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Going to start searching againI've decided I'm not happy with the new job, and it's probably not going to get any better. I'm on my fifth week there, and they still haven't trained me on the international accounts, which were the specific reason they hired me. Needing someone bilingual was a joke; the sales rep in Mexico speaks fluent English. The only thing they have needed me to do in Spanish is calling him at home once, because a coworker had to call him there and his wife doesn't speak English. A few times, people have asked me to translate emails, but here's the thing - often it's just in the history; the customer and the sales rep converse back and forth and then the sales rep emails the whole thing along to our company, saying, "OK, this customer says he needs this and this..." So people ask me to translate the conversation in the history, when the sales rep had already summarized it in English. They're not training me to do anything new but treat me like a little kid if I happen to get something that's the exception to the rule and don't do it quite right....and believe me, a lot of things are exceptions. My boss still insists that I cc her on every memo I send, even though most of them are routine, and even though nobody is training me so I assumed I was out of training. If I forget she emails me asking me if I've responded to this person, taken care of this minor issue, etc., when it's stuff that I obviously WOULD do. Hey, maybe if you didn't read every memo I send, you'd have time to train me on the stuff that's in my job description! Plus, I'm bored. For me, being bored is MORE stressful than being overworked. I can't stand having absolutely nothing to do and having to sit in my see-through cubicle trying to hide my internet surfing from my boss and the company president - even though there's nothing job-related I could be doing! Not to mention that the only thing this job is doing for my future is giving me office experience, which may or may not be necessary. There's no potential to move up or to a different department - it's one of those small places where everyone has been doing the same thing for years. They don't have tuition assistance, and if I get into grad school, I'm not entirely sure how flexible they'll be with my 10:30-7:30 schedule. The university is a 20-30 minute drive so there's no way I could take classes around that, unless I get my master's one Saturday class at a time. I won't get any vacation/personal time until over a year from now. They have free health insurance, but no dental or vision. Basically, I'm not really happy. I really didn't want to have to get back to the search, and I DO like working at a place that is so close to home....but I don't feel like I'm working toward my future here. Or is everything just going to be like this? |
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