Annoyed with my new job. I've received very sparse training, and I made it clear both during my interview and once offered the position that this was a new industry for me. I spend most of most days dicking around on my phone, because I ask for additional duties - even busy work - constantly, and it's never given. When I do get some assignment that's for instance Excel-related which I can easily do without training, nobody seems to have a clear explanation of what they want me to do.
Like today, my director said she wants periodic charts for executive meetings based on production and scrap data pulled from our CMS/ERP. Okay, I pull the data from Friday just to check out the options, it can be exported direct to Excel, albeit in a very messy format. So I try to clarify, would she like me to work with IT on establishing a template directly in our CMS system that would spit out the data she needs in a more workable format? Does she want me to start a chart of all production and go from there? She seems frustrated and says we'll talk when she's at our main building tomorrow.
I like everyone I work with, they're all very intelligent and pleasant to get along with, but my value has hardly increased in the two months I've been here. I've hardly learned anything, hardly done anything beyond basic shit I learned in the first week. I ask all the time for more training, better explanations, etc, and always by email and always saying there's no rush. Don't get a response half the time. There's a bunch of new staff members here, and I've been told that most people don't know what the hell they're doing.
Kinda... keeping my options open. If this wasn't a new industry, a startup sort of environment of utter chaos might be a fun challenge. But I need clear direction when I hardly know what our machines do.
