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

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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.

Realistically what I have is a part-time job that my company considers full-time. What that means is that I have to be there everry day, all day long… and I don’t have anything to do! To top that off, I recently had a baby. So now, instead of being with my baby, I go to work, leave her at daycare…AND DO NOTHING. ALL DAY LONG! I check my email every 2 minutes, occasionally talk to co-workers (I can’t stand any of them) and feel immense guilt for leaving my baby all day… I need a new job! I need to do something that matters to me!!! AH!!!!!!!!!

SooSoo, you described my job exactly. At least Im not the only one. Some days, I feel like I’m going to go insane. There are only so many things to look up on the internet before it gets boring. And on top of that, I still look busy when people walk by b/c I feel guilty for not having anything to do. I have to shuffle papers and type on a pretend excel spreadsheet. It sucks

Bored at work once again

I googled ‘new job, people are boring’ and this was one of the first thing that came up. I started a few weeks ago. Company sounded amazing and really social - nights out, dinners, etc. I couldn’t wait!

Then i started. I was given a training plan which sounded ok, but then lo… most of the overviews and training sessions were cancelled. What really annoys me is that no one speaks in the office. There is no ’so what did you do last night?’ or joking about people or discussing the news, or moaning about homelife. NOTHING. People just sit at their desks in silence and even at lunch people just go out alone and return after an hour for more silent work.

I just sit at my screen and watch the clock in the bottom right hand of the screen willing it to be 5.30. Every day it seems to take longer. Maybe we should all form a supercompany and put our mixed skills to use!!

Left my 10 month part time job in a school district for a full time 12 month job! Needed money to pay son’s tuition bill. What I didn’t consider, was the job I was taking on. It turns out they hired an “events coordinator” …which basically is the same thing as a secretary .. because that person does the work, and I basically sit and relabel pendaflex files, shuffle paper, and sign up for brainless class training. My boss talked to me the first couple of days and now I have to go to his office in the morning and I feel like I am “pestering” him! Basically, he goes home at the end of the day and doesn’t even say bye! Cannot crawl back to the old job, but have cried each day at the new.

I’ve been in my new job for nearly two months and I’m struggling to like it. I always try to find the good in each new day but I find myself crying a few days out of the week. It seriously feels as if I’m just sat on my degree, I thought the new job would at least provide me some security and stability, but what good is it if I’m going to be depressed and miserable? If I could find something that I love…

I just started a job in a small town (400 people). I have been here about six weeks. I am about two hours from my family and girlfiend so its not a terrible drive, but I’m just not liking the job. They expect me to stay for two or three years but i don’t see that happening. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do?

We have all had jobs where we don’t like what we do. We have all had times where we feel like our talents are being wasted and our time would be better spent elsewhere. Most of all, we all want immediate satisfaction with everything we do. It just doesn’t come that easy folks. Sure, some people are blessed enough to have their dream job at age 18, but for the rest of the population it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, networking and will in order to be successful.
If you’re not happy with your current situation, then CHANGE it. Take on extra work. Ask your boss what you can do to help. Take initiative and go to him/her with ideas on how you can help improve the business. OR SHUT UP AND DO WHAT YOU DO! It’s that simple. Get out or get better. Business is not a babysitting gig where somebody needs to “give you stuff to do.” If you want sometihng to do, ask for it. If they say there is nothing for you to do, come up with ideas on how you can help and sell them to the company. Either way, bitching and moaning will only get you so far.
The business world is cruel and all of those rosey pictures that college catalogs portray have us all fooled. They make us think that if we get a certain degree, life will be easy and we will automically get a job that we love and get a salary that makes us worry free. NOT THE CASE! I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Master’s Degree in Business, yet I was unable to find employment for a year. I know, it sounds crazy. I learned that people don’t care what you HAVE DONE, they care about what you can and will do for them. That’s what it all comes down to. Show them what you can do, don’t wait to be told how to do it. If the company is unorganized, come up with ways to improve that. Worst case, you get razzed for trying to improve the company. If that is the case, you probably don’t want to be working for a company that isn’t interested in improving anyway. I sure wouldn’t
I’m not trying to sound cynical, rather just trying to put in my two cents. I have been where you are. In fact, I still am. I am a new hire at the bottom of the totum pole with my Master’s Degree in hand. It’s all how you look at it. I’m looking at this as an opportunity to prove my worth. My suggestion to you is that you do the same. Good luck!

