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I'm in a relatively new job in an organisation with lots of systems and a complex web of scenarios that involve each of these systems, and I'm under-fucking-wat

I'm in a relatively new job in an organisation with lots of systems and a complex web of scenarios that involve each of these systems, and I'm under-fucking-water in terms of how well I understand things in comparison to where I need to be for doing my job properly / competently. I've been working on a few diagrams and documentation to try to make sense of it, including asking questions of related persons, and all that has gotten me is three separate people questioning why I'm working on something that isn't "one of my assigned Jira tickets". So I'm currently in a negative spiral of being not-particularly-useful because I don't know enough about how their shit works, and also now being reticent to ask questions in order to help solve the first problem, because it seems to self-nominate me as "not on task". Will be applying for other jobs this weekend. Can't handle this BS.

tartoran 5y ago
Do apply for other jobs. It’s likely you’re working in a disfunctional place. However, if you decide to stick around do what you need to do to understand what is going on and don’t hide the fact that you need to get a better picture. If they fire you for that it’s a good confirmation you needen’t bother working there, the place is disfunctional.
- BLKNSLVR 5y ago
  Cheers. I'm half-way through a 12-month contract, so leaving isn't any kind of existential problem for me. I've raised with my immediate manager the learning curve problems I've experienced (which he was thankful for one day, and then telling me to 'stay on task' the very next day), and he's also aware that someone that started one week before me left at the end of last year for similar reasons - I get the feeling that's water off a ducks back though. The place of work is un-balanced towards "institutionalisation", which I've not experienced before and is likely a large part of the problem, and my take-away is to avoid such places for the rest of my (increasingly humble) career.

tartoran 5y ago

Do apply for other jobs. It’s likely you’re working in a disfunctional place. However, if you decide to stick around do what you need to do to understand what is going on and don’t hide the fact that you need to get a better picture. If they fire you for that it’s a good confirmation you needen’t bother working there, the place is disfunctional.

BLKNSLVR 5y ago
Cheers. I'm half-way through a 12-month contract, so leaving isn't any kind of existential problem for me. I've raised with my immediate manager the learning curve problems I've experienced (which he was thankful for one day, and then telling me to 'stay on task' the very next day), and he's also aware that someone that started one week before me left at the end of last year for similar reasons - I get the feeling that's water off a ducks back though. The place of work is un-balanced towards "institutionalisation", which I've not experienced before and is likely a large part of the problem, and my take-away is to avoid such places for the rest of my (increasingly humble) career.