History Main / FirstDayFromHell

* Ben Sliney's first day as the FAA's National Operation Manager (basically the Air Traffic Controller-in-chief) was September 11, 2001. It was his call to ground every civilian aircraft in America for four days (over 4,200). He [[AsHimself played himself]] in the film, ''Film/{{United 93}}''.

* Played for laughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY this]] Herlitz commercial where a German coast guard trainee gets left alone on his post when a DistressCall comes in.

* Played for laughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY this]] Herlitz commercial where a German junior coast guard is left alone on his post with a DistressCall.

* Integral to the first two games in the ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' series. Fifteen (first game) or sixteen (second) high school students show up at the prestigious Hope’s Peak high school, a place meant to hone “talented” individuals into the next generation of leaders in their fields. Then the world goes screwy and next thing they know they wake up locked in the school with no idea how (first game) or are transported to an island by a talking MagicalGirl [[ItMakesSenseInContext rabbit plushie]] (second) and soon after forced into a [[DeadlyGame killing game]] by a black and white talking bear plushie named Monokuma. [[spoiler:Subverted, however as they actually have had their memories wiped of their time as students and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and it’s actually several years after their first day.]]

* Downplayed in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' with the start of the protagonist's job as Melody’s tutor. The protagonist needs to contend with Melody’s attitude and her general reluctance to be studying during the summer as well as actually conveying what he knows. Still, Melody grits her teeth and sits through her first lesson to humor Amy, who is paying for the lessons.

* Janice ''Theatre/ComeFromAway'' has a really rough go of it her first day as a reporter for Gander's local news station. She's new to town, so she doesn't know anybody... and her first day of work is ''9/11''. And Gander ends up receiving 7,000 passengers from grounded flights who wind up taking refuge in the town. Janice is obviously overwhelmed the entire time, but she does an admirable job documenting everything and getting interviews, and her footage ends up being highly coveted, as she's the ''only'' reporter present at this massive historical event. She ends up getting a job offer from a huge station after they see her work, but she decides to stay in Gander.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine & Friends'': Poor James. On his first day, the Troublesome Trucks decided to be hard on the new engine and pushed him down Gordon's Hill. His outdated wooden brake blocks were set alight from the sparks thrown up as he tried desperately to stop, and he wound up crashing in a pasture.

* ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle's'' sequel comic, ''Rough Housing'': Charity's first day as manager of The Rough House has her find out the place is a ramshackle dump, most of the employees work for room and board in lieu of pay and the only thing keeping the place afloat is a weekly free-for-all (highly illegal) barfight... Which happens to be that night.[[labelnote:context]]Charity was given the job by her uncle, as a favor. Neither had set eyes on the place before. For her uncle, Leonard, it was just another investment property.[[/note]]

* ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle's'' sequel comic, ''Rough Housing'': Charity's first day as manager of The Rough House has her find out the place is a ramshackle dump, most of the employes work for room and board in lieu of pay and the only thing keeping the place afloat is a weekly free-for-all (highly illegal) barfight... Which happens to be that night.

* [[Website/SfDebris Poor, dumb]] Harry Kim of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had the colossally bad luck of getting stationed on the starship ''Voyager'' on his very first assignment out of Starfleet Academy. That first day got him and the ship stranded in hostile space on the far side of the galaxy ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and stuck as an ensign]]) for 7 years.

* In the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster Lac-Mégantic rail disaster]], one of the firefighters was on his first shift when the explosion occurred. Needless to say, this was very a difficult trial for him.

And before he can really get settled in, all hell breaks loose. Criminals break in and take hostages. Massive equipment failures. Aliens invade. War breaks out. [[MustHaveCaffeine They run out of coffee]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and can't get more until tomorrow.]] Bob then either takes up responsibility for dealing with the crisis or the responsibility is already part of their job. No guarantees they're up to the challenge.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', your first day at school involves you getting lost and wandering into the physical manifestation of a serial rapist's distorted view of the school he works at, nearly getting killed by the physical manifestation of said rapist's dark side and his minions several times over, and finally escape only to discover that your (wrongful) criminal record has been exposed to the rest of the student body and you're going to be a social pariah for the rest of the school year.

* In the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, one of the firefighters was on his first shift when the explosion occurred. Needless to say, this was very a difficult trial for him.

** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]]. ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies''goes on to elaborate that he took this fairly hard, but his ChildhoodFriend encouraged him not to give up.

** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]].

->''"Somehow, I managed to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 get myself involved]] with the incident in Raccoon City... on my first day in the force."''

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': Ensign Tendi finds herself in the middle of a huge medical emergency due to a HatePlague breaking out on the ship literally as she's first reporting for duty in Sickbay. She's tasked with [[MeatballSurgery holding a crewman's exposed heart and manually pumping it]] until Doctor T'Ana can find time to come deal with it properly. When asked about it later, however, she's genuinely thrilled that she got to hold a heart.

* Integral to the first two games in the {{Franchise/Danganronpa}} series. Fifteen (first game) or sixteen (second) high school students show up at the prestigious Hope’s Peak high school, a place meant to hone “talented” individuals into the next generation of leaders in their fields. Then the world goes screwy and next thing they know they wake up locked in the school with no idea how (first game) or are transported to an island by a talking MagicalGirl [[ItMakesSenseInContext rabbit plushie]] (second) and soon after forced into a [[DeadlyGame killing game]] by a black and white talking bear plushie named Monokuma. [[spoiler:Subverted, however as they actually have had their memories wiped of their time as students and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and it’s actually several years after their first day.]]

** Miles Edgeworth's first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot.
** While not necessarily his first day on the job, in Phoenix's second case, [[MentorOccupationalHazard his own mentor gets murdered]], gets nearly destroyed in the courtroom by his childhood friend, and right as he was about to get a lead on the actual culprit, ''he'' gets accused of the murder.
** In Apollo Justice's first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]].

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* ''Film/{{United 93}}'' - see Real Life.

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* ''Webcomic/DangerZoneOne'': Reena's first day as an officer in Pallad City involves her trying to bring down a rampaging power suit. Given that the comic's first seven chapters take place within the same week, in story, it's more like "First Seven Days From Hell."
* ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle's'' sequel comic, ''Rough Housing'': Charity's first day as manager of The Rough House has her find out the place is a ramshackle dump, most of the employes work for room and board in lieu of pay and the only thing keeping the place afloat is a weekly free-for-all (highly illegal) barfight... Which happens to be that night.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman "The Man Who Killed Batman"]]: Sid Debris was a small crook before that, but the first day he worked as one of [[TheDon Rupert Thorne]]'s {{Mooks}}, he was the victim of five {{Mook Horror Show}}s: First he was set up as bait for Batman, then he was challenged to fight by GangBangers, then Detective Harvey Bullock menaced him with JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, then a vengeful Joker placed him into a DeathTrap, then Thorne menaced him with YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine & Friends'': Poor James. On his first day, the Troublesome Trucks decided to be hard on the new engine and pushed him down Gordon's Hill. His outdated wooden brake blocks were set alight from the sparks thrown up as he tried desperately to stop, and he wound up crashing in a pasture.
* Lee suffers one in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}''; on his first day back at school, a DrillSergeantNasty was made principal and he was framed for the biggest prank in high school history.

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