Have you ever started a new job, and.....

[Remali]

Had the feeling that the people training you really don't want to train you at all?
I was so excited about this new job, and I liked the job. But there have been some things going on lately that are making it hard to keep on liking it there.....tonite was sort of the final straw, and to some extent yesterday too. I only have two more days left of training, and I will then be all alone, on my own, and there are so many things I don't know how to do because the trainers have not let me do them. When I ask about it they say "oh this was a pretty difficult call coming in so I will just do it", or tonite it was "oh that almost never happens anyway", so they didn't let me take the call and do it. I was supposed to be learning this tonite, and you know what I did all nite.....file papers. I was also told by my boss that I could take breaks and lunch.... again tonite I was told by the trainer I could not take a break. It wasn't busy at all, the phone had not rang in over a half hour and my trainer had done nothing but sit on her butt and visit with her friends who stopped by..... so, I picked up my purse and went and took a walk to the bathroom for my "break", to heck with that crap I thought. I did not let on I was upset tho, and I won't. I will do my best, but I am not going to stay there, there is a lot of tension there, the trainer complained to me all night about my other trainer, and then she proceeded to put down and make fun of the people who came into the ER, I was furious. After caring for sick parents who I had to take to the ER several times, sitting there listening to someone talk about people coming into the ER like that, I just wanted to smash her face in. Then the trainer tonite told me my notes I had written down for one of the procedures was wrong, I had read my notes to her seeing as I could not actually do the job, I figured I could go thru my notes (the other trainer had helped me with my notes previously this week), yet when I asked her what I should have written down she ignored me.....so I asked another gal about it when she came in to take lunch with us, she told me I had it written down correctly....so what the heck is going on I thought?!!

Good news tho!! (sorry about the long rant, but tonite was so awful).....I got a call yesterday, from a clinic I had interviewed at a couple months ago....they want me to come back in next week for another interview....this would be good, or at least better! Praying I get this other job. I had done my internship there several years ago, it was a nice place, it is a huge place and they just added on a large addition to the clinic.

[Kowgirlkate]

Keeping my fingers crossed for you Remali. Think of it as a stepping stone

[luckydoublesranch]

Had the feeling that the people training you really don't want to train you at all?
I was so excited about this new job, and I liked the job. But there have been some things going on lately that are making it hard to keep on liking it there.....tonite was sort of the final straw, and to some extent yesterday too. I only have two more days left of training, and I will then be all alone, on my own, and there are so many things I don't know how to do because the trainers have not let me do them. When I ask about it they say "oh this was a pretty difficult call coming in so I will just do it", or tonite it was "oh that almost never happens anyway", so they didn't let me take the call and do it. I was supposed to be learning this tonite, and you know what I did all nite.....file papers. I was also told by my boss that I could take breaks and lunch.... again tonite I was told by the trainer I could not take a break. It wasn't busy at all, the phone had not rang in over a half hour and my trainer had done nothing but sit on her butt and visit with her friends who stopped by..... so, I picked up my purse and went and took a walk to the bathroom for my "break", to heck with that crap I thought. I did not let on I was upset tho, and I won't. I will do my best, but I am not going to stay there, there is a lot of tension there, the trainer complained to me all night about my other trainer, and then she proceeded to put down and make fun of the people who came into the ER, I was furious. After caring for sick parents who I had to take to the ER several times, sitting there listening to someone talk about people coming into the ER like that, I just wanted to smash her face in. Then the trainer tonite told me my notes I had written down for one of the procedures was wrong, I had read my notes to her seeing as I could not actually do the job, I figured I could go thru my notes (the other trainer had helped me with my notes previously this week), yet when I asked her what I should have written down she ignored me.....so I asked another gal about it when she came in to take lunch with us, she told me I had it written down correctly....so what the heck is going on I thought?!!

Good news tho!! (sorry about the long rant, but tonite was so awful).....I got a call yesterday, from a clinic I had interviewed at a couple months ago....they want me to come back in next week for another interview....this would be good, or at least better! Praying I get this other job. I had done my internship there several years ago, it was a nice place, it is a huge place and they just added on a large addition to the clinic.


