How to quit a job after 6 days?
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So, I got a job at a consulting firm while keeping other options open. Today I received the call for another position and have been offered the job with a substantial (15%) raise in salary, better conditions and working with way cooler projects, so the decision is pretty much made.
During this time at the consulting firm, I've been without any project and waiting for the client I'm supposed to join to approve. So basically, I've done nothing during my five days here.
Any recommendations?
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Any recommendations?
Say goodbye politely? Try not to be unpleasant to the people at the consulting firm; that sort of thing can come back to bite you hard.
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Yeah, I try not to burn bridges so I'm usually very polite. I'm not sure about them though.
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I'm not sure about them though.
It still costs nothing to be polite. If you want to be really nice, you can tell them what you've told us: better position and way cooler projects combine to make an unbeatable offer.
By going at 6 days, you won't be causing that much trouble. That's still close to the start of the probation period, and the purpose of the probation period is to see whether employee and employer match each other. No fault accrues for leaving, especially as you've not started actually doing anything yet.
Salary-wise, it might be worth only chasing the consulting firm only perfunctorily, for the sake of form; a six-day employment gap is minuscule (and isn't much more important as a delta on a longer span of unemployment, if that was your status).
Good luck with the new position. Hope it's not got too many real WTFs…
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What dkf said.
It's uncomfortable situation for everyone involved, but the payoff seems worth it.
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What cartman82 said.
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What Keith said. @SignatureGuy
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I agree with whatever @Maciejasjmj posted just above.<t3777p7>
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I agree with whatever @Maciejasjmj posted just above.
I agree with SignatireGuy, and so does @sockbot
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Poor old @Sockbot
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it seems he crashed over the night, or perhaps the VM rebooted. i still need to get him off of my development environment and onto a stable platform..
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hmm.. interesting. he's case sensitive too. @sockbot
or not? what happened?! off to the testing thread for emergency debugging!
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I agree with whatever morbs just said.
Poor morbs. He just didn't see that can opener coming.
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Just man-up and do it. You've been assigned no projects after 6 days, that's almost reason enough to quit even if you didn't have another position.
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It's business.
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How to quit a job after 6 days...
...and I think, wow, Shonda Rhimes is really phoning it in these days.
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Simply do this :
Image is here as discourse does not like mePS : srsly ? "Sorry, new users can't put images in posts.". Fuck ya discourse
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Simply do this :
http://www.9thcx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/table_flip.jpg?w=300
FTFY.Fuck ya discourse
You'll get used to that.
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Thank you for fixing it. Can someone also please fix Discourse please ?
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Can someone also please fix Discourse please ?
Unfortunately, no, but we're really good at breaking it.
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Can someone also please fix Discourse please ?
Alas no - they're really good at adding features or making changes instead of fixing it though.
Filed under:And by 'really good' I mean they do it a lot, not they're actually good changes.
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Thank you for fixing it. Can someone also please fix Discourse please ?
According to @CodingHorrorBot, you just need to supply a pull request to fix anything....
of course that means you have to fix it yourself and have to get the discodevs to agree that it is
- broken
- needs fixing
- your PR fixes it
- your PR meets their code style
- your PR does not offend their $diety_of_the_month
- you realize that literally all these steps are step #1 right?
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@accalia Is Doing It Wrong™<t3777p23>
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And on that note, you're welcome to add to the below, because yeah.
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Does not make sense to report anything. Discourse is a bug by itself
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Your email's showing.
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And one more WTF to discourse. Reply by email, but we won't scrap it to take only the new part, and not the email sent.
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It's trying to hide, though....
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I'm torn between being incredibly disappointed in you, and quite bemused.
Bemusippointed?
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Was that a whoosh moment from me?!
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Just man-up and do it. You've been assigned no projects after 6 days
That's not actually uncommon in certain weird circumstances (that probably don't apply here.)
I worked for a place that had a lot of contractors. It was expected you wouldn't do anything at all, really, for two weeks, because it took that long to get a computer.
You were still getting paid handsomely, though.
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I don't know, your screen shot is entertaining, and is a bug,
but the original issue was that his email reply included his actual email address (which he edited out)
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Aha - missed the post pre-edit.
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but the original issue was that his email reply included his actual email address (which he edited out)
Very odd. I know @apapadimoulis has replied by email. I never have, but I've also never seen @apapadimoulis' email leaked in his replies, while we've seen it a couple of times with other people here.
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@apapadimoulis probably knows better, and deletes all previous content before replying.
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I will never use this feature again (because it's not a bug, it's a feature, ya know?)
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Trues story! Though… this time I won’t delete anything and see what happens.
From: Matches [mailto:use-the-contact-form@mail128-4.atl41.mandrillapp.com] On Behalf Of Matches
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This is pretty much what's biting people who email reply - specifically, their email client is including the 'TO' address as part of the header and sticking it in the email body.
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Mentioning @CodingHorrorBot in an email reply not using the same client as Jeff.
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@chubertdev Is Doing It Wrong™<t3777p40>
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I'm waiting for the client to do the their bureaucratic crap so that I can start. But I agree with @blakeyrat because they did a lot of pushing on their side so I would sign the contract even when they knew I wouldn't be starting on the client on my first day.
Either way, I'm waiting for the other company to also end their bureaucratic crap so I can kiss goodbye this place.
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If the new company is committed, you have to quit now. You can't stay at a job drawing a paycheck doing nothing but waiting for a new job to complete paperwork-- that's morally wrong.
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If the new company is committed, you have to quit now. You can't stay at a job drawing a paycheck doing nothing but waiting for a new job to complete paperwork-- that's morally wrong.
Yes, please let @blakeyrat be your moral compass.
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You know I'm right though.
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Of course, I just thought it was funny.
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If the new company is committed, you have to quit now. You can't stay at a job drawing a paycheck doing nothing but waiting for a new job to complete paperwork-- that's morally wrong.
Don't listen to him, @Eldelshell! Suck 'em dry!
