So I'll try to keep this brief but I doubt that'll work:
Basically I've been shopping around for a second job - my current job is getting me by just fine but an extra shift or two a week would be a nice way to make some fun money and help out with saving. I got an interview and at the interview I immediately explained my availability - that I worked the evenings on these four days, and there were two other days I needed to have away from work because they were the days off my girlfriend and I shared. The boss promised that would be fine and after conducting the interview they offered me the job, we shook hands and I started the next day. Anyways, a few days later the boss schedules me for the only three days I had off at my other job, effectively making me work seven days a week. I confronted them about it and they told me to go to my old job and take time off if I needed a break, but they were going to "keep these hours in place for the foreseeable future".
Now I know I'm very old-fashioned and it's embarrassed me in the past but I've always taken a handshake to mean, in essence "everyone present agrees to the terms we set, this is a binding promise" so to have the boss promise me certain days off and turn around on them was pretty offensive. Beyond that, me working seven days a week "for the foreseeable future" wasn't really what I was after considering I was seeking maybe ten extra hours a week just to treat myself some more.
Anyways, after a week of this, a different employer offered me an interview and I almost told them I'd already been hired but then decided to follow through. This second job has promised me the hours I want, the wage I want, the days off I want and even a little incentive package to switch over. Needless to say I'm almost definitely doing so.
What I want to ask you guys is, would it be rude of me to tell the old boss that I quit, not providing notice? Since I was only in training I can't perceive they'd want a two-weeks notice because then they'd just be training me for a position I wouldn't actually fill. Beyond that, should I really care if it's rude or not? Was breaking their promise as an employer not pretty rude in itself? At my original job I'm a manager who (among other things) handles the hiring, firing, training and HR complaints so it especially offended me, because it's something I would never do if it were me hiring someone else.
This has nothing to do with being old-fashioned or not. Even "back in the day," employers pushed their employees' limits to see what they could get out of them. Simply put, you're not getting what you were promised or what you can live with. Just thank them kindly for opportunity, but let them know that this was not what was promised and that you're moving on. You don't have to be rude, but you don't have to take their crap either.
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This has nothing to do with being old-fashioned or not. Even "back in the day," employers pushed their employees' limits to see what they could get out of them. Simply put, you're not getting what you were promised or what you can live with. Just thank them kindly for opportunity, but let them know that this was not what was promised and that you're moving on. You don't have to be rude, but you don't have to take their crap either.