To leave my new job after a day?

[badgersinthewillow]

I feel awful.

I hate it because it's just dull and the day drags. There isn't enough work to fill the day

The people I'm working with are lovely and I don't want to leave them in the lurch.

AIBU?

OP your reply to my comment doesn't make sense. Is this the Union job?

What are you talking about Another?

I really think you've got be muddled with another poster.

Yes, I think I must have, oh well...

It's not really an area of work with 'promotions'

That in itself suggests you should move on. Why stick with something that's a dead end? Plus, if you left because this job is more stable, you presumably had reason to be concerned that the old job would disappear from under you?

Anything else in the company that needs doing requires a qualification I don't have.

So use the time to work towards that qualification?

There were ways of making that suggestion ('is gaining the qualification a possibility?') that weren't so bloody rude and sarcastic.

In my last job I knew that I'd made a mistake starting with the company on the first day. I stuck it out for 4 months but it didn't improve and decided to leave. So yanbu to know on your first day.

Well sorry but without more info I'm afraid I can't offer you any advice. Good luck with whatever you choose to do (it sounds as though you've already decided to jack it in and are looking for ways to justify that) .

Without any further info, the job does not sound challenging or responsible. It is beneath you. Just quit - you can be easily replaced, hth. The sooner you do so the better.

I think you OP are expecting to be given more responsibilities from day one, and your employers want to give you time to feel you feet as it were,

No, I don't, Another

The job I am doing is the job, as it were. I really don't know why some people are making decisions based on my character over being unsure if I want to continue this job.

If I was a selfish irresponsible person I'd have walked out at lunch and not gone back.

I didn't. I've been umm-ing and ahh-ing, posted on here and had some helpful comments.

Unfortunately I've also been accused of being another poster, had the usual (and very tired) 'oh you knew what you wanted to do', had some sarcastic comments about my intelligence and qualifications and it really isn't pleasant.

I need to have a good long think.

I think you need to look at the needs of the company and how your skills will be of benefit to them; not the other way round,
It isn't just about you.
People need to work as a team for the better of the company.
We are not all megalomaniacs .

And now I'm a megalomaniac.

I give up, I really do.

Your last comment makes you sound deranged, Sorry OP; guess I'm the one being "outed" on MN now.

Another, you have accused me of being a megalomaniac and deranged - and another poster!

To be honest it's not often I'm lost for words but honestly - what do you want me to say? 'No, I don't think I am a megalomaniac' but apparently saying this makes me deranged?

And who has outed you ? I certainly haven't. Even if I suspected you of being another poster I wouldn't be rude enough to accuse you of it.

Perhaps your posts would make more sense to me if you could provide a little context as they just look as if you think I am a poster but i am not and genuinely haven't a clue what you are referring to or about.

Is the role what they said it would be at the interview?

I walked out of a job at lunch time once on the first day as it was so bad!

So ....

~ It's not challenging
~ That won't change
~ You can do it in record time
~ You can't go to the next level without a qualification
~ You have the option to return to your old job that you prefer

It's a no brainer. The company will be fine without you. Sounds like a high turnover role and I'm sure they're used to it.

I think it's conclusive from other replies that OP isn't the only person who has felt this way.

I was too good for my last job. It was bloody boring after I had reorganised it all initially and then delegates all the work (as a supervisor). It was so boring but I liked my colleagues. I moved up into a more senior role and knew I had made a mistake the first day. The people are rude or I am alone all day, the job is a nightmare that cannot ever be resolved as far deeper issues than my level. I applied for other jobs immediately and got one in May but it has taken all this time to get through HR or I would have gone a lot sooner.

Life is too short to do something you bloody hate all day

It is, I just didn't really anticipate it would take so little time to actually do what needs to be done :)

I'll have a chat with the manager tomorrow. Thanks for advice. I'm not fully decided but I do need to make my mind up sooner rather than later.

If it's healthcare setting it might make perfect sense you can't go anywhere without a totally new kind of qualification for instance

Is it possible they only gave you a bit of the normal daily workload?

To be honest if you can go back to the old job I would. Sometimes you just get a gut feeling about things.

i think you should go with your instinct. If the job is simple enough that it requires little training, no promotion prospects then it should be very simple and straightforward for them to replace you, so I wouldnt worry about leaving them in the lurch. If you quit quickly enough they can just call their 2nd choice candidate from your recruitment process in.

I do think it's a real shame that they've recruited you, inducted you etc and within a day you already feel there are no prospects to develop there - it doesnt sound like a great place to work to me. Good luck whatever you decide, I dont think you'll go wrong if your instincts are so against it.

It isn't just about you.

It kind of is.

"And if they really really wanted you to stay, they probably would have made you an offer you couldn't refuse...?"

Only true if private sector really and possibly some non-profits. I would have thought that many public sector salaries were fixed.

"Approach your manager and say you don't find the work challenging enough"

After one day? Wouldn't it be better to ask whether the first day was a typical in terms of workload? As so many of us have pointed out, it's often quiet at the beginning while you find your feet, figure out what exactly you have to do and accumulate ongoing work.

For some reason you left your old job and those reasons are still valid. I would start job hunting again because I don't think the old or new job is for you.