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I worked in an internal administrative role in the Information Department for one month. Here are some of the difficulties I encountered:
1. The training provided by the company was insufficient
The contractor's training only covered operating the system's front end. However, handling problems in an internal administrative role requires an understanding of the system's operating logic, so front-end operation training alone was completely inadequate. As a result, whenever I encountered problems involving the system's logic, I could only ask experienced colleagues in the same department. However, these colleagues were unfriendly, showed little willingness to train newcomers, and even publicly humiliated people. After being humiliated several times, I no longer wanted to have any interaction with this particular veteran colleague.
I understand that experienced employees do not necessarily have an obligation to train newcomers in the workplace. However, this veteran employee would never speak up or explain anything while guiding a newcomer through tasks, and would deliberately humiliate the newcomer in front of a group of colleagues after the task was completed. I felt that there was something wrong with this person.
2. I was assigned too little work, and despite asking my supervisor more than once whether there were other tasks I could handle, I never received a positive response.
After becoming familiar with the work assigned by my supervisor, I discovered that it did not require much technical skill, so I completed it quickly. As a result, I often had nothing to do and could only stare blankly at my computer (not that I was bold enough to play games or browse online shopping sites). In any case, my supervisor still did not assign me any other tasks. In the end, I found some programming books online and read them when I had nothing else to do, thinking I could review and strengthen my technical skills in case I needed them someday. However, it was not until the day HR called me in for a meeting that I learned that even reading technical webpages was considered unacceptable...
Anyway, I spent a month under these circumstances. After one month, HR called me in for a meeting. The first thing they said was that they often saw me with nothing to do at work and that this attitude was unacceptable.
They thought I was too idle at work, but they also did not give me anything to do. I had no idea what the company actually wanted, so after explaining the difficulties described above, I submitted my resignation that same day.