Anyone resigned within a few weeks of starting a job?

Morata_

Im in a horrible new job, I hold my hands up, it’s school support job, stuck in a room where the kids are sent if they poor behaved and the behaviour is a joke!

I’m only a few days in and would like to ask for change of roles if I am to stay at that school. I know they will say “you’ve only been here 3 days, the role is going to change etc etc” but I’ve underestimated the impact the role is having. It’s suffocating. Another staff member was taken on and works in the same, small, cramped room and feels very similar.

I think I will give it till Feb half term, see if things improve and if not speak to my boss about becoming a TA at the school or start looking for jobs! (Something I’m doing anyway!!)

Just wondered if anyone had been in a similar position?? Handed notice on a new job within a few days or weeks, especially within a school.

Mr.Generous

Anyone resigned within weeks? Yes just google "Trump staff leavers" for a list.

But yes, I'm sure lots of people have done it. I've known staff just not turn up after 1 day at work. Such is life.

Les79

Well, that escalated quickly! Only the other day I was posting about you starting this new role.


You need to give it a bit of time to acclimatise. May just be a bad few days etc etc.


Aside from that, maybe re-visit the other thread and read your post + others.

TELLIT01

I think you are wise to give it until half-term. You will be more accustomed to the system, location and the kids by then. If you still feel the same way then it would make sense to speak to your boss as the situation won't be in your interest or that of the kids you are supervising.

tacpot12

How did you not find out that the job was dreadful before you started? What information did they withhold from you?

I had a mate who started a good job with a top consultancy and walked out after three weeks when they wouldn't give him any fee earning work to do. They just gave him menial tasks, running errands for the fee earners and he was bored stiff. He had been earning fees with running his own consultancy for the two previous years and been persuaded to close his company to take the job. He had my full support.

steampowered

If you are sure that you are going to hate the role, I think you are better off leaving as soon as possible.

If you are only somewhere for a week or two, you don't really need to put that job on your CV.

If you are in the job for a couple of months, you will need to put it on your CV and that requires more explanation.

[Deleted User]

Yes done it lots over the last 5 years and honestly was the best thing I could ever do. But then maybe I wouldn’t be here either, ended up with two kids who think it is ok to address me as she I’ve been there 3 months and gone in every day so they have no reason not to know my name and who constantly drag me into their discussions that they are feeling underpaid at 19 and 20 years old. I’m nearly double their age and get a few pennies more. There was some relief being told on the very first day of starting that the business was changing hands but turns out even that wasn’t the saviour!! Added to that another employee has made it clear they would like my job and are capable of kicking the kids into touch - none has yet got me overboard.

Lately over the last year, I’ve been a lot more cautious and actually fought against gut feelings and stayed places, but honestly the misery it inflicts isn’t worth it. The day I got an ‘anywhere near serious of a job’ interview I just threw up with anxiety, sadly my GP isn’t one of them who writes sick notes on demand.

I know I need to do something different but I’m not sure what. My Dad said why don’t I move away as the only other job on offer is a minimum wage sales job where you get paid when the customer’s sale goes through and the employer reckoned the month’s minimum pay was about £600 and want more then a full time week worked.
There was an interviewer there who had done 20 years to the job and didn’t half want to ask what the secret was to it :(

Morata_

Leaving inside a few weeks, how do you get “most recent employer” reference?

I’ve got solid references, prior to this spell, I’d been I’m my recent jobs 3 and 4 years so I’m not a “quitter”

Thanks for the advice.

Morata_

I interviewed when the school was closed! Maybe that should have been the warning signs!!! It was only a training day did I see my work conditions...then this week ive seen the role in action! Inner city school, rough as toast, I suppose you get what you sow. It’s not going to be forever, I’m sure I will take some skills from the job? Ultimately, I need to find a GOOD school!!!

Morata_

With a family, mortgage etc I couldn’t just leave, I’ve responsbilities. I made this job choice. I have to live with it until i improve it!!

Les79

Morata_ wrote: »

I interviewed when the school was closed! Maybe that should have been the warning signs!!! It was only a training day did I see my work conditions...then this week ive seen the role in action! Inner city school, rough as toast, I suppose you get what you sow. It’s not going to be forever, I’m sure I will take some skills from the job? Ultimately, I need to find a GOOD school!!!

Surely the OFSTED reports give an insight into that? Even just a basic observation of the corridors/classrooms/rooms/equipment etc when you had your interview.


I only briefly delved into the world of teaching, but I had placement schools in "failing" schools and "good" schools; the difference was obvious. Even the staff were at a different level at times. I had the odd experience of a teacher not giving a monkey about a child's disability in a "failing" school such was the way it was, yet in the "good" one they had really good facilities and HELPED those types of children.


I believe you went to Primary school too based on your other post? If so, I would say give it a bit more time because, in my experience, the children around that age range will probably warm to you after they get used to you being around. Becomes more manageable. Maybe even push to getting some activities/work for them to do inside of this room, so that you can engage them 1-1 and start to turn around their negative behaviours. One thing I'd take exception to is if children with SIGNIFICANT LEARNING NEEDS are being simply thrown into this room with you, because they would need specialist help to access learning.


Being completely honest, but I LOVE working as a TA in a Primary School. It is proper chilled out and I would probably work as one full time if it weren't for the fact that every one I see is for min wage PRO RATA for like 20 hours a week, which is ridiculous! I don't necessarily mind the min wage element, but need the 40 hours.


Teaching, for me, was a colossal nightmare. And a job like yours may cross my threshold for tolerating bad behaviour. Once spent a few weeks on placement in a specialist school, and there were children with severe autism (ie none of this "mild" autism that you'll hear many mothers utter these days in relation to their child who is in a mainstream school) who would run around a room for an hour throwing stuff at you and trying to bite you on the arm on the sly. Or the children who had to learn how to use their "senses" at the age of 10.


But I digress, I think your immediate question is whether you want to be in education in any capacity in the long term. Do you get ANY kick out of this sort of work? Like I said, I love TA work and I get a kick out of helping someone understand a subject which I excel at and they struggle on. I occasionally volunteer as well.. I think there *has* to be something like that to help retain such a job.