first day at job and it sucks...

Turgon

ladiesman217 wrote:

Sorry guys, I just need to vent.

It's my first day on my new job today and it really sucks. The HR lead me to the Server Room and introduce me with my suppose to be buddy who is a junior tech there for around 7 mos. I shaked with him and after the HR leaves he asked me if I know how to repair UPS and Printers and monitors, I said, no...then he replied to me "so maybe I should be resigning soon. When I told him that The HR informed me that another 2 junior tech and 1 system admin will soon report for duty, He even repeat that the he'll just resign. I know what he means and it seems he dont want me there.

I think this is not the type of work environment I was looking for so I'm quiting. Maybe someday I could also find a more friendly environment whos employees want to work as a team. I asked him about the duties and if he can guide to the work around and he told me no one would tell what to do and it's like he doesn't want to cooperate with me.

He's actually a big head when it comes to talking about his skills, he even reffered to samba as an operating system.

I was shocked when I saw their system, they got 1 DC (windows 2000 server) and 1 exchange and wow! it's full of malware! They got no RIS, they use static addressing with 50+ computers, clients are old windows 98 on pentium II and some are XP's in PIII.

I think I can't be productive working with him so bye new job, start of a new job hunt again.

Your working with a company with issues there. The infrastructure is off the pace and by the sounds of things hasn't been administrated properly. You're also working along someone who clearly isn't happy about a number of things. Many of which you don't even know yet. You are just new so don't take it personally. Lot's of shops are run this way, poorly.

Work with this fellow for 6 weeks and see how it goes. Work hard and be positive. Don't get bogged down with his attitude and the politics there. Avoid conflict. Do the best you can. Then see after 6 weeks how you 'feel' things will roll there. You should know by then if it's a place that you are happy working in regarding the will of management to improve things, and the attitudes of your workmates, managers and end users. If it really blows after six weeks, take the experience and roll somewhere else. Providing you have done your level best to help around, if it really sucks after 6 weeks it isn't going to get better. At least in my experience. But you have to give it some time. Concentrate on technical improvements you can make during that 6 week window. Useful things you *can* do that will improve matters, even in a small way. See how these stack up with peers and bosses. If after 6 weeks you are still no better off after all that grunt, it maybe they just have too many problems to solve! There are lots of other companies out there with problems to solve, but they may give you a fighting chance!

Good luck!