What's the quickest you've noped out of a job?

It was a shop that refurbished train suspension hydraulics.

40% of the guys were missing at least part of a finger.

Maintenance guy was missing four on one hand and one and a half on the other.

Half the guys were intoxicated and the guy training me stormed out halfway through the second day.

I was like, yeah, I'm just

gonna dip now. I'm sure your fingers really appreciate that decision. Many years ago, I worked at a

popular sports bar as a line cook. First day, they had me train with a guy who didn't speak English

for two hours. Not a huge deal.

Mostly, you observe people in a kitchen, and that's how you learn. The owner came back and said

she was scheduling me to be alone the next day, which was Super Bowl Sunday. I noped out of there so

fast. I left right then and there. I'm willing to bet the person who left that position before you

left for the exact same reason. I worked for a newspaper for most of a week. I was expected to use

my own laptop and software, no IT, and I'd have to share logins and passwords with three other

people and guess when they would need

them. For me, it was one week. It was 1985 and a collections agency was looking for an IT guy. It was

basically desktop support on some IBM PCs. It took me a week to realize what a soul-deaddening place

that was, and I bolted.

It was mutual, actually.

They saw how I was reacting to some of the techniques the collectors used.

The targets were mostly old people, who were encouraged to sell family heirlooms and the

like to pay off debts.

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