Should I quit new job?

the lady

Looking for a bit of advice, I started a job a couple of weeks ago having been unemployed/casual working for the last few years. I was delighted with the idea of having a proper routine and a real purpose to my day again but the job itself is awful and I'm miserable there. There is 1 person trying to train me but she's not great at communication so I can't understand what she is trying to tell me. The place has a really high staff turnover (it's a warehouse job) and the paperwork systems make no sense, I think because nobody cares enough to streamline.
Should I cut my losses and leave and try sign back on the dole or try to stick it out while I look for something else? It's Sunday evening now and I'm starting to panic at the thought of going in there in the morning.

Tramps Like Us

Suck it up while looking for another job

Bigus

Much easier to get a job with a current job, stick it out and explain your difficulties to your employers you owe it to yourself to try harder in current job until things improve there or elsewhere.

micar

[QUOTE= I think because nobody cares enough to streamline.[/QUOTE]

there is your opportunity!!!!!!! take a couple of weeks and have a look at how it could be made better. Then approach the boss and give him your views on the current system and how improvements can be made to make it for efficient and ultimately cost effective.

The boss will take notice when there is cost savings measure in place.

Tell him/her that you want to involved in the process if he wants to go with it.

Some people are extremely unwilling to change. But you'll just need to struggle on!!!

jjpep

stick with it - worse case scenario is that it will be easier to get another job while you currently have one. Best case outlined by post above.

Mrs OBumble

You will have a nine week stand down before you can get the dole if you leave voluntarily.

Pac1Man

Having been out of full-time work for a few years, going back may be a shock to you. Two weeks is certainly not long enough to make a valued judgement on a new position. I would give it at least 4-6 months and then reassess.

You say you can't understand what your trainer is trying to say. Ask questions and lots of them and keep asking them if you don't understand. Definitely don't say you understand something when you don't. I've learned that the hard way in the past.

I don't know your specific role but if a number of aspects of the job are confusing (paperwork etc.), bring a small notepad and take notes and simply revert back to them when needed. That way, when something is explained to you, it goes straight into the notepad and you don't have to stress about remembering it first time around.

Good luck!

Mr. Loverman

micar wrote: »

there is your opportunity!!!!!!!

Came here to say the same thing.

I love these sorts of jobs.

You get promoted to management / senior management very quickly.

You need to go to the decision maker with solutions to the problems.

Ask for the power to implement your solutions.

Seriously, you have a wonderful opportunity in front of you.

Good luck.

the lady

Just wanted to update for the people who replied, Pac1Man thanks for your input, it wasn't the shock of the new that was a problem, I'd been doing contract work on and off for a while, no stranger to a 12 hour day, can't go into much detail without pinpointing the company I was working for but the problem wasn't with my ability to understand but with the haphazard approach to filing/order recording/general communication.
Anyway, the approach I took was to start applying for other jobs immediately (as in 6am on day 2 of the 'new' job before I left for work at 6.30) 3 weeks later I had gone through 2 interview processes and was offered a job,sucked it up and gave the previous lot a week notice and now I've been in my new 'new' job for 6 weeks and it's fab, everything I was hoping for when I started my job hunt. The people are great, there is a proper structure and training system, it's challenging but with constant scope for learning and the money is enough to live on.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is thanks for the encouragement, it did help me to stick it out, the most important part for me was that I stuck to my own work ethic and didn't just walk out when everything in me was telling me to run, I'm thankful to have been in the situation I was in cos I may never have applied for the job I'm doing now if I hadn't felt so panicked.