re: What’s the shortest amount of time you’ve worked at one job?

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That actually sounds pretty awesome for a HS job.

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The sea cumber plant sucked. They bring in tubs full of these things. You stand all day at this station pulling them out one by one, you cut off the head, split them down the middle, fillet the meat from the skin, then throw the meat in another tub and skin (it’s really thick) in another tub. Then you do it all over again.

The salmon cannery was better. In addition to better pay, all I had to do was watch this machine that put the label wrapper around cans of salmon coming down the line. Every so often I’d have to put more labels in a hopper. The cannery only operated during the summer and pay was, for that time, astronomically good. This was 1986 and there I was 16 years old making like $12 an hour. The workers were a mix of Mexicans, Filipinos, college students, and some local teenagers like me. The Mexicans and Filipinos would make enough in a season to live on back home the rest of the year. Same for college kids. They all came in at the start of the season and would leave to go back home once the season ended.

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If your mom cooked salmon patties for the family in 1986-87, there’s a good chance I helped put the label on that can of salmon. I don’t know if it’s true, but we were told Wards Cove was the largest salmon cannery operating in the world at that time.

About 4 hours.
They had me watch some training videos then I was sitting at my desk. No one was around, so I just walked directly to my truck and went home.

5 months for a utility company. I had been laid off during Covid for 6 months and was ready to get back to work with whoever would take me for the salary I needed.
They saved my arse; the insurance got me on meds I badly needed and allowed me to keep the house we had been building. My boss was also a big LSU guy and really cool.
But it was remote and they wanted me to move to Ellick in the coming months. No thanks. Found a local job.

Cuco's in Houma back in 98. I had been there only a few days. My wife was pregnant at the time. Found out she was going be induced on a certain day right before a major holiday and asked for the day off. Manager made the schedule and I wasn't given off - he had others who had been there longer had requested off and he gave it to them instead. So, I walked out that night and never went back. Crazy thing is, my buddy who also worked there said there were multiple people there who couldn't believe I'd quit over something like that, and he said I made him look bad because he was the one who got me the job.

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It basically means pull to the front of the shelf.

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Oh yeah, my first job was at Winn Dixie. We had to front the whole store every night

One hour. After editing a sportswriter's story and finding 82 errors, I decided it wasn't a very professional organization.

Summer before my college soph year. Started an internship with the Supply Purchasing & Demand dept within a hospital. Was given a box cutter at 8am saying my job for the next month is to remove all labels from metal shelves in advance of fiscal turnover July 1. I ate lunch at the hospital cafeteria around 11am and with a full stomach, I proceeded to walk out the doors for good and never returned.

So basically 3 hours to 4 hours myself as well.

College job at a restaurant in mid 90’s called Jack Sprats in BR. My roommate worked there a few months but I only lasted one day.

Owner and wife were pretty crazy.

I had the misfortune of touring a telemarketing firm that was a subcontractor that worked for my company. There was a room in the HR department that had a bunch of people sitting in chairs waiting to fill the spots from people that would quit in the middle of the day. People would go to HR, get cleared to work and wait for an opening that was most definitely going to happen several times throughout the day. I knew the environment for those workers wasn't good but that was awful to see.

----But how long did you stay at that job?

I once worked as an assistant manager at a Domino's for 2 days. I had zero training those 2 days, and the manager wanted me to run the store for her in 2 weeks while she went to a convention in Vegas. After day 2, I said eff it. I was only going to work there for a few months. So it was cool.