I absolutely hate my job and dread logging on each morning while WFH. I was mislead about the nature of work I would be doing when I was hired and I haven’t been able to keep my technical skills fresh. We also have these dreadful hour long stand ups each day that my team and I absolutely hate but are required to have every day. I’ve interviewed a few times but have done poorly due to being out of practice and depressed. Recently I was made aware that my performance is under evaluation for the next month. The work I’m doing is specific to this one job, so no effort I put in here will help me in the future unless I want to stay on this particular team. I’m doing software support on a poorly written legacy software system from the early 2000s. It was written by a self proclaimed genius coder and has since been updated by countless people with very little consistency. I was supposedly hired as a software engineer to work on migrating this system from onsite servers to AWS, but that work never started, and every time I’ve mentioned it since the interview the conversation was immediately changed, so I got the impression that I was intentionally lied to because they had a difficult time finding qualified people willing to accept the job. They needed someone with the knowledge to comprehend the legacy system, but they had no new engineering/development work. I’ve been here a year now. I have a few personal projects outside of work that I’d like to finish ASAP and I have plenty of funds to cover COL while I look for a different job. One of them is building something that I could easily sell for a profit equal to 2 months pre-tax salary when I finish, and could be finished in a week if I can focus full time on it. On Friday I found out the project I would have to restart on the update I had spent the last 2 weeks working on because I made it to the wrong product. There are 2 products that have the same name depending on who you talk to, so I’d been working on these tickets for the product I thought I was supposed to be working on. The senior dev that put the tickets together reviewed my work and said everything was correct. Then on Friday I found out I updated the wrong product so I have to make the same changes to a completely different product and trash what I spent the last 2 weeks on. On top of that, the senior dev is on forced vacation for the next few weeks and he’s the only person that knows how to test these updates. How bad would it really be if I just call my recruiter and say something like “I resign effective immediately” ? I really don’t want to do this BS work for another 2 weeks. The company I’m contracting for is a big tech company, but they don’t have the best employee reputation and recently laid off a few hundred people and forced all their FTE to take a few weeks of unpaid leave @software-developer #quitting
Never quit before finding a new job unless you're willing to be unemployed for 3-4 months.
If visa is not an issue, i think after quitting you get a lot of time to prepare which op might not be getting with full time job
If he is definitely going to quit and has bad reviews already, might as well work a little bit less and spend that time on job search. He can spread those paychecks out and maintain health benefits etc
“One of them is building something that I could easily sell for a profit equal to 2 months pre-tax salary when I finish, and could be finished in a week if I can focus full time on it.” If you could finish it in 1 week focusing on it full-time, why not finish it in 3-6 weeks working on it on weekends or evenings? I’ve never seen a project that needed 5-day blocks of uninterrupted time in order to make forward progress.....
This is building something physical that requires power tools that I can only use at certain times of day in my neighborhood without upsetting my neighbors and a lot of things have to be done when there won’t be rain for a few days.I could finish it nights and weekends for another 6 weeks or so, but I could finish it in a 5-7 days working on it full time during the day
Did you feel this way 2 weeks ago? If you did and you're still there then this means you probably can wait to give 2 weeks notice. On the other hand I would ask if you are learning something / gaining some helpful skills, if so perhaps stay on until you find something else.
I hated the job 2 weeks ago, but I didn’t feel exactly the same way then. I’ve made around 60k in the last 2 weeks trading and also sold a few other assets to the point where I’m sitting on almost a years salary in cash I didn’t have 2 weeks ago. So I wanted to stay for money two weeks ago and that’s no longer much of a factor. If anything I’m losing skills at this job, not learning anything other than how to configure this companies proprietary software.
Sounds like you should bite the bullet and quit.
may the bridges you burn light your way
If they’re unhappy with my performance I’ve probably already burnt the bridge
i'm trying to encourage you to quit
Will quitting without notice gives you a "nonrehireable" label by HR? So later background checks may negatively impact you. Has anyone experienced this?
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If you don’t mind burning this bridge, then you should do whatever you need. I usually give 2 weeks notice but there have been cases where I knew burning that bridge wouldn’t have consequences so I resigned immediately If not, I would give 2 weeks notice or at minimum 1 week.
I would like to avoid burning a bridge, but if they have a problem with my performance it seems like the bridge is already burnt. The worst thing is no one said anything about my performance to me, they went to my recruiter.
I think that may be the case sometimes, but in my case I’m not using the skills I want to use in my next job and losing the skills as time goes on. The last company I worked for abruptly went out of business and laid off everyone. I found this job a few weeks later, and had turned down several other offers that paid slightly less.