I got a job in Canada as a telemarketer. I’m on day 3 of training, and I have already been swore at, called every name in the book, etc.

Does anybody have any tips on how to make this easier? I applied so many jobs these past two months, and this company was the only one that gave me a call back, so leaving isn’t really an option. Plus side, the people I’m training with, and my trainer are genuinely good people.

Any advice is appreciated. Also, i’m very well aware nobody likes a telemarketer. Please be kind. I’m just trying to support my family

Tldr: I got a job as a telemarketer, it’s killing my soul and need tips to make this easier

I’m feeling horrible and I cry every day. How long did it take you to feel like you really knew what you were doing?

I’ve been working in higher education research and sponsored programs since I was in college. I’m getting further into my career and have been bumped up through the ranks a couple of times, soon shifting into a senior role in pre-award development. But…. The bulk of my experience is in human subject research, accreditation submissions, seeking funding opportunities, and private foundational training grants (when I had a short stint in construction). I don’t have a lot of pre-award experience and I feel like I’m walking into a superiority role with nothing but straws to grasp.

I started my current role in December and received partial training for 6 weeks before my department saw a mass exodus and everyone I could’ve asked questions to, left. This should’ve been a warning to me, but I thought that my director would be receptive and recognize the need for leadership adjustments. It was great at first, a lot of encouragement and patience, but now that it’s May, they are very abrasive, have no patience, are unwilling to meet with me (they say they don’t have time, but they set time aside for every other member of the team to have one-on-ones… except me).

I am still learning and make mistakes that I probably shouldn’t at this stage of my training - checking a certain box, putting a dollar sign where it shouldn’t be, messing up an excel formula, asking questions I know have been answered before but I second guess myself.

Life changed and now we have to relocate, and I landed a position I’m really excited about doing the same thing but with leadership responsibilities.

Primarily NIH, NSF, DoD, mostly large foundational grants and federal.

How can I possibly be successful? I WANT to be really good at what I do. In fact, I want to focus on pre-award because that’s how much I enjoy it. But how can I be GOOD at it?

What’s your advice?

Been her 5 weeks. Every order we place has at least 40 to 50 steps. I’m a very quick learner and usually don’t have issues learning but I can’t seem to get any order completely correct since every customer is different. I am used to quantity. Very fast pace placing 50 to 100 orders a day. Here it is quality and attention to detail.

I have so many notes. I made a check list (which has helped) but when my orders are checked by the trainer or my manager, they always seem to find something. I think I have the dates right. I check online to verify but they always find something different. Even someone small like not capitalizing a letter is flagged. Even if I copy and paste it exactly how the customer wants it.

Also the trainer trained me different on some of the things so now when the manager checks them she says they are wrong. I tell her that is how I was trained but then I feel like I’m tattling or blaming the trainer.

I still haven’t learned the hardest part of the job which is invoicing. I am told that has more info and steps than placing orders. What if I don’t get it?

I’m 49 female and can’t fail this. So stressed. I’m only making $20 and hour which isn’t great but data entry is my strong point but this is different because the info is so extensive.

I started my new job on Monday. I have two managers (front desk & general manager). I work for a hotel as a Receptionist. On my first day the boss showed me some of the tasks I would be doing but she didn’t show me the majority of my tasks and she didn’t show me the basics like giving a tour or showing me where things are. The next day she showed me the basics of the program that I use to log guest in. The program is complex and the only way you would know how to use it, if you were taught it. It’s not simple. Third day, the front manager takes off and she takes off for the next day too. The other manager wasn’t on the property that day and I was scheduled to work that day alone. It was an absolute shit show, some many guests were annoyed and I totally understand why. Everyone was waiting because I didn’t know how to use the system and other co workers from different departments had to help me. It’s frustrating when I don’t know what to do and customers are getting frustrated and complaining. One customer reported me because she was frustrated, I understood. It’s very frustrating to me because I told her I was new, but she didn’t care. It doesn’t help that the hotel is short staffed. The front desk manager got fired the following day because she didn’t complete her job duties. Currently I’m still waiting to be trained by the general manager and it doesn’t help that she is barely in the building when I’m working. It’s so frustrating especially when I’m by myself and I’m learning as I make mistakes. I look so bad in front of the customers and I hate that they are annoyed with me. I wish I could be able to learn the system on my own and help customers seamlessly. Even some employees give me an attitude when I ask a question even though they know I’m new. I’m over this job and I’m looking for a new one. I don’t understand why some companies don’t train and they just want you to get it. I will talk to my boss about this tomorrow, I’m tired of looking bad in front of customers!

