Have you ever quit a job after a month?

[Rearingthestars]

I really don’t like my new job. It’s not lived up to the job description at all.

For my last full time job I walked in at 9 am and called DH around about 10.30 and said 'there is a funny vibe here'.

I lasted 4 years. It was in a law firm and I was a NQsolicitor. The job destroyed my health and my confidence. If I had had the nerve I wish I had walked out on the very first day. Two of my colleagues (who I never met) I found out had committed suicide before I got there in the past 12 months.

I like to tell myself that i Leanred alot. But the truth is, I have never worked a full time job since as the experience was so traumatising.

I could have written this myself. You have my sympathies. I too, am looking for a way out of this misery

Honestly? Loads. And usually way before the month mark. My most recent little stunt was 1 days, it’s got to the point now where no in my family believes I’ll stay lol 🤦‍♀️. One year is a lifetime for me.

2 days that should have said.

Yes several times. You know when it is wrong and would be detrimental to your mental health.

Yes I did years ago it was a month it was retail it was bitchy unfriendly and we were treated like small kids I was 40 .
They moved the goal posts on weekends saying I had to work every Saturday I'd agreed to every other.in my interview manager said not my problem it needs covering... that was a Friday.
I went in on the monday morning and verbally handed my notice in to the cheeky bitch manager who thought she could bully me .
It felt great to say fuck you and fuck your shitty job.
Don't waste your life or your time on things that don't make you happy .
Simples.

I quit after 4 weeks. The job wasnt right and the people were not particularly welcoming.

Best thing i ever did. Landed the best job ever a few weeks later and im still there now after 6 years. Would never have got that job if I had stayed at my old place and wouldnt have been looking.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Yeah, once.

Yeah, twice.

Once after 10 days when I was doing an admin job for Legal And. I went to lunch and never went back. My contract hadn't arrived from head office so I didn't feel that I needed to give them the required notice.
The other was a temping assignment. The agency said it was call centre work answering calls for a number that appeared on a TV advert. I completed the induction (9am-5pm). Then they told us we were going to be working from 8pm until 11pm only. The agency had told me it was full time. The buses into the city (I lived several miles outside) stopped at 9pm and there was no local or onsite parking, so I had no way of getting home.

I walked out of a job after one day. Never regretted it

Left after 1 week. Was lied to at the interview, job was nothing at all like what they said. Got a weeks pay for doing lot a lot though so that wasn't too bad. Took pleasure in ringing up to say i wasnt going back and I got another job not long after. Life is too short for nonsense...if you're not happy then do something about it.

Yep. Started looking for a new job after I'd been there a week and handed my notice in after a bit less than a month, once I'd found a new one.

Yes. No regrets.

I left several jobs within days....most were after uni and mind numbing dull...filing bits of paper into a system which nobody ever used...so i took the papers home and binned them and sat and read books all day as was in a basement room on my own with no windows..awful and depressing...Walked out of another admin job with a charity who asked us to all work late for free and through lunch break, because it was a charity, I walked after about 2 days on that one ! The worst was being groped by Frank in sales dept in some awful wood company sales dept, he was bragging over the partition wall about how soon he was gonna shag me etc...yuk !!

Yep, I quit after 2 weeks, I trusted my gut feeling that it was going to be a nightmare, I just said sorry this isn't right for me, they were surprised but took it okay. I didn't want the sunk/cost fallacy to keep me stuck in the wrong thing. It was a power move but I felt like I'd done the decent thing all round. I didn't want them to invest in training me etc when I wasn't feeling it.

Yes. Nothing was as presented to me in advance and agreed on. It was as if they thought the contract doesn't bind them in any way.

I managed 6 weeks. I knew from the first day that it had been a wrong move. But as a single parent I had no choice but to carry on until I found something else.
I hated every day of those six weeks and really pleased to have left.

Yes I handed my notice in after two weeks and worked two weeks notice. I returned to my old job as they hadn't found a replacement for me ! The manager was horrible and caused me anxiety from day one.

I've quit after a week before!

Three days. It was mutual as I was complaining a lot about health and safety and they didn't want me complaining about health and safety.

I left a job once within the 3-month probation period. I realised straight away that it wasn't a good fit and within a few weeks I was dreading going to work, so I called the headhunter who'd helped me to get it, was completely honest with them about how much I was hating it, and they immediately got back to searching for something new for me.

Sometimes you take a job and you just know it's not right straight away. Just get back to job searching OP - it will help you to get through the days if you know you're counting them until you leave!

I quit after 2 months, not one. (I had worked in my previous job for 31 years, so I don’t think anyone can accuse me of being flighty!) It was in the NHS and just wasn’t right for me.

Not me (shortest job was a day nursery and I lasted 3 weeks-ive never been anywhere so bitchy in my life) but a young lady I was meant to be training up a few weeks ago

I met her,showed her the bare basics (red cloth for tables,blue cloth for everything else and chuck them into the wash once used,here's the mop and smile at customers)

She walked out within 20 minutes

Im not sure if it was my crap training skills or the job wasnt for her

But good for her either way-she knew it wasnt for her so didnt waste her time

Yes, two in a row. First was a local government job with terrible management plus the office stank of sewage (next door to a sewage pumping station). The cleaner went mad because I put handwash in the kitchen (this was during the later stages of covid). The 'manager' sided with the cleaner. 'Manager' was in charge of environmental health ffs. Managed to find an admin job within NHS which was equally terrible. Toxic atmosphere with swearing, shouting, bullying, pen throwing. Nursing staff resentful when urgent messages from patients passed on (major part of my job!). Thankfully managed to find my perfect job quickly and have been there for over four years.

It sounds like leaving now isn't an option, but can you focus on your studies, with a plan on leaving as soon as you pass your exams? Having a timescale would make it more bearable.

I totally get the social isolation - can you compensate by getting more involved in your local area - an evening class, weekend river clean up, book club in your local library etc?