My coworker is refusing to train me - should I stay at my new job?
Hello all,
Needing some career advice. I started my current role, project coordinator, 2 months ago. My position is a new position for the company, so I was to be trained on all of their current processes and then create my own process as time goes on. Even though I have been here for 2 months, I still have not been trained on 80% of my role because the one of the employees refuses to.
I am to shadow the sales team, controller, and project manager on how their work flow. My supervisor (sales manager) and the project manager have trained me on their parts. The controller refuses to train me because she does not get along with my supervisor.
My company was bought out by another company 5 years ago. My supervisor worked for the new company for years, then they transferred him here to help with the transition. He was promised to only come into the office 2-3 days a week, 5 years later he is the sales manager acting is general manager without a pay raise. Since he was transferred here, the controller and him have never got along. The controller has worked here for 20+ years and wants to return to how business used to be done and my supervisor is disgruntled from the current state of his position.
In my point of view, the changes trying to be made by my supervisor are much needed. I see this as a common case of 'everyone hates their boss'; many of the changes came from powers above. From my first day, I was getting a earful from every person I shadowed (including all the managers), about something they disagreed with. It was very much 'us vs. them', the original crew vs. the new hires.
So, the controller is refusing to train me because of her disagreement with my supervisor. Since my position is new and they rushed the process, my job description is up to interpretation. Before I was hired, my supervisor and the vice president sat with the controller and explained my job duties. After I was hired and it was clear I was going to do what my supervisor planned and not what she planned, it resulted in her not training me a single day since.
Over the past three weeks, everything has begun to implode. A long-time salesman resigned because he did not agree with the changes. Then, my supervisor resigned because his company was not backing him up through the drama. Since my supervisor has left, I now report to the project manager.
I have been personally talked to by the vice president in charge of my location's transition, the interim sales manager taking over my supervisor's position (working remotely from 4 hours away), the project manager, and another coworker asking me to give them time to recover and train me the correct way.
I do not want to find another job. I am 2 years out of college and this is my second full-time job since graduation. I worked very hard on my resume through college and I would hate to see it turn downhill from job hopping. Except, I have yet to see this job improve. I was watching the red flags raise from day one, and by week two I knew it would be a miracle for my position to become a quality position for a professional with a degree (me).
I have been promised things will change since my third week, I am now on my eighth week and things continue to get worse.
My support system is telling me to quit. Should I listen or stick it out?