6 Reasons I Don’t Like My New Job

You should’ve checked out the company before you started. That’s what I normally do. Find out: where you’ll work, who you’ll work with, what your responsibilities are, etc. If they’re not willing to answer any of the questions or you’re not happy with the answers, then move on before you get stuck in a dead-end.

I asked all those questions and they provided adequate answers to each. The job certainly still has potential its just the longer than normal waiting period that I have to endure before it starts gettomg any better.

lol more importantly, did you pass?

Yah. Fortunately I did. Actually the deal was that we had to pass collectively as a department otherwise we would have to take it over again. Thats just lame.

That sucks, man. I hate working in a place where no one talks or socializes. It’s like working in a graveyard. On the other hand, I also hate working with someone who is overly familiar from the start. Gives me the creeps! Good luck with the new job. I hope it gets better for you!

and you didnt even get to work as a team?

And next thing you know, you’ll retire without even knowing about it, because you wrote bad things about your company on the Internet.

And why the hell you people stay at a job you hate ?! You like the pain, or you hope that this job will make your stronger ?

I would never stay at a job that I didn’t like. You have to be patient when you start a new job to allow time to acclimate and learn the culture of the company. Things are just taking a little more time than I would like.

If this job isn’t better after a year I’ll have to find something else to pass the time.

Rehuel: I tried to keep this post as neutral as possible so I didn’t have to worry about the forced retirement. I could have seen this turning really bad if I was bashing my new job, but I’m simply trying to identify the things that have to change before I’m happy.

Nathan,

I started at a new position about 5 months ago and ran into several of the issues you are presently dealing with. Here is how I handled it. If they are giving you nothing to do than it is up to you to create the job that YOU want. Stop going to the new boss and start going to the people who actually get work done there. Talk to them about what they are working on and what you could do to help.

Stop asking permission, just start doing things. Worse comes to worse you can always ask for forgiveness later. The way I looked at it was I was going to create the job I wanted until someone told me to stop and they have not yet. I hope this was helpful.

I agree with Cord in a lot of ways. If you just go and do something, even something trivial, it will make you feel more productive.

On another note, with all of the time that you have, it’s great that you can work on your blog WHILE getting paid by someone. I know that that is a great dream of many - granted, not your employer.

Omg, this is my job… there’s only 15 ppl in this entire building and half of them work in the warehouse. My manager goes off to business trips all the time and he leaves me things to do while he’s gone, but lately I have nothing to do. The assistant general manager (he answers to the president) usually gives me something to do, but not all the time. I’ve been here for 3 months. I would ask everybody for something, but my job specifically is to assist the president, the assistant general manager and my manager, the sales manager. If I were to ask everybody for something to do, I know someone would take advantage and boss me around, like the sales supervisor, and our human resources contact already told me that I don’t have to answer to him anyways (No one likes him). Oh! And get this, out of all 15 in this building, I’m the only woman… so it’s REALLY awkward building work relationships….

Yowza! I feel for you.

Maybe you should start a blog That’s how I spent the majority of my time waiting for someone to give me something to do. Most of the stuff I was presented with was on a college intern or new hire level, so it only took about 5 minutes to complete. Then it was back to blogging. I plan to update this post soon, as I’m actually getting busy, but there really isn’t any secret other than time.

Good Luck and keep me posted.

- Nathan

I have been at my new job for ALMOST 2 weeks and I am already looking desperately for HELP — that’s why I am checking out this site! I was hired to replace someone who is retiring — turns out they are retiring at the END OF THE YEAR! Why they hired me now, I’m not sure. They want me to learn the jobs of 3 other people in the office, so in the future, if someone is gone — I can do their job in their absence. So I get bounced from one person to another for “training” and a lot of note-taking. I have yet to learn what the person does whose job I will eventually be taking over. I feel like a huge 5th wheel. The other people look at each other shrugging and wondering out loud why they are doing things this way. I never hated a job so much since I was 19 and worked at McDonalds for 2 weeks. That may be all the longer I last here. I hate to hang on and continue to be trained when I really don’t even want to be there. They weren’t clear on what this position consisted of either. Like you - I got answers that seemed to satisfy me, I guess. I definitely will demand to know more details of the next job I apply for. This sucks like no other. If I can afford to be jobless for a while - should I get the Hell out??

Hi,

After I read all of that you wrote about your job, I feel like I want to throw up.. The same things happen to me and I had a nervous breakdown worrying about these alien who worked like robot. I do agree with Cord, if this does not work, what the heck at least you have tried.
This kind of people are very cancerous. You should find another jobs and be happy. Your health and happiness come first.
The way I look at things these days it is very healthy to work as a team and in friendly environment. Sometimes you need to forget a little bit about work and danse like nobody is watching you. , when they are gone someone else replace them and they don’t exist for this company any more.

life is too short.
Laughter is the best medicine.

