Sometimes luck doesn't come your way

[zarathustra]

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

[Spartan]

good luck for search.

[Somedude]

[MiryaIgudaMaruthiRao]

9 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

@athcare you will get better opportunity. Good Luck!

[DummyVariable]

There is no luck. It is what it is.

[ShruteSastry]

1 hour ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

Bruh, although i appreciate your gut reaction, here is my observation. (Not an advise)

why didn't you try to stay in for some more time.  IMO

Right now, everyone is still getting used to this remote work nah, may be oka 2 or 3 months unte, you would have had better knowledge about the company and their expectations. 

Also, why did you quit immediately you could have quit after another offer in hand no?

Just Observations bruh, i don't know your actual situation.   

[futureofandhra]

53 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

way to go chase what you like

[i_sudigadu]

Good luck 

[zarathustra]

22 minutes ago, ShruteSastry said:

why didn't you try to stay in for some more time.  IMO

Right now, everyone is still getting used to this remote work nah, may be oka 2 or 3 months unte, you would have had better knowledge about the company and their expectations. 

Also, why did you quit immediately you could have quit after another offer in hand no?

Just Observations bruh, i don't know your actual situation.   

Actual situation is a bit different, I didn't elaborate on it. Here it goes: 

1) Ever since I joined the company, I had asked for a KT even a basic knowledge transfer of how their architecture is designed, how their build and release process works and none of it was given. I report to only one director, and I have no colleagues to approach. 

In the first week, I was assigned an issue where I had to migrate applications on a server to another, the time line of this was April which was more than a month away. But the task itself was simple enough, although again I had no documentation/no explanation of how they have done it before etc. This was accomplished in a week, which seemed to surprise the Infrastructure admin but then again it wasn't a task that needs to take a month. 

I ran into an issue which was identified to be an application specific issue and had approached one of the developers, working with him I was able to mitigate it and the director is aware of it. He had himself told me then that the time lines are very flexible and they usually go over the deadlines so not to worry about the deadlines specified for a task too much. 

2) They had an issue with a portal where certain reports they try to run are generated. They kept getting a 404 error, now the location the webserver tries to look for those reports is different from what's mentioned in the application where they are getting generated to. I noticed this in the logs and asked the director if I could approach the developer who built this application, as I wanted to know where this piece of logic is specified in the code. He again told me that that developer doesn't work there anymore and it's upto me to figure it out. I ended up writing a python script which copies the reports over to the correct location and the issue was fixed. What I asked him was if this reports location was changed let's say due to a change in the application code etc and he had no clue, he said it never worked in the past. 

So I basically fixed something they never had access to in the past, the report in this case. 

3) I had a lot of issues with their Identity access management system(Okta in this case) getting my credentials validated to access their bitbucket spaces. It took 3 weeks of going back and forth with Atlassian to finally get this issue fixed, again nothing I could do anything about as I don't control that part of the process. I was finally able to get this issue addressed last Wednesday, i.e., 4 business days ago. 

4) I was able to finally look at their Build and release process last Thursday and generate a build. They use a very manual and antiquated process of doing it, the ask for me is to try to automate it as much as possible. I conducted only one trial run of their build process, and this was directly on the Prod server. My director was away Friday and Monday yesterday and I had documented some issues I wanted to get some clarify from him on, what I wanted access to was a development environment so I could try to run some gradle scripts and automate the process piece by piece. I was not given access to any such dev environment or told about any such environment which is pretty basic thing to expect. 

Today he asked me if I was able to figure out how to automate the process in 2 days, last Friday and yesterday when he wasn't here. I told him that I would first need access to a DEV environment and was going to ask him about it, because I have no other colleagues to ask these questions. Not sure if he is expecting someone to complete all these in a week, which is impossible. We even had a meeting every Tuesday where we go over this process in detail with the Development director(again there's no DEV Architect available) and I had documented some of these issues to ask in the meeting. 

However, the director seemed to have made up his mind to move on, and conveyed the same to me. I am not going to beg him to keep me. I asked him if he could give me some more time to prove myself with whatever expectations he had, and to set some expectations to begin with instead of being very vague. That never happened, so I had no choice but to put in my 2 weeks and move on. 

[Shameless]

1 hour ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

I am sure you will get a better job bro...I was in your shoes an year ago when I lost my job on March 20, 2020 bro...the company had too much expectations but didn't provide the tools I need....they wanted results overnight....

I will pray for you bro..

[Sarvapindi]

1 hour ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

Same happened 2 weeks back for me

[Sarvapindi]

1 hour ago, zarathustra said:

Had to quit a job I joined on March 1st today. 

No knowledge transfer, no mention of what expectations they had. Totally manual process where no one responds to your email even if you were to follow up with them multiple times, and no colleagues except the director who I report to. Even he gets frustrated if I ask him any questions for clarification, says I expect you to figure it out. 

Ee opportunity kosam left other better chances, just because they offered me this job first. 

Sometimes luck turns out that way, hope I will use this as lesson learned and move on. 

Depressing reality but time to swallow the bitter pill

How do u use this as lesson..u wont know until u join kada..

[zarathustra]

2 minutes ago, Shameless said:

I am sure you will get a better job bro...I was in your shoes an year ago when I lost my job on March 20, 2020 bro...the company had too much expectations but didn't provide the tools I need....they wanted results overnight....

I will pray for you bro..

Thanks, I had the same feeling. They have a process that they know is broken and has been that way for more than a decade. They want me to help re-design that process into a more streamlined one. But how can that be done unless and until you understand the current process they have thoroughly, I don't understand. 

I am glad to know I am not the only one who ended up in a situation like this. It's like they want me to dig a 50 feet ditch holding a plastic fork, lol

[zarathustra]

2 minutes ago, Sarvapindi said:

How do u use this as lesson..u wont know until u join kada..

YOu are right. 

But I am going to ask them in the interviews itself going ahead what their expectations are 

1 month from the time I join

6 months from the time i join

1 year into my job

If they don't know the answer to any of those, it's better to not waste time with such places. 

[Shameless]

Just now, zarathustra said:

Thanks, I had the same feeling. They have a process that they know is broken and has been that way for more than a decade. They want me to help re-design that process into a more streamlined one. But how can that be done unless and until you understand the current process they have thoroughly, I don't understand. 

I am glad to know I am not the only one who ended up in a situation like this. It's like they want me to dig a 50 feet ditch holding a plastic fork, lol

needhi naadhi same issue bro but the only difference is nadhi manufacturing...company oka assembly process structure ledhu and they were doing assemblies on picnic tables....owner gadu and VP gadu were expecting results overnight...that is never possible....inka naakaithe oka desktop icchi dhaantlo pani cheyamannaru...they never gave me the deisgn software which I requested...antha scratch nundi pani cheyalsiochindhi....