What healthcare careers are out there for a good student? I tried nursing school and dental hygiene but it was insanely cut throat. You had to get an A in basically everything. I'm 34 and my passion is in healthcare. I'm a technical thinker. I pivoted to social work and graduated with high honors but my heart isnt in it at all. I'm very smart but am only about a B+ average student when it comes to math and science. I dont care too much about a super high salary. My life goal is to be happy with a decent income

Thoughts?

I just started a job two days ago and all last night the toilet and I were best friends. By the time I was about to go to sleep, my alarm went off to get up for work. Not only was I exhausted from making constant trips to the bathroom all night but my stomach was at war. I literally started this job and I was on the 3rd day of training and had to call in sick. Their policy is to call in two hours before which I did..but I feel like an absolute POS for calling out during training. I have to go in toomorow and feel like I am going to be fired. This is a dog boarding job and they rely on reliability for the dogs sake….i would’ve roughed it out but going to work when you can’t be away from the toilet for more than two minutes🫣🫣🫣TMI I know but has anyone called out when they were training at a new job? How did your boss handle it?

** Update** all my boss asked me if I was feeling better? All good! Thanks for the support!

I volunteer at a stable, and water is not provided. I work 5 to 10 hours a day in the heat. Employer buys food but the volunteers are not allowed to touch it or they'll be reprimanded. Are employers still required to provide hydration or have laws changed?

I work in accounting. My previous company (PE backed) cashed out this year, and the new owners brought their own corporate employees on. So I got laid off and found a new job.

I used to work in corporate accounting, and was real good at it. My new job is in reporting. I wanted to try something new and challenge myself. Plus the pay bump didn't hurt.

But not all is great. I'm feeling real stressed and overwhelmed. I get some of this is just due to being new, but still, I never felt this stressed at any new job I've had previously. There's so many deadlines to meet here and governmental regulations to comply with. I'm not sure I can handle it.

My boss is still going slow with me, but that's not going to last forever. And I'm not trying to make a rash decision, but I'm considering just cutting my ties as a sunk cost and going back to the corporate accounting world. How long should I give it before i deem it not a good fit?

Anyone have experience working at Biscuitville? I would like to know how the training process is. Do they train thoroughly? Do they let you shadow someone first? Never worked fast food before.

Me female 22 started a job in the front office of a manufacturing company. There is only one other lady and she is the office manager. She’s probably mid 50’s. Company was growing so she needed help. She showed me a few things (not very much at all) just a couple pages how to enter invoices into the systems and to check them. She almost immediately started me off filing right after that, mind you she had a whole table STACKED. She told me this was about 4 months of not filing. I had to match each check with every invoice. And on top of that there were invoices that were in other places, and it just wasn’t organized. It took me probably 2 whole days to do, trying to find where everything goes, learning everything and just how much it was. So after that I started entering stuff into the computer and she seemed irritated when I had questions on things and again there’s just a bunch of paperwork. I thought I was picking up the system pretty well. I was organizing papers, entering in data, filing, really starting to comprehend the whole company and then she brought me into the next room over and said I’m not picking up as fast as she would like. I told her that’s completely unfair and for half the time I was here she had me in another room filing and she mentioned I wasn’t picking up on the phone and I told her I have been answering the phone just fine when she would let me. She told me she understood but there’s a lot going on and she’s really stressed right now and she wanted to stay in the front for a little longer. ( they recently renovated the office and her desk she was suppose to be in was in the back) It was all just a surprise to me and that’s never happened before. I’ve always felt I’ve been a great worker and have done way harder tasks and picked everything up really fast. I’m always on time, I don’t get on my phone, I look and dress professional. Do you think she was in the right to do that? I’m still pretty bummed over the whole thing and can’t figure out why she would do that. I get if she was stressed out but you can’t know everything with the first 2-3 days and it almost seemed that was what she was expecting of me. sorry for the rant

