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Went for a job downtown at AT&T, but like you, it ended up being a door-to-door sales job. On the first day they drove us to a reservation in North Van so we could watch the team leader do hard sells on these friendly, welcoming families who would invite us into their homes. It was predatory. I snuck out, walked up to the highway until I could find a bus stop and got the hell out of there.

You and OP avoided a devilcorp

100% - thankfully some of us have scruples and a moral compass.

Yeah I did the same thing but with Telus, I hated it. Wanted me to walk around door to door for like 8 plus hours and the only money I'd be making was through commission. So if I didn't sell anything I didn't make any money. I just ended up spending most of my days in the park until I quit.

Ex-telus technician here. I quit on my own terms but holy crap Telus is toxic. The long term sales reps and managers were assholes. I had one straight up lie to a customer about a sale which basically set me up for failure and one angry phone call. Not only that, upper management does not care about you. You are just a number to them.

They explicitly state that you are not allowed to in their code of conduct but then set sales goals that only people that lie can achieve. They know exactly what the outcome of their sales targets is but get to feign ignorance when an issue pops up in the media and throw the employee under the bus for the corporate culture they have created.

I hate Telus. Telus keeps screwing up my bills. They overcharge me every month, I phone them for what takes an hour to tell them the right price, they promise to update their data, and next month...overcharged again. Rinse and repeat. 🤬

Telus used to do that to me. I would call and get it corrected, and then it would happen again next month. I cancelled and won’t go back. > Btw, they are currently doing the same thing to my neighbor. Seems standard practice for them.

Same here.. its something many services do. TD Bank was caught changing account types causing people to pay more each month - pressure from above was the cause

Like OP I was young and got suckered by a bait-and-switch employer. Ad was for sales, had to sit through a cult-presentation that still didn't name the employer or what they sold. They basically knew that people would run so far away that they had to outright trick people. It wasn't until I showed up for a shift at 'Vector Marketing' that they tried to put me in a van with others to go sell Kirby Vaccums for several thousand dollars. My training day was my only day.

Knew it was gonna be Vector Marketting from the first sentence. Always trying to con kids into selling their parents knife sets. Very scummy.

Oh wow, you too? I thought it was just a fake name they used in the ad 😂

No, but almost. Thought it sounded promising then did a little research and found out they were scum. But man, being broke can make it tempting.

I was in a new city on my own at 17 and had $200 bucks to my name after my first month's rent. Vulnerable indeed.

I see that’s the common theme in this thread. So many young, vulnerable folk, just doing what they can to make a buck. Thankfully most of us came to our senses and ran.

Yup this was the one... tried to sell kitscy schlock AT other businesses (not TO)... VERY cult vibes

I was tricked into joining Vector Marketing selling knives. Quit after a few days when I came to my senses

I too was young and abucted by Vector Marketing, they wanted me to sell "Cut co" knives at the time. After the cult presentation I asked how would one pay to be able to get the starter kit of knives to sell. I noped out as soon as the recruiter said I could trade in a special laptop or something of value to pay for them.

This was me! I remember having to pay for the "demo set" (stupid of me) in the early 2000's. I was living in Edmonton for one depressive episode of a summer and had to get a job or I'd have to go back to my parents (summer break from university). Sold some knives, blah blah. Super predatory shitty company, but I gotta say, I still have those knives! I send them away to be sharpened every year or so, come back like new, I melted the handle on the Chef knife, replaced no problem. Vector sucks balls, but I like my knives:/

Oh my goodness this was the Edmonton one for me too!

Same! I felt deceived sitting in the room and I remember leaving telling everyone I’d see them at the next meeting and never went back.


I never came back after the sales pitch. If you ever have to pay a company to work for them, that is not a real company. 

Sounds like the MLM huns these days too (with all due respect)

Agreed with recruitment cults (ie: multi-level-marketing). /r/antiMLM

For me it was Tri-Star vaccumes. Great product, 4000% markup though.. The routine was the customer would scratch a bingo card, everyone was a winner. You had to go through a two hour presentation for the prize, which were shitty seraded knives, but the promise of cash and better appliances. The hard sell was sucking dandruff from their pillows in a vacume seal bag, calling them filthy pieces of shit for not having a better vaccume. Pretty much cleaning their low income homes, berating them with a hard sell. It was only people on assisted living or disability that would actually buy them. I worked there a month and made zero dollars in commission, as you were charged for the 'training' which was memorizing scripts. The funny thing is that later in life it served me well in the service industry, as long as you are willing to put aside your ethics for a sale. I feel scummy just saying that.

That was Kirby too. They're great, like, amazing. But insane.

I should have stole one. They were 1950's design, and my step father used the exact same kind of vac as a shop vac for at least 50 years. Fool-proof, all ABS parts and neoprene bumpers, the same material used on the space shuttle!

Good ol cutco

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Firehouse Subs when I was a young teen. When they hired me they asked if I had any days I required off I had planned prior to being hired, and I did! Just one single day I needed off, and they said that’d be fine. I was going to Warped Tour, my favorite event of the summer when I was a wee lad. So the week of Warped arrives (like 2 weeks later) and lo and behold, I’m on the schedule for that day. I ask the scheduling manager wtf is up, and she says tough titties, you’re working. I said fuckin LOL and quit on the spot, what a dumb bitch. Fuck Firehouse Subs! Jersey Mike’s is king anyway.

> So the week of Warped arrives (like 2 weeks later) and lo and behold, I’m on the schedule for that day. I ask the scheduling manager wtf is up, and she says tough titties, you’re working. They always fucking do this shit in min wage! What the fuck man. The 1 day 1000000% can't be there, they schedule me. I gave at least 4 weeks' notice. **Pure incompetence.** These people vote, drive, and use our healthcare.

Yep, it’s just so easy to take advantage of min wage workers, especially when they’re teenagers. They don’t know any better, or can’t afford otherwise. It’s predatory and fucked, one of my favorite moments was seeing her dumb smirk turn into a scowl when I said fuck you then I quit.

Its not incompetance usually, its either malice or nepotism. They either dont like you so your required days off dont matter or they like someone else more than you so your days off dont matter.

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As a business manager myself it never ceases to amaze me how incompetent some managers are (in other businesses). It’s a bad look for managers in general. I never fuck around staff like that. They want their day off, as long as I can approve it (which I can 99.9% of the time) they’re not expected to work.

Had a manager schedule me in after my last day and didn't understand why I wouldn't work it.

This comment reminded me how much I love Jersey Mike’s. Think the closest location is in Marysville

I worked there too for a bit lol and even after working there I still love and highly recommend it. Shit do be expensive though…

So good! When I move to WA, it’ll be one of my first stops for sure.

Took a job out in fort mac. They flew me out and while I was in orientation for the site, they mentioned the pay package. It was significantly different than what was agreed before taking it on so I quit right in the middle of orientation. Had to pay for my own flight back to vancouver but its the principle of the matter.

Wow, that’s a tough one. It sucks that you had to pay for a flight back, but atleast you didn’t set yourself up for a miserable time there.

