer after high school a friend and I were sent to a new warehouse by a temporary labor firm. The supervisor showed us a large barrel full of sealer, a wheeled bucket and two mops. He said fill up the bucket, roll it to one end and seal the floor and repeat until done. We worked about five minutes until he left the area, then we jumped out an open window and took off.

 

[kt]

3 weeks temp job doing laptop deployment. This was back in early 2000's.

 

[Muadib]

1 week for me. I was a camp counselor junior year of high school. Those kids were animals!!!

 

[donottaunthappyfunball]

Zero days. My first real job after I turned 16. Got hired on a Friday after school with the idea that I'd start Monday. Boss called me on Saturday with my schedule, 6 straight days of working 5:30 to 9:00pm. He would schedule part-timers with shifts that were less than 4 hours so that they didn't get a 15 minute paid break.