Oh boy! Sounds like you're stuck with some real doozies!
I had a similar job at a Veterinary Clinic. The place was run for YEARS by the father and mother who were both Vets. Their daughter went to Veterinary school and when she graduated, joined the practice. After a few years she was allowed to hire a new employee. She ended up hiring me and I didn't realize I was the first person to be hired in like 15 years! Eeek! The other two ladies were MUCH older and I wasn't very welcome at first. Same as the situation with you, they were supposed to be training me, but it seemed like either they wouldn't or would show me incorrectly how to do things. UGH! After a while I "grew" on them and they were much more helpful and we all became friends too. (I ended up leaving for other reasons, but that's a whole 'nother bag of chips) :(
Hang in there...it will get better and good luck on the other opportunity!! :)

[Remali]

Thanks, I feel better talking about it. I was so upset tonite, altho I tried to not let it show. I was so happy to get this job, but now I find I am dreading it and I am so confused about what the heck is going on there. I look at it as a good learning experience tho, or at least I am trying to....and the job itself is very good experience. But it is a LOT of responsibility to be on a job, by yourself, no one around at all.....(I am at the switchboard in a room by myself, or will be soon). And if an ambulance calls in and is on its way to our ER, or the docs need to be paged,or a doctor calls and needs me to page another doctor, or I have to call in the surgery team for an ASAP or stat surgery....I cannot be bumbling around not knowing what to do.....so you see what I mean....this is not a job where I can screw up.....I have to know what to do.... I am the one who calls in the OR team, picks up the ambulance calls, calls the codes, etc. Holy cow I need to know the procedures and how to do it.... yet I feel as if I am hitting a brick wall..... And yes, I will be on my own after two more days of training, and there is no one around for me to ask for help....if I need help I would have to pick up the phone and call someone from another area to help me out and they may be with a patient and can't always get there.....so I want to get this all down and learn it, but I feel as if I am hitting a brick wall..... I think things are about to get VERY interesting! lol. I am trying to stay relatively calm about it, but I take my job seriously and I hate not knowing what I should be doing. There are several binders there with procedures and info, but they don't always include everything that you have to do, and when a doctor or ambulance is on the other end of the phone line who has time to go digging thru a pile of 5 huge log books to find the info.....

[vicklynn]

Oh man, I didnt know that is what you were doing. Id quit. I would NEVER work a phone system in medical without full training. Hell, where I worked medical records, we had 6 docs, and 3 phone girls, fully trained and the 4 girls in registration worked back up on the phones. One person, bull crap. What happens if you have to pee, or get dizzy from lack of food. Im serious, that place is on crack if they run that place like that. I am so sorry for you. ((HUGS))
What happens legally, if you bumble a call? Id check into it. HIPPA HIPPA HIPPA.

[Remali]

I know it.....I am so upset and mad Vick.....it is a serious job and I have not done ANY of that yet....
How can I possibly do that with never having done it.... you have to first find the pager or cell phone numbers of these doctors, then figure out which buttons to push on the switchboard....there is a long sequence of numbers and certain buttons you have to enter on the switchboard just to page someone..... And then the OR team, I have to call the doctor at home or wherever, then call the anesthesiologist, then the nurse, and two other people I can't remember.... Of course there are also the trauma codes, when I hear one over the PA I have to do some kind of paging system on the switchboard and enter info as to where the location is and ETA, etc. I was about ready to walk out the door tonite....but I am scared I may lose my unemployment if I do.....BUT I think I could have refused this job because the pay is less than what I get on unemployment...... What a mess. I think I better talk to the supervisor Monday......but you know what she told me the other day, she said I should know how to do all that in 2 or 3 days. Yet the paperwork she gave me on the job when I was hired stated it was a three week training period. I really am tempted to quit......but I can't lose my unemployment.

I think I walked into a huge can of worms....I think a lot of these people in the dept. I got hired in are not happy about things there, and the trainers are not happy with getting their hours cut and having to train new people to do what they have been doing all these years.... I also think it could be an interesting and exciting job IF a person was given the proper training and time for training, and if they had another person there to back you up.....they also expect you to scan a huge stack of paperwork into the scanner while manning the switchboard. But, there are so many doctors at this hospital and they all have ways they want to be paged or not paged and also there are doctors that are on the active staff and there are docs from the outside, not sure how I am expected to know all this stuff in just 6 days time.....

[oursarge]

Sounds like a job with a ton of responsibility and sounds like the trainers are wanting you to mess up. They might be bitter for having to train you if their hrs are getting cut. I feel bad I know how much you were looking forward to this job.

