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Need to quit my job
snorepez
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I just came back from an interview for a Tutoring position, and I was hired on the spot.
The position is to tutor in Mathematics, but I have been focusing my university education in language arts. I don't believe I can satisfactorily perform the job for the given subject. Thus, I would like to quit.
Yes, I knew the position would be for tutoring Math.
Yes, I still signed it. And yes, I am idiot for doing so. That aside.
My first day is Monday evening.
If I were to call/email my supervisor and explain to him I do not actually want the job, what are the repercussions?
Regarding any job in general...mcdonalds even...if you quit or are fired, can some other random person/future employer look up that termination history/information somewhere?
The interview ended and I signed the contract literally 3 hours ago, so this is new, but I know I don't want to actually go through with the job.
How do I legally get out of this job?
The position is to tutor in Mathematics, but I have been focusing my university education in language arts. I don't believe I can satisfactorily perform the job for the given subject. Thus, I would like to quit.
Yes, I knew the position would be for tutoring Math.
Yes, I still signed it. And yes, I am idiot for doing so. That aside.
My first day is Monday evening.
If I were to call/email my supervisor and explain to him I do not actually want the job, what are the repercussions?
Regarding any job in general...mcdonalds even...if you quit or are fired, can some other random person/future employer look up that termination history/information somewhere?
The interview ended and I signed the contract literally 3 hours ago, so this is new, but I know I don't want to actually go through with the job.
How do I legally get out of this job?
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You don't really have a permanent record for jobs out there in the public for anyone to see, in the future just don't put it down on any of your resumes and it won't exist. Them finding things about you would be more like you had a job for a long time and were fired, they could notice that you have a big blank spot in time on your resume and ask what you were doing during the time, according to the paper they see, that you were not working. Then you might have to explain something like that, but that would not be the case here as it was only hours that you were employed there.
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You got nothing to worry about.
Seriously. Just call up and tell them that you got a better offer elsewhere. Or that you changed your mind. And future employers have no way of knowing your work history unless you tell them. So don't tell them.
But you know, you could give this job a chance. Worse thing happens is that your assumptions are correct, and you quit.
In Washington State, where I live, it is basically limited to "Did this person work for this time period at your company and are they eligible for re-hire?"
Eligible for re-hire is just a way to get around asking "Were they fired" although often they cannot go into any more detail than a no; some places cannot even ask that.
A number of states are also at-will employment, meaning you don't even need to give a two weeks notice, although it is definitely a good idea to do that unless you REALLY have a strong reason not to. Follow the advice given; just say you changed your mind. Saying you have a better offer might backfire, if they try to counter-offer and you really just don't want to be a math tutor.
I went ahead and gave my supervisor the 14 day notice as of yesterday (while hinting at the bad idea of it being in his best interest for me to not even work those 14 days, on his decision/my early termination), because i feared the unknown of what recourse he could have because of my termination by default (saying I won't even work 14 days). There wasn't anything specific about termination of contract by default in the contract, but there was a clause referring to the contract falling under all laws of the state, which I have no idea about. All in all it should be fine.