I once held a job for a grand total fo seventeen minutes.
I was once rung up in the middle of a Friday afternoon by an agency with a job to start on the following Monday. Would I go in for the end of the day got there at 13 minutes past 4 and the day ended at half past.

I was lead into a room with loads of red braced yuppie types sitting round a table talking through telephones, and felt instant dread. the job was in telesales. Two minutes after I had sat down, and been introduced to other people a manager type came in and a guy at the far end of the table stood up, shot to attention and shouted 'I've sold Two insurance policies, and a life insurance policy' then immediately sat down. the next person then did exactly the same thing. this continued all the way round the table till it got to me who just shrugged, then continued back down to the manager.

Aftter this had got to the end, and I'd managed to unwind my eyelids from my forehead, the manager shouted 'And we will now all sing the company song'

Everyone round the table got up and started singing apart from me who went from shock, to pissing myself with laughter.

I was absolutely amazed that they still said they would see me on the Monday.

when I got homeI rang the agency to say that I wouldn't be going back only to be told that I'd been fired, because they didn't think that I had the right attitude.

still as a bonus, they had to pay me for a full day, which came to about £100 for those 17 minutes.
(ceebs, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 14:02, Reply)