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New facilities—clean, attractive, spacious, and comfortable offices.
People compete to be the loudest; they criticize you first and deal with the facts later.
Or they stay quietly silent and claim not to know anything, waiting for you to make a mistake. Who knows how the procedures are supposed to work? Apart from the entrenched long-timers, there is a constant stream of supporting players. The supporting players' shared role is simply to highlight the importance of the long-timers.
The sales department is even more entertaining. Newcomers have to know how to curry favor with the powerful; otherwise, no one will teach you. They just throw out, “Wasn’t this covered in training? Go look it up yourself.” How much can be taught in a half-day training session that is rushed through once? Often, they themselves barely understand it.
Newcomers have to learn to constantly pledge loyalty to the slightly overweight supervisor and curry her favor. Otherwise, she will deliberately leave things unclear or not respond, and may also encourage others to block you, to demonstrate her authority as a supervisor.
Coworkers may also try to compete for the number-two position and do indescribable things. Unless you are good at internal power struggles, I advise you to leave. Life is short—don’t get stuck in the mire!