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.

I’ve a friend who quits jobs on day one if she doesn’t like them 🤷🏼‍♀️

I did once pack up a door to door canvassing job (selling cavity wall insulation) after a week. The sales rep I worked for was rude and a bully. All the other casual part time jobs Ive had (call center/market research/chatline/sales) Ive stuck for at least 3 months. I even stuck a job in debt collecting for 6 months. Full time jobs I had one 20+ years (left to go to uni) and the other 10 years (post uni)

I started a new job this week. New school after 14 years I’m my old school. It’s as a TA in a school nursery. I feel like quitting already.

I’ve quit after a day 😂

I quit an internal move in the same department after a few weeks: not proper ‘quitting’ since there were no financial implications for me (luckily my old job was open to return to).

I was told explicitly by the new boss, the one I returned to and another manager who interviewed me for a different role (who knew the ‘new boss’) that having quit reflected badly on me and my reputation. I disagreed: I’d not done it before and haven’t since, the job wasn’t at all ‘as advertised’ and the team situation was one that people other than me might find difficult.

In your situation I would stay and earn the money while looking for another job and prepare a good way to explain to new potential employers why you’re moving.

Sounds like you are being true to yourself, so do what feels best which is probably to step off now, and go elsewhere.
On the flip however, I was (I believed) deeply unhappy in a new role once (setting up a nursing service, way outside of my comfort zone) I so very nearly left after 4 weeks. I hated going in.
Now - 24 years later - best decision I ever made to stay. It became great after 6 months. It's so hard isn't it to predict.. Good luck

I was offered a 12 month maternity cover as an HR administrator. I was told it was general admin to support the HR manager.

In reality the job was to run payroll, deal with investigations, grievances, disciplinaries. Deal with large amounts of legal matters which I had absolutely no knowledge of.

The job was totally different to the description I was given. They clearly wanted a qualified HR manager but was only prepared to pay admin salary.

I then found out the maternity lady wasn't coming back and I was going to be offered the role on a permanent basis.

In all my working life I had never been so overwhelmed. I quit after 2 weeks. The relief was amazing...

I have only quit one job. In sales. Turned out it was flogging stuff door to door in the city centre to ships who clearly didn't want it. I lasted about 2 hours.

Yes I resigned after 3 weeks in a job. I was still on probation and on 24 hours notice. I’d been told I could go back to my old job anytime so I’d already called my old boss, met them for lunch and arranged just that. I think they were quite shocked 😂 Not as shocked as me who had taken a senior manager role and was told by my boss not to take any accountability ….

I left a job after 2 weeks. Gut reaction in those 2 weeks was it was an absolutely awful place to work. This was 20+ years ago, I was in a position where I could cope without income for a few weeks whilst job hunting.

Many moons ago when jobs were easy to get DH would start one, if he didn't like it he'd leave and go to the job centre at lunch and get another one. He had his own draw at the job centre. He had no qualifications and was heavily dyslexic, (not a thng then) accidently landed on his feet in IT (55+ years ago) went on to have a meteortic career, travelling all over the world, now retired and relaxing.