Have U ever left a job after a short Period? Why?

Riseupandnurse · Dec 2, 2008

I quit after one shift as a cocktail waitress when I was in my 20s. I told the manager that it was a terrible job. He said, "Well, it would be fine for the right person", sneeringly. I explained that maybe so, but personally I wasn't a whore and that seemed to be what the patrons expected. Never even went back to pick up my paycheck.

yashalag · Dec 5, 2008

I quit a LTC facility after 2 months. It was horrible.

CseMgr1, ASN, RN · Dec 5, 2008

One week as a Pharmacy Nurse.

I walked out after I was reprimanded by my supervisor for having to call out when my (then) three-year-old son suddenly became ill with a severe strep and ear infection, and I had no one else to care for him.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Dec 5, 2008

Four hours.

This was about 25 years ago. We were broke, so I'd taken a telephone soliciting job out of desperation. But after having people curse me, slam the phone down in my ear, and otherwise be rude and nasty, I walked out in tears. I couldn't blame them for being upset---after all, I didn't like having my dinner interrupted by sales calls either---but some of them called me every name under the sun, and being young, I took everything personally.

As for nursing jobs, my last one (3 1/2 months) was the shortest tenure I've ever had, and as far as I'm concerned I was there 3 months too long. I'm glad I've gotten better at recognizing when something is never going to get better and cutting my losses, rather than hanging in and being utterly miserable for months and months. That particular job started out bad and promptly went downhill from there, so I saw no point in sticking it out.

Valerie Salva, BSN, RN · Dec 6, 2008

a day and a half.
why?
it was that bad.

Two days (nursing job). Same reason.

Valerie Salva, BSN, RN · Dec 6, 2008

I can top all of you.
45 minutes.
Very long story made short: I signed up with Manpower during a summer vacation, and the job they sent me on was not what they told me it was.
As a pharmacist? 5 weeks, although I considered not coming back after lunch my first day, and in retrospect should have obeyed my gut feeling.

Now I'm dying to know what Manpower told you the job was and what is really was.

rngolfer53 · Dec 6, 2008

Just curious. What is ur shortest length of stay at a job and why did u leave?:typing

I'm of an age where you stayed at a job for quite a while, and before I graduated nursing school in 2006, the shortest I had been in a job was 7 years.......and I left that on good terms r/t long term family illness.

However, I left my first nursing job after 7 months, not because I was doing badly--not that I was told anyway--or because I didn't like it. It was more a departmental political situation that I believed the hospital management mishandled. I saw a period of turmoil that I'm not eager to live through nowadays. From what I understand, the situation turned out better than I expected, and I'm happy about that, as there are good people there, not to speak of the patients.

OTOH, I'm very happy at the job I have now--in an area I've always expected to land in one day, just not as soon-- so I have no regrets at all.

rngolfer53 · Dec 6, 2008

I saw a new nurse leave about 20 minutes after meeting her preceptor....and had I had that preceptor, I wouldn't have made the 20 minutes. That particular woman is possibly the meanest, nastiest, most "mad at the world" person I have ever met. Just the right skillset for a preceptor, right? Well, in her case, it pays to be the NM's cousin.

Why is it these sorts of people are never the ones who try to beat the train across the tracks???????????????????????? :devil:

allnurses Guide · Dec 6, 2008

I don't believe in job hopping, but I quit a nursing home job after hardly a week.

It was a nasty nasty place.

The facility employed losers and drug addicts.

I had my purse stolen the first day.

Staff blew straw wrappers at me as I walked down the hall.

I was offered chocolate cake, with a wide grin, from the soiled utility room (no lie!!).

I caught to workers making out in a patient room.

I saw a patient fall out of bed and the aides scoop him up and toss him back and no assessment was done, no report made. They were laughing.

I found BM smeared and dried on several call lights.

I discovered the woman my dad cheated on my mom with worked there.

I went home smelling like BM and old urine everyday.

It was foul!!!!!!!!!!!

allnurses Guide · Dec 6, 2008

I also tried to work in a clothing store when was 18. It was a trendy store and i remember I was placed at the entrance to greet (harrass) customers when they came in.

I was a very good-looking kid but I wasn't arrogant (though I enjoy remembering myself that way LOL!) and I quit because I overheard my manager talking (in a very fake, very 80's "Valley Girl" voice) on the phone about me.

She said, "Like oh yeah! I like got this new girl to work the front... ya know, I found like a cute blonde to get the guys in!"

I was soooo disgusted I walked out.

Felt like a tramp!

Farmer Jane · Dec 6, 2008

I left my first nursing position after four months. The staffing assignments were unsafe and management was very anti-nurse, uncaring, and punitive. I feel no need to tolerate such environments so I didn't. No regrets.

arabella205 · Dec 6, 2008

2 days. god bless those people who work in LTC, but it's not for me.