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Anyone ever had this kind of experience? Im not talking about a hourly paid job or nothing like that.

I mean a salary paid job where you applied, interviewed, got the job, and on the first day or first couple weeks you were clueless.

I heard many jobs are like this... Even if you have the experience... Any truth to this?
 
Yep.

When I first started my job as a T1 Network Technician I couldn't even tell you what a Cat6 cable or a RJ-45 was. I was a programmer, not a Network dude.

Took me months to get a working understanding of the interconnectivity of the devices under our care... But now im 300% on my role and a T2. 

All it takes is time. Pops told me best, 'the degree just shows you have the intellectual capacity to grasp what they need to teach you to perform your role'.

Seems true to me. Funny, cause I spend 90% of my day like the above pic. Im at work as I post this, barely done a damn thing all day 
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WorldGoneMad said:
Anyone ever had this kind of experience? Im not talking about a hourly paid job or nothing like that.
I mean a salary paid job where you applied, interviewed, got the job, and on the first day or first couple weeks you were clueless.

I heard many jobs are like this... Even if you have the experience... Any truth to this?
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Couple weeks? Try the first 90 days at least :lol: depending on how many layers of middle managers there are.


I'm on my 5th or 6th corporate job now (I either get bored or get poached), and they're all the same (pretty much why I'm about to exit sooner or later).

First week is NEO (New Employee Orientation). Then IT gives you the company phone and computer. Then you pick up the company credit card, and car (if applicable). Then you go to your workstation/cube/office and interact with other departments you're going to be working with. You then meet with your assistant and get a calling tree of who's who.

It's an art form you learn to perfect as time goes on.
 
Jay Patt said:
Yep.

When I first started my job as a T1 Network Technician I couldn't even tell you what a Cat6 cable or a RJ-45 was. I was a programmer, not a Network dude.

Took me months to get a working understanding of the interconnectivity of the devices under our care... But now im 300% on my role and a T2. 

All it takes is time. Pops told me best, 'the degree just shows you have the intellectual capacity to grasp what they need to teach you to perform your role'.

Seems true to me. Funny, cause I spend 90% of my day like the above pic. Im at work as I post this, barely done a damn thing all day :lol:  
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That's how it is at most places. My 2nd job was really dope. I stayed there for almost 3 years...which was REALLY long for me because other places were 1 year max. My manager was into fashion. There's been times where we just have meetings on thee Outlook and just look at fashion stuff. I spent most of my time there posting on NT as well.

I lost faith in the US education system. Degrees don't mean much nowadays IMO. I don't use any of the crap I learned in all my 10 years of higher education :lol:

It's also stupid as hell to me that a lot of companies are trying to save money and cut off the wrong people. One of the companies I worked for was trying to save $300M a year. They laid off a crapload of line employees making $10-12 an hour but the 4-5 layers of middle managers making $120-200k are still there. And those line employees work harder than anyone.
 
That's completely normal.

On a side note, wasn't there some nter that got a job through his mom's connect, then quit on the first day because he said he was sitting around not doing anything for the first 90 minutes? Don't be that guy. :lol:
 
i think that was a reditt story^ that someone posted
 
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wj4 said:
 
Jay Patt said:
Yep.

When I first started my job as a T1 Network Technician I couldn't even tell you what a Cat6 cable or a RJ-45 was. I was a programmer, not a Network dude.

Took me months to get a working understanding of the interconnectivity of the devices under our care... But now im 300% on my role and a T2. 

All it takes is time. Pops told me best, 'the degree just shows you have the intellectual capacity to grasp what they need to teach you to perform your role'.

Seems true to me. Funny, cause I spend 90% of my day like the above pic. Im at work as I post this, barely done a damn thing all day 
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That's how it is at most places. My 2nd job was really dope. I stayed there for almost 3 years...which was REALLY long for me because other places were 1 year max. My manager was into fashion. There's been times where we just have meetings on thee Outlook and just look at fashion stuff. I spent most of my time there posting on NT as well.

I lost faith in the US education system. Degrees don't mean much nowadays IMO. I don't use any of the crap I learned in all my 10 years of higher education
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It's also stupid as hell to me that a lot of companies are trying to save money and cut off the wrong people. One of the companies I worked for was trying to save $300M a year. They laid off a crapload of line employees making $10-12 an hour but the 4-5 layers of middle managers making $120-200k are still there. And those line employees work harder than anyone.
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Straight up. Although I will say that in my major (Computer Science) where im at now has been very heavy w/ programming. I've learned C++, Java, SQL, got Assembler next semester, taking Data Structures right now.. I still plan on becoming a software engineer and making use of all that.

