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  • yes! I am at one right now!! they hired me, then during the 2 weeks I was giving notice to my old job, they changed the salary and job description!! I wanted to walk out immediately, but im just doing as little as I can and actively job hunting, so I can keep getting a paycheck. then when I get a job I am walking out no NOTICE!!!
  • Yes, just got out of it thankfully. I didn't have the option to go back to my old job due to outsourcing and I didn't like the new job. I didn't have the option to be without a job, so I immediately started looking for a new job. It took me a year, but I am sure glad I did it. I did what I had to do to get by without compromising myself in the job while I seeked alternate employment. Good luck if you are in that position.
  • I had two jobs when I was in my teens that I recall I wanted to quit on day one. The first was for a national photography studio, and the job was telemarketing. I had to sit in a very dimly lit room, nearly dark to be honest, and just dial telephone numbers they'd photocopied out of the phone book. I was supposed to call people, tell them about the portrait "specials", and try to get them to buy hundreds of dollars worth of photos, and schedule a sitting. It's hard to describe what it's like to actually spend eight hours dialing telephone numbers, being alternately hung up on, screamed at, called names, and so on, and no one even being anywhere near interested at all in what I was supposed to be offering; but everyone I managed to contact made it very clear that they absolutely felt intruded upon and they were just angry as hell at me. A couple of hours into day two, I'd had enough, and I got up and let em know that was all I could take. I met a lot of people afterward who had had the same experience. The place was just a revolving door. The other job was in a commercial lithograph printing facility. Commercial printing presses are huge, and they're louder than you can believe. The noise level in this place was so high you had to wear ear protection so you wouldn't go permanently deaf within a half hour or so . You had to use sign language as best you could to communicate, and if you couldn't make the other person understand, you had to get right next to them, have them take off the earpad from one side and scream right into their ear, and even then they might not hear you. Even wearing the ear protection you'd have hearing loss in the morning and couldn't hear if your engine was running or not in your car. Everyone had stories to tell about busted starters and accidents they'd had because they couldn't hear after work. It was 12 hour days 4 days a week, with 4 days off, and the week rotated, so, this week you started on Monday, next week you started on Tuesday, the next week you started on Wednesday, etc. The work was boring as hell, stacking and bundling the Sunday Paper sales inserts, and those twelve hours were the longest hours of my entire life. I worked 8pm to 8 am, and being deaf every morning scared the hell out of me. Around the 4th week I couldn't take it anymore and I quit. I signed a form, they cut me a check, and that was that. I was so glad when I walked away from that place.
  • Yes. It was a lowly job at a television station. My duties and responsibilities were not well-defined. Worse, I also didn't know what my benefits were! I think I was just taken in because they badly needed people at that time. What did I do? I quit after just four days. It was a good decision :)

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