Walking out of a brand new job because you realise you actually...hate it ?

[Cormac135]

Anyone done this ?

As in starting a new job and getting the feeling a few days in, that you will hate it and now regret taking the role even though at the interview stage it seemed promising?

 

[Peloso]

I was on my first day training at a new restaurant. Bad vibes everywhere. I knew I had made a mistake.

Screwed up my first table because one of the cooks "lost" my slip. Typical initiation crap.

In the middle of my second or third table, as they were ordering, I said, "You know what? No." and just walked away and out the door.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Oh yeah. No kill animal shelter. Thought it was a great idea. Lasted exactly one shift. I was too fucking short, though that wasn't the only issue.

 

[Natello4]

Tried a job on a construction site once and left it all behind without looking back during the other day. I didn't enjoy culture, bullying between colleagues, moral decadence there. Also, there were no really fit, half-naked guys with sweaty bodies and honest smiles either.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Oh yeah. No kill animal shelter. Thought it was a great idea. Lasted exactly one shift. I was too fucking short, though that wasn't the only issue.

Should probably elaborate, I couldn't reach the back of the top cages without a stool. And at that it was a wobbly stool, didn't trust it a bit. Unfortunately, using the stool, then stepping down and then kneeling for the bottom cages really did a number on my back, wasn't able to move by the end of the day and when combined with the migraine from the light/ammonia combo it wasn't worth it.

(It was also depressing as hell, I wanted to set 'em all free out back.)

 

[LeicsDom]

Anyone done this ?

As in starting a new job and getting the feeling a few days in, that you will hate it and now regret taking the role even though at the interview stage it seemed promising?

Yep. Done it several times
Life is way too short to waste working at something you hate

 

[peeonme]

I have never walked out before finding another job, there have been a few where I knew I had made a mistake in taking the job after a day or two.

 

[TickTockMan]

Never, but I almost did on a job I came to love. It was just physically demanding and my body was killing me. After work the first shift I made myself walk to Kmart and buy knee pads to help with the pain. Everyone made fun of me, but in a few months half the crew wore pads and or back braces.

 

[Rickrock]

No, I haven't, but might consider it if the occasion arose.

 

[USEDCAR]

I worked at this mail place and someone preps mail, scans it and edit it. I had bad feeling about this job and left my nursing home job for this place. I was the scanner most boring job ever. I called my old job after 3 days and asked them if i can have my old job and spot back they said sure. I did no call no show at the mail prep job.

Im too old to quit jobs i'll try to stay per diem (less then part time) at my previous job before switching to a new job to have a cushion.

 

[mikey3000]

One time I was offered a good management job at a car dealership. Great pay and 10 minutes from home. Showed up on the first day and the vibes were terrible, things just didn't feel right, so I just never went back. The next week it was all over the news that they were busted for fraud and shut down.

 

[sixthson]

Not actually a job but a social work internship my senior year of college. The disillusionment lead me to get my MA so I would be on the clinical side of SW. Despite that, I ended up going into business after grad school and about 8 years ago, I began to use my education and training in my field, but there is much frustration seeing so many people refusing to change or improve their lives.

As to those who would quit a job so soon after accepting it, I would advise them not to give up so quickly. New jobs/careers can often be overwhelming but improves with time and familiarity.

 

[blewballs]

Tried a job on a construction site once and left it all behind without looking back during the other day. I didn't enjoy culture, bullying between colleagues, moral decadence there. Also, there were no really fit, half-naked guys with sweaty bodies and honest smiles either.

You should have called OSHA. Construction work with no fit half-naked guys, who could work under those conditions?

 

[ShadowCat]

I hate working the elections but I do it because it's a quick way to get 300 bones! I'm good at it and people come to me with their problems and concerns however everything we need to know is in a book the test is open book and therefore you should not be coming to me with any questions and you have a book go look for the answer. I had some jag off break my fucking machine HE WAS THE FIRST FUCKING VOTER! That was screwed up til 330 in the afternoon! Trying to set up in the school they put me at is a pain in the ass this one "woman" in particular is a big cunt who always has a sandy vagina! Its going to bed at 9pm and waking up at 230 to shower and get my ass out the door to go get a bagel and iced coffee which may or may not get eaten until much later in the day one time we were so busy I had nothing til 6pm that day! However I stick it out because k need the money! Trying to get into school and/ or buy things for the house doesn't come cheap every little bit helps I have learned to stick with it no matter how mind numbingly boring a job is especially in this shitty ass climate! Really covid don' think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven...BECAUSE IT HASN'T!

 

[Latimer]

About three months ago I entered into a contract with a couple to design a new house for them. My fee was 15% of the cost of construction, a common way of establishing a fee. They told me they were interested in building a 9,000 s.f house on a 3/4 acre property that had bought for $6 million. We discussed construction costs of approximately $500 per foot, which would result in hard costs of perhaps $4.5 million, which they said they were prepared to pay, along with my own fee of perhaps $675,000 spread out over the course of 3 years. At their direction I ended up doing a preliminary design for a 12,000 s.f. house, leading to $6 million in construction costs and a fee to me of $900,000, whereupon they pleaded poverty, told me I was greedy and was practically robbing them blind. They added that they would be the best clients I had ever had and would recommend me to all of their friends if only I capped my fee at $600,000. I told them I would have been more than happy to execute any of the 9,000 s.f. designs I originally prepared, but that their recriminations, insults and attitude were such that I preferred to walk. Which I did. The lower fee would have been nice, but my work is excellent, celebrated and prized. They should have been honored that I consented to work with them and treated me better. They will find a cheaper architect and a cheaper contractor, and they'll get the trash they deserve.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

No thats a rookie mistake. The interview isn't them vetting you it's you vetting them. If the job ain't shit the last thing they'll hear is my heels click clacking out the nearest exit