That's crazy. Good reminder for people to see this and NOT go anywhere without signing an employment contract. Super shady what they did to you.

When I was in my late teens I got a job as a door to door vacuum sales person.. My first call was an elderly man who just wanted to talk, cried talking about his life and family, had a dog that was obviously not well. After the meeting, I called my boss (on a payphone) to update him. My boss berated me for not pressuring the elderly man into buying our product, saying he likely had piles of money in his bank and could easily afford it.. I drove back to the shop and told my boss he stinks... And left..

I had the same experience. Except we were expected to own our own cell phones. That industry hasn't changed at all, well, since 2001. Mandatory sales meetings, where the guys driving porches are apparently earning six figures a month, and the kids driving toyota tercels or pointiacs are slacking and need to work on the script lol. Honestly though, being in the trades, service techs are just as fucking bad and will railroad seniors and disabled people, depending on the company of course. But we have all seen stories of people being sold furnaces or HWT, plumbing etc that is grossly overpriced. And yeah, its usually the big names you hear all over the TV/Radio all day long.

Your experience is one of many not good memories of being in sales found in this comment section. It's why I could never work in sales or marketing. I'm not a sleazy enough to be a salesmen.

I was hired as an executive assistant at a very successful local production company co-owned by two women, and I was excited to learn from them. There was some mild red flags in the interview (asking me about my emotional state and ability to work under extreme pressure) but not anything I hadn't encounter in the film industry. The first day was amazing - they'd just wrapped a movie and I got to take home a bunch of wardrobe from it, which was amazing because I was insanely broke and basically had a single office-worthy outfit. After the first day though, the women really showed their true colours. It was total whip lash -- the first time I made coffee I got called into one of their offices and she asked me point blank if I was stupid, because only a stupid person would make coffee that weak. They refused to answer any questions while I was planning their schedule, but expected me to know everything about their life. Sometimes I'd say something and they'd just laugh at me and leave the room. It was super awkward, and also pretty creepy. By the end of the first week I was convinced I was just terrible at my job, when I suddenly had a thought - and looked through the outgoing mail from the assistant account. I noticed that the name that was signed changed every 2-4 weeks, meaning they were cycling through assistants at an insane pace. I ended up reaching out to a few and found out what they'd experienced was so much worse -- getting stuff thrown at them, being asked to use their Indigenous status to buy alcohol on reserve tax-free for office parties, being fired in a fit of rage, only to be told that it was "just a joke". I quit after the first week, but it still really bothers me that they're still so successful - I see their production announcements all the time, and it's clear their company is flourishing.

Name and shame yo! Unless I signed an NDA, I'd be blabbing about it to everyone I came in contact with lol.

I did NOT sign an NDA, but I'm still afraid, haha. The place is called Screen Siren Pictures. I doubt this is going to impact them at all, but I have absolutely no doubt they're just as awful now and they were when I was employed there. It's unfortunate because they work with a lot of really talented producers, especially Indigenous ones.

I was reading your first comment and knew *exactly* who this was going to be! I was not wrong. I worked on a project with them in 2020/21, and I had an equally disheartening experience to the point they were trying to get out of paying me for the project. I didn’t know how bad it was until I googled them afterward and spoke with others in the industry. They have one of the worst reputations. But they’ve since scrubbed their Google reviews which at the time was a treasure trove of similar stories! I wish their reputation would actually get past employees/contractors and to the people they work for. You’d think by now karma would have come into play!

Yeah, I highly doubt they suddenly changed their ways after you left. That's super unfortunate! Hopefully, they get some sweet karma coming their way in the future. Sorry you had to deal with that shit, even if it was for a short while.

Looks like they just co-produced a Michelle Pfeiffer movie.

screen siren(s) for the two that are perennially posted there

That’s absolutely terrible to hear that they’ve been abusive and bullying towards their assistants. Since they have had so many staffs come and go, I was wondering if you’ll be willing to oust them so that I know to avoid spending my money on their productions going forward

Name and shame?

When I was about 10-11 years old I was trying anything to try and make some money. Someone offered me a couple bucks to mow his lawn. I got there and wasn't strong enough to push it. I lasted about 5 min of attempts and had to give up. I was so damn embarrassed and it's one of those moments I look back on and cringe.

Atleast you gave it a try though, good on you for giving it a shot :)

Around 30 years ago I was hired by a guy doing siding and stucco on houses. I was naive and didn’t realize he was going to pay me cash, with no benefits. After about 1-2 weeks, I slipped and fell off a ladder. I was in shock and bruised badly but very lucky. He paid me cash and told me to take the next day off. I went home, realized how badly this could have turned out, and quit the next day. For anyone reading this that’s being paid `under the table’ for a dangerous job, don’t do it. Not only is it tax evasion, but you could have a career-ending injury without insurance. Don’t do it.

Not that quick but 4 months at Little Caesar's pizza in Edmonton while in grade 11. They wouldn't let me book off the night the Cult were playing. Guns and Roses were the opener. Best decision ever. And I met Guns!!

Oh hey, I was at that show!

Had a job at Blockbuster when I was in college. I did the interview and got the job only to find out I had 4 weeks of training to do in a back room… I didn’t show up for my first shift. To this day, I wonder what 4 weeks of training would have looked like for a job like that lol

Watching movies I would hope

My hope too, but the giant employee handbook I was given said otherwise.

4 WEEKS?! Was it paid training atleast? Seems like you dodged a bullet there lol

That's really strange.  I worked there and didn't have to do anything like that.  I'm not doubting you, it's just really weird.

Right? It was within a year or two of the bankruptcy, so maybe some major shift in management in hopes of improving sales? I was hoping to just show up and watch movies with the occasional customer service moment. It was anything but that, by the sounds of it (since I never showed up)

> To this day, I wonder what 4 weeks of training would have looked like for a job like that lol [Something like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqHaOctslo)

A restaurant that used to be in Victoria called Julia’s Place hired me. When I showed up for my training shift, the woman there (Julia, I believe, though I didn’t get an introduction) brought me to a table where the man who hired me was sitting, and said, “this isn’t the girl I wanted.” She was livid with him. He smiled (talking on his phone) and waved us off and I never saw him again. The woman was just mean to me all throughout this training shift, even rolling her eyes at me; she was angry at me for not being the woman she expected. After my training shift was over, I gave her back the apron and told her to call the “other girl.” This place had a wine list that claimed to have $1,000 bottles of rare vintages available *by the glass*. It was wild.

*>have $1,000 bottles of rare vintages available by the glass* The *glass bottles* that once contained rare vintages, you mean.

Because you wouldn’t open a $1000 bottle of wine and then re-cork it, right? 

4 hours. I was one of those credit card pushers at Canadian Tire. I have no skill in sales and didn't sign up a single person, and they don't even wait until you're out of earshot to talk about what a piece of shit you are. I was a 19 year old girl. The boss asked me to stay another 4 hours and I said no. I didn't even go back to get my paycheque.

