Managers- have you ever left a job pretty soon after joining a company?

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Boxoffrogs99@reddit

Not a manager myself but in every job I've had where managers have come and gone quickly it's for the same reason as all us lowly workers coming and going quickly - upper management have no business being where they are

Think it all boils down to the classic do a job, be good, get promoted, do new job, be good at that, get promoted again, until it hits the point where they aren't good at the new role they've been promoted into but rather than admit this and request to be demoted back down, or those at the very top step in, everything just stagnates with people unsuitable to the roles that they're in

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Thisoneissfwihope@reddit

The good old Peter Principle.

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paul-techish@reddit

the Peter Principle really highlights how people can be promoted to positions where they're not equipped to succeed... It makes sense that many managers might leave shortly after starting if they find themselves in over their heads.

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OmnipresentAnnoyance@reddit

I've left several. 1. Completely lied about role and I had to sit next to a man who was probably the stinkiest person I have ever encountered. 2. Expected me to travel a 7 hour round trip at least once a week, with no hotel or consideration of journey time. Role was agreed no travel. 3. Told role was twice per month in office. Then two days in told me it would soon be 3 days in office per week 4. Company was 2 years away from having what was needed to do my role. Completely clueless that they weren't ready... and had decided that the experts couldn't be trusted with their 2+ year plan. I was told all the infrastructure required was ready to go... it wasn't.

Without a doubt my career would be better without these blemishes... but I'm glad I left every one.

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JennyW93@reddit

I once had to sit next to a stinky guy at work who insisted on taking his shoes and socks off, and would air out his socks on the back of his chair.

I have never accepted a job without doing a quick smell test of the office I’ll be in ever since.

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OmnipresentAnnoyance@reddit

Yuck. The smell of his body odor and breath still haunts me. I would wretch every 30 minutes from it. I was told it was a "difficult situation", so I walked.

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ForwardAd5837@reddit

I’m 3 months into a mid-senior management role and I’m actively applying elsewhere. Essentially, the job is far more aligned with what’s expected of a director, with portfolios and projects worth far, far more than indicated throughout the interview process. Should’ve known when they went through 3 people in a year before me.

The salary is decent, for the role they advertised. It’s not decent for the actual role itself.

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SmellyPubes69@reddit

I had the flip, I worked in a director role for 3 months and got paid well but the work was fucking boring and deffo more junior targeted. I didn't mind that so much but my boss would get so stressed and she would make sexist remarks to the team, call younger people children etc Whilst as another female In seemed to avoid the shit slinging It was just too toxic so I left.

Got a Linkedin msg from a known recruitment consultant saying 'is there any chance you are hating the brand new role, do you want to work at xyz'

I took a minimal 10k cut and now I'm doing a meaningful role with great friendly people.

As long as the CV isn't moved every 6months the odd short stint is fine.

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ForwardAd5837@reddit

Sounds like it’s worked out best for you. Yeah I tend to try and stay somewhere at least a year, as it’s hard to advocate that you’ve achieved anything meaningful in tech in less than a 9-12 month cycle really. I had 6 years at my previous place and only worked in 3 places in the last ten years, so 6 more months odd of this I can cope with whilst I either look for something better or they find another £25k in the budget to pay me what the role should be benchmarked at.

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b_of_the_bang_@reddit

I was tricked/forced in to a management role in a restaurant I had applied to be a server at-there’s a reason I never applied for management despite being competent, I just really didn’t want to do it. Turned out the owner was a complete narcissist with no restaurant experience but thought he knew it all. The two other managers were shagging each other and basically left me with no training. When I got a phone call at 8am on my first day off in 13 days to say that a voucher wasn’t balancing in the till and then got an almighty bollocking for not knowing that you were supposed to use the number after the actual number on the voucher (eg 100 for voucher 99) because long before I joined someone had fucked up, I thought that was it - so I handed my weeks notice in knowing the other manager would have to cancel her holiday. Her parting words to me were “you were a shit manager anyway”. My response was a simple “well you were meant to train me” and off I went. Tough couple of months afterwards but fuck them.

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Tiffchan74@reddit

I wasn’t a manager at the time. But the manager that interviewed me for my current role left by the time I had given notice and started. He started the job then on day 2 was offered a better role nearer to home that he previously applied for. So he handed his notice in on day 2, Worked his 2 months notice then left. Don’t blame him!

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CodeBeginning6548@reddit

Yep, I left after 3 weeks. I was offered a role as a 'coach', which i was told involved working with managers to help colleagues across the department with technical problems.

When I joined, I found out that a 'coach' was essentially a team manager role. I started job hunting on my first lunch break and left within my first 3 weeks as i was offered a better job elsewhere.

They had also left out the notice period section in my contract, so I challenged it, and they begrudgingly let me leave the same day of my new offer.

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