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my notice is 3 months
Doesn’t mean a thing, nobody can make you turn up if it’s messing with your health
If you need out and you’ve only been there 4 weeks I think in your position I’d consider just not mentioning the role on your CV. A 4 week gap won’t be an issue, you could just say you started a role but it wasn’t as advertised and you left shortly after. Don’t put them as a reference and just put your prev employer down.
duncs
(trigger warning: discrimination)
I started work at a near but not-London council 4 weeks ago. My first day started with my manager spouting two hours of vitriol: liberally saying he doesn’t give a fuck if they fire him, saying he moved towns because of the Muslim population in Tooting Bec, condemning ‘soft liberal types’, bitching about an imminent Labour government, over sharing about how he cheated on his first wife, and other nonsense culminating in his opinion that humans are a pest on the planet, that 2 billion people are the optimal number and the rest should be culled. Yes, those were his actual words.
My second day was not better, and at one point he casually dropped how he’s given bad references before, but not formally of course, instead he’s found out the hiring manager’s phone and had a quiet word. On my 3rd day he mocked a situation where a child had drowned.
I’ve been forcing myself to endure because I have a new baby and partner on unpaid maternity, but the guy’s attitude and treatment has worn me down. He’s micromanaging me, told me to stop meeting with my predecessors who moved to other teams, and had the gall to tell me off for not copy-pasting and sending in my own name an ineffective passive-aggressive email he had written. I deduce he’s trying to isolate me, which is a messed up thing to see.
His manager is also a chnt, who is punctilious about not getting involved in the work.
I need out of this role asap but my notice is 3 months. It’s gotten so bad I’m having constant invasive thoughts of self harm. I contacted HR then didn’t book a meeting after 3 people separately advised that I’d just make myself a martyr or a target. What can I do?