After six months, I hate my job — will it look bad if I leave?

Throughout COVID, I left my job for a better paying job, however I hate the corporate. Will it look unhealthy if I go away after just a few months, or do I would like to stay it out?

Standard knowledge is that you just keep in a job for not less than a 12 months earlier than transferring to a brand new one, however that has just lately modified. In accordance with surveys, nearly all of staff would depart their present job as quickly as they discovered a brand new one, even when they have been of their present job for lower than six months. We’re in a singular interval the place the competitors for expertise is fierce, so employers could also be extra keen to miss sure issues that they wouldn’t in a distinct market. Serial job-hoppers will certainly give many employers pause, however one job that didn’t work out the place you determined to chop your losses as quickly as potential is ok. You possibly can say that it was higher for the corporate, too, in order to not waste time, effort and cash on somebody who wasn’t dedicated.

I used to be fired for not getting the COVID vaccine and denied unemployment. Now New York is permitting skilled athletes again with out being vaccinated, however not working people. It simply isn’t proper. Do I've any recourse?

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I used to be fired for not getting the COVID vaccine and denied unemployment.
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It isn’t proper — it’s an outrage. Staff on the entrance line, firefighters, police, well being care professionals and throughout many industries misplaced their jobs for not getting the vaccine, and have been denied unemployment advantages as a result of they technically “violated firm coverage.” Whereas it’s an employer’s authorized proper to say that should you don’t get vaccinated you may’t work there, it doesn’t make it proper, significantly for these staff who have been doing their jobs remotely and protecting the enterprise up an working throughout the pandemic. How’s that for a thank-you? For the state to disclaim advantages is outrageous and punitive. A number of different states (together with Florida, the place New Yorkers are flocking sooner than birds in winter) have mandated unemployment protection for staff fired for not getting the vaccine. New York ought to too. Attraction, and inform your employer that in the event that they contact unemployment, you’ll get a lawyer.

Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of expertise as a chief human assets govt. Hear Greg Weds. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. E-mail: GoToGreg@NYPost.com. Comply with: GoToGreg.com and on Twitter: @greggiangrande

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