Started what I thought was my dream job. Went downhill from there.
Just finished university (go me), been looking for a few months for a job, finally found one. I'm doing IT service desk for a large, established company. Making what's not a huge amount of money, but def more than I've made at any job I took before I went back to school. Was especially surprised that their initial offer was near the top of the range - didn't even feel the need to negotiate as I already felt like I was getting a good deal.
Just did my first day and already have a lot of red flags.
Everyone was welcoming me on Teams, when one guy says "hey, hope you last longer than the last guy! He was only here for 4 hours"! Bit odd, but I brushed it off cause I don't know the situation.
Then we did some virtual training with our manager. I say we, because someone else in another location had also just started that day. So we start learning a couple things. Mostly, we spent the morning dealing with the fact most of our accounts hadn't been set up properly by IT or HR. By the third one, was scratching my head again.
Manager goes on lunch as she's a couple hours ahead. Wasn't sure what to do so I went to check my HR portal to make sure everything's set up on there. Had to get that fixed too as like the others that account needed fixing. Then pretty much read some policies and whatnot until my own lunch.
We continue on doing training and talk to the third (and last) helpdesk guy, who's in the manager's location. Apparently, he's only been there a month. He wanted to show us some tickets, until he realised the only tickets he has, he doesn't know how to do. Hmmmmm.
Couple hours before my shift ends, we finish training as the manager is in later timezone and getting off. She wants me to try setting up laptops but I don't even know which ones to set up as there are several different stacks of them, most of which are unlabelled. I notice people in my office also start to leave, but shrug it off and continue doing policies and familiarizing myself with everything instead as I'm not sure what to do with that.
30 mins before my shift's end, the last person in my department within the office says she's leaving and to make sure to use the alarm code if I'm the last one out. I'm very confused as I don't have a code and didn't know how many people were gone. She says she'll go get someone else.
15 more minutes pass and I realise she has left and whoever she was going to get either isn't here or just isn't coming. I decide to do a walk around the office and finally find SOMEONE still here and ask them if I can just leave as I don't have any codes. She says it's fine and she'll handle it.
At this point I realise on my first day, nobody checked on me, most people probably didn't even know I was still there, and I almost got put into a situation where I have to choose to either leave the office unsecured or stay late until I can get a hold of someone to come close up.
Man.