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Ask HN: Did you ever resign from a company on your first day?
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Re: Ask HN: Did you ever resign from a company on your first day?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were examples of those bad vibes?
The company was hyper focused on developing a complex solution which was not practical for the state of technology at the time, yet dropped everything to burn three weeks of development time on a pet project of one of the founders which had absolutely nothing to do with the core product of the company.
Good grief, that sounds terrible.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever resign from a company on your first day?
#43Yes. Took a job with a defense contractor in the UK. On day 1 they told me that it would take 6 months to get security clearance. The bummer was that the men's bathroom was in a secure area and I would have to be escorted every time. On day 1 I quit.
That says a lot about the company. How moronic not putting another toilet in a less secure place.
Yeah, they'd have to be some new rookie company to make a mistake like that. In fact, it was EDS :0)
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever resign from a company on your first day?
#44Yes, it happened once a long time ago. The job interview was held at a beautiful office but when I arrived at my workplace (my fault that I did not ask where exactly my seat would be) I saw a different building a squalid conditions, dirty and without heating. I resigned at the end of my first day