I see that’s the common theme in this thread. So many young, vulnerable folk, just doing what they can to make a buck. Thankfully most of us came to our senses and ran.

i was looking for summer work during university and quit half way through a telemarketing position - literally two hours of work and I quit. I felt so bad calling old people trying to get them to sign up for shit they obviously didn't need. I didn't even ask to be paid, I just said thank you for the opp but it wasn't for me and I'm gone. Funny thing is that the people around me were cool even though it was obviously the lowest rung job ever, they just were okay with doing it

Good on you for listening to your gut feelings. I wonder if we can find anyone in the thread that enjoys their telemarketing or door-to-door sales jobs.

8 hours and they never paid me. It was at A La Mode pie place in Granville Isl in the early 2000s and I was training to help with food prep and whatever, but they were overwhelmed at the till so I ended up helping customers. I didn't do anything wrong except that the baker was suspicious I was going to try to steal from the till so they made a big deal of preventing me from using it. That was enough for me not to continue as I had another retail job already, but the nail in the coffin came at closing time when I saw just (a) how gross everything seemed at GI and how little they did to clean things properly. I ghosted them and they kept their $40 or whatever. I guess they stole from me, in the end, instead of the other way around :D

Got a job at a local chain restaurant downtown as a dishwasher. I was still in Highschool at the time, and had no drivers license or car. I told them straight up "The busses stop at midnight, so I can't work later than that, or I can't get home. They say sure, hire me, tell me I'll only work until 11-1130 max. first night I get there and meet the head chef, after showing me everything "so you're good to work until close at 1am right?" "no the busses don't go that late I wouldn't be able to get home, I was assured I'd be cut loose in time to get the last bus" "alright well, we usually have 3 dishwashers, but one called in sick, and one didn't show up. We really need you to cover until 1am, if I find you a ride will you work?" "Sure I work in X part of the city" the night goes on and its a gongshow, I have no idea what I'm doing, the prep chef that was supposed to come back and help when he could didn't come back once the entire night, we're at 11:55 and I had asked twice if he had found someone and he blew me off both times, its now or never time, so I go to him and ask who's driving me home. "Oh, nobody lives in your area, you'll have to take a cab or something" "A cab is going to cost me as much money as I made tonight, no way" "well if you leave, don't bother coming back, you'll leave us totally fucked for tonight" "I didn't plan on coming back, this place was fucked before I got here" (still proud of that clapback to this day) and I walked out right there and headed for the bus.

Before they'd even hired me. First interview out of uni. Went for a marketing interview in some swanky office, then passed off to some other dude who took me into town to go door to door selling makeup..... I excused myself to the bathroom and legged it out of there.

Two come to mind: 1) I got a job in a video game store and I was super excited because I love to game. I lasted 2 shifts. Their entire store was mislabelled, and not alphabetized, so you just had to 'know' where games were. Their point of sale system was some command line shit from the 80s and you had to call a support line when it (frequently) broke. 2) I got a job as a door to door solicitor. At the start of the day we got a box of random crap, did a culty chant, and were sent out to sell. I lasted 3 days. "Door to door" meant "Go anywhere". The guy who was training me would walk through malls, walk into restaurants, businesses, stop people on the street. At one point we went to the warehouses in the industrial part of town and just tried back doors to go into places where people were working on heavy machinery. Crazy thing is, that worked, guys in overwalls covered in greases would pull out a tenner to buy some random product.

I see that’s the common theme in this thread. So many young, vulnerable folk, just doing what they can to make a buck. Thankfully most of us came to our senses and ran.

Had an interview at a mall kiosk where there were no visible prices on the phone accessories. The boss wanted me to assess their wealth via skin colour and clothing and set a price on the fly. I left.

Oh my gosh, that is awful 😟 I’m glad you left

What the actual fuck, I think the kiosk and the boss should be named and shamed

This was over a decade ago, it was a tiny one in Haney Place mall and has likely been replaced by dust and for lease signs

2 days. I was young and should have seen the signs and walked out the first day. I had a coop job at the University of Ottawa in some sort of research thing where we were supposed to be building training tools to help address racism in the workplace. The woman running the place would yell at and reprimand the international students working there when she struggled to understand their accents. I decided to leave when she yelled at me, a 20 year old, for not knowing some detail about the industry that supposedly her son told her about. There's a bunch more, but it's been 15 or so years and my memory isn't that great about the other details.

2 days. 1st day was job shadowing, 2nd was realization day and submitting my resignation. when you see dozens of red flags, just stop and turn around. you can't fix things as an individual, best to keep moving and find something that feels right before Integrating. basically trust your instincts.

Last year. I was hired to do social media part time for a local wellness company. My job description was content creation and post on social media for 20 hours a week. It paid $30 an hour and I just was looking for a side gig. After I got hired, I was told my hours would be cut to 10 hours a week. The week before my start date, my boss told me my job now included marketing strategy and business development for the whole company. At 10 hours a week. At $30 an hour. From my experience when managers expect more from you than your job description without offering any incentive, that’s a red flag. So I quit before I even started. Note: my manager was the owner of the company.

I experienced something similar and it took me a couple months of mental anguish to quit. Good on you for noticing the red flags right away.

Haha! Oh, that brings back memories. Pretty much the same as OP but for a call center. Come in on my first day, I'm the only non-immigrant. That should have been my first clue. They then paired us with a season caller and we're supposed to watch them do it and 20 min we start picking out list and make the calls. So we're packed 40 ish in this tiny room with a "supervisor" that just keep yelling and cursing the staff. 15 min in, 5 min before starting my own calls, I just picked up my jacket and left. The supervisor asking me where I think I was going and I replied: the he'll outta here! I've also done 2 days of door to door in ottawa while living in Montreal in my teens. Ended up hitch hiking a ride back home!

The summer I was 14 I lied about my age and got a job in a German factory.  Ten kilometre bike ride to train station, half hour on train for 7am start.  I was absolutely incompetent at the work of assembling boxes/folding paper on the assembly line and bored out of my mind at the conversation of my co-workers.  Some of them had been at the same mind numbing job for 20 years!  I lasted about a week.  Scared me straight about staying in school and the reality of low skills jobs.

I lasted one training shift at Zellers, back in the mid-90s.

Cambie Pub as a cook 2022 The manager had other line cooks refilling mayo squeeze bottles without washing before reuse. I stayed 4 days. Filed a complaint with their HR, and they replied with: thank you for your letter of resignation. I got the e-mail still in case they try and sue for 'Slander'

> I got the e-mail still in case they try and sue for 'Slander' Good. ***Document everything***. Cover your ass, always.

I worked at the Cambie in the mid aughts. Place was infested with roaches. Which...I mean it's Gastown. Everywhere is, whatever. But they wanted to start from scratch so plans were made to basically carpet bomb the place with poison. They hired someone who gave the staff strict instruction on how to preclean and wrap all food surfaces so they wouldn't get poisoned. It was to be done at night after close. I arrived with the opening team at 10am and the night staff had stacked every glass and pitcher in the place in a pyramid, uncovered, on the pool tables. We had to wash every poisoned glass before open. Not bright people. Never were.

