Negative thinking in new job when faced with new challenges

Yay

Maybe they will give you a less stressful job instead of letting you go

Yes, maybe. I have a feeling she will want to lower my salary, given the tasks I am performing now. They are lower level tasks that do not deserve my high salary.

So, no rejection letter and no offer letter. I don't think I am getting the job. It's a week after my final interviews, and still no word from them. When is it appropriate to follow up again to find out? Last time I emailed the recruiter was last Wed. Should I wait until the end of this week?

Ok. I decided not to follow up again. I've already reached out to the recruiter as of last Wednesday, who said she would be in touch the moment she heard something from the team. I will wait and be patient, in this case.

i hope the recruiter hears something soon and can then pass it onto you

Oh my, I hope so too!!! I’m dying to know the outcome.

So, today in my current job I was given two quite unreasonable tasks by my manager and I pushed back on both. Each are beyond my knowledge and capabilities and therefore I feel they’re being unreasonable. I was upset all day about this. Another colleague was thrown the same task as me and concluded it was unreasonable. I am a bit miffed.

And now, today, I have to return to one of the unreasonable tasks that I have left to do. And, I am pretty certain I cannot complete the task as required of me. I don't know what to do. I worry that they gave me this impossible task in order to prove or show that I am inept in the job so that they can get rid of me legally.

I guess I will have to approach my colleague who is supervising this task, and tell him that it's an impossible task for me to accomplish? I really don't know what to do and am in a huge quandry over it. I want to be able to complete this, as asked of me, but it's far too difficult and I am afraid I will do it incorrectly because I am simply guessing and guessing is really my only option.

What do I do?

Is the colleague aware of the impossibility of the task? Would they be be able and willing to help/guide you in coming up with something doable?

Thanks, Bill! I think they’re aware. I’m going to have to ask the supervisor for additional guidance. I have no option but to bring the difficulty to his attn.

I’d ask if they could show you samples or give you more guidance. I’d not tell them it’s unreasonable as I am sure they think it’s a reasonable task. I’d just tell them you need some help with it

I took the project as far as I could take it. I handed it in, saying the same. I completed all of one aspect of it, and had to leave the second aspect incomplete. I was told I could complete the first aspect first and that we could come back to the second aspect.

Now I’m concerned I will be fired. But I really did the best I could with it. The second aspect I would have simply been guessing at, and it likely it would be wrong. Why hand in something that’s wrong, so I said I took it as far as I could.

I also found out that a good friend of mine died this week. I am not thinking straight and am not myself.

I'm really sorry for your loss.

Thanks, Bill! He was a local favorite musician and friend. It’s a sad day indeed.

i'm so sorry about your friend, Have Hope

Thanks so much… what a crap day it’s been!

WOW. I still cannot believe that my friend died. He was hiking in Nepal to Everest Base Camp. He died before reaching Base Camp of likely a combination of factors including altitude sickness, lung infection and high blood pressure.

I barely made it through work yesterday as a result. I wanted to call in sick., but then thought better of it. I made it through the day, but had to go to bed super early.

And today I just feel numb.

Still NO word from that company - I wonder what's going on? It's been over a week now, and I've heard nothing. I can assume they're still interviewing, and now I feel it's most likely the case that I am not being offered the job. This of course, makes me feel very despondent because that means I have to suffer through in my current job for quite some time still.

I took the rest of today off. My boss said it was OK.

Ok I think I’m getting ghosted by this company. I don’t know what else to think! I’m not going to email them. It’s really strange.

I wasn’t ghosted. I emailed the recruiter anyways. She said I’ll know by the end of next week. Still no rejection so that’s good at least.

That impossible task I was given? I asked for guidance, never received guidance, and it's been handed back to me to complete in even greater detail. I am categorizing over 3,000 blog articles into 3 different categories, the third category being the most specific. There are several hundred blog articles that I cannot correctly categorize because I do not know the client's products or terminology to do so. I am pissed that this task has been handed back to me, after I told them that I had taken it as far as I could. Now what do I do? Leave the ones I cannot complete blank? That's what I am going to have to do. I have no other choice, if they're not going to provide more guidance and direction.

I handed it In with 800 rows blank and I was told to guess the category. So I completely and blindly guessed!! How ridiculous is this. I am sure I am wrong with 99% of those 800, and we’re giving it to the client that way. I am beginning to not like this company. What a bogus task!!!

I am tired of doing menial tasks at my job. I have asked for more responsibility, and more than once, in my weekly online reviews with my boss. He hasn't followed up with me about taking on one of his clients. He hasn't followed up with me on taking ANY clients. I want client work now. I am well enough to do it now. AND, I need something on my resume for when I can leave this job. I need to have feathers under my cap showing that I've done something of value. This menial work I am doing is not of value and it doesn't contribute to the overall success of a client's account. I am just doing filler work because I became ill. And it could hurt my chances of getting another job. I am becoming concerned about my direction in my career at this point. I am going nowhere & it's concerning.

WOW - just WOW. I am in shock.

I was just handed back my 45-day review from my boss, in writing, and it's pretty negative. He wrote that I am not meeting the expectations of a Manager, in essence, and then criticized me throughout the review on a few tasks he highlighted as being problematic to the company. He didn't include anything about one huge task I had completed that I had done well and to the company's satisfaction! He only focused on what I had trouble with.

AND, he pointed out that I had pushed back on a task that I had been uncomfortable doing. Initially, when given this task, he had written to me "if you feel comfortable rewriting these...:" and I told him that I didn't feel comfortable with it. But instead of including that part in his review, he said I pushed back on the task.

You know what this is? It's a set up to fire me, I feel. They are documenting it in writing that I am not meeting their expectations, and I am FUMING right now. I try really hard at work to do the best job that I can - but when they give me impossible tasks that are beyond my skill level, what am I supposed to do?????? It's a set up for failure, is what that is.

What a way to make me feel even more uncomfortable now at work. I know they're just trying to get rid of me at this point. It's now in black and white writing. So, just fire me then and let me collect unemployment!

I am FUMING!!!!

Well, I stood up for myself and pushed back in my review meeting. Then I documented in writing to the new HR person everything I had stated in the meeting that involved standing up for myself. I am NOT going to be pushed around AGAIN at work!