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Quitting a job on the first day/week

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    #92
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    colm18 wrote: »
    My first job at 15, in the local bike shop.
    Customer walked in - 'Can you fix this puncture?'
    'No'
    * Awkward silence *

    I was gone by lunchtime.


    Ah man first rule: "Fake it until you make it"


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    LMC7
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭LMC7


    Alkers wrote: »
    Just the one for me also, like others it was down to being completely lied to during an interview.

    Part-time job during college, interview for call centre role - interview is based that it's manning customer complaints helplines, basically taking details of complaints over the phone and logging them. Boring but sure grand job. Arrive on first day, setup with phone and pc, given list of numbers to call and script I'm not supposed to deviate from trying to talk to CEOs of various companies (one of them was coca cola Ireland ffs). After about three calls, the person who I had called asked what on earth this call was about, I laughed, apologised, hung up and walked out


    I had a similar experience..we were chasing businesses tryiing to speak to the marketing department,contacting the customer care line who would say each and every time I cant give you the number/email of that person and I cant re-direct the call (which is fair enough,that's a rule they must work by).

    I was explaining this to my boss one day and he told me to ring again and actually use the line "I have a money making opportunity for your business and I will not get off this line until I speak to the right person."

    Thought I was in the Wolf of Wall Street....


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