Quitting a job after 3 months

Call it freelance.

Year's gap in the COVID era isn't so long.

You can refer to it as a temporary job. If I perspective employer asks if he/she can contact that job, simply say no.

If it wasn't work from home I would just say you realized after working there for a while that you were uncomfortable with the day to day safety standards

When I was between jobs in the past I took temp contracts. I have never gone for a super fancy job with Amazon or Salesforce where they pore over your resume but I have never been asked for further explanation when I put them down as temp contract jobs.

Don't you guys ever just Lie?

Put down a relative as an Employer (better if you don't share a surname), name an Employer who's gone out of business or a college that's closed down?

Most CV's (Resumes) here in the UK are a work of fiction.

OP, considering the economy and the pandemic, no one is going to bat an eye at a 1 year gap between jobs at this point.

I would put it on my resume if it made me look "experienced" in something. Sometimes, even 3 months experience is good to have, e.g., if it's a specialty field.

List it as a temp job on your resume or pretend it never happened. You'll be better off finding a job first though.

OP, to get advice that's actually useful - as opposed to support of the "you go, girl Bosses suck!!" variety, alternating, in classic DL fashion, with snarky abuse - you need to tell us when and why you left your last "good" job, that is, the one before the abusive one. Did you leave Good Job to take Bad Job? Or was there a gap after you left Good Job?

Generic comment from a management perspective: Not every job is a perfect fit for every candidate. One job where things didn't work out doesn't make you a dead loss, but you'd better be able to show a consistent record of steady, long-term, successful employment to offset it.

Refer to it as a short term contract and don’t list anyone from there as a reference

I would just omit it from my resume.

Don’t take R4’s advice. You’ll come off looking bad.

Tell them your Job Title was "Management Consultant", and you were an "Independent Contractor".

What kind of work do you do?

R13 is right. Never complain about or criticize your previous employer or job conditions on a job interview or in a cover letter. You may be entirely justified in your complaints, but the person interviewing or reading will immediately tag you as a potential troublemaker or malcontent. We employers all know that some bosses are abusive and some jobs suck, but, if you are competing with other candidates, why would we choose the one who shows signs of being potentially troublesome when others are mature and experienced enough to avoid doing so?

catch a cough so you can get covid UE.

R1 is right, Consulting/temporary contract/freelance work is fine if you want to list the experience. Leaving it off would be no problem in these times.

R4 will get you shown the door. During the interview, you're pretending you've never had a negative work experience in your life expect for the one you fabricate for the interview to "learn from as your greatest weakness", probably something like "scheduling too much work and not asking for help until meeting the deadline meant an all-nighter. Since then, I'll never make that mistake again!" .

Don't R6, it never works out like Don't Tell Mom The BabySitter's Dead, instead your incompetence will be clear and you'll just be fired. I've had to fire people who did this and it sucks for both of us, and I would have hired them at a lower level. Don't lie about abilities or training.

"What kind of work do you do?"

No one ever says on Datalounge.

At my company, there was a good employee who was suddenly fired nine months into her stay. Apparently, they’d caught something fraudulent about her work history. So even if you get the job with a lie, it is still hanging over you. And being let go like that is really bad for your reputation because everyone at your company will find out about it, and these things have a way of traveling beyond company borders.

R20, I agree and would add that it's not 1950 anymore. You can't just pick up and start over and expect your past to vanish in the mists of time and distance. Employers can find out anything about you. They may not go to the trouble now, when you're a good job candidate or a successful cog in the corporate wheel, but the power is there if they need it to fire you at some point when they want to get rid of you but don't feel like doing the documentation it would take to let you go for poor performance ... or because your attitude sucks but they can't overtly fire you for that.

I've heard of people getting fired years into their careers because somebody decided on a whim to fact-check their resume and discovered they had falsified having a degree, either by outright lying or fudging by having attended without graduating.

R20/R21 So what would you suggest? As others have stated, flat out saying you left a poisoned work environment won’t get you hired.