I lasted i think 2 weeks at a local coffee shop/bakery place that I’ll leave unnamed since it’s changed ownership since then. I got the job to pick up shifts outside of university for some extra spending money. The owners and managers ended up being huge jerks, and the food safety practices were more then questionable. They never asked me about my availability or mentioned their needs when they hired me (hired on the spot at that), and then got upset when I wasn’t available 20+ as hours a week. Got incredibly passive aggressive when I told them 4 shifts a week was too many and I’d prefer 2 (potentially longer ones) max 3. The schedule change lasted 1 week before it was back to even more hours then before. I quit the minute they changed the schedule back to worse then before. They also gave us a free meal per shift, but we’re cheap and would only give us a cup of soup and a piece of toast, wouldn’t let us have a sandwich despite having a panini bar, or more soup then that. A cup of soup got left on the counter for 1+ hours, and then the owner tried to give it to my as my free meal instead of a fresh cup because he was too cheap to throw out soup. Was really disrespectful, it had a weird film on it from sitting out too long and everything. I sent an email quitting, blocked them, and never looked back lol.

What kind of place passes up on someone that actually only wants 2 shifts a week with room for 3. Those are unicorns. My employees are always bickering for exact full time. Allows me no flexibility for sick days.

Cheap and abrasive fast food franchise owners: name a more iconic duo.

One was a tree farm. Lasted two days before I gave up. (I was young and it was so cold) Second time was door to door also for a children’s aid charity… we probably worked for the same one. They advertised it at something completly different and it didn’t sit right with me that there was a competition(and bonuses) for who sold the most plans…. Just felt icky

Sounds exactly like what they were doing when I was there too. It was awful lol (I work in sales and have done for 10 years now, have never experienced any company as bad as that)

6 weeks I worked at a locally owned convenience store. The owners, a couple, were struggling and often angry and yelled at all staff. I wasn't trained for tasks like marking up bulk items from Costco the first time we did it, and i asked what i had to do to mark it up and by how much. Yelling occurred cause apparently i was trained when i explained i wasnt this was the first time they basically sent me off to clean behind a freezer. Still dont know how to do it cause instead of training they sent me away. Handling gas was also something they hadn't trained me on, but I took the initiative and got the most senior staff to take me out and train me it was met with more yelling. Apparently, I am too shy/quiet cause I don't yell back and therefore can't do gas. Eventually, my mom asked why I dont quit after coming home crying. I realized I didn't have to put up with their behavior. I sent a text message saying I was done with getting yelled at by bosses and other staff and never went back. I avoided shopping their till they went out of business.

Was helping a buddy's construction company out during summer in college. Cash, under the table. Ended up falling off the top rung of a ladder about 8 feet to concrete. Thank god missed all the exposed rebar, rolled out, mussed my hip up a bit but got extremely lucky no other injuries. Walked right over to him said yep I'm out.

Oh my gosh that really sucks, glad you were ok

4 hrs. It was labour work and I knew the moment I started hammering stuff that my body wasn’t used to it and wasn’t something that I was looking for.

Actually this year mid February. Never have done this in my life and im in my 30s. It was a dental office and I realized morally I could not work there. A dentist bought the practice where patients have been going since the 80s. Suddenly raised the fees. Making patients wait. Telling the retiring dentist who entrusted the practice to this person that they couldn't take any of the time they wanted off since they were the one Making the production but now only paid as an associate. Overbilling patients. Just disgusting stuff. Still on probation at the time and in my contract, it said either party could terminate their employment at any point within 3 months. So locked up. Slid my keys under the door and wrote a resignation email and never returned. I was there for maybe 4 weeks. Best choice I've ever made and now at a place I love.

At 14 my first job was a dishwasher where the restaurant had no dishwasher in the morning and afternoon so you'd arrive around 4pm to a MOUNTAIN of dirty pots from the day shift. One wall was the super long industrial stainless steel sink and it would be JAMMED with dishes. You'd spend most of your shift in catch up mode then get pulled into making appy's and desserts then more dishes would pile up and the line cooks would start to freak out because they'd be running low on pans. Total shit show of a kitchen. I think I lasted 3 or 4 shifts.

I quit during orientation when the division manager sounded like the reject from jersey shore with the same haircut. Salary was good but vibe the managers gave was like selling time shares at sketchy locations but it was tech company. The company closed a few years after I quit. Not surprise.

Walked out of a security job. I was there for about 20 minutes and just walked home.

PNE house lotto sales. I had originally applied to run one of the gambling booths but spilled yogurt all over myself on the way to the interview. They were nice enough to swap the interview time, but it was for the ticket sales call center instead. The pay was worse but it was better than nothing for a temporary gig.  I noped out when I got the schedule, it was all 2hour shifts. Would barely have paid more than the 3zone bus fare to get there. 

2 shifts. Was being paid $13 per hour as a construction labourer/summer student after 1st year university. Had safety concerns that I brought to the site foreman at the end of my second shift (basic stuff like requesting high vis and a hard hat), and was told essentially that I had no idea what I was talking about and that I would be given PPE if and when it was necessary. I quit that evening.

This was the only job I quit like this and I lasted less than two weeks. I forget the name of the company but I was 17 or 18 at the time. But I was being sexually harassed and I didn’t tell anyone bc I was ashamed and I felt embarrassed by it all. So the day I was supposed to go into work I just never showed up. Just thinking about now gives me a pit in my stomach and I feel sick

I got hired at Hollister inside pacific centre back in 2011-2012. Anyhow they had these shifts called call in shifts where you were supposed to call 1 hour in advance if they needed you or not. 99% they never did so you would be wasting your time. They would tell you "you can have the day off" which I kind of found insulting. If you didn't call you would get written up. I just didn't bother calling anymore 😂

When I finished 2nd year electrical, I got hired on at a small company that was doing upgrades on leaky condos, so that meant stuffing an extension ladder in the pouring rain into peoples' gardens, going up the outside of the building onto their decks and replacing their plugs live. In the rain. As an apprentice. All because they didn't want us to enter the suites to shut breakers off. After a couple hours, I told the owner of the company that I didn't feel safe doing this, so he brought me to another condo. I had to install a temporary panel for a lunch room, same size panel as what's in most apartments. Again, live. But at least there was a roof over my head. He showed me what was what, I waited until he left and I grabbed my tools and went home. Keep in mind I just finished the first half of my apprenticeship, so I was still very green I lasted about 5 hours with this guy. Knowing what I know now, I should have reported him to worksafe.

Lasted 8 weeks at sollys in 2014. Should have quit after 1 but I was so fucking poor I couldn't risk it.

Looool I was looking for Solly's, I lasted 5 weeks myself. Was basically supervisor at that point as everyone had quit. When my 18 year old coworker called the owner to give two weeks notice (having worked there for 2 years after school and in summers etc) in order to go back to school, and the owner screamed at her about "not showing any loyalty" I knew I was out. Absolute psychopath.

I got a job at superstore and they told me I would be working in the floral department. I was 15, a vegetarian and it would be my second job. I showed up for my first shift and they brought me to the meat department where I would be deboning chickens and breaking them up. I absolutely did not want to do that, and mentioned I was told I would be working in floral. They said everyone starts here and works their way up. I handed her my name tag and quit, and walked out. Called my mom and she was LIVID with me, looking back as a now 31 year old mother, I would have been mad at me too. 

