Unhappy in new job

[Hermit]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

As a rule of thumb, unless you are already financially independent, NEVER quit without first finding a job. You will spend all the days at home cold sweating waiting for interview calls and trust me, it will be worse than anything your boss can throw at you.

Just continue applying and hope for the best. Many bosses and companies are very strict in terms of discipline and politically correct when it comes to small talk, do not assume everywhere is like your former company where you can just brother brother crack jokes and make insinuations of quitting to anyone you hardly know.

Treat this as a lesson learnt. Anyway so far other than stiff culture, at least there is no unreasonable behaviour from boss or colleagues in terms of work, so you should try and get use to it and slowly take your time to assess your options.

Give yourself a bit more time to see if you really dislike this place. But in the meantime start looking around for other openings.

If, after some time, you feel you really cannot take the culture or the kind of relationship you have with you boss, just move on.

You can leave this short employment out of your CV.

Please let us know which company u working in? so we can apply for job there! hahaha...

Of cos must be punctual when going to work lah. Young people these days... thinks its their right of way to be late...

Well Well,

You got play out by the lady boss pet parrot (old staff) who get jealous of you or worry you might outshine him or her and ultimately took him or her salary increment or extra bonus at him or her expenses therefore he/she went to lady boss to discredit you.

It always happen old staff will do this to new bird due to insecurity or lack self confidence after boss had not once but twice praised you.

To overcome this, please check who chat a lot with lady boss during breakfast, lunch, pretend to do OT and see who chit chat with lady boss after office hour with the door closed.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Well Well,

You got play out by the lady boss pet parrot (old staff) who get jealous of you or worry you might outshine him or her and ultimately took him or her salary increment or extra bonus at him or her expenses therefore he/she went to lady boss to discredit you.

It always happen old staff will do this to new bird due to insecurity or lack self confidence after boss had not once but twice praised you.

To overcome this, please check who chat a lot with lady boss during breakfast, lunch, pretend to do OT and see who chit chat with lady boss after office hour with the door closed.

This happened to me. I was ruthlessly backstabbed several times. Major politics in the office involving other departments.

I am good, but unfortunately old birds play backstabbing games. They made it very difficult for me to work and forcing me to resign.

I did not turn up when I resign, I just call up the company and resign. All my work I deleted. and I spoke in a bloody nasty way to my manager when I turned up to collect my belongings.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This happened to me. I was ruthlessly backstabbed several times. Major politics in the office involving other departments.

I am good, but unfortunately old birds play backstabbing games. They made it very difficult for me to work and forcing me to resign.

I did not turn up when I resign, I just call up the company and resign. All my work I deleted. and I spoke in a bloody nasty way to my manager when I turned up to collect my belongings.

How can you do that? You should share some tips with us.

Cos usually companies will include a clause that you should hand over everything properly upon resigning when you sign the letter of employment. Also, there is usually at least a one month's notice for most companies that you have to serve.. so you can don't turn up for work at all even when you resign ?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How can you do that? You should share some tips with us.

Cos usually companies will include a clause that you should hand over everything properly upon resigning when you sign the letter of employment. Also, there is usually at least a one month's notice for most companies that you have to serve.. so you can don't turn up for work at all even when you resign ?

Yes, 1 month notice. They expedited it to 5 days, giving me no-face.

I guess what gave me the courage was 'sheer force of my anger', I turned up for 20 mins to delete my stuff and take back my belonging

Why do people quit or give up easily? You should try and see how to make things up and change their perceptions of you. Insecure Old birds are there for a reason - they usually know they can't survive outside or find anything outside. The confident old birds are the happy and contented ones who are usually nice to help and guide newbies.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes, 1 month notice. They expedited it to 5 days, giving me no-face.

I guess what gave me the courage was 'sheer force of my anger', I turned up for 20 mins to delete my stuff and take back my belonging

so they paid u for the remaining 25 days? Not that bad after all I guess.

[Jinnous]

Thanks for the kind comments.

I'm looking around and have applied to one company. I guess u are right as in after almost three weeks, the old timers are still not thawing. I'm taking the privately chartered bus home and I have to leave earlier like 10 mins to catch the transport and someone just commented I left so early. Thing is it's a family oriented company and i have already spoken to my boss regarding this. But she led me to believe during the interview that her office is a family oriented and friendly place. I asked about the culture and the people and its totally different from what she has told me.

I'm still around because I dun believe in quitting without a job either. I guess I just need an outlet to rant. I left my previous job because the job scope was stagnant and I have been asking if I can be groomed to the next level because I want to improve myself so that I can be considered for promotion but the reply was there's no budget to send me training. And I have asked for the last two years. i have asked if they can transfer me to another team but unable to because nobody wants to take over my job.

I guess in the end I just had enough lor.

Did you find out if your current position has a high turnover rate? How long did the previous person stay and why the person leave?

Good to know so that you ascertain if there is a problem with the work environment.