New Job Woes:
Clues that Accepting Your New Job was a Mistake
Two hours into my first
professional job, my new boss introduced me to a group as "Lauren, who
worked at company X for seven years." I looked at her funny and said
I'd never worked there. "My God!" she shrieked, "I hired the wrong
person!"
First day on the job, the boss
asks you to write down your list of hobbies, because he wants to hand
them back at the end of the year, to remind you of what you used to do
when you had free time.
At the end of your first week
of work, enough "old timers" have quit that you have the most seniority
in your department.
When I came in the second day
my new boss looked at me and gleefully said "Oh good! You came back!!"
The guy who hired you is fired
the next day.
When you actually know all
there is to know by day two, and your co-workers are asking you for
instructions.
"Sorry, we forgot you were
starting today. Here is a folding chair and table. We'll try to get you
a phone by next week."
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