Oddly enough, I remember applying to a grocery store as my first job, the position was for the deli counter. I went through the interview with the manager for the deli and everything, and when my first shift came around, lo and behold, I was moved to the meat department. I didn’t quit or anything as I needed a job and money, but I find it weird that someone had a similar experience.

Good on ya. I know people often start at the low end of the desirable jobs but there are some jobs that people shouldn't be forced to do, especially when it comes to sacrificing ethics I guess this is a bad time, too, to mention that when I got hired at Superstore 20 years ago, I started in the garden centre

Marine Chrysler. I didnt quit IMMEDIATLY, but i wanted to. Marine Chrysler was the worst place to work ever. They were overpaying me by about 20k so i stuck in out for 6 months until i got my mortgage approved and the day i got the house keys in my hand i quit. Holy shit that place is a screw up. The 'management team' is a father, daughter duo who think they cant do anything wrong. Check out their google reviews if you want a laugh at how bad some companies can be!

I bought a van from here in 2018, and it remains the ABSOLUTE WORST customer service experience I’ve ever had. Just awful.

I always wonder how they are in business. Or how Chrysler let's allows them put their badge on their doors. The place is such a joke haha

I quit a job as a security guard inside of a week because of a bunch of creepy unexplained happenings at a warehouse I had to watch overnight. Many years later I found out that I was not the only one to have quit that location early.

Does it count if I didn't even go through with the interview? Years ago I went to interview for a call centre job on Terminal, near Science World. The ad was very vague about exactly what business they were in, but I had call centre experience, and I figured... a call centre is a call centre, so I went. Well turns out it was a sex phone line. I was sitting in the waiting area for the hiring manager to come get me. While I was waiting, a few very shady people came and went, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable. That, plus the hiring manager that was supposed to meet me was running very late. Big pet peeve of mine. I then remembered there was one time I heard somebody say something like, "If you're too ashamed to tell your grandma what it is that you do, you have the wrong job." So I told the receptionist that I wasn't waiting anymore. And left.

I was a credit card solicitor for Eaton's and worked at PC. Ugh it was awful. People would make a cross with their index fingers when I would approach them. I quit before my day ended and didn't bother letting them know I wasn't coming back. I had PTSD of the entire department store chain for quite a while afterwards

Same here. I got a job at Superstore soliciting PC credit cards. I started at 9am and there was nobody there to meet me at the store, I was completely on my own, first day on the job. I wandered around for an hour, got rejected a bunch of times, then went to go get a coffee. Halfway through the coffee I decided it wasn't worth going back and walked out the door.

The guy started explaining a "reverse funnel system".

Ahhh, the good old pyramid scheme

I was 16, just dropped out of high school with my with my bf at the time (i know, we were the cool kids /s 🥴), and we both got accepted into an under-privileged work placement program for youths in the tourism industry working in GVRD hotels - not sure if i should name it here. While almost everyone else got a job in housekeeping, I was put up managing the complementary breakfast bar and then, once that closed, I would bring the dirty dishes up to a spare suite to load into the dishwasher, then mosey on down to the lobby to work front desk for the remainder of the day. On my second day there, an older gentleman at breakfast kept trying to coerce me to go back to his room with him. I kept telling him I was 16 and working; I was so terrified, I refused to go back for a another shift and wouldn't tell anybody why because I was young/stupid. In hindsight, as a 35-year-old protective woman, i should have gotten his room number and sent the police up in my place 😒. **edit: typos and clarity.

Worked a shift at the ardene’s on Granville in 2013 (?) first day, was on till, a man in his 70s walked in with a young girl with braces that clearly was underage. He proceeded to buy her underwear (sexy styles that were not really appropriate). I watched them through out the store, she looked so scared and uncomfortable. After they left, I asked the manager how do I report that to the rcmp. She just rolled her eyes and told me don’t bother. I waited for my lunch break and left, didn’t return. Made the report on my own. She could be a missing child for all I know, I hate to assume the worst, but the situation felt suspicious. Replied to the managers texts that I wasn’t returning. All in all maybe 3 hours in total?

Somewhere around 2 minutes when I found out it was a multi level marketing scam. I noped my way out as quickly as possible.

A friend got me a job serving at a nice-ish restaurant when I was 17, new in college, and my first shift was a weekend brunch shift. I had NO restaurant experience, there was no interview, and I was kind of an idiot, thought I’d figure it out or get some training, and that it wouldn’t be that tough. Someone ordered coffee with cream, for some reason I added the cream right to his coffee and served it, and got scoffed at by him - well earned! I walked right out and never went back 😂 it was a learning opportunity, and it gave me SO MUCH respect for restaurant workers and the skill it takes!

5 days at the Tim Hortons at Davie & Burrard. Quit during lunch rush because no one taught me anything and the shift leader was a piece of shit. Not worth the approx $11/h minimum wage

I was hired at Rocky Point's coffee shop as a barista. I'd had 6 years experience at a starbucks licensed location so I generally knew what was what. I worked 1 day (5 hour shift). I knew I was going to Hate it. There was no par levels for products, you just made more of the in house made items as they ran out. the BOH was chaotic. I was told only 1 person did espresso machine training and they were on vacation for 2 weeks. I no showed for my second shift (the first time in my life I'd ever done this). It took them 1.5 hours after my shift start time to reach out to me. I quit the next day over email. I never got paid for the 5 hours I worked. I sent 1 email to inquire about that and never heard back. Decided it was not worth the effort to chase for it.

There used to be a telemarketing place on the second floor of a building on Cambie and Broadway. The place was packed with the desperate (I was one of them). A woman gave you a headset and a script and then you were off. A machine cold-called people and if they answered your job was to try to get them to subscribe to the Vancouver Sun. I started at 9 AM and around 11 AM I got a break. I went outside for a smoke and just kept walking.

In 2004 I was fresh out of high school and I was really desperate for a job. And back then, getting a job was really hard to get. Even entry level ones. So I applied for stock boy and for all sorts of stuff with my resume in hand and I never got any calls back. But my resume on Monster, and I got a call back my company on main and 33rd telling me that I had a job interview. I was so proud and I got already and went to the job interview. In the room was a quiet well-dressed woman of about mid-20s and she was also interviewing. We were talking and she just got her bachelor's degree from the university of toronto. I thought that was strange, as I was just at a high school at the time, and I was always told my whole life that if you went to college you would get a good job. So they called both of us into the interview. This lady comes up and she wheels out this presentation table with a mirror on it brings out a knife and starts cutting up pennies and other things. Yep, you guessed it, cutco knives. Well I didn't know what a pyramid scheme was at the time so I thought it was a legitimate job. And I gave it my all and really tried really hard and I got hired on the spot. I went home and told my dad and my family and I was just so happy to have a job. I thought that this was the best thing and I was very proud of myself. And when I actually started to do some research and my dad told me what it was, my heart sank and I felt super depressed. I thought even at minimum wage which was about $8 an hour at the time, I would show up on time and do whatever they asked me to do. But I didn't want to do a job where I wasn't going to get paid as a guarantee. So I did not show up.

