How long would you give a job before quitting ?

[Inliverpool1]

Sales role, been completely misled. Lied to tbh. Boss is a complete loose cannon, disappears for days on end. We have contractors calling up demanding to be paid, who are eventually but it’s stressful.

Been there 3 weeks

I'd not quit but start looking for another job as it's generally easier to find a job whilst in employment for some reason.

How long can you cope without a job while hunting another?

Life’s too short, leave ASAP (if your personal circumstances allow).

Quit now and omit the whole thing from cv if you can afford to

Depends. If you can handle it, find a new job while employed. If your mental health is suffering, I'd say hand in your notice.

Start looking for something else right now, agency or whatever. In my experience of these sort of shyster companies, things will only get worse and the boss will end up blaming you. Get out ASAP.

I agree with @giggling ... stay as long as you can bear it but start looking for a job today. Start saving as much as you can (if you need to). If you’re asked at interview why you’re moving, just say the culture isn’t a right fit for you in your current role...and say nothing else. And like @sinjun says, once you’ve secured a new position, just omit it from your CV.

Only one word of caution, I was in a very similar situation years ago and took the 1st job I was offered which was equally awful... I then felt I had to stick at that one for a year for my CV. Huge mistake. I wish I’d been more discerning and not panicked so much.

Quit as soon as you have another job

No one can really advise until we know your financial circumstances. If you can afford to live without a job then I'd quit now. If not, starting looking for another one and hang in there until you get one.

I've left after 3 weeks but it was such long hours and long commute, it was easier to just leave and do temp work before finding another job.

if you can afford to leave without a job, quit now IMHO.

think it depends on HOW awful. ...?

Are there any good bits?if there are enough ok bits carry on but start looking today for another job.

If impacting your well-being or truly awful...give notice and just do temping til you find a better job...you can just leave such a short period off your CV

Don’t update your LinkedIn with this horror show of a job and start looking today.
If you find something you can give one week as you’ll be on probation and there won’t be a gap

I've been in my god awful job now for coming up 6 months. Got an interview tomorrow that I'm pinning my hopes on but kind of wish I'd left after a month... The atmosphere is toxic, the boss is a loon, and our subcontractors don't get paid for months which I have to field, the calls for. I didn't leave as I thought it was too soon (and it was December so not ideal!) but I wish I'd trusted my instincts.

You could quit and go temping, so it needn't even to appear on your CV as a 3 weeks stay is not great.

I wouldn't go into debt though, so If money was tight, I would try hard to find something else. On probation, I am guessing your notice is probably not more than a week anyway?

I’m going to start looking around, I’m pissed off because I made a big song and dance on LinkedIn about the move. Every fucker knows about it 😂 I’ll just have to discretely vanish over a period of time. It is a laugh working there we have fun but I came to make money

My shortest stay in a hellish job was 5 months. In retrospect, I should have bailed before my probation period was up, as my previous job would have been willing to take me back, but I thought I should give it a chance to get better... it never did, and now I have to keep it on my CV or explain a gap. I will also have to explain to any future employer why I don't want to ask that job for a reference and why I was only there for such a short time. If I were to go back (apart from not taking the job in the first place), I would have left after the first two weeks and gone back to my old job. If you can afford to leave now, just do it!

until you can no longer take it!

As long as it took to find a new job.

If people are regularly calling up demanding payment it’s a bad sign. They probably have cash flow issues. I’d be urgently looking.

There’s definitely cashflow issues, the phones got cut off 😂 only for a phew hours but 🙄

I'd start looking and put this role as temp on your cv. No one would know if it's permanent or temporary anyway and gives you the excuse of why you want to leave.

I’ve left jobs with nothing to go to but I’ve been fortunate that I have DH and we are okay financially.

One job after 3 months, one after a month, one after two weeks! None of those are on my CV and I found new jobs within a month or two. I hated them and knew it wasn’t worth my mental health in staying.

I’ve recently left a civil service job after 4 months - I’m spinning that as a fixed term contract! But I have a new job which starts next month - I resigned with nothing to go to though. Mainly because my manager threatened me with a performance improvement meeting.

I’ve recently left a civil service job after 4 months - I’m spinning that as a fixed term contract! lying then

greenlloon - well technically I didn’t complete my probationary period so I was hardly permanent! A reference from HR will state my dates of employment and that’s that! I’ve done that before with a perm job that I left in 6 months. Again - all HR give is a standard reference.

As time goes by, it’ll just be left off my CV. But thanks for your concern!

I left three days after I arrived. Knew I'd made a mistake on the first day when the manager of the company grilled me on how hard it had been to offer me this role because of the size I am. I stayed for two more days and then thought fuck it. The attitude rolled down the company. They went out of business a year later.

When you know you know. I think up to a month you can get away with not having it on your CV. Anything post that then you may end up having to put it on your cv