Hi. Not sure if HN is the right place to ask this but would you quit a job three months in? The job per se is not too bad but the immediate bosses are insufferable.<p>Put another way if I was past the 2 year watermark I wouldn't even wonder. I'd just start looking but getting out so soon I'm afraid it's going to tank my chances.
I once quit a job five days in, because the boss (on day 4) berated me in a way that indicated a lack of anger control. I gave it a day to think it over, then quit.<p>I had been hired through an agency, and called them, being apologetic and saying I hoped I hadn't endangered their relationship with their client (although no way I was staying). They said I hadn't, and by the end of the call it became apparent that I wasn't the first person to quit in this way.<p>One thought exercise you might consider, to see if you are being unreasonable or not. Imagine, as a thought experiment, that you were needing to explain to someone (say at your next job interview) what was wrong with your "insufferable" bosses. If you have a hard time explaining (even as a thought experiment) why your immediate bosses are insufferable, then you would want to introspect a bit more as to what is really bothering you. But, if you are able to explain the problem clearly (and professionally), perhaps to a non-work friend or something, then it's probably not just you being in a bad mood or whatever, and you should start looking.<p>One additional thing to mention is you can start looking before you quit, just to see what the market currently is like for you.
Yes.<p>I once took a job where I had exactly one condition for hire. They assured me it would never come to pass. In fact, the 3rd day it came to pass. I asked "don't you remember this was the only condition I set?" They replied "I don't care, just get it done."<p>I quit on the spot. I don't list this job on my resume. Life is entirely too short to put up with people that walk all over you. Just move on and find something healthier.
I quit a day after three months and a day, once.<p>I was fresh out of university and I took a job doing software with a company who only had one developer overseeing me.<p>He was extremely rude to me, and extremely strict with me, getting angry if I showed up 5 minutes late or took even one extra minute for lunch. At my three month review his feedback was very negative and he clearly wanted to get rid of me but his bosses convinced him (and me) to agree to one more month of probation. I raised some of my issues with how he was treating me, so we drew up some revised expectations for both of us, then both of us signed them.<p>The very next day he pulled me over to his desk. I had designed a three column layout for a page he'd assigned me to build. I had left-aligned the text in the header columns. He wanted them center aligned. He communicated this to me by highlighting the text, slamming his mouse on the desk and shouting "does this look good to you!?". It would have taken me thirty seconds to fix at most, but he was furious about it.<p>I walked away from him, into my manager's office, and quit on the spot.<p>The real cherry on top of this story is they were only paying me $13 an hour.
Yes. You are not invested at two months in. If you are not enjoying it it’s better to leave early if you can rather than suffering hoping it gets better. Follow your senses, two months in should be the honey moon period so it is a bad sign if already asking should you leave.<p>I did similar recently. The job wasn’t what I was looking for, highly senior team in titles but much more junior / immature in reality than I’m used to and thought I was joining. It felt like a significant step down work wise and as the team was new it had a bunch of new team forming issues I had no time for as I’m a head down and work person. It was a shame as the work itself had potential to be really interesting and the company itself was very good with fully remote, every second Friday of the month off, quality of life perks etc etc.<p>Leaving early meant loosing RSU’s wasn’t an issue as I could make the difference back in a new salary. If I stuck around for the initial 12 month cliff for 40% RSU’s vesting I’d probably of hated each day, effecting my performance and then in the end leaving before the 12 months anyway but with a greater loss as wouldn’t of been able to make the difference back on higher salary vs RSU’s with time invested.
In my opinion, people quit managers most often, and ocassionally projects. People don't quit jobs or organisations in general.<p>Bolt out of there real quick. Like others mentioned, start looking, skip this stint on your resume, and have a canned response when asked.<p>Unless finding a new job that pays similarly would be significantly difficult, there's no real reason to stick around a place where you can't stand the people you work with.<p>Your chances of finding a new or better job won't be impacted at all imo. If anyone asks you can say you were not convinced it's a good cultural fit, and even spin it positively as you being decisive rather than sticking around and not doing justice to the job and yourself or some other such brand of authenticity and linkedin heroism.
Better now than to be fired or forced out due to personality conflicts in a year. Sometimes a bad fit is invisible until you are in the trenches - insufferable bosses might be hard to see before. Is it worth slogging on? I don't know your bosses, perhaps you will learn to tune it out or they will back off when you aren't new any longer.<p>(And it is refreshing to see per se used correctly. Thanks!)
