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Aged 17.

Offered a permanent job in a food factory whilst still at college.

After an hour of shovelling carrots into a machine above head height i could barely feel my arms so just went to the pub.

Did 1 week training and 3 days work then quit - though technically I was employed for 4 weeks

An old lady answered the phone and told me in excruciating detail just how much of an upheaval it was for her to answer her phone given her physical state and that after all that it was some kid trying to sell her windows. Just walked straight out after apologising to her.

couple of days training then onto the phones, i left half way through my first day making calls.

Some prick tried making me wear a Shrek hat as some sort of initiation.

Complained I was feeling ill halfway through and walked out, never to return.

Left half through my first training shift. Just went up to the manager and said 'Not for me'. Something in his dead eyes told me it was something that he'd heard many many times before.

Felt sort of bad afterward as my cousin had sorted out the gig.

half days and whatever.
walked out of a job after 6 hours though and then they only paid me for 4. bit weird.

In some weird office complex doing something I still don't quite understand. Something to do with shares, I basically had to either count return forms people had filled out or scan batches of 100 forms. Usually it would scan 98 or 99 so I had to count to make sure it was right. Another "team" went through screens all showing the same number scanned in, you had to confirm they were all 2s or 7s. Oddly not all that dull as they moved you around a lot.

My first real job after uni, just 2 weeks temping before going on holiday. £6 per hour, I remember looking at my watch and every time 10 minutes went by I though how wonderful it was that I was a pound richer. It should have been 3 weeks but I called in sick in the 2nd week as a house move took too long. They told me not to bother with the last day as the thing they were doing was completed.

I don't blame you, especially outbound ones. I worked for BT tech support on the phones, loads of people did the 2 weeks training, all paid, loads of breaks, fun and bants, 2 hour lunches, then left before or after the first day on the phones. It is truly shit, being told to get in available, loads of targets, constantly talking to arseholes or being the arsehole someone is talking to.

I had little choice really, but luckily they realised I was too techy to talk old ladies through how to reboot a router and had me on second line.

I only really got the job because I had just finished being a Christmas stockroom temp at a Virgin Megastore so was already trained in how the stock system worked, and to be fair I was terrible at shop floor sales work and spent most of my day making unrecoverable errors with the till.

but then again the manager was a horrible little troll man (with a mad boner for Led Zep) who would constantly criticise me for not giving 110% to a minimum wage shop job that mostly consisted of selling terrible UK Garage cassette singles to wankers who would ALWAYS pay the 99p price with a credit card.

the chain got either shut down or sold to Sanity (remember them LOL) about six months later so w/e

It was an ongoing placement earlier on in the year where I had to scan in complaint letters for people travelling on South Eastern Railways.

one day

2 days. Amazed I lasted that long to be honest.

Worked a couple of summers at a large pharma company after A-levels and first year at uni. Was offered a permanent job each time at the end.

I quite enjoyed working in the labs and stuff, plus it paid for my super swanky computer (400MHz, 128K RAM, Pentium II machine) that saw me through university.

They didn't ask me back after the trial day.

Well, it'll just need to all right, won't it.

Worked at game and the manager killed himself, then the assistant tried to. Wasnt for me.

Three days. On the final day I read the whole of the Unabomber's Manifesto, had an existential crisis, covered my desk in sellotape and printed pages and pages of paper with "Hail to the King, Baby" written on it in large bold font anonymously to the other end of the office. Didn't come in the next day.

Just a week temp placement while I was waiting for something else to start.

Had to call up garages to find prices for fleets of vans, wasn't helped by my complete lack of knowledge of vehicles nor by my southern counties accent. Tried putting on a matey-garage-mate accent to 'blend', sometimes it worked, sometimes it was like this:

Me: 'ello mate, lookin' fer a price fer a fleet of yer Ford vans, need a dozen of 'em, yeah?
Dealer: Mystery shopper are we?
Me: No...
Dealer: *LAUGHS*

i registered with an agency on a thursday and had another job starting with another agency on the monday that i didn't want to go to. while i was there the new agency said they'd find me something for monday but could i do this 1 day placement the next day?

about 1 minute before i arrived at the office to start this placement the next day, the agency rang me and said they'd get me something for monday but they'd told this place i was going to that i'd be there 3 days so could i tell them i would? i had to go all day pretending i'd be back on monday while they kept anxiously asking me how i was finding the work (there was no work).

it used to be really easy to get jobs didn't it?

it was at a u2 gid bar staff. they let us break for lunch so me and a friend just fucked it off right there.

we got to watch the gig for free (i know it was u2 but still) and i got paid for doing the full night afterwards. can only assumed someone signed a name that looked ike mine with the registration at the end.

surely people here must have similar stories?

Fucking dreadful. Packed it in.

Link here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=1261101

Basically a company like that, read that link, I'm sure a few of us have come across companies under the DS-MAX umbrella with the same sort of business model.

1 day (0 days)
was at Coventry University, got a free bus to London with this agency, then told at the gates of wembly, that my trousers weren't black enough. went into town, had an awesome day, got the free bus back and also got paid for a full days work.

if not, 4 shifts at an Italian restaurant when I was 18. Got paid less than minimum wage, the manager justified it by saying that the rest of his staff got minimum wage and I was less experienced than them.

while i paid a credit card off. then i just phoned in to say i wasn't coming back. boss was like "you have to work one weeks notice". ha, right

Was at a gig promoters. I had moved to London especially for the job. On the first day, I was sent home after 3 hours because they realised they hadn't ordered a computer for me. I went back 2 days later when they had a computer, and spent the morning setting it and the office wifi network up.

I then booked 20 acts for gigs in a day and a half, updated all their databases and streamlined their online promoters. I started on the Monday, but on the Friday lunchtime they took me for lunch, and when dessert arrived with my 4th pint, they said they had to let me go as buying the computer had ruined their cashflow and they couldn't afford to keep me on.

GOOD ONE UP ALL NIGHT PROMOTIONS!

I didn't turn up the following day due to my objections to the desception involving the job, and the deceipt in the description of the job, wherin both myself and their client were being fleeced, I did not bill them

head chef (who had been there for 10+ years) told me he got a free pint at the end of each shift in the kitchen so I gave it to him and the manager promptly fired me for stealing stock and said he was considering getting police involved