If none of their reports lasted even a year, why is this person kept around? Do the higher ups just not care?

R22 Correct. Especially if that person gets promoted to a lofty position that has access to confidential information and requires a detailed background check.

i haven't worked in 5 years! because i've been caregiving for both parents, one who has since passed.... imagine fixing my resume and then trying to get any well paying job (i'm in my mid 50's i might add!).....

R25 I was considered management and given access to sensitive information despite not even making $50 k/yr salary.

My current job I had inflated my last job's salary to include my bonus. My new boss told to do so so I can be closer to my new starting salary. When they called the job they stated my salary as being less, which I then clarified to HR that it included my bonus. I guess they didn't consider it to be significant. But also they were not legally allowed to ask for my previous salary, and my previous employer shouldn't have told them.

R24 It happens.

I was bullied out of my last job by my boss, resigning after six months.

In that time in her team of ten, I was the third person to resign in that three month period (boss started same day as me).

A team internal survey conducted in that period showed that seven of her ten direct reports were unhappy in their role.

I filed a bullying complaint, fully documented - it was investigated by “People & Culture” (aka HR) and rejected on each fully documented count. I resigned that day as I knew that I had no future there.

My ex boss has since been promoted to the C Suite and I received a substantial payout to go away rather than pursue legal action.

My view? The company was obliged to meet quotas regarding numbers of women in senior management roles - if they sacked her they would have not met their numbers.

FYI I fully support gender and minority quotas but in this case she was protected.

R29 My old boss flat out said “I dare them to fire me. They would never find someone to do this job for what they pay”.

Another reason to hate HR. They created this concern over gaps

"Boss was mentally abusive" = I was required to be professional, put in a full day's work, maintain proper grooming standards, and not be thanked every fucking minute.

I see OP’s boss has arrived at R32.

R32 If every report you’ve had quits after less than a year, you’re the problem. If they’re all incompetent, what does it say about your ability to make good hiring decisions?

[quote]OP, considering the economy and the pandemic, no one is going to bat an eye at a 1 year gap between jobs at this point.

As others noted, don't lie, but given the circumstances this past year, I doubt employers (depending on your field, of course) will spend much time pondering this one, particularly if you're a well qualified candidate.

Okay now this is weird.

The new word is "report" as a noun describing an employee. When did this become a thing? And do not even try to pretend that this has been around forever.

R35 Again what would you say about the circumstances of departure?

I took a job for this amazing company. It was truly a job every gay would kill for. The pay was OK, but I took it because I believed in the cause and there was a certain level of prestige. At first, my boss seemed amazing, but soon nothing was good enough for her. I ordered blankets for her husband's birthday party and they were a slightly lighter shade of red then what we was presented online. She went ballistic and called me "stupid fucking cunt". I thought it was just wedding stress. She asked my to help make banana bread at 3am after a long flight. She threw hot tea in my face. I thought maybe it was a rough pregnancy. Anyway, I only lasted 6 months and I thought I would never work again. But I did end up working again and you will too!

R36 What’s the problem?

Sending sick porn flicks accidentally >[his daughter] bc you were hacking his daughter's phone doesn't COUNT as HIM abusing you, ya creep

Hacking so many people, can't keep 'em straight anymore

...and everyone KNOWS when their Google account is hacked by looking under "suggested for you" in Google Playstore Apps

Games w/Marvel comics, Sims..all kinds of bullshit nobody would ever consider. History of the Neglected Child Troll laid bare in Google Playstore accounts

Let's not forget the dating apps & hacking apps popping up

L0SER!

R36 I will tell you that referring to the people who report to a person as their “reports” has been around for at least the whole of my twenty year career.

It’s as bad as referring to employees as “resources”, which is why we no longer have departments called “Human Resources” but the much more fluffy “People and Culture”, which is staffed by people who don’t give a fuck about the People and support a completely fucked-up Culture.

The bottom line is that HR / P&C is there to protect the company, not support the employees.

I’m stuck on the don’t lie thing. We have it drilled into our heads not to badmouth former employers.