I must join the blog with my two cents; I agree that the best way out of boring jobs is to create your own day to day routine…like ‘fake until you make it’. Start by doing what you are good at. Create some charts from those excel sheets, then wow and dazzle your boss and co-workers with your talents and maybe they will begin to seek you out. New jobs can take 3-6 months to really take shape before you determine if it is right or not. after 6 months if you are still just looking at the golf balls out the window - leave. Good luck ….

My woes are that after starting a new job just 3 weeks ago is that I came into a bee hive and have been given too much to do with no real training or time to adjust to the new software, culture or staff. I was ready to leave where I was but I am having to work longer hours now and since the job is an hours drive for me I get home later and later. I am finding out things I don’t feel good about either. Personally, I think these people are crazy to expect me to know and do what the person before me did that was there for 8 years after 2 weeks on the job…. My 2 bosses always want to meet at 4:30 so everyday I am leaving late. I was not told of the long hours before accepting the job so this displeases me a lot. I have a 90 day probationary period so I will try hang in there - Good luck now.

I wish I could find one of those jobs where you do nothing but be on the internet all day that I saw mentioned in previous posts

I started a new job a few weeks ago and I’m not really liking it too much. I was really bored with my previous one and I figured that a change in scenery was what I needed but now I realize that this field (medical billing) is not really for me

I’m currently trying to figure out what kind of job I can switch to with the current job skills that I have.

At my job, it took abt 3 months to understand how the business works. Not that it was so complex, but just that people made it look so sophisticated. Once I realised how simple it was, I started to work my way through but I had by then created a negative image amongst the team and my superiors. The best part is they always look at me in that way ever since. Also, my job basically requires a lot of continuous cold calling, and that sucks. Its so monotonous. And to add to it, here comes the recession, so people seldom buy, cos our products were priced high due to their value, and my specific product was just a good to have than a must have which makes selling more difficult. The only thing which keeps me going is that I would be spoiling my profile if I quit within a yr of joining and its just been 8 months and also, I have a wife and a child to support. There r not much of choice for jobs in the market. I wish I could start something of myself, but I dont have the money for it and also, I cant take a chance with a family who depends on me. I wish I get some ideas someday or find something which I love doing for a living.

I recently lost the job I had for four years. I was able to get a job, but I am not particularly liking it (at all). Unfortunately, the way the economy is rolling, this is one of the few jobs available- and i feel stuck. (as Ambercrombie has stated, there are not many jobs out there right now).

I desperately want out, but have no place to go.

Wow! It’s comforting to know that you’re not the only on in a seemingly tough situation. I worked at a wonderful hospital for two years, my coworkers and I bonded and we had a great professional working relationship. My supervisor was so incredibly sweet and supportive and was extremely organized. After two years, I was ready to do a different job so I took at a position at a very well known hospital/university with an excellent repuation in the community. Within the first couple of weeks I had a feeling that I made a mistake. I have been in my position for almost a month now and I feel like I am working in some kind of alternate universe. The administration of this “well known teaching hospital” are extremely disorganized, most of the staff appear to be disconnected and stressed out, there is no office space, and the overall climate of the hospital can best be described as chaotic. I really do miss my old job and have been so tempted to go back, when I left my old supervisor told me that they would be delighted to have me come back at any time, given that there is an opening of course. They say that the grass always looks greener on the other side, and I have found that to be true. Some times we have to learn things that hard way. I have learned to ask many, many specific questions before accepting a new position and to ask current employees about the culture of the environment. If I had of known all of the information that I know now about where I am currently working, I would have stayed at my old job for sure. But I have to trust God that it’s all going to work out and that it’s a temporary situation. Upward and onward! Be the change that you want to see…

I think you’re the luckiest son of a gun around. Getting paid for doing nothing. I would shut-up and learn chinese during my shift if i were you.

