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did you ever leave a job on your first day

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  • #32
    maxfresh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭maxfresh


    lcrcboy wrote: »
    Yep when I was on a j1 summer I got a job in a Irish bar as a waiter for 2 bucks an hour, that same day I got a call from a painter who knew one of my friends and he offered to higher me for 15 dollars an hour working from 6am to 5pm working 6 day weeks so I jumped straight on it and told the management sorry but I got a better offer.

    Would you not have made a good bit extra in tips as the waiter ? being america and there whole tipping thing.


  • #33
    yizorselves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    You probably couldve made way more with tips working in that Irish bar....as stated above


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yup, walked out in the middle of the induction for a well known electronics store just over 4 years ago. My brother came in and said the company I had applied to for an apprenticeship a month or so beforehand had rang the house and said I was starting the following Monday. This was a Friday afternoon so I just said to your man doing the induction that I finally got my apprenticeship. He wasn't happy at all and said "whatever, just leave". This was responded with a "go fvck yourself" and off I went.


  • #35
    lcrcboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    maxfresh wrote: »
    Would you not have made a good bit extra in tips as the waiter ? being america and there whole tipping thing.

    the bar was outside the town I was staying in with not many people heading out there, one of my mates got a job in that bar and would often only bring home about 20 dollars, he had the odd occasion where he would make about 200 I think it may have happened only twice, but he was scraping by most of the time. Problem with that job is that it was to inconsistent he never knew when he was going to make a nice bit again and would end up saving it just to stay safe.

    Plus I was working for cash in hand so tax free (dont tell US immigration :D)


  • #36
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Nodin_ wrote: »
    You made a smart-ass condescending dig at the OP and I called you out on your hypocrisy in front of everyone. At least he was trying to find work and not content to sit on his ass all day long posting on boards.

    The fact that you post here 24/7 not only proves you're on the dole, but that you also have no friends. I'm leaving the thread now as I'm not interested in arguing with you. I'm just glad I called you out :)

    why does your name have an underscore?

    Are you pretending to be this poster?


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  • #37
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,486 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    why does your name have an underscore?

    Are you pretending to be this poster?

    Detective Panda to the rescue :D


  • #38
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    My brother left a maintenance job because he didn't like the smell in the canteen... 1st or 2nd day...
    Jammy sod walked into a better job 2 weeks later :rolleyes:


  • #39
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    fryup wrote: »
    Then out of the blue..I just got a rush of blood to head and said to myself "f&ck it this place ain't for me" got up and headed straight for the car park and home..

    I see your rush of blood to the head and raise you ten.

    I walked out of a job interview onetime.


  • #40
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    A friend of mine while we were travelling was told on his first day in one job that if he felt like walking off to just let someone know. They seemingly had a problem with employees just having enough and walking out.

    He was putting bread into a machine to make breadcrumbs on the night shift.


  • #41
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Left quite a few jobs on my first day in the US, never here though. Usually down to the state of the place and chatting to other workers about conditions etc.


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  • #42
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    I see your rush of blood to the head and raise you ten.

    I walked out of a job interview onetime.

    oh ya?? what happened??


  • #43
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Yes, picking apples in Western Australia. We were so bad at at, we quit at lunch time. At morning break, your man told us we had bruised 11% of the apples, it was actually 12% but I hadn't the heart to tell him. We decided to call it a day at lunch and strike on to a new town.


  • #44
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    shaaane wrote: »
    Yup, walked out in the middle of the induction for a well known electronics store just over 4 years ago. My brother came in and said the company I had applied to for an apprenticeship a month or so beforehand had rang the house and said I was starting the following Monday. This was a Friday afternoon so I just said to your man doing the induction that I finally got my apprenticeship. He wasn't happy at all and said "whatever, just leave". This was responded with a "go fvck yourself" and off I went.

    Classy.


  • #45
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    fryup wrote: »
    oh ya?? what happened??

    From early on during the interview it became clear they were not a company I would want to work for. A penny pinching shytehole who wanted to hire an engineer but only pay them operators wages. Wasnt particularly desperate for a job at the time (was already employed but only on temporary contract) so didnt see much point continuing with the bullshyte. Just stood up told them I didnt think it was what I was after (and more or less why) and walked out.

    In retrospect it was based in one of those large swamps industrial estates down in Shannon which from the outset should have indicated that things didnt look promising.
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I have seen a couple of people do this over the years. Remember a guy who was given the desk next to me a few years ago. He seemed lovely, very happy with his new job. Went home and was never heard of again. Didn't even bother with a PFO phone call.

    Of course everyone blamed me!

    Its happened a few times now in our place. Oddly it seems to be the ones that seem nicest/happiest who do it.

    The ones who whine, moan and bitch stay for twenty years.


  • #46
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Nodin_ wrote: »
    ....says the college drop-out on the dole. You've never worked a day in your life.
    He told me he works on your mother every night.


  • #47
    L'prof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,106 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    LovelyHurling wrote: »
    I once got offered a great Summer job in the IFSC when I was a college student, back around 2004. I turned it down to do a J1 in Hawaii.

    Times were different back then, I think many of us once had very blase attitudes to finding work or giving up a job; times have changed.

    I'm not so sure, myself and 2 of my friends have worked in a factory for the last 6 years. It paid us through college and ow we want to go travelling, they packed in their jobs and are gone in 2 weeks. I hope to leave next summer. I'll apply for leave, but won't be too disappointed if I don't get it.

    Back on topic, I turned up to my first day at Compustore to be met by the manager and told that they had gone bust, wouldn't have been as bad if I hadn't walked out of another job to take it :p


  • #48
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I have seen a couple of people do this over the years. Remember a guy who was given the desk next to me a few years ago. He seemed lovely, very happy with his new job. Went home and was never heard of again. Didn't even bother with a PFO phone call.

