"I got a job at Burger King. They spent about 10 seconds showing me the POS and ticketing system and threw me into the drive-thru during the breakfast rush. The manager yelled at me for messing things up or having questions, and a customer threw his food back through the window at me.
I walked out. Didn't even go pick up my paycheck of about $10." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I worked at Sears. The main objective of my job was to push credit cards on people that really shouldn't have credit cards.
I couldn't morally do it, so I never returned." -Reddit user exclusivebuttstuff
"I got a job in data entry that seemed calm. Evening hours, typing stuff into a computer for $9 an hour (astronomical at the time)?
They left out the part about heavy lifting. We seriously had to take handcarts into a non-climate-controlled warehouse, load several HEAVY boxes of files onto them (often using a ladder), push them back to the office, and, when done inputting everything, repeat the process. I worked my 5-hour shift and never went back." -Reddit user fumor
"Telemarketing. Just about everyone on the call list was elderly and cognitively impaired. One guy I called, I barely got out.
"Hello Sir," and he said "$20" and hung up the phone. I didn't feel right about it." -Reddit user Swiggy
"I was hired to do reservations at a family-owned hotel back in the early 90s. There were four of us sitting in a 10 X 10 room, and everyone but me smoked.
I stayed until the end of the day. Took my clothes off outside and showered the minute I got home." -Reddit user memetunis
"Got hired by a temp agency for some night shift factory job. I showed up, and no one there spoke English.
My fault for putting down that I spoke Spanish, but oh well. They tried to explain the job to me, but as soon as they turned their back to me, I walked out and went home." -Reddit user punkroqer13
"They told me I would be working 3 pm-11 pm. The first night it was 11, and I was getting ready to leave, and he asked me to stay til 4 am. I said no because I had an 8 am class.
He told me I would need to stay until 4 am most nights. I quit." -Reddit user GoldNBones
"They told me I wasn't wearing enough make-up. Apparently, I needed to look like a clown to answer their phones.
They asked me to go home on my break and apply more blush and eyeshadow. I did not come back from my break." -Reddit user madelee91
"As I was about to leave after finishing the first shift of my first job ever at an after-school tutoring center chain, the manager informed me that unbeknownst to me, that whole 8-hour shift had been an unpaid "training day." And no, I never got paid for that shift." -Reddit user msumanpan
"I am a Clinical Laboratory Scientist working in a hospital lab doing testing. Saw my boss, the pathologist, not standing up for his employees when they were being harassed by other doctors.
Noped out the first day because he would throw me under the bus in the future anyway." -Reddit user hoangtudude
"Showed up for the first day and was introduced to my shift foreman. He was someone I worked for previously and hated.
He was the type of boss that blamed everyone under him for every mistake. I told them I was gonna go grab my toolbox out of my truck and brb, got in the truck, and left." -Reddit user insanelyphat
"Outbound call center. Almost every person I called said they had already requested being on the do-not-call list.
This was for Duke Electric. Assholes." -Reddit user (deleted)
"I was a receptionist at a nail salon. Everyone was Korean except me, but that wasn't a problem.
At the end of the day, they unrolled bubble wrap and walked on it while I cleaned up. I got no explanation, but I was 16 and never went back." -Reddit user PrinceLawrence_
"Cutco, Vector Marketing. I have to pay YOU to start working?
You thought." -Reddit user FireFoxMcCloud
"My company loyalty is based on my check. I ended up getting hired at another place for more money before I completed orientation, got the call mid-orientation.
I stepped out like it was an emergency call and immediately left." -Reddit user ZZZ-Top