I'm currently trying to make a job hop due to being unhappy in my current position, however, most of my friends outside the industry are lambasting me that I’m being too spoiled and that going through a terrible work experience is just life and I should “get over it”. I wanted to get some honest opinions from people in the industry so I can stop feeling crazy.

I was promised by a recruiter that the position would be a traditional hour work week with flexible hours and even 10% time. I found out my first day that none of this was true, which left me starting off my job with a sour taste of feeling deceived, as well as a lonely trek to find lunch myself as nearly nobody in the office saw it fit to speak to me that day. I decided to just suck it up at the time and keep my head high. Later though, I was assigned what is equivalent to data-entry work for 20% of my day and to manage environments through a GUI with infrastructure designed poorly, which results in movement of code regularly taking around an hour, with me needed as a middleman to work with other team members whom at times give me attitude, to fix problems.

On top of this I found out that the team I was joining does not work on any new features I was told about in the interview. An internal webapp with a production UX so poor I’d be humiliated to show any of my developer friends the tool I’m working on. And a data-entry app written in VB. When I spoke with my manager about my unhappiness with the non-development portion of my role he politely said that because I’m new, I’m going to have to show face and deal with it until the responsibility can be thrown to somebody else and I could focus on development. Which I found to be a fairly toxic course of action for a part of the company’s infrastructure that needed improvement.

Though I’m a new grad, I had already gathered about two years of work experience and came from a previous job in which the culture was very supportive. I learned more than I could have ever imagined I could in the short time I spent there. This new role feels like a massive step backwards and I feel as though I have nothing to learn from this experience. I wanted to know if in my situation I should hop, or suck up the poor culture and stay for the generally accepted year.