AskABoss: Is it better, from both an etiquette and a résumé perspective, to quit now and leave it off my résumé ...
I recently finished my second week at a new job, and I absolutely hate it.
Even though I hate the work, I also feel bad quitting so soon given that they waited through my notice period at my previous job and have planned out my work schedule for the next few months already. I’ve considered telling my manager that I’d be willing to stay on until they find a replacement, but honestly I just want to be out the door ASAP.
If you’re ready to leave, you can leave. You don’t need to wait longer for either etiquette or résumé reasons — in fact, it’s better on both of those fronts if you leave faster. You might have other reasons for waiting, like if you want to have another job lined up first, but you don’t need to worry in these two regards.
It can feel a little weird to tell your manager at a brand-new job that you’re leaving — that might be the element of etiquette that’s actually gnawing at you — but it’s entirely valid to leave when a job turns out to be utterly different from what you were promised . In fact, if anyone has committed an etiquette breach here, it’s your company, by selling you on a job that has been exactly what they promised you it wouldn’t be.
When you meet, you should lay out the situation as clearly as you can; don’t dance around it for the sake of delicacy. Say something like, “I raised these concerns in the interview and at the time it sounded like the job was definitely writing-focused and ____ .