Something an everyday office survivor feels sometimes…

…I have one huge prob­lem in my new job: I have no thought what I’m respon­si­bil­ity, and no one will answer my questions.

I have estab­lish myself in an unfor­tu­nate pickle. In my haste to get a job after mov­ing to a new city, I took a job that seemed per­fect at the time. I had been in res­i­den­tial real state for 3 and a half years, and an invest­ment mer­chant banker with a small per­son­nel hired me to work on a unique project that would make use of my skills in res­i­den­tial prop­erty eval­u­a­tion, to aid him in the pric­ing and acqui­si­tion of mort­gage loans. I was excited to gather a small more about finance.

Well, the project never took off and while I am grate­ful that he has kept me on per­son­nel, I am respon­si­bil­ity noth­ing but mak­ing cold calls regard­ing com­mer­cial real estate loans all day long. Some­times I get a fil­ing project, but all of those are lit­er­ally done now. I have tried to go into it with gusto, but given that I have no back­ground in finance or com­mer­cial real estate (and majored in art his­tory), I have a lot of ques­tions. I am lit­er­ally learn­ing a new ver­nac­u­lar, and also a lot of slang, and respon­si­bil­ity it pretty much on my own.

There are two other per­son­nel mem­bers, and the CEO and prin­ci­pal of the com­pany is out of the office most of the time. While he is com­mu­nica­tive in stip­u­la­tions of acces­si­bil­ity, he is not will­ing to teach me, and give me all of the back­ground I need. He is dis­mis­sive, and has told me that no one expects me to know any­thing at my level any­way. I have tried very hard to con­verse my abil­ity and eager­ness to gather by read­ing or tak­ing classes in basic finance, but he does not encour­age any growth and mocks my enthu­si­asm. The VP is in the office, and is stuck in the posi­tion of hav­ing to deal with a very inex­pe­ri­enced col­league, and makes no effort to hide his frus­tra­tion with me. He is impa­tient, and often con­de­scend­ing in tone. The CEO’s assis­tant is ordi­nar­ily busy with step­ping and fetch­ing for the CEO, and takes every­thing very seri­ously. She sighs a lot, and does not smile or talk much. The same for the CEO.

I am in a very silent, very tense office with noth­ing to do but one task all day long, and no oppor­tu­nity for growth. I get paid well, and have health insur­ance. I was able to lighten the mood in the office for a few weeks, but one after­noon the VP got so annoyed with one of my per­fectly most likely ques­tions (regard­ing a faulty soft­ware issue, com­pletely out of my hege­mony) that he threw a bit of a tantrum and now has not spo­ken to me at all in three days. I have tried to reach out and acknowl­edge how frus­trat­ing it must be to have to help some­one like me with no finance back­ground, but he lit­er­ally ignored me. He often ignores me. I have long stopped both­er­ing him.

I have gone from a job man­ag­ing peo­ple in a thriv­ing, com­mu­nica­tive envi­ron­ment to being spo­ken to like a child in a silent cham­ber. I am look­ing for a fur­ther job, clearly, but how do I deal with this in the mean­time? It seems as if my relent­less pos­i­tive atti­tude, no mat­ter how unop­pres­sive, really makes things of poorer quality.

Help me before I jump.

Thank you,

Feel­ing Jumpy

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