Hello everyone,
About a month and half ago I was hired for what I considered to be a great entry level job in the human resources field. The interview proccess to obtain this position required interviews with
three different people each of whom promised that as long as I was flexible with work start and finish times I would always have 40 hours a week. I was also told that if work was slow in one department I could be cross trained in another.
Fast forward: last week I was told to go home at noon---we didn't have enough work. I informed my team lead immediately of what I had been promised and was told 'sorry you are signed on as a LTE.' I had no choice but to go home and started applying for new work immediately...something was fishy!
I called the next day and spoke with one of the managers who hired me. Without need to be so as I was soft spoken and professional she was snarky and defensive. Insisting that I was LTE and therefore had no right to think I would always have fulltime work, she said that I had made some mistakes (How dare the new hire make minor mistakes after two days of poor training!) and no I couldn't be cross trained. It's well known through various inside emails that the company is seeking new talent in different departments...so why not just transfer me somewhere else?
Well management won't budge, won't admit that they made false promises and worst of all when I called and tried to get what was happened to me figured out I was told 'Well it sounds like you don't really want the job..." WHAT? Why would I call and try to get this all sorted if I didn't?
I should have known by how jaded and hung over the person who trained me was. I really enjoyed this job (and this showed
) and was really, really upset for a good week but trudged ahead and put a lot of new applications out there and am in the final stages of interviewing for a new (higher paying) job.
I just don't get what my company is trying to pull here. If I am not good enough, why not just terminate me? If I need more training why not just take the time out and train me? I am technically still employed but on call. Needless to say I am not holding my breath.
I have a suspcion that it was the company's intention all along to use me (and maybe others) as long as they workload was unbearably high and discard us when it wasn't---if they had just stated their real needs at the start I probably wouldn't have taken the job.
Anyway, I am trying really hard to stay positive and give others the benefit of the doubt but there are some terrible trends I am seeing in the corporate environment:
.Trainers that don't really want to train, bosses that expect immediate perfection.
.Bosses with seemingly zero personality...including empathy or a desire to keep their word.
.Worst of all: management that cannot keep worked realted problems just that. Is it me or are managers becoming more inclined towards personal attacks?
Your thoughts?
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