Random Quickest That People Have 'Noped' Out Of A Job (18 items)

• (#1) It's Better To Have Your Fingers Than A Steady Paycheck

  From Redditor /u/IamtheBiscuit:

  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 4 on one hand and 1.5 on another. Half the guys were high and the guy training me stormed out half way through the second day.

  I was like yeeaaah, I'm just going to dip out now...
• (#2) Don't Ever Work At A Sports Bar By Yourself On Super Bowl Sunday

  From Redditor /u/Feralmedic: 

  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 2 hours. Not a huge deal. Mostly you observe people in a kitchen and that’s how you learn. Owner came back and said she was scheduling me to be alone the next day... which was super bowl Sunday.

  Noped out of there so fast. Left right then and there.
• (#3) If You Even Hear A Whisper About Vector, Leave Immediately

  From Redditor /u/bowenoutofstyle: 

  Walked in to a “group interview” as a young moron, the second I heard the word “vector marketing” I bounced.
• (#4) If They Make You Talk To The Police Your First Day, You Don't Want That Job

  From Redditor /u/AvocadoVoodoo: 

  Three days after my two week training.

  I was supposed to be a seasonal temp worker for a national propane company. The job distribution and training consisted of taking calls off-hours for people who wanted refills and acting as a messenger service, referring their contact info their local "store" when they opened the next day. Easy-Peasey.

  When I got out onto the floor, I found I was actually expected to be a dispatcher for drivers AND ALSO FIRST POINT OF CONTACT FOR ALL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. Things I had never been so much as briefed on in training.

  My first shift I had to field a call from a local police officer who was on site to a horrific propane truck crash. I got to wake the guy's district manager... tell him his worker was dead, and the overturned truck was blocking a few lines of the freeway and the police were trying to get a hold of him.

  That was just the start: A customer got the smell of garlic and eggs in the house? I got the call. (What do I do next, Miss Dispatcher? "F*ck if I know. Get out of the house ASAP?") CO detector is going off? I got the call. (Instead of 911 for some reason?!)

  I had ZERO interest in being [an] underpaid, not-trained emergency dispatcher. It's the only job I took off on without giving a 2 week notice. I was nice enough to finish out my shift on the third day, but that was it.
• (#5) If Your Employers Lie To You Once, They'll Do It Again

  From Redditor /u/greyhound1211:

  Found out that the educational assistance they touted in their advertisement applied only to full time employees and that they both defined full time as no fewer than 40 hours and kept anyone who would apply for that assistance from ever being qualified for it. None of this was advertised and the people I interviewed with assured me, a college student, that working 21 hours a week would get me the benefits. Too bad I read my contract before signing it and called them out. Don't f*cking lie to your employees, especially during an interview on something that can be easily and swiftly [disproved]. If you're willing to lie to me about this, what else are you willing to lie to me about?
• (#6) If You Wouldn't Play The Game They Want You To Make, Don't Make The Game

  From Redditor /u/LibertyJorj: 

  I was interviewing for a contract position at a very small game development company, and they told me they were looking for someone to help finish up an existing project.

  Literally, the game looked like it was made in MS Paint. As if they had just hired some random guy off the street and asked them to make some art for them. Granted it's a mobile game and sold for the standard 0.99, so maybe that's not the worst, but the game itself doesn't look engaging at all either. But I figure, worst comes to worst I could make some money on the side with some low-effort work.

  Then they told me that my pay would be a percentage of the sales. Noped right out of that one.
• (#7) If They Don't Care That Your Dad Is Having A Heart Attack, You Can't Work For Them

  From Redditor /u/UnicornQueenFaye: 

  Mine had to be when I was 18 and working at Blockbuster. I was helping the manager during the before open shift getting new items stocked on the shelves that came in that morning. My mom called me and told me that my dad was having a heart attack and she was panicking while waiting for the ambulance. Why did she call me at work to tell me this? The Blockbuster I worked at was in a strip mall type area behind my cul-de-sac, my house and the Blockbuster was separated by a small alley and a 3 min walk. I told my manager what was happening and asked if I could leave to help my mom while they waited for the ambulance. She said no. I just stood there looking at her thinking she couldn’t be serious I would be gone for all of 10 mins and back helping her if needed. She stressed how important it was to get the things done that needed to be done and I could only leave if I called around to the other workers and found someone to come in and cover for me while I was gone. I took off my name tag slammed it on the counter and walked out. I never went back for any reason. For any who might wonder; my dad came out fine was in the hospital for a few days.
• (#8) A Job That Pays Less Than Minimum Wage Might Not Be Worth It

  From Redditor /u/TheStressedTech: 

  I went for a 'trial shift' with a door to door sales company, the guy I was partnered up with told me that if he didn't make above the target sales he was coming out with the equivalent of £3 per hour, which in the UK is well below minimum wage. This was commission only 'self employed' role. Noped all the way home that day.
• (#9) If There Are More Cockroaches In The Bakery Than Employees, Leave

  From Redditor /u/Zielko:

  Worked in a bakery, it was my first day so I get there in the morning to meet everyone. Then they have me grease up baking trays for the others to fill... I lift up the first tray and like 10-15 cockroaches just scatter everywhere from under the tray. I tell the guy showing me the work that there were cockroaches and he just shrugged... This was all in the backstore, customers were about 10 feet away.

  So I tell the guy that I'm not feeling too well after about an hour of doing that and I head to the bathroom.

  When I came out I told him I couldn't do that job and he told me to get a real job then, so I left and [got] myself a proper job.
• (#10) Never Babysit If The Creepy Dad Is At Home Too

  From Redditor /u/thewanderingblonde: 

  Back in college, I used to work part-time as a nanny. One summer I landed a really sweet-sounding 40 hour/week (Monday-Friday) nannying job, looking after a baby and toddler.

