What's your longest and shortest tenure at a job?

[crabbymelt]

I have just hit my one year anniversary at my current job as a thrift store attendant, and I realized that this is the longest I have ever been employed at one job. I have previously worked at 9 and 11 month temp jobs at factories- some of the worst jobs ever. The shortest job I ever had was at a Mcdojo- 2 months, because I refused to drive 30 kids in a 15 passenger bus with no brakes. I answered their firing with a request to the fire marshal to check into why a school that has 300  kids in their daycare program were shoved into a space for 200 people.

I like my job right now, but I don't make enough to keep up, so I will likely be moving on. I just can't imagine what it's like to be able to depend on the same job for multiple years.

[Annette]

Longest: Almost 4 years as an assistant manager at a theater. Loved the job, my coworkers, the customers, even management. Only quit because I had to move.

Shortest: 3 days at a gas station. Truck drivers can be skeevy when you're a female with a large rack.

[SmashTV]

I'm a civil servant, and have been with the same organisation for seventeen years. I've held various positions in that time, the longest one being roughly five years. My current role is about to equal and most likely eclipse that.

The shortest was a temporary job in a wheel rim factory, 12 hours of putting wheel rims onto crates. It was a schedule of work four days and have four days off. I lasted four days as someone more permanent left his job early to start where I was. To be honest, those four days were enough...

[J]

Longest: Worked 6 years at Wal-Mart, in a few different positions. Wasted too many years at that place.

Shortest: 2 days at an Amazon Distribution center. I started the job with a former friend who was going to be my ride to work until I replaced my car, which had finally died its last death. She bailed on me after the first day and I had no one who could take me. I walked there for the second day (which was quite a ways from my apartment) and then stood on my feet for a 12 hour shift. Hoo boy was that a mistake.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

Shortest - 3 weeks at hospital laundrette, would fall asleep after my shift and felt like all I could smell was sick and other bodily functions but luckily could quit to have another job to go.

Longest - I've had my own business since 2013, so 4 years there, but I did youth work on and off for 9 years before that and worked the same place for 2 years and then later for 3 years (all to do was funding was well liked there).

[MC Blowfish]

My longest was working as a Point of Sale support for a retail company. I was there for four years. Some of it was good and some of it was bad. The pay was very bad and not getting benefits the entire time I was there.

I took a contract position and I was told that it was a technical support position. It was actually helping people with their credit and the company was selling a credit service. I was there for the first day and realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do.

[Deleted]

Longest: current factory job, almost 19 years.

Shortest: 1 month. Neighbor got me a job with his food distribution/packing place after I got out of the Army. Was alright, I got along with everyone. Paid minimum wage, bleh.
The girl I met 2 months earlier was moving and her mom said if I went along, her friend can get me a good job.

I took a chance and went with them. Got the job 3 months later, which is my current. Cool thing was my neighbor gave me a stellar reference even though I didn't show back up at his business when I left. He said, "Honestly, I was gonna end up letting you go in February anyway. I let go of the two guys you worked with in January. We were cutting back."

So I rolled the dice, got a better job, the girl has been the Mrs. for over 18 years, and we have 2 kids.

[GuyOfOwnage]

This is embarrassing to admit, but my illness makes it really difficult to keep a job. My longest running job was when I was a paper boy when I was 14, which lasted 1 year. And even more embarrassing, because of the small number of jobs I've held in the intervening 15 years, I still have to include it on my resume. My shortest run was as a bag boy at a local grocery store and that lasted maybe 3 or 4 weeks.

[Deleted]

For 4 years or so, I did bar security, taught kids judo and did a childcare program for the local YMCA. Three part time jobs and like, no money, but I still loved it.

Currently been doing hospital security for two years. Very different environment. Way more frustrating in its own way.

[Zombie Mod]

shortest was a month in a factory job for an engineering firm that was short lived (2-3 years.), longest was in retail at 5/6 years before being made redundant and currently approaching that time frame again in my current retail job.

multiple jobs at different time lengths inbetween.

[Deleted]

I've worked on sites for less than a week because I got a offer to work somewhere else with higher pay/closer location/better hours/etc. It's one of those things you take one job because you need to work and you get a call immediately to work somewhere else.

[edgestar]

I worked at a summer camp, before working where I am now, and this October will be 11 years

[bibboid]

I sold cars at a Toyota dealership for two weeks. Sold two cars and felt like crap after each one because the finance guys totally screwed both of them over. Couldn't deal with it and quit.

Worked for a Janitorial supply company for 23 years. Started in inventory and worked my way up to warehouse manager. My boss flew from Cleveland to Los Angeles one Monday and handed me a check for two weeks pay and said "We don't need you anymore. Get out."

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Shortest: 8 years.

Longest: 10 years and counting.

[The Unconquered Sun]

Shortest, there were a few temp jobs that I was surprised that I lasted a day, which was all I worked anyways.
The longest, I've been with the same same company for almost 17 years. I was at the same site for 16 of those years,

[Deleted]

Shortest : 1 day at a gas station. I had worked at a gas station before, so it wasn't the job. I hated everyone there from the get go. Every employee talked shit about the others as soon as someone left the room. I can't work in a toxic environment like that.

Longest : 3 years as a maintenance man at a hotel. I loved the job, I got employee of the month like every other month, and was friends with most of my co-workers. I was sort of the go-to guy of the place which made me feel important in my small meaningless life. I only left because my wife was in the Air Force and we got orders to a new base.

[Nickybojelais]

My shortest stint in a job was just 1 day. I was working in the office for a bank and the manager was a complete arsehole. He spent the entire morning yelling at everybody and everybody working there seemed to be miserable (I wonder why).

When the manager suddenly turned his attention to me during the afternoon (accusing me of staring out of a window instead of working) I explained to him that this seems like an awful place to work, pointed out that everybody here appears to be very unhappy and concluded that I didn't need this kind of crap in my life. And I walked out.

Just to prove that I'm not a bad employee I've been in my current job for the past 8 years and do it pretty well

[Deleted]

The longest is my current job. Got in thanks to a hiring agency in 2013 and have been hired on since 2014.

The shortest was one day as a dog pooper-scooper. Yeah, big mistake on my part. Can't believe how many people let that shit rot in their backyards and have their kids play around near it...

[StuntGranny®]

Longest: A few years.

Shortest: Two hours. It was at a Little Caesars inside of a K-Mart. The boss was a rude asshole who yelled at me for not knowing what was going on. I had been working there almost an hour when she started that. Finally, I got enough, told her I had to go to the restroom, walked out through the garden center, then went home. I really pissed her off when I called back the next day and asked when I should come and pick up my check for those two hours.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Longest-10 years 4 months and 5 days at a morgue.

Shortest-8 minutes at Delchamps. It is,I am pretty sure,dead grocery store chain.Was my second job. Show up and it is a horrible lightning storm outside. Go find my boss and got told I had to go outside round up all the buggies. Asked for a raincoat or something,mostly so I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my shift in soaking wet clothes. Got told "NO RAINCOATS GO GET THE BUGGIES NOW!" So I walked to the front door saw the storm had gotten worse,walked over to the time clock and clocked out and quit. Came back 2 weeks later to get my check