I was fresh out of university and I took a job doing software with a company who only had one developer overseeing me.
He was extremely rude to me, and extremely strict with me, getting angry if I showed up 5 minutes late or took even one extra minute for lunch. At my three month review his feedback was very negative and he clearly wanted to get rid of me but his bosses convinced him (and me) to agree to one more month of probation. I raised some of my issues with how he was treating me, so we drew up some revised expectations for both of us, then both of us signed them.
The very next day he pulled me over to his desk. I had designed a three column layout for a page he'd assigned me to build. I had left-aligned the text in the header columns. He wanted them center aligned. He communicated this to me by highlighting the text, slamming his mouse on the desk and shouting "does this look good to you!?". It would have taken me thirty seconds to fix at most, but he was furious about it.
I walked away from him, into my manager's office, and quit on the spot.
The real cherry on top of this story is they were only paying me $13 an hour.
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I quit a day after three months and a day, once.
I was fresh out of university and I took a job doing software with a company who only had one developer overseeing me.
He was extremely rude to me, and extremely strict with me, getting angry if I showed up 5 minutes late or took even one extra minute for lunch. At my three month review his feedback was very negative and he clearly wanted to get rid of me but his bosses convinced him (and me) to agree to one more month of probation. I raised some of my issues with how he was treating me, so we drew up some revised expectations for both of us, then both of us signed them.
The very next day he pulled me over to his desk. I had designed a three column layout for a page he'd assigned me to build. I had left-aligned the text in the header columns. He wanted them center aligned. He communicated this to me by highlighting the text, slamming his mouse on the desk and shouting "does this look good to you!?". It would have taken me thirty seconds to fix at most, but he was furious about it.
I walked away from him, into my manager's office, and quit on the spot.
The real cherry on top of this story is they were only paying me $13 an hour.