On my first day, I asked if there was an onboarding schedule. My manager said, “You’ll figure it out.” I figured it out but by slowly becoming everyone’s unofficial IT, HR, and support system, because no one else knew what they were doing either. Turns out “You’ll figure it out” is a big red flag.
Has this happened to anyone else?
This specific thing has never happened to me, but run far from somewhere that isn’t structured unless you have equity in the company. It’s not your job to onboard yourself.
I hate to say, this isn’t a little issue. You should’ve seen it coming.
Ah the classic “understaffed and underpaid” terminology
I was told “we work hard to play hard.” We would work, hardly sleep, and then they would go to the bar next door and go back to working. I was naive and young, didn’t know better and barely hanging on. Turns out they were able to “work hard” because they snorted coke and adderall in the bar’s bathroom. I wasn’t lazy I just wasn’t on drugs lol