I hope this will help.
CR

Hi,

I have a similar experience. Although I am only working for 1 week now at my new job it didn’t feel right from the first day on.
Untill last week I was happy at my previous job. I didn’t like the job I did, but I had excellent colleagues and we had lots of fun. Granted, sometimes I cursed the work but the atmosphere was good which made up for it.

However I am only graduated since last year and this job wasn’t going to give me the carreer opportunities according to my degree. I wanted to do something with my studies…

Ultimatelly I found this job. It pays a little bit better, I get lots of interesting training, also extra benefits, company car, … However the atmosphere here sucks big time. Each day when I arrive I chose a work spot (we do not have assigned places, you can go sit wherever you want), I say goodmorning and that’s it. The rest of the day I stare at my computer screen following e-learning trainings and not having any conversation with my colleagues. The only ’social’ moment I have is lunch. At lunch time I go to the cafetaria with my collegues where they talk about… work! And since this is only my first week there’s not much for me to say.

You’ll probably understand, that despite the raise, extra benefits and carreer opportunities, I basically hate my job and want my old job back. Maybe what’s more important than carreers and money is that you can wake up every morning and be happy… not hating the fact that you have to go to work, but even look forward to tell your collegues about the movie you saw yesterday…

It feels good to know I’m not the only feeling the same pains that everyone else on this board has expressed.

I recently switched jobs (2 months ago) and I’m still unsure if i made the right decision. Despite the better pay and less hours, I’m not as happy as I thought I would be. My new co-workers suck. They aren’t friendly, there not social, and this company is so unorganized it makes me sick. I don’t want to go crawling back to my old job because I wasn’t happy there either (Worked there for 5 years), so I’m stuck. Ugh.

What have people done to get used to the adjustment of working for a new company, new people, etc??

lol - I just googled ‘i don’t like my job’ and this was one of the links.

I thought I’d add my tale of woe to the list.

I have been with the same company for 2 years. When I first started 3 people worked in my office, I was on quite a low salary and it was fun, we all got on and work was fun, so i didn’t mind that i didn’t have much money. After 1 year, 1 person left. Leaving 2 of us.
The other person (my boss) is out of the office about 2-3 days a week, sometimes more. I got a promotion 8 months ago, and a hefty pay rise.
I used to busy myself by making sales calls (I worked for commision).
Now i am my boss’ assistant and most days when he is out, I sit and do nothing. I am alone. I come in at 9 every morning, I watch TV on the internet, I spend hours on facebook, I take a long lunch, I look at stuff i want to buy on the net, I go for a cigarette, I go home at 5.30.
I’m officially paid £22,000 to sit and do nothing most of the time. I ask for things to do. I do them. Nobody ever questions what I do when they aren’t there or when they havent asked me to do something.
If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be paid all this money to sit and do nothing, I would of thought it was great.
As it is, I’m looking for a new job.
I may get paid £22,000 a year, but I feel worthless. If nobody can recognise that have sat and done nothing for the past 8 months, the work i do do must not be worth much at all.

Hope you find your happiness

SooSoo

xxxx

I also just googled: I hate my job and this came up. I have worked for my present company for a little over a year. In November we were told that our dept was closing. I interviewed and intervied within the company and landed a great job…so I thought. I have been in my present job for 3mos. I dread coming to work. Most days my boss is not here, and if she is she doesnt speak to me. She sits right by me. I have not been given anything to do except for corrective action on my employees. I had to coach an employee on a position that I had no idea what i was coaching. then 2007 reviews were do. Before coming to my new position I finished all of mine from that last position I held. My current boss had me do my new employees reviews. I did do them, but it also was quite difficult as I don’t even know them. It really makes me angry that my boss doesnt care enough about the staff to take care of these important issues. I have asked for things to do, nothing….Not sure how much longer I can stay. Its a good company but I can not come to work each day dreading it. I cannot just be the Disciplinarian. There is no job satisfaction here….argh

Great blog! Nice job. I can relate in many ways …

Lovely, I switched jobs 6 months ago, basically because I was bored with my previous responsibilities and I thought I deserved a bigger paycheck.

Well I got what I wanted (I guess)! I find my daily duties more challenging now and I got a 30% increase in my base salary and my bonus should be higher than before, I was barely into the 6 figures base + bonus with my previous employers. So I thought I hit the jackpot … NOT!

1) I was working 8 hours before, now I do it for almost 11 hour per day.
2) My new boss sits right besides me all day and is constantly asking everyone what are they working on.
3) Everything is disorganized in this company.
4) The stress is killing me, since 3 months ago I get neck and shoulder pain (I got some sort of RSI due to my working hours) after a couple hours into the day (usually I wake up fine but at around 9am I start having the pain again)
5) I thought I’d like a more competitive environment but this is cutthroat one, a coworker literally stole my work (he modified it a lil bit) and marketed as his!!!

And on top of that I had the not so good idea to go back to school part time so I have another $15k that I spend per year on tuition so I need the extra income.

Man, I’m seriously considering looking for something else.