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In reply to the discussion: What's the shortest period of time you've held a job? I quit my consulting gig this morning after [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)I answered an ad once for a sales job. It turned out to be a cattle call. I found myself in a warehouse full of desperate job applicants, just like me. The people who organized it were young, under thirty-five. They called the seasoned sales people in for a private meeting and afterwards, we were each assigned to one of them. We were told we were going to get some on the job training and had to follow our mentor around for a day. My mentor was a girl who was standing next to some picture frames. She instructed me to pick some up and we went to load her car up. On the drive she told me she had worked for them for just a couple weeks. Then she showed me the trade, walking into corporate offices lugging the pictures to claim we had overstock to sell.
She was nice, personable, and after the first office visit I asked her to drive me back to my car.
It was one of the most desolate experiences I had as a young worker bee in Orlando, Florida. And I had quite a few.