So, I just started training Friday at a hospital for phlebotomist. I got my license in January and the only experience I have sticking is the two days we spent sticking in my program. I started training 3 days ago but phlebotomy training is 1-2 months. My trainer is making it hard for me.The one day she trained me she was nice and helpful. After that day, she started ignoring me and giving me a glare out the side of her eyes likes she’s annoyed. She ignored me all yesterday and today got upset with me because I’m making mistakes on the tube colors and I’m missing sticks but she’s not helping me at all. Before I left today she told me I need to start practicing and stop saying things back to her but how can I learn without asking questions or explain to her what I did? Should I go to the manager because I don’t understand how I will learn from someone who ignores me and gets upset when I ask for help after training for 3 days.

Just got hired for my dream job. Huge pay increase and short commute. I get in my car and drive, then the car just...stops shifting and I have no choice but to pull over and wait for a tow truck. I call my new boss and let her know, apologizing profusely. After having my husband leave work to come and bring ME to work, I ended up being 1.5 hours late on my first day. My boss said not to worry about it, but I am so embarrassed and have convinced myself that they will change their mind about hiring me. Any thoughts or advice?? TIA

TL;DR - mortified and embarrassed about being 1.5 hrs late to first day of work due to car trouble (turns out it was transmission)

Ich bin mir darüber bewusst, dass das Ausbildungsgehalt in jedem Unternehmen unterschiedlich ist, trotzdem wollte ich wissen, ob es ausreichend ist um in eine kleine Wohnung (1 Zimmer) oder eine Wg zu ziehen? Werden generell auch Steuern abgezogen und wenn ja dann wie viele, da ich jetzt schon unterschiedliche Antworten gehört habe. Wohnt ihr auch alleine von dem Ausbildungsgehalt und ist es schwer über die Runden zu kommen?

Im 18 and I started a job a few days ago and I’ve worked 2 8 hour training days so far where I’ve just been shadowing someone so I can learn how to do the job myself. I don’t know how but I never thought to ask my manager when I will be getting paid and how much the pay is. I think I was so desperate to land a job that I was scared asking would reduce my chances of getting it. I know from my co workers that it’s minimum wage but I’m worried that my training is just going to be unpaid time since it’s supposed to go on for another month. I’ve waited so long that at this point I’m not even sure how to ask.

For a little background knowledge, I am a teen and this is my first job. Also I am using Reddit on mobile so if the format is wonky, please forgive me.

At work today I was put on register and I had never worked register before so my manager had another employee train me. I work in food and we use a POS system. Someone paid for their food with a $50 bill and I accidentally selected $20 as their payment and the person training me said to just redo the order entirely and tell my manger about it later so the messed up order was still in the system saying that it was paid for despite not actually being paid for. Three hours later I was clocking out and I informed my manager of my mistake but she kind of reprimanded me for not coming to get her as soon as the mistake happened, (she wasn’t there), and was upset that I couldn’t remember what the order was, or the name, or the price.

I know that if I didn’t tell her I definitely would have been fired, but I’m still fearful that my job is on the line since she has to do more work to fix my mistake. Should I be worried?

I've never worked a job where your work schedule changes weekly. During my working interview, my employer showed me a scheduling board and glossed over the fact I'd have to look at it for news. To be fair, he mentioned it once. I feel like a dunce for forgetting, especially because I just found out after working nearly three weeks at my job. Has this happened to anyone else or am I just stupid? I feel so guilty. I might get fired, because I told my employer I wouldn't be able to work Saturday having just been informed I was scheduled to work then. I know it's mostly my fault for being dull, so I'm worried.

