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What are my rights?

  • 18-10-2015 02:00PM
    #1
    marbleblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭marbleblue


    Sorry this is a bit long but i REALLY NEED ADVICE!!!! (before I crack up )

    I have started a new job officially 1 week ago - for the previous 4 weeks I did 2 days a week in the new job until i worked put my months notice in the old job! Which I was in for 9 happy busy years!

    I realised on the very first morning 4 weeks ago that everything I had been told was a lie or a twisted form of the truth ....... I was led to believe that I was being hired to run and coordinate a busy clinic and that there was a team of doctors/practitioners and I would be coordinating the practice.
    It turns out that I am the only employee, doing a sales roll - selling treatments to online/phone enquiries.......The doctor only sees patients for 1 afternoon a week and other than that I'm totally alone in the practice with the boss - who is very unpredictable.
    Ive never done nor wanted to do a sales job!

    I was made sign my contract last week and it states that my period of notice is 6-8 weeks and if they want to end my employment within the first 3 months they can give 1 weeks notice.

    I really need to get out of there - I'm in a constant state of anxiety and feel like I have been conned out of a job I liked.

    If they had been honest from the start they could have hired the right person for the job.

    Where do I stand with giving my notice - I cannot bear to stay there 6-8 weeks more but am I within my rights to just give 1 week or could I just walk.......

    Iv been so stressed this week that I feel like I'm having a breakdown.

    Any advice would be great.


Comments

  • #2
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,030 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Get a new job and walk out of this one at your convenience: they lied to you, you owe them nothing.


  • #3
    Kiara Wailing Computer
    Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭ Kiara Wailing Computer


    Just leave. There's nothing they can do about it.


  • #4
    Canadel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Canadel


    marbleblue wrote: »

    I was made sign my contract last week and it states that my period of notice is 6-8 weeks and if they want to end my employment within the first 3 months they can give 1 weeks notice.
    There is something seriously wrong when you'd be better off deliberately getting fired or resigning from a job than giving a notice period. These month and two month long notice periods for new employees are ridiculous; shouldn't be anymore than 2 weeks for a job you're in less than a year, never mind a few days. Get the hell out of there and don't look back, as others have said.


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