re: What's your shortest job experience and why? Mine was 4.5 hours.

Six hours. At the age of 14 I got a job washing cars at this gas/service station. My buddy previously had this job and talked it.

I would wash cars constantly. One after another, it never stopped. I would occasionally get help from one of the mechanics but I think that was because I was new.

The owner, he was a nice guy despite the crappy job, told me to go to lunch. I sat down for about 5 minutes and just thought that this wasn’t for me. I called my mom to come pick me up the told the owner I quit.

0 hours. Guy was showing me what my job entailed. 8 hours a day of standing picking out bad garlic heads in a Foremost garlic factory in Gilroy Ca. I said no thanks

6 hours

Fast food joint

It was awful

After I crapped out at college my dad got me a job working as a line handler at the Port of Texas City. It entailed tying up ships when they arrived and providing resupply for the ship's crew while they were in port.

First off, having to ride the little flat topped boats (no railings) to each slip where the ships were docked sucked in the choppy waters of Galveston Bay, in the winter time. Simultaneously felt like I was going to go overboard any minute while also trying not to lose my stomach due to nausea.

Secondly,the ship's crew of foreign douchebags had a game to see how close they could come to hitting you with the line as they threw it down to be tied off.

Those lines weigh a ton and the frickers would stand up on deck laughing their asses off as you scrambled to get out of the way all the while we were loading up palates of Miller Lite and boxes of steaks for their food supplies.

I worked one shift and decided I would go back to college as soon as I could. Was on call and the boss telephoned me at about 3 AM the next day to come in to work and I respectfully declined.

About 3 weeks… Got hired by an electrical contractor for estimator/PM. My first day was told a crew was short out in the field, they really needed help. First day on the job in my polo and slacks digging fricking ditches for conduit. That went on until I quit, never stepped foot in the office. I had to be the most expensive helper they ever put in the field.

I signed on with a roofing company. It was Summer and I was home from college. This was the early 90’s and I was making 8.00 an hour when the rest of the summer jobs paid 3.50.

Day 1. We started at 6:30 am. We were four stories up stripping the roof off of a hospital which thankfully had a flat roof.

There was a thermometer on the room and it was 112 degrees up there. I drank 15 quarts of water and did not use the restroom.

At 4:00 I asked a coworker when we got off. He said when the boss tells us to pack up. I asked when did you go home yesterday? He said 9:00pm.

I had a girlfriend and I was planning to see her after I got off work.

Thankfully at 8:15 pm it thundered and the Boss told us to pack up.

Day 2:

Was Friday. We started at 6:30 am and went back up on the roof.
Our job was to strip the old roof off, put it in a wheelbarrow, and dump it into a dumpster on the ground below.

Because we were so high a employee was on the ground to pick up what missed the dumpster and throw it in.

At Noon the boss comes to the site with the biggest cooler I have ever seen. It was full of beer. I was 20 but nobody asked.

We drank while we worked. I knew this was a bad idea as I was dumping a heavy wheelbarrow off the side of a four story roof but 20 year old bird didn’t care.

At 3:00 there were two half brothers who had different moms but the same dad. They were named Anthony and Tony.

Anthony was the guy down on the ground picking up what missed the dumpster.

They got into a argument about whose mom was fat, and a whore. So Tony started dumping his wheelbarrow away from the dumpster and this pissed Anthony off.

Anthony pulled out a small Two shot pistol and fired both shots at Tony.

Nobody was hit.

The boss said “There they go again.”

He sent them home.

At 3:30 he told us to pack it up.

I never went back.

Professionally almost exactly one year. Was working as an estimator for a construction company. We started having issues getting bid bonds. Asked my boss what was going on, gave me a bullshite story. Next time it happened same story. I put a lot of work into a bid working with subs for pricing, comes bid day and he promises me we’ve got the bonding issues resolved. Got a guy waiting at the opening for the bond to turn in the bid. 5 mins before it’s due he tells me we aren’t getting it but I need to focus on getting bids ready because that’s my job. Never mind that I’ve lost all creditability with my subs.

I quit a few weeks later. They went under about a month after I left. I hated working there, it was the longest year of my life.

Half a day. I was 16 and thought I would be an errand boy for a tractor
company. First day the owner tells me to assemble a disc harrow and points to an area in a field where all the parts were on the ground.

I had no idea what he was talking about,and after struggling along and making no progress I was fired at lunch.

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What's your shortest job experience and why? Mine was 4.5 hours

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I think I got that beat, probably 2-3 hours for me.

For grad school, I had to have a certain amount of hours worked with an approved employment program with the school. They randomly assign you a job. I though this was fantastic as I could get my foot in the door at hopefully a good company. A classmate of mine was assigned to a position with Lockheed paying like $90k so I'm thinking I'm in great shape.

The details of my job were very vague and I guess I was worded in that way intentionally. I thought it was odd my first day was at a local hotel, but didn't think too much of it.

I show up... if any of you have spent a little time in Orlando you'll know what I'm talking about here, but my job is right in the lobby of the hotel at one of those kiosks with people that hound you to buy their discounted Disney world tickets. These are setup at restaurants, hotels, just all over town.

This was supposed to be the job to prep me through freaking grad school while my buddy was sitting pretty at Lockheed

I think I was just in shock those 2 hours trying to figure out what was going on before snapping out of it and bailing.