I started a job in a new city and left within the first two weeks. First red flag was the schedule, which in the job description was stated at four 10 hour work days a week (Monday-Thursday) with possibility of Friday on-call days (overtime is paid at 1.5x). First Thursday rolls around and my manager asks me if I want to work on Friday, I say no and he says you should expect to work every Friday for the next two months at least.
On what was to be my last day, we are wrapping up a Wednesday when the owner, as he walks out, tells the manager that we have to stay until everything is done (about 2 hours more work) and we have to wait around for a new shipment to arrive before we can even get started (being vague on purpose to not implicate things…).
Turns out not a single employee has worked at the company for longer than one year and they all told me stories of being verbally harassed by the owner.
I left that day and didn't come back. Spent my next day writing this Letter of Resignation which I thought y'all would enjoy.
I was in a position to where I could leave this job but I know others can't so easily leave their jobs. But I hope to see more people standing up to these kinds of working conditions.
TLDR: I left my job within the first two because of toxic work culture.