Polls: Education & Career

I’ve been illustrating my department’s processes for a few years now. It seemed they always made it harder on me than necessary. But upper management talked through my boss who isn’t the best communicator. Now the company is forcing people into retirement, which leaves a lot of work for those who aren’t retiring. My boss is now asking me to illustrate my department’s work from start to finish AND instead of just a meeting with my boss to present it, upper management wants to either video it, or, have a video conference while I’m presenting it. Boss wasn’t very clear on that. He said it was because there were so many steps to our processes they want to video it. While sometimes I make mistakes or forget things, I got above average progress report.

I know it sounds like a really stupid question. My anxiety is typically pretty bad, even worse when it comes to working & social interactions. Prior to this job, I worked in financial aid for ~2 years. It started out stressful but I ended up getting good feedback from mgmt/my metrics were apparently one of the better on the team. I sought new work due to the workload at the time & wanting better pay. Now I’m in my 4th week & this is a school I’ve been trying to get into for a hot minute.

I’ve trained with the mgr & supervisor, both have told me I’m doing well & I’m not even asking for feedback (yet). Mgr felt the need to let the whole team know that I was picking up fast when I was first introduced to them. This job is more in depth vs the last job & she even told me that they only hire people with experience now bc of how much there is to it. Prior to this wk, I was w/ the mgr training & got that 1:1 attention. Now, they’ve thrown me into the deep end & I’m doing *work work*. I have SO many questions & just message the supervisor, too many unknowns. I have notes I took & training resources but still feel like I might need direction if I’m working something new, especially if I didn’t work through an actual scenario before.

I’m not sure if I’m expecting hand holding in the sense of wanting more extensive training or they’re just expecting me to ask as I go, as I work through a new task. The supervisor said that they expect me to ask a ton of questions & she said something today like “I think you caught onto doing an estimate quicker than I did when I was first training”. I know they wouldn’t lie to me & I guess that reassurance should be enough to get me through the brunt of it but it just never is. I REALLY WANT TO MAKE THIS JOB WORK.

I've noticed a lot of people saying "different to" rather than "different from" the way I learned it.

Example: Oranges are different to apples.

How do you say it?

”We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues…and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together... we will work on this together.“