How to quit... - John Doe

Posted: Sep 20, 2013

I'm juggling 2 MTSOs as an IC. I cannot sustain this for very long, the plan always was to stick with the better, more stable one and phase out the other one. At the first company (I'll just call it FC), the pickings were slim. They said that once I clear QA, I'll get a back up account and running out of work will not be an issue. But the volumes were so low that it took me nearly a month to get out of QA (last week). Then the second company called, a month after I tested for them, saying things were so hectic they were only recently able to get back to me, and asked if I still wanted a position with them. Since they offered a clearly structured schedule, and pickings were so slim at FC, I accepted. I'm still only in my first week of orientation and I already wish I hadn't. Since FC wants their schedules weeks in advance, I had to tell them that I had another job, so I needed to adjust my schedule to reflect that (I did not want to quit, because I wasn't sure if Company 2 would pan out). This unfortunately would doom me to just working on that one account where the pickings were slim. I haven't even completed my first week of orientation at Company 2, and I already regret signing on with them (they're a high pressure 250 lph Indian QA company). I decided to take a chance, telling FC that if they gave me the backup account to increase the workflow, then I would be prepared to leave the second job and work for them full time (if they were interested). They agreed, and my revised full-time schedule with two accounts starts next week. So how do I go about quitting the High Pressure Indian QA company? There's not really much point in continuing with orientation and the hair-pullingly awful trial by fire dictations, I'd just be wasting their time and mine. Should I finish today's orientation for the sake of politeness, or go ahead and tell them that I'm out?