And the budget cuts are crazy to me too... They're doing the same thing to our business unit by restricting travel and purchases when we've consistently increased our earning year after year. Top brass must be pulling in even fatter bonuses.
derrty6232 said:
That's completely normal.

On a side note, wasn't there some nter that got a job through his mom's connect, then quit on the first day because he said he was sitting around not doing anything for the first 90 minutes? Don't be that guy.
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This honestly surprised me the most making that transition from bad retail jobs like FinishLine and grocery stores to corporate.

I was busting my *** in all those retail jobs a good 80% of the time for minimum wage. In corporate I spend maybe 10% of my time at work working making multiples more. I was hoping maybe it's just a technician thing; if everything works we're doing our job right. Pops finally quit the lies and admitted it's the exact same way for him and he's an administration dude. Plays solitaire and reads sports articles on his work computer.

Led me to the belief that the 40-hour work week is mostly wasteful, the lack of productivity makes me feel like I dont deserve my wage sometimes 
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derrty6232 said:
That's completely normal.

On a side note, wasn't there some nter that got a job through his mom's connect, then quit on the first day because he said he was sitting around not doing anything for the first 90 minutes? Don't be that guy. :lol:
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japejapejape said:
i think that was a reditt story^ that someone posted
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Yeah it was a Reddit story. Dude used to work at Gamestop or something. His mom got him a position at some corporate place and he quit because he wasn't doing anything on his first day. I think he ended back at Gamestop.
 
I started working for a corporate tech company that makes test and measurement equipment for the military and NASA, I don't know how I got the job considering I worked as a project manager for a metal fabrication and design company, but they said they were impressed by my resume and the way I carried myself and thought I could bring a lot to the table. The first few months I was clueless about our products and was constantly having to make sales calls and talk about something I knew nothing I about, I just went off of the notes from meetings I attended and read up on whatever was available on our network. I was supposed to have formal training but never got it because they pretty much loaded the work on me from the jump. I taught myself everything I needed to know about this job and asked questions when I needed to. I know some employers get annoyed if you ask too many questions, but they can't blame you if they didn't take the time to teach you at least the basic information you'd need to get the job done. Always ask questions!
 
silkboi said:
derrty6232 said:
That's completely normal.

On a side note, wasn't there some nter that got a job through his mom's connect, then quit on the first day because he said he was sitting around not doing anything for the first 90 minutes? Don't be that guy. :lol:
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japejapejape said:
i think that was a reditt story^ that someone posted
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Yeah it was a Reddit story. Dude used to work at Gamestop or something. His mom got him a position at some corporate place and he quit because he wasn't doing anything on his first day. I think he ended back at Gamestop.
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Neogaf. He worked at Gamestop and his mom got him a job at Gamestop Corporate. They didn't have his computer set up yet because they couldn't find a power brick for it so he sat and did nothing for like 2 hours. After that he got upset and went and told them he doesn't think they're very organized and it isn't a good fit, post said something like, "Is this what being an adult is? Should I just kill myself now? Why didn't they tell me it was this hard."

Hold up, I can find the link
 
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1185119

The interview was only a half-hour. I didn't think I got it anyway since I wasn't getting a good perception of the interviewers, they didn't show me around, and they wanted to get me out as fast as possible. So I was really surprised that I got it. But, damn, I don't think I could've handled that. I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I can't just be sitting around and bored anymore.
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I didn't really want this job. I loved my old one working at a small business and working with video games. I didn't actively search it. My mom hooked me up and kinda made me do it because if I said no then I never would've heard the end of it. But now I'm really not hearing the end of it from her because she keeps calling me, telling me that I f**** up my future, yelling at me over the phone, saying "how hard she worked" to get me this job, etc.. It's not really helping my mood and I just want to kill her or myself.
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First day as an IT contractor, they hand me a stack of Mac Mini servers and send me to a site to get everything up and running. I'd never touched a server before, so I spent the whole time on site watching YouTube videos on how to do it 
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This is all true.
Every job that I have usually starts with introductions to the staff, a few days to review the corporate policies and procedures, shadowing seasoned employees followed by hand on training or just being thrown into the deep end and figuring it out. The most important thing that I've learned over the my years is that your work is your product, and you will succeed if you produce good product consistently.

I've decided that I'm ready to start working towards self employment. Corporations have used me for years to build them up; now it's time for me to use their money and their retirement incentives to build my own source of income.
 
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