Hey rechu. Sounds like you had a better role as an admin then what I am -- lowly front desk coordinator aka mail person. Yes, again, the newly promoted front desk coordinator warned me if I didn't wipe down the glass toped conference room tables, pull the power cords back from sticking out underneath the desk, and clear off the front desk coordinator area that the president would get irate. I met him for the first time today and he was very stoic.

I didn't get a wink of sleep last night either. This morning, the newly promoted front desk coordinator was curt with me yet again, because she's so young and doesn't know how to balance her new job's responsibilities with training me. It's not really her fault that the office expects her to do two people's jobs -- so I emailed the COO and asked her to have some of the recently promoted front desk coordinator's new job tasks handled by a colleague so that she could properly trained me.

I wrote it very nicely as a request, "it would help me if you could lighten her load so that she trains me properly the first time around," kind of wording. It worked. The COO halved her work responsibilities for her -- she still ignored me 90% of today b/c the brokers she supports would come up and have "meetings" with her and interrupt our training. I just would give them my stink eye about it, b/c it's sabotaging her and myself.

But I muddled through the morning and then had a nice teary eyed break-down when the COO asked me to check in with her. So, I'm definitely on the chopping block, day two, already, possibly?

I can't help that I have all this transition YET AGAIN happening to me; my roommate's mental health breakdown, my deadline to find an apt., in 2 weeks so I can move out (set by the roommate), my fall grad school course and financial aid warning (since my summer instructor wouldn't extend my course to an Incomplete, I had to withdraw, so that automatically puts the student on financial aid warning where if they get lower than an A, the lose their financial aid, or something like that, PLUS my mom fell and fractured her tailbone last night and had to be taken to the hospital b/c she fell as a result of having a nasty UTI which can cause her to fall and get really confused as it did all spring when I lived with her -- I posted about her falling at 3 or 4 a.m. and I'd wake up and find her on the floor).

The COO said she understood, but isn't that just a cover up for what she really thinks, which could be, "Great. Now i have to hire another front desk coordinator." And it's only day 2 for me. I have a LOT on my plate. I couldn't "fake it til you make it" today on zero sleep.

Oh, then I came back to my roommate's house and she told me that she skipped her psychiatrist appointment and then demanded that I not cry hysterically again like I did last night, after I got back from having a horrible first day.

What do you all think? How can I salvage my first impression since I NEED this job for the income until I can get hired by another company doing a job I love.