15 Netizens Who Just Wanted To Get Away From Work Since Day One

When we start a new job, we usually expect to stay there for a long time. However, sometimes fate has other plans and in the first few days, only a single thought crosses our mind: “I need to get away from this place as soon as possible”. That’s exactly what Reddit users did.

We, from awesome.club, we wish our readers to always have good employers and adequate working conditions. But the netizens of our article today were not so lucky. Check out!

The microwave in the cafeteria was paid for. It only worked if you put in a coin. © CaptainArse**** / RedditI only worked at a hotel for one day. No one explained anything to me and I still got a scolding. Guests who were in the restaurant told me not to mind, that I was doing a good job. I told the manager I wasn’t going to quit and I wasn’t going to the next shift. The next day I went to return the work uniform and my supervisor walked over and started yelling at me for being late. He said he didn’t work there anymore, but if he was working he would technically be 5 hours early for my shift. Completely crazy! © O5CR / RedditI started working for a fast-food chain when I was 17. I found out during training that the site had been robbed three times in the last month and an employee was seriously injured. It wasn’t worth the risk for the little they paid. © ThunderFlash10 / Reddit

My first job was at a small restaurant near my high school. I showed up for work and the lady said I had to pay $50 for training. She showed me around and said my pay would be $4.50 an hour and any tips I earned would go in a bucket with the other girls. At the end of the night, she would count the tips, keep 20% for herself, and divide the rest equally among all the employees. Also, part of our job was to clean her house once a week for four hours. I literally ran away after hearing her go over all these rules. © tlr92 / Reddit I went to interview for the security position. Managers asked my name and how strong I was. So they hired me and asked me to start right away. I thought it was strange, but I accepted. They took me to the warehouse and had some boxes loaded onto the truck. Said he’d been hired as a security guard, not a porter. They got pissed off and said that if I wanted the job, I had to do it. I just left. And what pissed me off the most was that I could have gone on another interview that day, but I chose to go for this one. © Unknown author / Reddit Technically, I gave up even before my first day. I was hired at a well-known gift shop. It was agreed that he would work on Saturdays and Sundays, counting eight hours a week; therefore, two four-hour shifts. It was also established that he would receive a minimum wage. All that would be no problem for me as I could take a part-time job the rest of the week. However, apparently it was not allowed. The manager thought I was “disrespectful”. I should just work for them and control my budget better so I could survive on $64 a week. I didn’t even show up the first day and she called me upset for not having accepted that “so good opportunity”. © Hall5885 / Reddit

I got a job as a waitress at a local restaurant. When I finished the first day, I was told the training would last six weeks. And during that training, any tips I received would have to be passed on to my mentor. I was getting paid less than $2 an hour. I called the next day and said it wasn’t for me. © imagisnarf2 / RedditI landed a summer job with a landscape architect. I arrived at the job site and he asked me to dig a hole in rocky earth. I asked for a regular shovel. He did not have. So I asked for a hand shovel. He did not have. He suggested that I dig the hole with my own hands and then left for another location, leaving me completely alone there. I dug a little, got real and left. If the job posting had specified that I needed to bring my own tools, fine, but that wasn’t the case. It wouldn’t work for someone who wanted me to dig in hard, rocky soil with my bare hands. © csudebate / RedditIt was a small independent insurance agency and it happened in 2006. On my first day there, the owner, an elderly gentleman, said that email and fax were strictly prohibited, as he only “believed“’ in communication “face to face”, over the phone or by mail. I went out for lunch and never came back. I can’t even imagine what I would have had to deal with if I had stayed. In the end, they ended up closing, so it was definitely the right decision © uno_the_duno / Reddit

It was a chain of cafes that was quite popular in my country. I was hired to work in the kitchen as an assistant. Let’s put aside the fact that I didn’t have any cooking knowledge, but the chef came out of the kitchen every five minutes for a smoke. So he was alone and requests were coming in at full speed; he didn’t know what to do first. The waitress was yelling at me to do everything myself. To make matters worse, the chef told me that he had two rats in the kitchen and showed me that one had defecated on a plate. Never went back and was glad the place closed. © zackit / RedditI worked at a restaurant. I went to sweep under my station just before we closed and a pile of brown stuff came out and started to spread out. There were several cockroaches. I ran out and never came back. © Chefdingo / RedditI got a job in a warehouse pasting stickers on file folders. The floor was littered with those scattered tags, so either they were constantly falling off or people were dropping them to finish their work quota. I went to ask the boss a question and found him sleeping. He had taken off his sock and placed it over his eyes to block out the light. When I decided to leave, the other girl (who had also started that day) asked me tearfully: “Please don’t go, don’t leave me here alone.” I couldn’t stop laughing. © cvernie / Reddit

I applied for a job as a pastry chef and it was the executive chef who did the interview. I noticed as we talked that his fingernails were long and dirty. They looked like those of a mechanic. I assumed that if he left his nails like that, what was his concept of a clean kitchen? I turned down the job when he called me later. © kn8ife / RedditAs a “professional” painter. The boss ordered us to continue painting a three-story house in the middle of a torrential downpour. The homeowners’ lawn turned white after the paint washed away. Needless to say I left there. © SodaPopinski406 / RedditI got a job fixing roofs. On my first day at work, I walked a little unbalanced on the roof. The boss told me not to fall because he didn’t have insurance: “Either you die or I’ll fire you before you hit the ground”. Of course I abandoned the vacancy. © BillysDillyWilly / Reddit

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