[ASalazarMX]

> I have friends leaving their jobs within first few days, better sooner than later.

What kind of jobs? A few days are too few to judge a workplace, I've never seen someone quitting before completing their probation period.

[greenyoda]

I can see someone leaving immediately if they arrive at a new job and find out that they've been blatantly lied to about what they'll be working on, what their working conditions would be (e.g., amount of on-call time), their compensation package, or other fundamental facts about their job. Unfortunately, such things happen.

[high_byte]

exactly what happened to me last job place. I was told very precisely what I'd be working on and actually I based my decision heavily on that. it was some software driver. first day "actually we need you to do something else". I get around low level, os internals stuff, but I'm no electrical engineer to say the least. ended up looking at pcb schematics, debugging hardware and I have while this and drivers go hand in hand, they are radically different worlds. "fine, I'm gonna learn new stuff" thinking too myself. aside from playing with arduino I've never touched hardware and I have no professional interest whatsoever (my interest there ends in watching YouTube videos) and I found it extremely boring and terrible use of my time. things I had to learn could easily be solved by hiring a real electrical engineer. aside from that, it was terrible management and incredibly unsocial, quit after 6 months and apparently the manager quit shortly after because he got another offer... figures.

[ipaddr]

I've left after day one. I've left the first day 20 minutes in. HR presented us with a contract it said I agreed to not work for another company doing games for a year. I asked them to remove it but the guy acted like I asked for something no one else ever did. He pretended to ask HR and than said you have to sign. I took his sheet for review and left. The ride home was quick.

[h2odragon]

In one job, in the first week, I saw multiple instances of fraud against customers, and evidence that the business was largely an excuse for an utterly horrible insurance fraud scheme. That was one to have left sooner.

[high_byte]

one just got a better offer and left within 5 days, no shame. other time just bad fit socially/personally or whatever. everything looks fine professionally wise during interviews but once you actually go to the office and sense the atmosphere you can really tell, and vast majority of places actually don't let you get the feel of working there, no prior meeting the team, walk through there office or whatever. strange! costly.

and yes few days in a bad environment is well enough to judge. and what probation?