Hi,
I recently began an office job on the west coast. I quit after 3 days. Why? Hear me out and let me know if I was being unreasonable.
Day 1: On the first day, I showed up on the front door. I had to call my manager as no one was at the front desk. My manager kicked the door open (lifted his foot and pushed the door open toward me with his foot). This was the second time ever meeting him (first was during an in person interview pre-Omicron).
Anyway, later I am taken to “my office” which was a nice size office, but was full of shit. There were 3 coffee mugs with caked/dry coffee on the bottom. An open container of oats, a gallon of water, other odds and ends. Anyway, the whole office was dusty and there were dead flies all around the inside perimeter. I was left in my office so I started cleaning it. As I'm cleaning, I am thinking to myself “Gee, they could have asked the custodian to clear this out or at least have it swept and mopped”.
Toward the end of day one my manager asks “Did you get started on reviewing those reports”? I answered with “I haven't had a chance, I have so much 'administrative' work”.
I inquired about COVID-19 protocols and I was told to just wear a surgical or N-95 mask. A quick one sentence response.
Day 2: I am summoned up to his office where I am told my shift starts at 6:30am and ends at 4:30pm. I was never asked how that would work with my schedule or what my family situation is. It wasn't a discussion, I was told (this is for a salaried position). The day went on, and I spent most of it cleaning my office and on Teams meetings. Toward the end of the day, my boss drives in to the office and sends me a message to “come upstairs” when he gets in. I go up and when I get there the person he wanted to introduce me to has already gone home. I asked about their policy for working from home. He basically said in one sentence “if you can do your job from home, you do it from home”. I was expecting either a written policy or program or something more formal.
Day 3: More teams meetings from 9am to lunch. After lunch, I was messaged on teams to “come upstairs to meet so and so”. I'm ok with meeting people, but set a time and date. We all have calendars. I hike up to his office and let him know that another manager was introducing himself because he saw my door open and walked in because I was about 20 minutes late after his message. Anyway, we walk over to the bosses office and we spend about 1/2 hour talking about what I'm supposed to do. They discuss my start time again as if I wasn't in the room. Before leaving, I got a chance to talk to the admin assistant alone. She began telling me that the whole building went WFH due to an outbreak of 40 cases (the offices only house about 50 people). The outbreak had happened 1 1/2 weeks prior to my first day.
Day 4: I wake up at 4am. Think about what I am doing and decide to send a short email saying the job was not a good fit.
Does this sound like I overreacted? I felt like I wasn't being seen as an equal and the whole COVID pandemic was getting played down by my direct manager.