  I was super excited about all the money I was going to make working that many hours, but the weird thing about this job was that the unemployed dad was also going to be at home with me. He was supposed to be spending all his time looking for a job, and I was watching after the kids while the wife was at work.

  Literally that first week, on day 2 or 3, he starts hinting about his marriage problems and how his wife sleeps on the couch. The next day, he asks me to try out his fancy new massage chair. I reluctantly agreed, and he just stared at me while I laid on this vibrating chair and was like “...oh yeah, nice, great, thanks.”

  He then offered to give me an actual massage sometime, and maybe I wouldn’t mind giving him one too?

  On Friday afternoon I went home, told [my] parents (who I was living with for the summer) everything, and my mom called the guy and told him I wasn’t coming back the following Monday or ever. He then sent me a text saying he was “disappointed in me.”

  Ugh. And his poor wife.
• (#11) You're Looking For A Nanny, Not A Relationship

  From Redditor /u/FreshLeggings: 

  I once found a nannying job on [Craigslist] and spoke with the recently divorced dad on the phone. The 2nd sentence he uttered was, “I’m not looking for a relationship”. Wtf? Yeah you’re looking for a nanny, why would that even need to be said? I told him I’d let him know and never called back. Weirdo.
• (#12) Some Steakhouses Will Want You To Wear Chaps As Part Of The Uniform

  From Redditor /u/LoIIip0p: 

  I had an interview at what I thought was a regular steakhouse in a new town I had just moved to. The interview went well, it was just before the restaurant opened so it was pretty empty. At the end, a waitress starting her shift walked by in [revealing] chaps and a thong. Turns out that was their uniform. The manager called like 30 mins later saying I got the job. I had to politely decline that one.
• (#13) Shifty Checks Lead To Shifty CEOs

  From Redditor /u/fr0z3nf1r3: 

  Graphic design from home job. Nailed the interview - had absolute confidence I could provide this dude what he was asking for.

  Got the job, and the first thing he said was to take a rather large check that would be mailed to me and buy my equipment. It was supposed to be from a special vendor that was to engrave the laptop and provide software.

  It was a scam. I looked up his business on Google, rather than through the link he sent me. I found the exact same sh*tty website with dozens of different CEOs.

  Told him to not send me a check and that I was [no] longer interested. The check was going to be fake, and the money I would be sending to the vendor would end up being my own once the bank found out.
• (#14) If The Other Employees Are Trying To Warn You, Maybe You Should Listen

  From Redditor /u/arcsine: 

  I was unemployed for a couple months, and started applying for pretty much any job I could do. This one was a basic small-biz IT support contractor. The employee the interviewer introduced to me mouthed "run" when he turned his back.
• (#15) Even The Job Tour Guide Knows The Job Is Horrible

  From Redditor /u/Narapoia: 

  I went to my orientation at a boot factory. They're government contracted and so pay minimum wage, so I figured I'd work there awhile and look for something better.

  After we do the usual paperwork signing and such, we're taken as a group onto the factory floor for a tour. It's hot, it's crowded, it stinks, and everyone working looks annoyed by our presence... Okay, I guess not everyone loves their job right? No biggie, I'm sure this won't be so bad.

  Then our guide informs us in no uncertain terms that our coworkers quite often give new people bad information to get them in trouble or make them mess up. They'd even be the ones to rat you out. Then we're told that our foreman is the type to yell for no reason, ask people if they're drunk in an accusatory way for no reason, and is generally a giant [jerk].

  I took a few moments to think after these last revelations, said "Nah." And walked out of the building without a word to anyone. F*ck that sh*t, Captain. I'm not putting up with all of that for 8 bucks and some change an hour.
• (#16) These Are Not The Parents You Want To Employ You

  From a former Redditor: 

  I work as a nanny. But when I first got into childcare I was just babysitting. So it was my first night babysitting for this one family, things went well changed some diapers, put the baby to sleep and that was about it.

  Parents come home and are very drunk. They asked me to stay for a little while after they got back which was weird. Then they offered me, a 16 year old at the time, a drink. Feeling a little pressured I took it and just sipped on it.

  Then the mom got really close to me, and says I probably shouldn't be driving home after having a drink. Once again feeling a little pressured I was thinking about [accepting]. So I asked if I'd just be sleeping on the couch.

  I'll never [forget] her next words to me, she says "Oh no honey. You'll be going to bed with us."

  I noped out of there so fast! I think I ran to my car but it was kind of just a panicked blur. Left my purse there and everything.
• (#17) Your Coworkers Should Never Leave You Alone On Day Two

  From Redditor /u/PLDJules: 

  Second day at Rue 21 and the managers plus other coworkers all went out to lunch together and left me alone in the store. I wasn't able to ring up people yet and the store was packed. I just walked out.
• (#18) If They Start Talking About Pizza, Don't Bother Staying

  From Redditor /u/apocalypticradish: 

  The ad said it was for a "summer house painting job" and it had a fixed wage. The guy didn't even have an office and wanted me to meet him at Panera Bread, which should've been my first red flag, but I was 20 and really wanting a summer job so I met the guy. He almost immediately started giving me a speech about "pieces of pizza" and "the harder I work and recruit, the more pieces of pizza I'd get." I asked if that meant no fixed wage and he said "yeah but there's the POTENTIAL to make a ton of money!" Then he asked if I'd be willing to go door to door trying to sell people on a paint job and I just got up and left. He said I'd regret it and when I saw a guy waiting to interview, I told him not to waste his time. As I was pulling out of the Panera lot, I saw the guy who'd been waiting for his interview walking out looking [angry], so I assumed he figured it out pretty quick.

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