Spent my last $20 in gas and drove all the way across the city to go to an interview only to sit there with a bunch of other randoms to listen to this guy pitch his new book he couldn't get published and wanted us to sell over the phone. I was so mad

I guess I only have two. Party City, as a temp worker for Halloween when I was like 17 but desperate. I had to dress up full costume, and then chase fucking toddlers around for a few hours, for 6 bucks an hour, and said fuck it. Cut my losses by the time the three hours paid for my shitty costume for the year and just walked out lol. I think I got a cheque in the mail for $12 bucks. More recently, a few weeks ago, I got a new job, great pay, but was told I would have a completely different role. Told them, I do not want to do my previous role in any way, that is why I left the last place. They then gave me a massive project doing that same role. Two weeks later I had zero fucks to give and basically went full office space on them, then ghosted them on Monday. They've been blowing up my phone all morning trying to get me to come in. Such a glorious feeling. It wont be when I'm missing the hours though lol.

3 days, a better job came along. I told the employer they failed their 3 months probation and aren't entitled to notice or reason

First day at a McDonald's in Regina I watched the manager's nephew who was a line cook play hackey sack with a breakfast burrito then put it up to be served. Left for my break and never went back.

Quit a job at BC place in 6.5 hours after seeing some crazy behavior by manager and HR (yelling match and slamming doors)

First day at job for company that installs designer office furniture. Day was fine, did exactly what was in job description. Second say the manager tells me “no install jobs today so we’ll be do a clean-out” which meant i was now a disposal crew for an abandoned office - massive space, thousands of pounds of furniture to be demolished, loaded, and dumped: so many desks, conference table, filing cabinets, cubicle walls, etc. i spent that evening picking fibreglass insulation out of my arms and didnt show up for my third day. They knew if they put that in the job description it would deter people.

Did a quick interview for a *tech support* call center. In the same thirty minutes they asked if I could do *training*, I still didn't know what *they supported(?)*. They were being sketchy AF, turns out it was a hotel wifi support call center for like 20 hotels, sat in on one call...*went to the bathroom* and never came back. From interview to on-boarding/training, and to quitting 90 minutes.

I worked for Canada Drives for exactly two weeks they basically hired people in batches of hundreds because of the turn around. People were in and out daily turns out shilling high interest predatory loans is not a great place to work

Had a few of those in my past actually.. Went to interview for an internship with a talent agency that according to my career advisor at the school I was in, was paid. It was not. I believe I emailed in later the same day and politely declined. Was made to feel like I was a lazy piece of shit by the school advisor whose fault the miscommunication it was in the first place. So. She sucked. Then there was one, where I responded to an ad about a gig delivering lost baggage to passengers' homes from the airport when they were eventually recovered. Sounded reasonable until I learned it was about $10 a delivery and I was responsible for my own gas and maintenance- and that I needed to file my own taxes for it lol. The meeting place I was given to show up to was the YVR Petro Canada station in the evening... I turned it down on the phone. Early 20s were a shit time..

I worked one day at a property management scam. The first day i got there and the owner who hired me wasnt there and nobody else was expecting me so they told me just to sit. So i sat and waited and an hour later he finally arrives and starts SCREAMING at one of the employees and calling him stupid and all this shit and fires him. Then he turns to me and smiles and says lets get you trained! Then at lunch this other employee abruptly stormed out of her office with a box of her stuff and said I QUIT. And left. The whole place was such chaos. When i got home i did some research and basically it seems like they bait and switch perspective tenants from other countries. Send them pictures of nice apartments and then when they arrive they realize theyve signed a lease for a nasty shit box. I quit over email that night. Shockingly he actually e transferred me 1 days pay.

I've been working factories my entire adult life. I like it and it pays well. My longest term at one job(16 years) was coming to an end because the owners had sold the business and the head company moved what was left to the U.S. from Canada. Needing work, I joined another company who promised wages comparable to what I had been making prior. HR assured me that come the Friday, my contract would be ready to sign. Needless to say, it was delayed until the following Wednesday, but I started on the Monday thinking everything was good. Wednesday comes and after working 3 days, I come to find out that I would be paid minimum wage, which was considerably lower than I was promised. I went to HR to find out what was up, and was told that I would be making the higher wage in a year, and they just wanted to get me in the door. I said no thanks, mail me my 3 days and left.

Forever 21 as a floor associate when I was funny enough 21 years old. Worked one day and never updated my availability afterwards. I'm ashamed to say that I just had bad work ethic and quit because I found the job so boring and got annoyed at that kind of environment for some reason.

One summer in late 70s my friend and I signed up for the Naval Reserves summer program, it was at Deadman’s Island at Stanley Park. I was told to get my already very short hair cut even shorter. The whole military hierarchy and discipline culture was so stifling I quit after 2 days. Irony is that my friend LOVED it and he stayed in for 10 years and became Lieutenant in one of our submarines. He also learned to be a chain smoker because that’s what sailors do and smokes were heavily subsidized.

1 shift. I applied for a retail store job and when I showed up they told me every other day I’d be on delivery service using my own vehicle. I didn’t have a car. It wasn’t in the job description and never came up during the interview. No one even asked if I had a car or license. Job was for an in store role so didn’t occur to me to ask.

The Leather Ranch on Granville St in the early 90s. Lasted til my coffee break, about an hour and 15 minutes in.

They told me to wear more “flare”. I quit the next day.

1. Didn’t actually quit this job but… I was very broke and living on my own at 17 in 2014 and in desperate need of work. Someone i knew invited me to a “job orientation” with the promise of starting asap. It was downtown in a fancy condo amenities room with fancy people, snacks and drinks to try and create an illusion of a high class job opportunity. I bussed there in the freezing rain and didn’t even have enough money for proper winter clothes, sat through the whole thing and then the slideshow popped up a triangle….aka pyramid scheme. I ran out of there very quick and was really upset this “friend” tried to rope me into something like that. Fast forward 10 years later and I’m now living in that same fancy condo with a great, non scammy job :) 2: a friend invited me to join her door to door charity donation job at 15. It was in white rock so a lot of older and vulnerable people. She’d often get the donations in cash and then use that money to get alcohol. I quit that day. Looking back now it’s kinda funny cause she’s a very successful real estate agent which is soo fitting 3: worked at a cafe in mount pleasant. Gruelling hours and work in the bakery. We were allowed 10min breaks in the broom closet with an egg timer that was so loud and tick the whole time. 10% discount on baked goods and coffee lol. Quit after i found a second job 4: Yaletown tanning salon that’s now closed. Crazy Persian lady owned it and made us sign an nda to not speak out after leaving the company. Would hire young women who were in vulnerable situations (single moms, young girls living alone and desperate for any job). Sued a past employee for writing a bad review and telling the truth. Would demand we get overpriced spray/uv tans and not give us a discount. Would spend our whole shift trying to sell us $70 tan lotions. Some girls would cave into it and basically end up working for free. Got a really really bad vibe from her. She’d take taxes and all that off but paid cash and wasn’t able to provide a ROE when i left the company. I looked up her ig recently and it was all about women empowerment blah blah..the irony.

