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Do people donate through the store paiement system? If so, it may be a scam based on tax evasion, depending on the country. In France for example donations to non profit lead to tax deduction. Big stores ask for donations at checkout. This way, they can deduct like 60% of people's donations from their tax

Not me, but I was assigned to train a new machine operator at a factory, and he lasted about 80 minutes. I could barely explain the scope of his responsibilities. He went on a scheduled break and then I never saw him again.

I didn't blame him, morale was low because of COVID and supply chain issues, and he started on a night shift.

24 and a half hours. I showed up the first day and found out the training period was unpaid. They advertised $15 per hour W-2-style position, but when I showed up, they offered a totally different 1099 contractor position where most of my time would be unpaid. I went home and researched, and confirmed my suspicions that Vector Marketing was a total scam. I came back the next day and chewed them out in front of all the other trainees they were trying to scam.

Personally, 6 months. Sounded great on paper and even today it sounds great, but I really didn't like it. Now I'm somewhere that sounds rubbish on paper and in many ways is, but I'm pretty happy.

Quickest I ever saw was when I did a 2 week school placement in an IT support company. The whole company was like 4 people including me. Back in the late 90's it was all reinstalling Windows, ISDN lines, that sort of basic IT provided in to companies. They hired a new guy and sent him off to install a couple of Windows PCs for some company. The next day he left as he was out of his depth.

Not me, but I used to work a role at a company that provided IT services and hardware/support.

We had a team that sat right behind me, basically they supported customer accounts, and they got a new team leader/manager.

She came in on a Friday I believe and the rest of the team were out, Thursday night is party night so most people worked from home Friday.

The next week comes in, IT puts all her equipment on her desk, she isn't there. The next day or so comes around and she isn't there but her team is and someone else strolls over to chat. He mentions he heard they got a new lady boss, where is she?

I say she was in last week, I saw her.

"Is she a looker?"

... this bloody place. Asks nothing about her other than her looks.

Later that week IT comes along and collects her equipment, she had left in under a week. I have no idea what happened but that was the quickest I have seen someone leave and on average we had a very short staff turnover time.

For your issue, it is sane to wait until you get paid before resigning given the number of companies who routinely "forget" to pay the final paycheque and generally make it a pain in the ass to collect.

Started in the morning. Resigned by noon.

As far as I was concerned it wasn't a business I was working for, but rather a criminal enterprise (the crime being fraud), only a really incompetent one.

They were a "tech firm" but their product changed literally daily, depending on who they were trying to sell to. They had no actual product. They had a couple of programmers who would be told every day what the product actually was today who would gnash their teeth and cry. Then they didn't even have that much. Which didn't stop them trying to sell it anyway.

There is no inappropriate time to quit if you're not happy. Just be sure you're not happy as a very short time at an employer can look bad on your CV.

In the places I have worked the first 3 months are generally a trial period and both parties can terminate employment at any time.