    Of course everyone blamed me!

    that was me at that desk.


  • #49
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I once left a job beacuse I fancied a bottle of cider.


  • #50
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Got an interview for PAWS once. Told I started the next day except it was commission only.

    So I never turned up. I'm not standing out on the street all day harrassing people when there's no guarantee I'll get paid.

    When I moved back to Germany I got a part time job as a chef to help out with the bills until I got more classes teaching English. Quite enjoyed the job, everyone was nice etc. But there was one absolute C*NT who spoke incredibly fast German. Now my German's not bad and I always spoke the language when I was working there, but I couldn't understand a word he said. Neither could everyone else. And he didn't even have the courtesy to speak a bit slower when it was clear I didn't understand him in his normal speed. Whenever I worked with foreigners who didn't speak much English, I always made sure that they understood what I was saying. There were also people there whose German was far worse than mine.

    Anyway, one fateful night I was put on the dessert stand for the first time. I was still learning so everyone told me not to get stressed. But I ended up working closing with this guy. He kept barking orders at me. There were recipes up on the wall so I would go by them and do them as fast as I could without getting them wrong. Took a bit of time, especially when there were 5 plus orders coming in.

    My lovely colleague kept yelling and becoming abusive to the point where he started throwing things.

    I was so close to losing my temper. Normally I'm pretty tolerant of assh0les that I work with, but I was so close to getting an ice cream, dumping it on his head and just walking out. I didn't though...

    Anyway I was disgusted at the way I was treated when the guy CLEARLY knew it was my first time doing that particular stand. I ended up ranting to one of my co-workers, telling them I was going to speak to the head chef because I refuse to be treated like that. My co worker kindly told me that if he did it again, threaten to give him a thump across the face because that's what the kitchen porter did and he left him alone ever since.

    Looking back I still wish I'd just stormed off. But I've never worked with such an ignorant f*ck like that before. I thought it was just me at first but apparently most people had had run ins with him like that.


  • #51
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Got a job in a stationary/school book shop just after finishing/flunking my Leaving Cert years ago.

    Went in at 9am and I was told to individually price all the loose rubbers and pens/pencils etc.Did this for a good hour or so and then the owner arrived in said I was doing it wrong and to start again,much to the amusement of the other staff and customers.

    Everyone else who worked in the place were the sons/daughters of the owner and they were right little snotty pricks too.

    Went home for lunch and never came back.I reckon I would've killed someone if I had!


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  • #52
    Shattered Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Shattered Dreamer


    I went for an interview at a "marketing firm" in early 2010. Job ad said desk job 9-5 minimum wage, same in the interview desk job minimum wage, in the contract I sign day 1 it said desk job minimum wage. When I got the job it turned into 10am-8pm Monday-Saturday walking door to door on commission based pay. I quit after 2 days of taking an overwhelming amount of abuse from people pissed off at you for calling to their house uninvited (got threatened with violence a few times) & in fairness I didn't blame them. I would of stuck it out if it had of come with a basic wage.


  • #53
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    As well as walking out of an interview Ive turned down a couple of job offers (didnt even reply to one of them) if that counts.
    L'prof wrote: »
    Back on topic, I turned up to my first day at Compustore to be met by the manager and told that they had gone bust,
    Going by the one time Ive dealt with the company in question Id say you were lucky.
    Shattered Dreamer wrote: »
    I went for an interview at a "marketing firm" in early 2010. Job ad said desk job 9-5 minimum wage, same in the interview desk job minimum wage, in the contract I sign day 1 it said desk job minimum wage. When I got the job it turned into 10am-8pm Monday-Saturday walking door to door on commission based pay.

    Surely you have a case against them for false advertising/breach of contract/fraud ?


  • #54
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Nodin_ banned.
    Generally being a dick.


  • #55
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I left one during an induction day.

    :eek:


  • #56
    Shattered Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭Shattered Dreamer


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    As well as walking out of an interview Ive turned down a couple of job offers (didnt even reply to one of them) if that counts.


    Going by the one time Ive dealt with the company in question Id say you were lucky.



    Surely you have a case against them for false advertising/breach of contract/fraud ?

    I would if they didn't go out of business shortly afterwards. I take it as a cautionary tale really quite a few of these marketing or merchandising companies are as dodgy as the day is long.


  • #57
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    What sort of person would tell someone they don't know that they've never worked a day in their life?
    I'd put a flutter on it... :pac:

    Yep, had to leave a job I was under-qualified for the first day. Had been more economical with the truth on my CV than intended... :pac:


  • #58
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Yeah left a deli after one day when i was 18 cos my manager was a condescending prick. He referred to me as 'college boy' and criticised me every time he ran into me and at the end of the day I told him straight i dont need money that badly that i have to put up with you. No regrets:cool:


  • #59
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Nope. I'm from Donegal so jobs were hard to get even when the country was doing well.


  • #60
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    I left after about an hour somewhere before. It was a temporary clerical officer position which I had taken in different departments for a few summers before that.
    Most of the first day was spent elsewhere signing contracts etc, then lunch for a few hours, then I had to report to my place of employment for about 2pm, was roughly in the place for an hour before we were told we could leave early the first day. That was enough for me to decide I had enough, didnt return, got my cheque in the post for 80euro for the day, easiest money ever earned!


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  • #61
    pragmatic1
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    eirn wrote: »
    Yep, once. It was a cold-calling sales job. Unbelievlably horrible. I don't know how people do it.
    Done that for about nine months. Worst job ever.


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