Anyone resigned after a few days?

[Thisisnottheone]

Just that really. It’s been a nightmare few days. Nobody was expecting me, the staff are rude to each other and I have some serious safety concerns with what I have seen already.
This is my onsite introduction and people have so little to say to me, I feel like I’m nothing but an inconvenience.

It absolutely will not. Do not even put it on your CV. This never happened, in career terms, it was a non-event.

Only if you have the type of job where EVERYTHING must be disclosed will this ever be known, and then you just explain.

Employers do not scrutinise CV's like that.
Putting the month you left and started can easily cover this.
Toxic and unsafe, be glad you have found out quickly.
Don't hesitate.

Yes. I am mid 50s and have done this twice where I left after a couple of days. I just had a gut feeling that the jobs weren’t right, both times I had started, I wasn’t supported and the atmosphere left me on edge and I was miserable.

It made no difference to the rest of my career. I would say go for it and leave, life is too short to stay somewhere that’s not right!

I walked out after 2 hours once. Don’t regret it place was a nightmare. They drafted someone I knew in to help be rang me after a week and said thanks for that, I’m in the bowels of hell 🤩 He left as well.

I once quit after my introduction. It was a summer job in a corner shop. I was not impressed that:

1 - the ‘freshly baked bread’ was simply defrosted in the oven
2 - they expected people to pay for coleslaw I made without actually giving me a recipe or more than very basic instructions as to how to do it (no quantities just “Grate x and y and mix with z”).
3 - there was ham on display on the deli counter than which was mouldy. The shop had been open all day. Was gobsmacked nobody had noticed before I pointed it out to them (it was very obviously green).

Yes! Do it.
I had two experiences - one where I had massive doubts after the first week but I kept hoping things would improve, and after a few months passed I felt I had to stay for at least a year so it didn’t look suss on my CV - I wish I had gone with my gut, it was a miserable year and then they made me redundant in a horrid underhand way.

in the other case I knew immediately I had made a mistake (they changed the goal posts of the job from what I interviewed for) so I walked at the end of day 1 and thankfully got a better offer pretty quickly as I’d been doing lots of interviews.

so glad I followed my gut on that one.

Not quite such a short time. Ten weeks for me..Awful culture, awful boss, staff given no responsibilities, had to get out at that point

As long as you don't KEEP doing it, not a red flag. Just tell the story professionally

I'd respect someone who bailed immediately.

Left a post teaching in a secondary school overseas after 6 days. The kids were absolutely feral. I was the first of 4 'foreign' hires to leave within the month. I got another post same city. Kids were also pretty challenging - but more manageable. There have been others. It's often very clear from the start. I've had a lot of quirky employers. As pps said - short jobs like that just don't go on my CV.

I hope I’m not as bad as Liz Truss. My issue is the place is a disaster and the team around me are horrible and don’t actually deserve my expertise and so far have scoffed at my suggestions.

Thank you. I would absolutely defend my stance on why I did not stay. It’s not just a personality clash.

Yep, as a nanny. absolute brat stabbed a fork into my hand on day 3 and her parent asked what I did to make her do it. Chucked the keys on the table and walked out. It isn't on my CV and I make no reference to it whatsoever.

Never resigned after a few days, but there have been 2 jobs where I really wanted to. When you know, you know. For me it was not "teething problems", things were horrendous and only got worse.

Follow up with the positions you were in the running for, tell them your circumstances have changed and you're available again.

Or just quit and start looking afresh. A big bonus of a very short time somewhere is that it's much easier to just quietly brush it off your CV.

Oh my days!

6months has been my minimum but I’ve always needed to work. I just used it to look for something else.

Once someone started in a different dept to me where the manager was well known in the company for being “difficult”. Said new starter went on her lunch break and didn’t come back!

Got a new job which was a promotion. Horrible team, horrible environment. Hated it. Left without a job to go to as I could not bear another minute in that dreadful place. It all turned out ok in the end because I managed to get another (nice) job the next day. I just erased all traces of that job on my CV.

Just do it, quickly, today if you can!

I think she believes, deep down, that it's only a matter of time before the entire country begs her to come back.

Left within 3 weeks. Didn't need the job but thought it would be fairly fun as retail goes. They treated everyone like shit, ignored employment law, thought crying at work was normal. I left them a Glassdoor review. Last thing I heard the awful manager instigating it all was still there.

Major child friendly Danish toy brand in their flagship London shop, no indicators during the hiring/onboarding process at all.

I don't think it will look bad - just don't add it to your CV. Keep looking. Badly run places are a nightmare to work for and never improve.

Yep I've done it !.
Life is 2 short to be in a toxic workplace listen to your gut screaming at you !
And I've never put it in a CV !
My industry (hairstylist part of the job to some degree ) but when U know U know !

Yes, I went to a new job 5 days in I walked out.
I just up picked up my bag and walked out, blocked the numbers never went back.
I didn't have a job to go to either I did get a new job a few weeks later.
That was 9 year ago no regrets.

Who will be looking?

Yes absolutely.

One job I started in Central London was totally different to the brief I'd been given by my agency (it was a contract). All day people were coming up to me and throwing down huge files and saying "thank God YOU'RE here, you need to sort this out" until I'd had enough and walked out 3 days later. The role was supposed to be 1-1 EA support to the head of the team but I then found out everyone had been told I was there to transfer huge files of tiny handwriting into Excel docs! No thanks.

I've also walked out of a couple of contracts where the person I was working for was disrespectful. I did a maternity cover once, and the guy I was working for became progressively ruder. For no reason he started calling me an "old woman" and "old bag" and I saw some very unsavoury emails from him about me and other female colleagues, so I left, but only a week before my contract was due to end. Even his response to me leaving early was disgusting. Nice to my face but an email he sent to the chairman totally slagged me off and called me unprofessional and rude!