Just started working at a Big 4 Firm–Should I quit?

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    I just started working at a Big 4 firm that I interned with last summer. I don’t want to reveal too many details, but I have basically been assigned to clients/engagements that are in another state from the one I live in. This forces me to either drive at least 2 hours each way (probably more due to rush hour traffic), and I cannot take the train because that process would take at least 3 hours due to different train lines, etc. and will also cost me $700 a month in train tickets. The issue I have with this is that I live closer (about a 40 minute train ride to be exact) to a major city that the firm has a very big office in. I was not assigned to this office because it didn’t recruit from university.

    It seems completely unfair to me that my home office is in a different state that I live in and that my clients are so far away when the firm can just use common sense and put me on an engagement in the major city I live 40 mins. away from. The commute of 2+ hours each way is going to drive me insane, and I haven’t even factored in weather and when busy season starts. Everyone I have spoken to at the firm basically cannot give me a straight answer and almost has a “sucks to be you attitude, deal with it”. I cannot move to the state I was assigned to due to financial reasons, so that is out of the question.

    I am almost at the point where I will just pass the last part of the CPA exam I have left within the next 2 months, get the bonus for doing so from the firm, and quit and find a new job. It honestly infuriates me that the firm won’t do anything to accommodate me because I sat through about 3 presentations during my orientation about how “accommodating and flexible” the firm is and what an enjoyable work environment they produce. Am I nuts for considering quitting this job with less than a month in?

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