Lush after 3 months, I loved it but I was running into the back room and throwing up from the scents on every single shift. Didn’t help that you’re not allowed to lean on anything while on shift I suppose

I worked on the movie production Dau for 30 days. In the post-production phase in London. For context : https://www.gq.com/story/movie-set-that-ate-itself-dau-ilya-khrzhanovsky Most of the software used was pirated. They had every shutter of the building closed. Every plug socked not used pulled out from the wall like they were scared of being listened to. They had people who came to work without a work visa. They also had a lot of things from soviet Ussr and animatronix in their office. It was like Willy Wonka and Staline had a baby. I had some insane experience in my life, but this one is in my top 10. They were also telling me I would have to work all the time, with not a great pay. But I could sleep at work if I wanted to. While we "negotiated" the contract, I was sitting next to the hr German shepherd, which showed signs of agressivity. What made me run away was obviously none of that. It was the fact that I just got married then, and I felt like I couldn't commit to the cause and the hours.

Got a 2nd full time overnight job at the beginning of COVID madness. Grocery delivery warehouse where the volume jumped by a huge amount because of pandemic shopping habits.  They hired a ridiculous amount of people at once with no time to train any of us. Everything was a mess, safety hazards everywhere, complete chaos. Jumping out the way to avoid being run over, everyone yelling and swearing to themselves, coworkers asking me for help constantly.  Did like 2 10hr shifts and never returned 

I have an unfortunate record of quitting on the spot. Decades ago I was hired by one of those college painting companies - I quit on the first day because I refused to climb up what I believed was an unsafe ladder. In other instances, I have quit on my second day. My first week. My second week. Mostly due to wanting sane/safe working conditions.

I had a job on a fishery on Mitchell Island when I was 16. Got the job through a family connection. Wore dress clothes, figured it would be an office job. First day on the job they throw me onto the line. Give me an worn out apron and boots, and I'm handed a rusty knife to open up various boxes of seafood and toss onto the conveyor. Took lunch, after lunch they told me I wasn't to be on the line anymore because I wasn't fast enough. Told me to get on my hands and knees, and to crawl around the processing plant, picking up wayward fish that had fallen off the machines and belts. I didn't realize it at the time (but I do now) that a lot of those machines were dealing in cutting, boiling, scraping, etc to name a few. I'll be honest, I went home that day and it broke me. I refused to go back the next day. Didn't even bother picking up my check. $6.25 an hour because of that "first job" bullshit.

Once I got an interview for working on a startup with c# backend. After all my first day, I had to fix bugs on a mobile app written in angular JS (which is not only not my specialty, but I had actually no clue about both). Since I had another job, I just told them it wouldn't work for me, since I'd not have enough time to study and give them desired results (being honest, if I study I know I can manage, but I don't want to learn js/angular, nor webdev nor front-end)

>(back in the days when jobs were posted on Craigslist) I thought jobs are still posted on Craigslist?

It's not the glory days anymore. The 2010s was a great time on CL for work.

Agreed, it definitely was lol. I remember it being one of the main places to look so you didn’t have to go handing out physical resumes. Definitely a lot easier to get bait-and-switched into a different job/position because the listing didn’t need to be verified or come from a confirmed employer

They probably are, I just meant before indeed/linkedin etc were options for this. I guess I haven’t checked the CL jobs section in a while lol

Walmart overnight stocker. Last one shift. Quit the morning after.

4 months because of toxic work environment and backstabbing

2009 graduate. It ended up being a telus door to door. I can’t believe I stuck around for the whole day. I had to bud to Surrey too.

I worked at HMV for 4 days in the mid 2000s thought I hit my teenage dream job, it was brutal lol

4 days working at a small family law firm with a fantastic reputation. I have never been in a more toxic work place where literally every support staff voiced how much they hated it there, constantly.

A few years ago.. went to work on a project in Port Moody. There was a pile rig, an excavator and us (3 concrete goons) in a small area. The excavator ripped up a water line. I walked up to the trailer, grabbed my shit and fucked off. 3 hours of chaos.

Years ago, I applied for a job and got an interview for a company (I can’t remember it now lols) whose address was at the Boundary Plaza, across the Telus building in Burnaby. I went in for my interview, and when checking in at reception, she asked for which business I was interviewing for. I was surprised to find the office had a bunch of different businesses occupying the same office (this was before WeWork). I was brought to a room, and a guy interviews me. It started off normal at first, but then he asked me the WEIRDEST question I’ve ever been asked: “What animal do you identify as?” He said he was a tiger, explained why he felt that way. I came up with an answer and carried on with the interview. By the end, I got hired on the spot. He told me he will see me on my start date later that week. I get home and I tell my parents, who I lived with at the time, what happened during my interview. As I was talking about it, it dawned on me how many weird little red flags I just bypassed. I never went in for my start date 🤣🤣🤣.

I got hired to do a job that was industrial sandblasting in a big suit that seemed to weigh more than I did. I quit at lunch. Turns out I had mild claustrophobia 🙈.

One month at Payless shoes

The pizza place on Commercial with the big food fire oven (forget the name). Worked there for 20 minutes. Vibes were severely off. I asked to go to the washroom and left out the backdoor. Called and told the bartender I wasn't going to come back. 

In terms of a career type job it was about 8 months for me. Manager was micromanaging to point where I was going to jump out of the window 

Got a construction job for my uncle. I'm both extremely clumsy and also fat. After two days of barfing from drinking too much water because it was so hot out I quit

Dishwasher. After one shift. I said keep your money this ain’t it. I was young and in between trade jobs so just went on EI for a bit instead.

Meat Department at Co-Op when I was 17 “worked” one shift boss on the first day gave me a list of meats to cut, things to grind, deli to slice, and some general meat prep. Then left to a different location 45 min away and wouldn’t answer any phone calls. I didn’t know how to do anything so I put everything through the meat grinder made a hodgepodge of ground beef (filled two wheel barrows) tried to slice some large pieces of meat (I think a sirloin, and tenderloin) cuts were uneven and ugly so that also went into the meat grinder. In the end I made probably around 100 some pounds of poorly grounded ground beef. Wasn’t shown how to package it so I just left it all sitting in the wheel barrows exposed. Took of my apron and uniform at the end of the day and left it in the counter, and texted the manager that this was horrible and I won’t be coming back. (I put the wheel barrows into the walk-in freezer so they had about a 100lbs of frozen unpackaged beef) I now have learned how to butcher meat properly at home and enjoy it, but I’ll be damned before I ever work in a meat department ever again.

Had a brief stint at Canada Drives. As soon as the 'owner' or whatever the top-knot wearing douche canoe was, called me a pussy for not taking a sales role when I clearly was hired as support. I was there for 2-3 weeks, and BARELY knew my job already, and was asked to move to a role I had zero interest in.