I started my current job 4 months ago. our stories are simular, I kept asking my superior to have something to get on with, and he just said ‘errr….no….there is nothing to do at the moment’, it lasted 3 weeks, i was literally on the internet all day. i was so scared of being fired because i was not being productivity and had nothing to write in the end of week report, it was quite depressing really. Now that i have something to get on with, but the thing is that the work is so boring nothing like the job description. i am now looking for an other job now, hoping to get out of this job soon and have something i truly wanted.

Good luck.

Hi,
I just googled and found this site. I don’t know if anyone has posted lately.
I’m at a new job for a week. It’s not an office or corporate job like many of you seem to have. I clean a building, the pay is ok. I work my tail off and cleana s fast as I can. I’m a hard worker but the bottom line is that most jobs I’ve had (I’m middle aged) suck in one way or another. I probably never found my niche-my responsibility. But you never really know until you’ve started a new job what it’s really like so when you make the decision to accept a new position it’s a crap shoot. I find myself questioning this whole world and the idea of work. How many people go through life just trying to work at a job that you wouldn’t be doing if not for the fact that you need money to pay bills. Why can’t people just live and everyone’s needs are met? There must be abetter way. Who invented all this? The cost of living is so high and so many jobs don’t even pay enough to support a person, much less a family. ok- I gripe a lot. Sometimes it all just doesn’t make sense to me.

hi, hi just started a new job a week ago and due to illness have had 3days off…. i left my last job becasuse it was training wage and cudnt afford to live off it. i liked it there but it was an apprenticeship and at the end of it there was no job outcome i had to find work with full pay…….i got one i hate it…its workin in a store room in a factory…..bein told i got the job and asked what id be doin they didnt really say what exactly would be my job. when i got there i got told they hired a load of people and didnt have another table 4 me so they put me in stores.
i dread going back after being ill….but i need the money….why should we all be miserable doing jobs we dont like………. it makes me depressed just thinkin of goin back there.

Hey I amnot sleeping because of my new job, ive been there a week and I think I might hate it. My last job was mundane factory type work but school hours so I could pick up my kids after school, but the people were horrid, they were bullies and threw stuff around the staff room if they were stressed or didnt like you. So I did some training and got a better job (me thinks i’m a fool now as its less pay and terrible days but chance to improve) The manager is away from my first day and nobody knows when she’s back. The other person I work with is a grumpy irratable women who begrudgingly tells me what to do, I get the impression she thinks i’m there to support her only not what the mananger told me before she left. What do I do? This is a customer service type position, which i’m good at but this women is really bad at it, shes almost abusive?aggressive towards the customers, it leaves me thinking that maybe this is the acceptable behaviour of the absent manager!!!!

I would very much like to thank all of you writing above. I’m in precisely the same situation. Started a job two weeks ago, given no training, no explanations, nothing. I’ve recently started taking iniciative as I’ve seen that otherwise I’m not going to get anywhere. I still have a long way to go but I can see it working already. My boss doesn’t seem to be a bad person, just extremely disorganised and with no knowledge of leading people (I can say as I’ve worked as a manager on a similar position and trained couple of new employees myself).
I think the best advise was that given by Cord ages ago: try to talk to the colleagues instead of the boss. It seems to work for me - if I ask my boss for something to do, she gives me stuff but without explaining what it is, how to do it or where to find any additional information. Then she complains there are mistakes in it. Well, obviously:) However, in the two weeks of careful observation I’ve figured a bit who has been there for long and how approachable they are and ask them instead now.
I absolutely understand how frustrating it feels but after reading all this it actually made me want to perservere and use my experience and knowledge to get to the bottom of this. So once again, thank you.

I have a new job since 6 weeks.
The title I have is asistant manager, so it sounded like an improvemtn.
However up to todya i did not do or learn much, and have the impression i could do also what the manager does.
Coming form a busy company, same as all the ones before, this is a shock for me and makes me depressed.
However I am fillign the days with looking for a new job
Haha have 3 introduciotn meetings in the next week!
SO good job he!!
When it won’t work out I woill also start to try Cord’s strategy
Keep you informed