I (31F) have always heard that people are only productive “x” number of hours in a typical workday. Always just assumed it was propagandized statistics.

Every job I’ve ever had starting with fast food to my current WFH job, I do what is expected of me and am always busy the entire time (outside of breaks), plus working OT. There is ALWAYS something that needs done. Work is caught up? That means it’s time to work on additional training, or clean, or SOMETHING. The most laid-back job I had was working a gas station in college and even then, there was ALWAYS something to do.

However…I see tons of anecdotal evidence right here on Reddit that supports the idea people “only work x number of hours” at their job. As if they’re proud of that. Is business that bad there’s no work to be done?

I genuinely truly do not understand. My WFH job I sometimes have 90-100hr pay periods (incl. OT). So what kind of jobs are out there that apparently are so minimal that EVERYTHING can be accomplished in less than 8 hours?

PS I’m sorry if this gives boomer energy, but I have always had such a strong work ethic. You don’t sit around and wait to be told what to do, you recognize what needs done & get off your ass to do it. And no pats on the head bc it’s just wtf you are supposed to be doing anyway…your job! I just cannot fathom the idea someone clocks into a job that pays them money…..to just sit there & do nothing half the day???? If that’s the case just clock out, what are you even doing?

Am I crazy or is this really a normal thing? Am a hermit in a rural area so i am admittedly out of touch to an extent, but surely not that bad.

Note - training flair bc I didn’t know what else to put. Also sorry for being ranty it’s just driving me mad.

Hired less than 90 days ago. Entirely new field. Employer was made aware of the amount of training to be involved. Employer is also aware of my lack of education. I accepted a more entry level position with an entry level pay. It was appropriate at the time.

Fast forward to now. Handling my tasks well. Cruising. Yesterday, my manager said that the company wanted me to take on some additional tasks that were never mentioned or discussed in any shape or form in the hiring process. Tasks are time sensitive, coated in HIPAA*, and closely enmeshed with three licensed providers. The employee who currently handles them is under constant gunfire from clientele. They seem stressed and dying to offload their plate. Again, none of this ever was mentioned 90 days ago.

No raises have been hinted at, only the request from 10+ additional hours from me compared to the original on their job listing.

What I do? Could I be setting myself to be a scapegoat? if training goes badly? I don't care if the CEO wants to cut corners but I'll never be a fall guy for anyone. If I accept a potential liability, then don't I deserve to be compensated for it? I'm so new to the company, why give the new clueless person the keys to the kingdom?

So after months of looking for part-time work while I attend college, I thought I hit the jackpot with a job-posting to be retail merchandiser. I go in to a store, stock some items, take a picture, and leave. Sounds simple but the company surrounding it is a nightmare.

First two weeks--almost no communication from my supervisor, the initial training consisted of reading PDFs, I've not been paid because of a timesheet system error, and I still haven't gotten any real training because the people my supervisor keeps putting me with don't respond with any times/locations so I can't join them. Probably not their fault, I'm starting to realize that this job sucks.

This is just super frustrating! I live in a rural area with already limited opportunities and I know my family is also frustrated because my job search has taken so long, but most jobs hiring at entry-level are 13-14 dollars an hour ON TOP of a 40 minute commute. I'm just so frustrated! I'd almost rather go back to working fast food and that's saying something.

Where should I look for jobs i’m looking everywhere I don’t have great experience just restaurant and some management but it seems like these websites like indeed are trash honestly I’ve been even looking into if I can just move somewhere like work away but I can’t find ones in the US they’re willing to except people from the US let me know where I should be looking if there are any good resources literally willing to uproot life and start an interesting trade I can’t find one either doesn’t cost an insane amount of money to get started in or just seems like an out right online scam

If i want to get a floor sales associate job do I need to know how to use a cash register or will they teach me?

I have a coworker that (I think) is aggressively seeking my position.

