I knew I was leaving, it was just a matter of waiting for the confirmation from my old employer that I had my job back. Foot-in-the-door jobs can be more like foot in molasses jobs Everything I was told was verbal, so I couldn’t claim breach of contract. I was misled about it being salaried instead of hourly, so if they wanted me to stay after hours, I suddenly didn’t have a choice and wouldn’t be paid extra. If I asked the right questions, I would have realized that this job was not part of the creator team like the recruiter said, it was part of a warehouse team, something that I knew I had no interest in. But I was impatient, and everything the recruiter said had sounded just so delightful. If I had verified everything the recruiter said to me with my future manager, I probably would have saved myself a lot of trouble by politely declining the offer. He gave me a tour of the facility and asked me if I had any questions. After my interview with HR, I went on-site to meet with the hiring manager. Most interviews I’ve been on have been with people who do not know how to conduct interviews. I took him for his word and ignored my gut feeling when I went to the facility to meet the hiring manager. He made it seem that I was going to be part of the creative team where I could learn from the best and eventually work my way up in the company. So, in my case at least, the recruiter took a “just okay” job listing I had applied to as a foot in the door job and over the phone turned it into a potential dream job. Since the hiring manager often does not know how to properly interview a candidate, they rely on recruiters to screen future employees so they can get them into work ASAP. Recruiters are different than most HR employees because they often act like they’re in a sales department. And now, I don’t have to taint my resume with any gaps in employment. It’s so important to leave a job on a high note of thankfulness and gratitude, even if you didn’t like the job very much, because you never know what might happen. If I was a jerk about leaving, or a jerk at all, I doubt they would have given me my job back. They said if I needed anything to call anytime. I had a great relationship with my managers and when I was leaving on my last day I secured my references. I would also be answering emails instead of working on the phones, which was one of the primary reasons, second to my commute, that I wanted to leave in the first place. He said he could take me back on as a temp working three days a week, which was one day more than when I was working part-time. Immediately when I realized I had been lied to, I emailed my old boss and told him exactly what was going on, and asked for my job back. ALWAYS Leave on good terms with your old employer I plan on taking these to heart, and hopefully (finally) find and work towards the career that I really want.ġ. I explained to him my reasoning, and (thankfully) he understood. I certainly learned some valuable lessons after only a week on the job. I went up to my boss and said I was done. It was just a matter of time before someone got hurt or killed, and I wasn’t going to risk it for a job I didn’t even like. And, most frighteningly, none of us had received any safety training. There were palette lifts and forklifts and heavy machinery that I didn’t know how to use. I looked around, saw dozens of these huge walls standing on nothing but two-foot A-frames. He could have been seriously injured, if not killed. A few other people caught the wall before it could crush him, and he crawled out unhurt. He had let go of part of the wall and crossed in the middle and (obviously) the one other person on the other side couldn’t hold up hundreds of pounds of weight. One day while at work, a massive ten-foot set wall almost fell on top of someone. Usually, it can take 1-3 months to fully integrate and feel comfortable in a new job and I intended to wait it out. However, when you realize you’ve been lied to and your job becomes dangerous, it’s time to get out, no matter how long you’ve waited. Last week, I wrote about how I accepted a new job that turned out to be not exactly awesome.
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