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I have, a few times.
One was a place where I got treated so bad that I developed an acute stress reaction and it gave me a mental breakdown.
The other was a job at a meat packing factory which I did do for a few months, then got a job as a taxi driver so I just never showed up at the factory again. It was a shitty job, but so was the taxi driving tbh.
Also quit a paper delivery job after two nights after I realized that nobody can make the deliveries in the time given, the pay was a total joke. Was forced to go alone into very shady buildings with broken elevators and broken glass on floors.
Walked away from a similar cleaning job too where the actual cleaning took like 4 hours minimum but was dictated to only taking 2.
And also quit a telemarketing thing where you were expected to con old people to buying newspapers or whatever, without any pay other than by sale.
Then there's been a few where very shady small business tyrant types have tried to get me to take a super shady contracts, I've just ghosted those.
Have also gotten fired a few times during training, one time was because the small business tyrant couldn't handle my partner and kid coming to see me at work. It was apparently very unprofessional (I was a baker and bread seller and they visited me on the counter).
In the public sector now and I have no problems whatsoever.
Edit. Forgot the two berry picking summer jobs that I only lasted days in. The first was a farm where the farmer would load us into a windowless truck that he also used to transport fur animals and never cleaned, it was pretty traumatizing. The reason given was that this way we could not see where his precious strawberries grow and steal them.
The other was a place where we were boarding on the farm and the living conditions were pretty disgusting, there was some drug use in the place and I was like 15 and pretty cushioned from stuff at the time so I took the bus home after two days.
Both of these paid only by how much you pick, work was from dawn to dusk. These are the places that are these days making headlines regarding human trafficking.