I worked for an insurance co. and they'd give a person two weeks to meet their 90% production standard. Sounded nice except the people who were supposed to train them wouldn't train them and the other employees were not supposed to help so they were sort of left swinging. If the trainers liked you they might help you some but if they didn't, forget it, you got no help if you didn't learn by watching you were finished. It was a simple job but lots of little details. I remember teaching one guy how to do microfilm work [This was back in '77, we were just getting computers, most things were on microfilm] like from turning the machine on to doing the tapes by not talking just pointing and when I got my tapes I'd get what he needed and then point to what was on the paper and what was on the tape so he'd understand, I would have gotten fired if they caught me but at that point I didn't care I was leaving anyway. I didn't think it was fair they'd tell him go look something up on microfilm when he didn't even know how to turn the machine on and they knew he didn't know . We sat next to each other every day since he got zero training except for what I showed him without talking just pointing. It was nuts but that's how that place operated. If you didn't do what they asked like over time they'd tell you there were lots of people in line for your job if you didn't do it. I left to get married, I missed my friends but I never missed the way they operated things as far as how they treated people. That guy and I have talked on MySpace and he left right after I did, he couldn't take the place either and is doing what he always wanted to do rather than play their games. In later years a union tried to come in but the Co would say they'd be better and the employees didn't vote for the union and nothing got better, things got worse. At one point they didn't even let you talk to the person next to you [I was gone by then I heard complaints from my friends who were still there]. When my friend was dying from cancer she got a letter saying her insurance was running out and if she didn't come in to work for a certain # of days she'd have no insurance, she was in the hospital dying how could she work? Nice coming from an insurance co. She died right after. I will never have that kind of insurance, I hated how they treated their employees and I tell everyone don't buy their insurance.

Anyway I hope things get better and I really hope that other job comes through because it sounds like there are alot of people there that might be wanting to have you fail. That's a job with alot of responsibility and sounds like there really should be 2 people on it, how can you do paperwork and man phones at the same time plus the whole lunch/break thing. Good Luck.

[vicklynn]

Make sure you keep that paper that says it is a 3 week training course. Just for back up.
I think I would seriously talk to someone about Labor laws.

[WashingtonBay]

I have started a lot of new jobs where it just didn't turn out to be as good as I hoped. You're kinda stuck, you can't really complain a lot or improve things much, you're new.

I got hired into a situation I still don't understand once. It seemed like a good job, office manager at a company. The principles who hired me seemed friendly enough... until I was hired, and I was to be trained by the receptionist who had been doing my job since the last person left, but who was passed over for the position. She was very angry about it, and did not hide that fact to anyone, had no interest in training me, and when it was over, I was supposed be her boss. Yikes. I stayed a week. Tried to see if there was a way through the fire swamp of personalities in that place. There wasn't.

It sounds like the best thing to hope for is the new interview opportunity!

[Gliderider]

Oh so sorry..Your trainer sounds like a piece of work. I hope the other interview goes well so you can get out of there.

[Remali]

Thank you everyone, I feel better talking about it....I woke up today with such a bad migraine....I think I was just over-tired and stressed out. I feel better now, at least a little bit. I think I am just going to not say anything, altho my boss did tell me that she wanted me to do paging, so I will have to tell her I did not get to do any at all last night......and maybe I can do the paging Monday and Tuesday this coming week with the other trainer (the other trainer is my main trainer anyway). I am just going to keep smiling and act like nothing is wrong, and just hope that other job comes thru for me.

Isn't it awful how mean and nasty some people are tho?! And how horrid some companies/businesses are?! A friend of mine worked a really bad job many years ago, after a couple days at her job one day she left for her lunch break, and she never went went back! LOL.

[Gypsy Rose]

Ugh! I have no advice for you, Renee, but I do know how hard it is to be stuck around people who are total pains in the rear, lol! Hopefully, the other job will come through for you.

[Miracle Whip]

If you continued to report your unemployment, by saying I made this much, and I contacted 2 employers...which CAN be online in most cases, you will NOT lose your unemployment. In fact, the unemployment folks won't even KNOW you worked at this shitty hospital!! It takes a number of weeks of earning money ABOVE and BEYOND your unemployment to actually forfeit your Unemployment funds. If you leave this job, tough - its part time, and does NOT affect unemployment in ANY WAY.

[Ranger44]

Sorry you're going through this struggle Renee. I've had the same job for so long I can't relate. Hopefully the new interview will go well.

I'll keep telling you that you are on the wrong side of the river. :)

[Remali]

I am still collecting partial unemployment, because I don't make that much at this new job and it's only a part time job. But here in WI they do have to know immediately if you are working somewhere, it is part of filing your weekly claim (one of the questions asked), so they do already know what I make there and where I work. Well, I may ask for additional training next week, if things still are not going very well, I only have two more days to work with the trainer before I am on my own.