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Discussion on: I've just started a new job and they want me to work with technology I see as no benefit to my career, what do I do?

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Frank Carr

Walking away from a job where you've only been there for a very short time isn't a good thing to do in most situations. The only reason to leave a job early like this would be if you encountered a very toxic work environment where unethical, or even illegal, things were going on or if there was a level of bullying or harassment that was causing you health issues.

The question to ask is this technology really antiquated or simply just not the current "flavor of the month"? I assume we aren't talking about using something really outdated like Flash or Coldfusion to do this work.

Were they not upfront about what was going to be used in your projects during the interview process (did you ask?).

It also wasn't clear if this was a contract, contract-to-hire or a perm position. In that case, it's a little different. Contracts aren't usually meant to be a long term placement. I've left a couple of contracts after a very short time because it was clear to me and the client I wasn't a good fit. Contract-to-perm is usually an extended trial period where either party can exit. Perm jobs have a higher expectation, that both you and the company are committed to a longer term relationship.

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Sloan the DEV Moderator • Edited

It's not the flavour of the month @jfrankcarr and thanks for chiming in here.

I'm trying to get as much feedback as possible here so I can bring this up to my employer.

I'm on a three month probationary period before going full time.

I think the thing which is a bit frustrating is that I was asked for my input but it seems to have been disregarded or not considered in the first place.

The CTO was asking another front-end developer what his opinion was on the stack which I thought was a bit odd as I was one desk away and I'm going to be the guy working on the project 🤷‍♂️

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rhymes

My opinion is that you already made the decision and I don't see quitting this job as a big issue CV-wise (you can even avoid to put it in the CV being 3 months of your life). You have to start looking for a job once again though.

I have a question though: why are you finding it out now? The issue doesn't seem to be just technological (it can happen as Colin said that you're going to work on tech you don't like) but of communication. It seems you were hired on different assumptions. Am I wrong?

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Sloan the DEV Moderator

Hi @rhymes , as I understood it I was brought in to do the new work, which would be in cutting-edge technology.

I'm guessing enterprise cutting edge is around MS Office 2010 🙃

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rhymes

You didn't discuss any of that? For example: what technologies, which projects are they working on, and so on.

Pardon me but from what you wrote it seems like you signed a little bit without enough information...

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Sloan the DEV Moderator

It appears so 🙃