tell me how to recover from a bad start at a new job

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:R U OP's mother here to defend? A new hire at my agency came with such hubris and incompetence that I wanted to ask. It is a very bad combination when you work in a collaborative environment and are dependent on co-workers to come up to speed.

I'm just here to help you along with your remedial critical reading skills. I will give you brownie points though for having such an active imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Showing initiative goes a long way in my book. If you are new and making mistakes, yet every evening you are leaving on time, then I am going to judge you. A person who makes mistakes needs to at a minimum be willing to stay longer hours to correct them. That was my biggest issue with a new hire of mine, not the mistakes, but the failure to put in the extra effort to stay longer hours to get better. You can't help that you are new and learning, but you should be willing to make up for your shortcomings in other ways. Prove that you are an asset who is willing to do whatever it takes.

This is bullshit. Judging people for not choosing to flush any semblance of work/life balance, sacrificing their physical and emotional health and putting them in the position to make even more mistakes because they can't get enough rest and sleep to think? Screw you. Training is your job. If you can't effectively onboard and train during normal working hours, you're not very good at it.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of orgs really drop the ball on onboarding and then are surprised when a new hire doesn't pan out. In my case, my new org pressured me to join very quickly, right before a critical meeting in order to have me there (I was literally 4 days on the job at that point); they didn't have any office ready for me for months; they neglected to put me on the all-staff email list for ages; no one indicated any of the office idiosyncracies (optional meetings that aren't; dress code that says one thing but big boss wants another; etc etc).