So as most are aware here, the company I'd been with for some time went under a few months ago, and after a while of looking around I ended up in another role (of which enough people here know where that is).

The short version is I was having doubts about it a week in; within two weeks I could see the state of chaos I had got myself into; by a month in I was rather disliking being there - and this was before they bought in this new senior guy who's just making life miserable for everyone. I'm almost at the end of my probation period where I can pull the pin at any point, unfortunately the only thing stopping me is I haven't even attempted to line anything else up. But in short, I'm absolutely not happy there, and while I was thinking I could just bide my time there for maybe 18 months, it's not going to work for even that long.
(Note, FWIW, the job ads I've posted previously from them were on different teams, so I have no reason to believe the same problems would apply to those project teams and groups).

My concern is the recruiter I dealt with, and I was after some feedback from others who might have had previous experiences. Basically if I'm going to leave before a point where the recruiter gets to see their finders fee, are they going to want nothing to do with me, or would they still be willing to deal with me to find a replacement role?
Has anyone else here had to deal with this kind of situation? Any tips?

What sort of work do you do? My sister's a recruiter

Java development, with some Flex, and have done previous work in C#, PHP, C, C++. Previous focus on Threads, performance oriented, was writing stuff to do binary output of SWF files, written frameworks and modules for dealing with content delivery (eg SMS/MMS, FTP, email), now have a bit of exposure to Spring and Hibernate, blah blah blah...

dRanged put me onto what sounded like a great job, but I'm not really willing to move from Melbourne and hence while I was keen, was never really committed to giving it a go. If only they were located in Melbourne.

last edited by Raven at 19:38:06 20/Sep/08

Why are you worried that the recruiter is coming after you?

If you're not happy in a job - who cares about a recruiter? I've left a job at 2 months 3 weeks and recruiters didn't care and if they did then it's their problem and not mine.

There are plenty of them around and they usually get paid in monthly installments, not a lump some at the end of your 3 months probationary period.

Just leave and find a new job, means you've got time to grow a nice unemployment beard.

I've left jobs with nothing lined up and no idea where I was going to go, it always works out.

Never get stuck in a job you don't enjoy man.

Why are you worried that the recruiter is coming after you?

Not so much like that, it's that I'm more worried the recruiter won't help me find a replacement role, as they seemed to have most of the decent positions compared to other recruiters I dealt with.

I don't know how it works, but aren't the recruiters partly to blame for putting you in a s***ty workplace?

Recruiters ... recruit workers.

They work for the employer, and get something like 10% of the first years salary +super if they are kept beyond 3months (at least that's how the ones we used work).

From what I have seen the employee is a a resource/product.

But here's a novel idea, contact them say "I am really unhappy here, could you find me another roll".

a sausage roll?

no ham and cheese

and an extra serving of manmayo on jims

Let the recruiter know you are unhappy and why, and don't stay beyond probation.

If the recruiter hasa hissy about it then use another agency. There's not exactly a shortage of them.

mmmm Jims Manmayo