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Sounds like in 3 weeks your internship contract will be up and you'll have to resign. Not resigning at that time would be by far the best way to get out of this. Any way you can push back your start at the new place until then?
That's exactly right. Unfortunately the new firm want me to start next week. I would have preferred to start in 3 weeks but they're keen on starting me ASAP.
how did you end up doing this
Just talk to them and be super honest.
Look, they're going to think you are a dick. You are quitting on them after a week. You're doing what is best for you, and that's fine and is very unlikely to have long term negative repercussions. Just have to suck it up, have the conversation, and accept that probably nobody at Firm A is going to look at you favorably.
Be honest and do what's best for you. Go to them and explain the situation, they are gonna get pissed off for sure but nothing to do.
Does the new firm know you’re still interning at your current firm? Or did the process start before you started with the current firm so they think you are just a fresh grad and nothing else?
Quitting a week into the job (Originally Posted: 11/17/2015)
So.. I recently had to accept an offer from a company I wasn't too keen on because I was unemployed.
Though I was interviewing with other firms, when I asked them to give me some time to decide or extend my start date, they said no.
Recently, I've been made an offer at what is possibly my dream job. But I've been working at this company for only a week.
Thing with my current job is that neither the industry nor the work aligns with my career goals.
How do I handle this? Do I just apologize for wasting their time and walk away with my head in shame?
I feel absolutely gutted to be doing this. Guilty as hell. More so because people actually seem nice. I've never been the type of person to screw someone over. But that's how this feels.
I keep ruminating over how they had to probably reject other candidates to hire me, etc..
Conversely, in the past I've been led on companies only to eventually be told that we can't hire you...however, this is no justification for what I have to do.
I've done something similar. It sucks and you feel awful, but once you start at your new job you'll more or less forget all about it. Just suck it up and get it over with.
Agree. I have been in this situation as well. It totally sucks and, in all likelihood, it will be an uncomfortable conversation. However, you can't put your dreams on hold for the benefit of other people. Your current company will move on, hire someone else, and in one year won't even remember the situation. You can also take solace in knowing that you're likely a young, entry level employee. This won't be detrimental to their growth or success.
That company can always hire someone else - your dream job won't wait for you.
When it comes to questions like this, there a very easy way to answer it. Imagine a future date and ask yourself what situation you would like to be in by then?
In your case, by the beginning of 2016, would you rather be doing some sucky job you don't like, or a job you do like?
Easy answer in my opinion.
do what's best for you. Don't worry about the company, they will move on fine without you, go after your dreams =)
Thanks all.
Quitting after one week? (Originally Posted: 07/19/2011)
I'm in a difficult situation right now. I just graduated and recently I started working at a small Firm X, where I do investment research and I've been there for 1 1/2 weeks. It's an ok environment, everyone is very nice. The problem is that while I was still interviewing for this job, I was also interviewing with Moodys, who took forever to get back to me and have only just now now given me an offer, when I already worked for a week.
I told them to give me a few days to think it over, and they (grudgingly) gave me until Friday. My current boss is out of town for the week and I need to decide what to do. The Moodys offer would give me the same salary and pretty much same benefits as this job; the main difference is that here my work is a bit more diversified and I'd imagine the atmosphere is a bit more relaxed.
I am a little worried about how small the current firm is, although it's been here a few years at least so it's not too big a deal. Moodys of course has the benefit of bigger name and reputation; I hear they're also not bad in terms of work hours. What do you think a person in my case should do? I would probably learn a lot more at firm X given small size and more chance for initiative. The other slightly less important thing of course is that leaving after a week seems awful rude to me. I don't think I would stay at either place more than 2 years.
Oh and this is my first post. Apologies if it's wrong forum. Wish you all the best.
Stay
Tough to give any advice without know your current company and role. I would not want to work for any of the ratings agencies given the past 5 years.
Agreed. Depending on what your future aspirations are, working at a rating agency will cause people in some industries to snicker, seeing as how everyone in the industry (IB,PE) are fully aware of how royally the ratings agencies fucked up - which causes them to associate anyone who is associated with a rating agency with that failure and incompetence.
Working at a small firm is not all that bad, if you are good with people. If you work at a small firm that is in the industry you would like to stay in, it won't necessarily hurt you that no one has heard of the firm. While it might be better to be at a big name firm in the industry, working at a small firm allows you much more latitude in your next interview as far as talking about what your experiences / responsibilities previously were.
Not suggesting you fudge your responsibilities and claim to have done more than you actually did, but there is that advantage that no one is familiar with your role at the smaller firm - whereas they might be intimately familiar with the role of another candidate who had previously worked at a big name firm (say Moodys) and hammer them with questions they expect that candidate to know based on previous interviews with with Moodys employees.
Hope this helped. I think there are numerous advantages to working in a smaller firm, though many may disagree with me - if you have strong people skills you can really spin it to your advantage.
If I were you, I would move. But that's because I'm an asshole and a sucker for names.
Stay if you think you can get an FT offer.
P.S. if you switch roles, do not put your current job on your resume - pretend like it never happened.
stay
Need more info.....why WOULD you leave? Put the facts side by side and make a decision. Also agree with above poster: credit agencies are going to get their balls clipped soon b/c they're the only ones that the gov't hasn't fucked with yet.......they're saving it for a rainy day when they need a generic bad guy to slay so they can keep their numbers up.
For the record, the banks fucked up. They just managed to (successfully) blame it on the ratings agencies.
The ratings agencies had the same type of relationship with ratings agencies that Enron and Worldcom had with their accountants. If the ratings agencies try to play politics with the debt, they WILL be nailed to the wall. At this point, I don't even see why people pay any attention to them at all.....
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