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Electronics job: Left after one day

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nali:

--- Quote from: fourtytwo42 on November 21, 2021, 10:05:01 am ---Giving up after just one day of a hard to handle boss is unjustified, I put up with some of the buggers for years  :-/O
You lack tenacity and it certainly will not help your CV / reputation  :--

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Although that's obviously tongue in cheek, sitting in a job where things aren't right shows a lack of... something.

I've only just quit a job after my 2nd day. I'm normally pretty good at quickly getting a handle of things and could tell that I wouldn't fit so called in early on day 3 to drop off my ID etc. and let the relevent people know so it wouldn't disrupt their day waiting for me. I emailed my resignation and was thanked and we went on our ways. Mind you this was a low level zero-hours gig to stop me getting too bored in my first winter of early retirement - it would be my 6th job since leaving school in the 70s.

As for the OP, I can't make up my mind whether he's unlucky, incompetent, a fantasist or sometimes I wonder if he's doing a psychology degree and these posts are some sort of social experiment??

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Bud on November 21, 2021, 07:14:23 am ---Those companies must have too much free time on hand to spend on each applicant. Let alone half a day on one interview - unless it was the Coca-Cola president hiring a VP of Operations .

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You are misreading. The total sum of all interviews adds up to half a day for people that get hired. IMHO this is a good average that also matches my experience.

Ed.Kloonk:
Due to the recent situation, I’ve had to find jobs where ever I can. Even in other industries.  So, I’ve been applying for anything. I turned up to a new job and I couldn’t believe the hostility of the women there toward me. Guys, don’t waste your time answering ads for becoming a wet nurse. Bunch of sexists.

Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: floobydust on November 21, 2021, 01:43:53 am ---There are toxic workplaces in engineering. You'll notice those companies in a state of crisis:
Projects are years late, over budget, nothing is working properly, customers upset, understaffed, rush rush push push panic etc. etc.
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Fixed that for you.  I'm in absolute agreement.


--- Quote from: floobydust on November 21, 2021, 01:43:53 am ---People who stay- end up with health issues due to the stress and misery. Really tough people can stay and weather the mess but you have to look after yourself.
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And idiots like me think they're the latter, but really are the former; ending up as burned out husks, trying to claw their way back.

Being responsible for a task, without any control over the task or without sufficient information or tools to complete the task, is a common mismanagement pattern.
The only correct action is to change the situation.  With reasonable management, that changes the control/information/tools. With unreasonable management, one has to remove oneself from the situation.  Staying in the situation is the worst option, as you are basically then just a scapegoat or a cog, not a worker/employee.

Assuming what Faringdon described is reasonably accurate, I believe they acted more or less reasonably.


--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on November 21, 2021, 12:21:46 pm ---Due to the recent situation, I’ve had to find jobs where ever I can. Even in other industries.  So, I’ve been applying for anything. I turned up to a new job and I couldn’t believe the hostility of the women there toward me. Guys, don’t waste your time answering ads for becoming a wet nurse. Bunch of sexists.
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Ed, "wet" doesn't mean you get to come to work sloshed every day.

VK3DRB:
It is not unusual in the electronics engineering field and programming fields. There are plenty of autistic people working in engineering, as well social misfits, egotistical arrogant buffoons, manic depressives, Illuminati conspiracy theorists, and those with absolute zero (-273.16) social skills. I have known a few and I have tolerated most of them. (OK, I admit I might be slightly autistic myself, and I get on well with myself except when I make a stupid mistake like having a 0603 part number in the BOM with an 0402 footprint :palm:). I have come across people like your bombastic buffoon in a few companies. Typically a high IQ, but an very low EQ. But on the whole, most engineers are reasonable people, east to get along with, and almost normal. Out of probably 2000 people I have worked with, there were only a four that were absolutely horrible. Most were fine, and a few fantastic. It a bell curve.

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