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We do not have time to train you

Posted by: tablegrapes
Date: 10/21/2008 8:47:20 PM

So, I took a job, a jump in pay with an opportunity to use my writing background. It took a week to get the computer and software and accesses lined up, but in the meantime, I got pummeled with work and each had an email that said, "please format". They kept coming, as did funding requests, and as I tried to figure out how to organize all of this so I could do the job, I asked for training. "No training for you" is what I am told. We don't train, we expect you to do the job when you start. No notes, no one there has done the job before, it's all magic. I am shocked by how incompetent my two leaders are. They are serious, too. I took action with their boss, who helped me set up an plan to force them into communicating and it covers my butt. I'm on week 5 and I think I know what I am supposed to do, but not exactly the best way. I do know that I am not staying and have networked already with two other job prospects. Don't take it--you are better than that!

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