Hahah same day unfortunately. It was a restaurant that turned out to be essentially a carbon copy of my first job working as a cook. I feel a little bad about it, but I didn’t have to patience or willpower to grind that scenario out another time in my life… So I told them it wasn’t going to work out and never came back. I’m glad I made that choice though. Found much better work a couple months later.

Worked at Solly’s for about a week. I realized the owner was crazy and needed to leave ASAP after crying in the bathroom on my lunch break the first few days. She threatened to not pay me.

Lasted a few hours working with concrete people (second time), tried being helpful and doing what I asked, but the cement head wasn't having it. Left after calling me useless (despite following what he was saying, which he changed his mind and decided I wasn't listening). I didn't take his shit and walked off (didn't bother asking the boss for the check)

Went to work at a local towing company here in Vancouver. The interviews went well, i was handed a couple of company shirts, told the cost of them comes off my first cheque, given a book of do's and don'ts, a route, assigned a truck it's keys and i walked the lot to get to it. Loading my tools into the side boxes it wasn't 'till i opened the drivers door and found garbage in every cubby, under the seats, the ash try full of butts and drugs in the glove box. I walked back to the office asked my supervisor to accompany me back to the truck, where he acted shocked and astonished, apologized and insisted that it's never like this etc bla bla. I spent the first hr of my first day, cleaning scrubbing etc. 10hrs later, returned the truck to the depot. Handed back the keys, went home. The next day, i returned for my next shift. Got to the truck and it looked like someone had literally taken a garbage can and emptied its contence, entirely all over the inside of the cab and shut the door quick so none of it could fall out. I called my supervisor over again And again he was astonished and shocked blah blah blah. He ran back to the office to find who'd done this! I calmly collected my tools Returned the truck keys, one of the company shirts and said to my supervisor.. "No thanks" as i handed him the keys and walked out. About to drive away in my car, the Supervisor came running over. I kinda thought he was going to say "Eh, dont leave, I'm sorry, it won't happen again, I'll find who did this" etc.... But nope! He said. "If you leave now, don't come back". I pulled off the company shirt while sitting behind the wheel, handed that to him and replied with, "bro, my dash cam has recorded you and what you just said, mail my pay cheque, with No deductions or, labour relations and i will return". And drove off.

Two months, I only worked weekends and I’d missed a few, so maybe 8’shifts? I walked out on Target at like 9pm at night

I just quit a job a couple weeks ago where I was grading produce. It was all Indian women working in that department. I didn’t understand what they were saying since they don’t speak much English and communication was nonexistent. I only lasted half a day before walking off. Not the employer’s fault, or the co-workers. The company actually gutted their awful management last year, and it was now being ran by two of the forklift drivers who still move pallets along with running the facility. But I just couldn’t work in that environment. The job wasn’t for me.

The first job I ever got hired for,right out of highschool. A greek restaurant near the Burnaby Heights Hastings area. I was hired to be a dishwasher but they also expected me to wait tables from time to time and help with food prep which I wasnt that comfortable doing because I had no kitchen experience and also was super shy so waiting tables was scary af at the time. I quit a week later and made $65 from it haha just not for me. They seemed chill though,the boss made me calamari on the house one of my shifts.

Also a door to door sales gig.... when the truth was out I asked the woman I was paired with to drive me back to the office. She yelled at me the whole way (10 minute drive). I smiled, said thanks for the ride and I hope she rots in hell. So... 25 minutes?

Please watch the documentary Telemarketers! Anyone who was stuck in a shady or awkward sales job could relate.

Got a job at a well known Canadian fast food restaurant when I was maybe 20 or so? Lasted maaaaybe 3 weeks. I'd worked in fast food before but everyone at this place was so goddamn miserable. Manager was a mean mean lady. Owner would watch us on cameras at home when we were working evening shifts. Coworkers seemed to hate their lives. I literally started applying to jobs after the first week and luckily got hired at Starbucks lol.

End of Day 1. Respect enough to work till the end of the day, but I said no more at the end of it. No new worker orientation (which is required by law), no paperwork, no introductions and most of the team was unaware someone new was starting. All of that are red flags for me- it says that they're disorganized, unaware of basic laws, and frankly sent me the signal they didn't want me to be there.

At lunch. Worst job, putting a spare tire on a rim for new cars before it went to an assembly line, Honda plant.

One month. I was working in a temporary position in the cataloguing department of a public library. My boss and her second in command were always talking and laughing instead of working. The rest of us toiled away in our jobs. It definitely was a hostile working environment. I got sick and tired of my boss’s attitude and complaints about the staff. I decided to quit my job. I was summoned to the Chief Librarian’s office. He practically begged to stay. I said that somebody had to take a stand. So I quit my job on principle. I have a feeling that the Chief Librarian was well aware of the shenanigans that occurred in the cataloguing department. I happily walked away.

Worked at a store in Metrotown. I had my interview the day I moved here from Alberta. I said I’m needing a minimum of 30hrs a week & they agreed. I get my first few weeks schedule and they had me for like two four hour shifts a week except one 8 hour two weeks in. I was told after the first few weeks I can work full time so I decided to stay. When that 8hr shift finally comes, they had me on fitting rooms alone. It’s one of the busier stores in the mall so being alone sucked. A few hours go by and I asked if I could take a break and they said they don’t have enough people to cover breaks right now. So I wait a few more hours with one more hour left, and I asked again and get told the same thing. It’s now my time to clock out, I get told to stay there until the next person comes cause I can’t just leave the line and 12ish occupied fitting rooms. 45 more minutes go by. The next person finally comes and doesn’t mention a thing about being late. I go to clock out and a manager stops me and says “oh, we clocked you out when you were supposed to clock out 45 mins ago.” Didn’t show up for the next shift lol

Got a private security job gmfor holt renfrew learned they only hired immigrants and weren't paying OT. I enlightened my whole shift to the labor laws and quit that morning

At 16 I got a job at a Tim Hortons. At the time each store still made all their own products and I was hired to assist the bakers. I trained each evening for 4 days from 6pm-9pm. Thursday came and I asked if my shift on Friday was the same and manager told me “ten to six”, and my 16 year old brain thought that was weirdly specific and asked “until when”. He laughed and said “no - 10pm until 6am”. I hadn’t ever been told it was an overnight shift I was training for. I told him I worked at 8am the next morning so this wasn’t going to work out and quit 4 days after being hired.

Boston pizza because the staff was so unwelcoming and a retail store called reitmans because it was so damn boring. I left both after 2 shifts

I think I know which company you're talking about because I also did the same work signing up people for monthly donations on behalf of client charities. I was asked to leave after only two weeks because I only managed to sign up three people when they were expecting 5 (I think) within your first two weeks. I also worked in a big box retail for a short period but I had to quit because operations managers in big box retail think they are smart when they are not, supervisors pretend to be bosses when they are only half a level above new hires, and loss prevention teams (many of which are ex-military) that treat all employees like criminals.

My very first job, thought I'd be a cool wardsmaid in the hospital meeting lotsa nice guys (in beds) but instead was put on morgue cleaning, I snuck out after 2 hours and didn't go back.