Cried at my new job :( humiliated

[user1494531172]

I have been at my job a couple of weeks and I've had 1 day of propper training. It's a job I've never done before but I have been working things out as best I can with the lack of training and I have been okay so far until today. I spoke to my boss to ask whether I'd be having any more training and she said I should know what I'm doing now.
Well today I felt really overwhelmed as I didn't know lots of things or where things are kept etc. I ask my colleagues but they're obviously very busy working so I feel like a nuisance. Well I just ended up getting really upset and my boss told me to go home.
I feel humiliated. I don't even want to go back.
I left a job which I enjoyed with a great team for this one as it was better money and location but I just feel totally defeated.

[Missb00]

Oh no! I'm so sorry OP I know this feeling too well. What are your options? Can you/do you want to quit? Maybe you could have tomorrow off 'sick' and return Monday with a fresh head?

[maggiethemagpie]

Not sure going off sick so early in employment is wise....

[Whisky2014]

Dont worry OP. I would go back asap so "the fear" doesn't build up.
More money = more responsibility.
Maybe go in 15 mins early each day to get to grips with where things are?

[BrutusMcDogface]

Go in with a brave face tomorrow and try to just get through it. It will get easier!

Going off sick is a bad idea, as is quitting imo until you've given it a fair whack.

Good luck

[iMatter]

Do not whatever you do call in sick!

Get an early night and when you go to work tomorrow ask for a meeting next week to chat things through.

[LoveForTulips]

Can I ask what it is you do?
Go in, be confident and be honest , ask for help, sah you feel you need a little extra support as the change has been bigger than you expected!
Don't be humiliated. Everyone's new at some point, even in an industry they know - a new location changes things.

[holisticbeauty]

Thats really horrible to hear. You should not feel humilated they should feel ashamed for putting someone in that position and pushing them to that point.

I would make an appointment to see your manager and explain that you need more training to be able to do the job, if they are not prepared to do that, do as much as you can and when they pull you up on not doing enough, then explain you are doing as much as you can without training.

It may also be worth looking at other jobs, as to have the attitude that one days training is enough shows a lack of care for their staff.

Go in head held high, as its only because you care that you got so upset and they should realise that, most people wouldn't care and just do nothing!

Good Luck X

[optionalrationale]

Just remember nobody was born knowing how to do any work related skill. If someone can learn it, anyone can learn it. You will pick it up. Your boss could have been kinder to you.

[User11145755]

I can relate to this, I started a new job 8 weeks ago, 6 weeks in it was a nightmare, minimal training, everyone busy and stressed I felt like a nuisance too, I was so overwhelmed, holding the tears back everyday, wishing I hadn't left my easy (but boring) old job.
I thought about quitting, I really felt I couldn't face it anymore.

I decided to suck it up, do my best, and take the attitutude that if I am a nuisance that's their problem not mine, another 2 weeks on things are going much better
It will get better, you will learn more and pick things up, hang in there, remember the reasons you took the job, you can do this x

[Jeffjefftyjeff]

Sorry you are going through this. It sounds like they aren't doing a very good job with your induction, and it's THEIR job to do that, so don't feel like a failure. If a new member of my staff felt like this I would be mortified. Stick at it though. Maybe Keep a notebook of things you're taught and save up questions in this. Also keep examples that weren't explained well that you were expected to know later, in. Are you ever need to explain why you're lost. is there a mentoring system at the workplace? Having a friendly presence might help.

[toomanyloos]

You are not the first, and you won't be the last person to cry at work. It happens. It has happened to me. What matters is how you come back from it.

Break the problem down into manageable chunks and put together an action plan.

If you do not know where things are kept, ask. You are not being a nuisance. Make notes, so you have a reference sheet to go to which will avoid you asking more than once.

Write a list of areas where you feel inadequately briefed to fulfil your role, and ask for help in these areas. Again make notes.

Anything else, ask, and make notes.

It is amazing the difference writing stuff down makes as it provides a framework, and it will help you identify whether issues that are worrying you are new, or something you can do if you look back at your notes.

Don't go off sick, return to work tomorrow with a can do attitude and an action plan. You'll gain respect that way.