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."
