17 Reasons Why People Walked Out Of Their Job On The Literal First Week And Never, Ever Came Back

We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to archer america wherefore they walked retired of a occupation connected their archetypal week. Here are their stories.

Note: Some submissions travel from this Reddit thread. 

1. "I got a occupation astatine the Apple Store years ago, and they told maine I had to participate done the backmost door, which was successful a crappy alleyway successful a metropolis known for not being ace safe. I was like, ohio no, I’m not going to bash that, and I left. I’m truthful gladsome I didn’t compromise. Screw that. Sure, I mightiness enactment there, but I’m inactive a quality being. I don’t attraction if it’s an inventory oregon theft thing. I’m not leaving done a backmost doorway for anyone oregon anything."

—metallicghost763

2. "I was 18 and got a occupation telemarketing for a play nine mag successful Florida, similar thing that was fixed distant successful state clubs. Partway done the day, done a bid of events, I realized the mag didn’t truly exist. It was each a scam. I went to luncheon and ne'er returned."

—dizzymatcha736

3. "I was hired into a nursing location arsenic a nursing assistant. Maybe a mates of days into orientation, portion shadowing different worker and giving hands-on care, it was shared that paychecks would beryllium held until palmy completion of the predisposition period, which was respective weeks. I questioned this signifier and resigned astatine the extremity of the shift. I reported this argumentation to the labour board, and I ideate that a batch of withheld backmost wage was yet paid, arsenic was lone right."

—fluffyzombie18

4. "I discontinue the archetypal time astatine FedEx erstwhile the predisposition squad said that the occupation loading trucks offered nary security whatsoever for the employees. I got up to leave, and the idiosyncratic doing the predisposition asked for my sanction and made it wide she wanted to transverse my sanction disconnected her list. I told her I'm the feline who does not enactment for companies that bash not springiness a crap astir their employees and left."

—messycaptain223

5. "It was a barbecue concatenation place, and 1 of the employees had a immense bandage connected his manus from erstwhile immoderate different worker attacked him. No 1 thought it was a large deal. I discontinue and hounded them for my check."

—grouchyoctopus55

6. "My hubby was a welder. He took a occupation with a operation company, and connected the archetypal day, they had him welding connected immoderate portion of instrumentality that helium could person fallen off. They did not springiness him immoderate information equipment. When helium went connected luncheon break, helium did not spell back."

—blissbednar

7. "While successful college, I got a part-time occupation astatine a posh state nine successful maintenance. My occupation was to vacuum a circumstantial area, particulate furniture, dump trash, and constabulary barroom items near successful a lounge area. While vacuuming, I witnessed 1 of the members purposely dumping a afloat ashtray connected the rug I had conscionable vacuumed and past demanding that I cleanable it up. I did. As I walked away, helium dumped different ashtray connected the level and called maine backmost to cleanable it up. I turned astir and told him, 'Clean it up yourself. You made the mess.' I took disconnected my apron, threw it astatine him, and walked disconnected the job. What arrogance."

—luckyship253

8. "In college, I got a occupation with what was expected to beryllium an biology advocacy group. I knew a large portion of our occupation was going doorway to door. What I didn't cognize was that not lone would we beryllium soliciting donations, but those donations were our sole signifier of pay. They would propulsion america successful vans, thrust america to neighborhoods, and observe arsenic the employees did their biology code and asked for donations. They kept 50% of the donations, and that was their pay. That was each of their pay. You virtually went doorway to doorway to beg for arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic imaginable truthful you could support fractional of it. No donations meant nary pay. I ne'er went back. Twenty-five years later, and I'm inactive wondering what the existent hellhole was going connected there."

—j4287b3497

9. "I walked retired connected a occupation aft 3 days for a fig of reasons. There was nary escaped water, but we were told not to portion the pat water. There were nary beverage oregon coffee-making facilities. But the icing connected the barroom was erstwhile the manager proudly told maine a communicative of however helium crapped connected a edifice country floor."

—claireo4f1a2eac4

10. "I was halfway into my archetypal displacement erstwhile they sprang this connected me: 'Oh by the way, we ne'er mentioned it astatine the interview, but you volition get 50 percent wage for six months till your proceedings play is over'. I turned astir and walked out. No discussion. Didn't accidental a word. I conscionable left."

—u/Happy5Day

11. "When I recovered retired their clip timepiece strategy didn't way hours worked, but the minutes spent typing oregon moving your mouse. And it'd instrumentality random screenshots too. All that and they wanted this installed connected my idiosyncratic computer. That and a fewer different reasons made maine backmost retired aft 1 day."

—u/Happy5Day

12. "I was loading trucks, and I got injured, and they told maine to support working. I went to the brag and asked, 'Who bash I archer if I privation to quit?' He responded 'Me.' I said, 'Ah, OK, I quit.' He asked maine to decorativeness my shift, but I laughed successful his face."

—u/-GearZen-

13. "I was a acold caller trying to solicit donations for an organization. I called a guy. His widow answered the telephone saying helium had precocious passed. The supervisor said I should effort and get the widow to marque a donation. I was done."

—u/fuckfuturism

14. "I was betwixt jobs and got a temp occupation helping with payroll, and they told maine I would person to clasp paychecks for radical who did not instrumentality their uniform. When I pointed retired this was illegal, they said to bash it anyway, truthful I discontinue and went backmost connected unemployment until I recovered a existent occupation 3 weeks later."

—u/too_many_shoes14

15. "I got a occupation astatine an bureau and connected the archetypal day, they told maine that I really needed to amusement up to a antithetic bureau located successful San Francisco (which is simply a 90-minute commute determination and a 2-3 hr commute home). Not what I signed up for. They legit could not recognize wherefore I was leaving."

—u/NeighborhoodDude84

16. "The brag hid the bath cardinal and had everyone inquire him for support to usage it. I person IBS, and I got the runs connected the archetypal time (of course). When I asked for the cardinal the 2nd clip aft 30 minutes of utilizing it the archetypal time, helium asked me: 'Again?' The 3rd clip helium started chewing maine out. I virtually turned astir connected my bottommost and got to the locker country to instrumentality my worldly and go. He past tried to artifact my mode retired erstwhile I sat connected my motorcycle to thrust away."

—u/notfromheremydear

17. And finally, "I got a summertime occupation arsenic an HR bureau adjunct portion successful college. They told maine connected my archetypal time that they had to occurrence immoderate radical aboriginal successful the week and they needed maine to bash it due to the fact that they didn’t privation to. I didn’t travel backmost the adjacent day."

—u/gouwbadgers

Why did you discontinue a occupation connected your archetypal week? Let america cognize successful the comments oregon usage the anonymous signifier below: