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.

I’ve done similar. It was just a horrible place with a horrible vibe. This was back in the 80s though when I had no concerns about getting another job. I called in sick and just never went back. They then wrote to me severing my employment 🥳

I had a temp job once and stayed just the day. It was the worst place I have ever worked in and the longest 8 hours of my life. Luckily this too was in the 80s. I would have walked out mid way if I hadn’t had to think about my reputation to my temp agency.

NHS nuff said. Their mission statement (re behaviour towards colleagues) is not worth the paper it’s written on.

I left a job after an hour!

Much respect it took me two! It is a good two decades ago now.
The person in charge of me had a huge expensive watch on. He was the owner.
There was a small canteen and he took me there jumped the queue and said ‘when you’ve got a Jacob on babe you go to the front of any queue. Leave the idiots to stare!’
And off I went.

What a twat

Not me but my replacement.
Turned up the first day to the college to find out the department was moving from one prestigious part of the site to port cabins next to the car park; that he was the persons doing the moving over the summer vacation; that there were no lesson plans; that there were no schemes of work, all of which he would have to generate for the new academic year.
He pulled a 'head ache' at coffee time and didn't return

Agreed.
If you feel it's not for you just leave it.
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It won't look bad.
Sometimes things just don't work out.
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How would anyone know about a job you held for just one day unless you told them?

I think if you stay that would reflect poorly on you.

Better to get out fast for yourself and while the employer may have others who want to roles still.

I love this one so much. Good for him!

Yes. Working in retail 11.30 to 5.30. Except we were expected to cash up and take the money to the safe after hours for no extra pay. It was an additional 20 minutes which meant I missed my train home. DH fetched me on day 2 and I told the management on day 3 that I had made a mistake starting there.

I lasted a week in one job. On my first day, during my induction, I was told that everyone was very friendly except for X who was going to be my supervisor. X was one of the most horrible people I have ever met, although she was struggling with the amount of work she had to do (hence the reason I was taken on), she clearly didn’t want me there. She was so nasty and unhelpful.

I was in this position, but waited 10 months. Worst 10 months of my life. Got out as soon as I could. I would have left sooner but that wasn’t an option so needed to find something else.

Yes after a fortnight.

I’d been made redundant from my previous role which I loved. Got a job with a competitor weeks later and made the mistake of assuming it’d be the same type of environment. It was not! The large open plan office must’ve had 100 people sitting in it yet you could hear a pin drop. I never met the line Manager as she was sadly very unwell and on long term sick leave. It became apparent very quickly they hadn’t got cover for her role and training me was instead given to two junior team members who very clearly didn’t have the time to do it between their own tasks.

By the end of week two with no idea what I was meant to be doing and still no clue who anyone was, as I’d had no introductions, I decided to cut my losses and quit, as I knew I could leave it off my CV and still use the “I was made redundant” excuse for my unemployment.

So pleased I did as the following week I got a call from a recruiter about a different role, met with them the next day and started the week after and actually liked the job from day 1!

Years ago when I first became a mature student I tool a telephone sales job. The pay was £2.50 ph (yes back in 1980s) and the salesmen were sleazy and trying to persuade us to go out to somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a boozy night out. The boss (who wore a multi coloured gemstone watch and drove a peach coloured Maserati) asked for a volunteer to go off shift until they were busier. I volunteered. He called me back in the following week but I had already begun work at a market research company. Work was so easy to pick up then - you could finish on a Friday and start somewhere the next week.

I once lasted three days at a job. The job I’d applied for was part time and when I started, after doing some fairly extensive online training (for which I was paid), it turned out it was really full time, which I realised when they gave me my days/hours for the following two weeks.
On the one afternoon I spent in the office, my ‘colleagues’ barely spoke to me and I felt very unwelcome. The job itself was pretty much out on the road, it was during Covid but post lockdown and it was in the winter. I spent my lunch hour sitting in my car eating my lunch as no-one invited me to join them.
My DH was very supportive when I said I wanted to quit, so I did and felt enormous relief.
I also quit another job after 6 weeks, it was a horrible environment to work in and my manager was a total cow. I didn’t have a job to go to on either occasion.

Just be honest @Thisisnottheone or list it as a “temporary” contract taken for experience on your CV.

I once had a temping job years ago as a receptionist to cover maternity. I went on the Thursday to shadow the pregnant lady and then on the Friday at about 11:50 everyone started congregating round the reception desk. I thought it was a presentation or something but literally then all 20 people (small business) cleared off and went out for lunch and nobody came back until about 3pm!!! They finished at 4pm. The managing director was vile he said to me “oh you’ll be ok just take some messages” it was hideous after 45 mins and so I ignored the phones and phoned the agency and asked them to come out to me which they they arrived about 2:30pm and I told them they were outraged too and thankfully were sat with me when the managing director strolled back at 3pm - face dropped with agency manager there. He said “is everything ok” I said “yes” and I grabbed my jacket and bag and said to him “good job xxxx is here from the agency as you can have a discussion with who is coming in on Monday to cover as I’m not” and cleared off! So literally a day and a half!!!!

Someone at my daughter’s company resigned and started a new job. He quit the new job after a couple of days and came back to his old job. No one judged him at all, in fact people were impressed that he didn’t try and stick it out when it was clearly a shite company. This was a professional ‘chartered’ type of job and company

Surely you should have been paid for those three days?

My replacement just couldn't do the job. They must have interviewed well. They stayed for 3 weeks having learned nothing even though I and my colleagues spent hours explaining the basics. They just retained nothing.

They then "had a headache" on my last day and didn't come in. We were then told that they had handed their notice in. My line manager later told me that they wouldn't have passed probation.

If I had safety concerns and could leave I definitely would. You don’t have to include it on your cv for such a short time.

Oh of course I should have but in those first three days I hadn’t signed a contract/provided bank details/done the basic onboarding you would usually expect. I quit via email on the morning of what would have been the fourth day and wasn’t inclined to waste time trying to negotiate with them for payment. Considering they never even responded to the email, I doubt they would have cooperated with me if I had tried to get paid for my time.

Yes, not quite a few days but 3 weeks. Never regretted that. The place was awful and so unsafe.

Sounds like the job I left in January. I lasted just shy of 3 months and that was 2 and a half months too long. Worked with a bunch of nasty, mean girls. Don’t stick it out, leave before it really gets you down.