First week on the job, supervisor basically ignoring me...

[Anonymous]

OP I found it helpful when in a new position to email my manager daily or every few days to report my activities and progress, and to request assistance for information (people to contact, company resources, etc) in order to fulfill my duties... that way your boss can see you are being proactive and trying to be productive but you have also put them on notice of what you need to be successful and yes, it's a paper trail (as it were). HTH.

[Anonymous]

You just spent ONE HOUR with your supervisor on expectations and answering all your questions and you still don't know where things stand?
Did you ask the right questions?? One hour should be an effective amount of time to get on the same page. Why do you feel the need to schedule more chat time? Did the convo go off in all sorts of dumb tangents or something?

[Anonymous]

I agree that during that one hour you should have discussed projects etc.

Op, I've been there. Fed govt is so friggin weird. Just be low maintenance and keep your head down for a couple weeks reading manuals and getting the lay of the land and hopefully they will give you work. It is august. If you reach the three week mark and still no work, come up with a plan to look for work. Send an email to your boss, volunteering for assignments, ask around, if you hear of something interesting, volunteer to help out, Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I found it helpful when in a new position to email my manager daily or every few days to report my activities and progress, and to request assistance for information (people to contact, company resources, etc) in order to fulfill my duties... that way your boss can see you are being proactive and trying to be productive but you have also put them on notice of what you need to be successful and yes, it's a paper trail (as it were). HTH.

+1. Also, at some point soon you should get an annual performance plan with expectations against which you will be measured at the end of the review cycle. You can ask your supervisor when that will happen.

I agree with PPs that this is August (dead month in DC) and that the first weeks can be dull while they figure out how to use you (this was true for me even though I was hired to do a specific, urgent thing: it just takes a while to get someone up and running) but there should not be any actual confusion about what you're there to do or how you should spend your days.

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone. I've implemented your suggestions and hopefully everyone will get used to me being available to work soon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What job series?

11:42 back ...

this is completely atypical of anything I saw in my 26 yrs as a Fed, which is why I asked what job series... yet OP did not answer that question.