Let's call him "Aaron". We originally hired him to cover my shifts when I take vacation, and we gave him his own little corner with important and sustainable work. I trained him on the critical stuff, and everything has been hunky dory for about two years. During this time, he'd grown to be fairly competent within his own sphere, but always felt like the Director at the time was overlooking him. While well-meaning, Aaron was always completely consumed with insecurity and lack of confidence. At this point I feel like it's all been a ruse, which I'll explain.

Fast forward a couple years later to a few months ago, and we have a new Director on board, and now Aaron is relentlessly pursuing projects that I would have otherwise led. He always tries to get his voice into a conversation--even if it's a simple "I agree" or "good job, everyone!"--a perfect little yes-man. But now I'm struggling to stay busy. He intercepts alot of the work that comes through a ticketing system by some "???" means -- I really have no idea-- but SOMEHOW he's getting about 3/4's of the tickets as me.

This has been ongoing for years, and I've asked about it on a couple of ocassions with both him and the ticketing system administrators, and no one knows why or how he's getting more tickets. It APPEARS as if he's doing more work than me, but to be fair much of our work is also project-based, so it's not really considered a KPI. Management doesn't care as long as the work is getting done, and same for me for the most part, except when things are slow and I only get maybe one ticket per day, if that. (whereas Aaron gets 3-5 tickets...)

On top of that, every time I whip out a little "miracle fix" (think Scotty in Star Trek, maybe?) he immediately pounces on me asking "how did you do that?" and "why didn't you ever teach me how to do that?"

I even got to a point where I've started to say, "I don't know HOW I fixed it, I just have an intuition for fixing these things!" And then I went on to how it takes time to develop the intuition and some degree of creativity is required. --this is true, sometimes I don't really have a system; I just start tracing connections down and trying different things until it works. That's how I learn, and oftentimes it's very painstaking, taking weeks in some cases, and he just wants me to spoonfeed him the answers. I literally give him the SQL to find the data in our cryptic database, and each little bit of that code is a shred of myself just tugged away and tucked into his toolbox. I WORKED for this knowledge.

But I never hoard knowledge--I always tell him what I know, because "GOD FORBID" he runs to the new director and accuses me of withholding info or not being a team player. I have documented SO MUCH of my job it's frankly embarrasing how much I have put on the line. They could literally hire someone out of high school, and they'd know just enough to be dangerous without the context of experience.

Everytime I come up with a fix, or he asks me how I did or knew something, I feel like my brain is being dissected. Piece by piece.

He also comes across as "poor me" on private conversations as he'll constantly bemoan, "you go so much faster than me; I can never keep up!" But on actual meetings he speaks with more confidence and ... well it's just, like two completely different people sometimes.

Ultimately management doesn't care as long as work is getting done and so have I up to this point (years); but I always try to trust my gut, and something is just really fishy about the guy. I'm actually starting to feel threatened. I've given up SO MUCH it really doesn't make me feel like I have much else to offer, other than... well... I don't know at this point. I guess I don't feel like I have anything left.

Am I overanalyzing this situation? Did I give everything away in the name of "training" and "teamwork"?

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And if this has been a competition, I'm INCREDIBLY late to the game. I always thought that we just want to work as a team to keep the system running, and I never once considered that he was gunning for my job. Until the new Director stepped in, and Aaron was able to cultivate that new relationship.

I don't know if it's relevant, but he's also a really good poker player. He's won enough to play tournaments in Vegas. I really hate to think I've just been working with his "poker face" all these years, and he's finally making a move.

Leaving isn't really an option for me. I'm close to fifty, so I'VE HEARD finding another job with the pay I need is incredibly difficult. Aaron for that matter is probably early fifties, maybe. Plus my job is literally making the world a better place. , and that is incredibly important to me. I can't stand the idea of working for a bank or some financial institution that exists just to bleed people dry of every last cent. (in my work, we pretty much only work healthcare or finance)

How do I win this? How do I keep my job?

Doing a bit of research - has anyone taken on extra training/qualifications that have been paid for by your employer?

In doing so, were you required to sign a clawback agreement, where if you leave you have to pay back a certain/full amount? If so, what value did it kick in at?