The answer is always yes. When people think frequently and decisively about quitting, especially if one works in a worker-unfriendly country like the United States, and setting aside financial concerns, I always advise to move on.<p>Consider the alternative. You are staying otherwise in a workplace you hate or it is not good enough for you for two years or more because, in that way, maybe some recruiter would not you cross you out from their 3000-strong list of people suitable for the job they are advertising for.
I did that. The job was bad for more than one reason and I couldn't see myself slogging through it for the next 18-24 months, before I can legit-quit.<p>You options are to either put it on the CV or just hide it. I've chosen to hide it, but I mention it during interviews if my brief experience from there is somehow relevant.
Sure, I quit at 4 months once I realized my boss (CTO) had no experience managing senior people US based like me, and had only managed cheap offshore devs that he could yell at.
Yes. I actually have done this. I left my last job around 4 months in. I also have a few gaps on my resume, each approaching a year long.<p>YMMV, but in my experience, it will not tank your chances. I got plenty of interviews whether I was totally upfront about my reasons for quitting or not. Searching for a job sucks, but you'd be doing it anyway. It will suck worse if you don't have enough reserve cash.<p>But if you've got enough cash to float you for several months, don't waste another 3 months or more of your life hating it. I've never regretted the times I quit abruptly or didn't work.
I quit a job 3 weeks in because my coworkers were dead inside. Employers prolly won't ask about such anomalies on your resume unless it looks like a pattern. GTFO. Have a prepared response just in case
remember!<p>To employ means to "use".<p>All employers are therefore using you.<p>During the early stages of my training I used to intentionally only take jobs that offered
certificated and recognised training programs as part of the package. These jobs usually paid far less than the going rate.<p>For instance, one job I applied for offered a complete certificated training package as a methadone dispenser.<p>After 3 months and the completion of the training I left and got a better paid job as a care-coordinator and methadone dispenser at nearly double the money.<p>A quick and painless way for developing a good CV
I quit one job about three months in. It was out of sheer boredom. The job was remote and the work expectations were so low that it was possible to deliver by working only an hour a day.<p>There was nothing challenging to do -- just everyday CRUD apps, and the code base was a nightmare of poor decisions. It was driving me demented after only a few weeks and I quickly reached the stage where I had to leave for the sake of my sanity.<p>It doesn't appear on my CV. I try to blank out the whole experience.
I was working with a contracting agency and they posted me at a very well-known hardware company at a position that claimed to be right in my wheelhouse but ended up being barely tangential to my abilities and interests. After a short time, I don't recall how long but not more than a couple of months, I asked to be reassigned and explained why. To their credit, the agency did find a slightly better fit for me. My time with the agency is on my resume, but I don't mention the names of their clients, just what I did personally.<p>In retrospect, I think the agency was just putting butts in chairs and collecting their rate, and were hoping that I would be swayed by some kind of prestige for having them on my resume, and possibly converting to full time. There were other things about that position that were pretty terrible, but I did make a couple of good friends.
I quit somewhere after a week. Basically it wasn’t what was advertised (job was supposed to be Python backend but was mainly maintaining Ansible scripts) and the turnover on the team was astonishing.
The pair that interviewed me had both quit by the time I joined and nobody there at the time I joined knew even what the point of the project was.
My shortest full time salaried position was less than 6 months I would guess. There were a bunch of issues, but at the core I think you could legitimately call it a bad culture fit. There were a few explicit issues - I reported to three distinct people for a single project, I will be clear that they were all fine personality-wise it just ended up feeling unclear who was actually my boss.<p>But the main issue was company culture/values and I could never really get comfortable. I mostly took the job for improved commute, knowing that there were places our opinions diverged but I thought it would be manageable, after all it is just a job. In the end I decided the I couldn't so peace out'd.<p>But I do want to be clear - the people I actually worked with were great, it was the company as a whole that didn't work out.
I was at a job where one of the co-founders raised his voice at team members on my second week there. I stayed for over a year. If I could go back in time to that point I would quit. The burnout and blow to my confidence took years of recovery
Yes.<p>Though, given that you have nothing to lose, you could consider first kindly telling the bosses what is insufferable. Maybe that could help, idk?<p>Or I guess I'm curious too: what makes the immediate bosses insufferable?
I have. Hiring manager lied about the job and put his two weeks in the week I started. I wasn't on the team I interviewed with nor doing the work I was promised. Noped right out of there.
I would probably hesitate but, if I had some financial safety, I would eventually decide to quit. Is there a lot of upside to staying in terms of career growth and/or compensation?
Yes, businesses only seem to care what you've been up to lately. If you jump onto something else, this 3 month stint will be meaningless within a few years.