![]() ![]() "My first job was at a skin aesthetic clinic and I worked as a marketing and social media coordinator. I went straight back to hospitality."ĭo you feel like you're not being heard at work? Or like your meetings lack purpose? Listen to Mamamia's career and productivity podcast, 8 Minutes to Change Your Work Life, for tips for better communication with your colleagues. It was the most boring day of my life and felt like it went for 10 years. ![]() They set me up with a job in an office, where my job was to organise meeting rooms, bring people coffee, and sit at a desk waiting for the phone to ring. "When I was living in the US, I signed up to a recruitment agency to try to get an admin role because I thought I was sick of working in hospitality. I accepted straight away and had to quit the other one! The recruiter sent a snarky email back, but I was happy with my decision." Sarah. After two days there I received a call from the other job saying I had that one. I was offered the other one (one hour away, less pay etc) so had to accept it. I hadn’t heard back from my first choice (local town, better pay, better condition and long-term stability). "I was job hunting for full-time work and had interviewed for two different jobs. I was 15 and my mum picked me up after my shift and I never went back!" Bella. My manager hit me over the head and called me stupid when I got a drive thru order wrong (I forgot one item) because I couldn’t hear the customer properly through those old speakers. Turns out I don't like kids very much, nor do I see myself being a childcare worker." I sent the manager some flowers and chocolate and simply said 'I just can't do this'. "I did a trial shift at a childcare centre when I was about 16, the same place I went to when I was a toddler, and I lasted one day. "I should have known that standing for nine hours and working with sports clothing with a bunch of 'football lads' was never going to work for me." Isabella. There were zero customers and after a few hours of folding and refolding piles of clothes no-one had touched, I said I didn't think it was for me and left. unpaid labour) at a sports clothing store in a UK airport. "When I was 16, I did a 'trial shift' (i.e. I called up the manager who interviewed me to complain about a lack of transparency and also got their job ad taken down." Siobhan. I followed him around for a bit before saying I needed to leave, but the whole thing took a few hours. "We got on a train and it was then I realised it was door-to-door raffle ticket sales. After the interview I still didn't understand what the job was and then the interviewer said, 'Anyway this is Joe and you'll be following him around.' I was much less assertive when I was 22 so I just followed him. "I applied for this job that I didn't really understand, the title was something ambiguous like 'Commerce Operator'. If we do the prices might be different because of the currency conversion'. ![]() My manager said, 'We do have an online store but I’m not sure if we ship overseas. "One day I overheard a customer visiting from Tassie ask my manager, 'Do you have an online store?'. I was told I didn’t approach customers enough and I let them browse for too long without my help. ![]() I don’t even like the experience of shopping there, but I just needed a job at the time. "In high school I lasted four days at my job at a popular fashion streetwear store. I was far too smart to be praised that much for completing such a simple task." Amelia. "I left that afternoon and never went back. I moved the dots and then everyone came over and gathered around my desk and were like, 'Well done, Keryn! You moved the dots.' There was heaps of training and then on the third day I was allowed to move the dots. "One time I got a job at a government mapping department which basically involved moving dots around a map on the screen. We took to the Mamamia community to hear about the one week (or one-hour!) tenures at the workplaces women just really didn't want to hold out for - most for very good reason.įrom gut feelings to bitchy coworkers, here's why 15 women left their new jobs ASAP. ![]()
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