Feel like quitting my job after a day ..aibu ?

[breadpp]

Today was my first day working in a contact centre as a customer advisor.
It's 5 weeks of training.
I do not like it.
Today was just so OTT
There was 3 girls on my training group but they went to lunch and didn't ask if I wanted to go.
The canteen was closed so they went to the chip shop.
Today I learnt nothing about the company and job.
Just stupid ice breakers and quiz.
The guys were really loud and I'm not loud.
Then we had to go around the group and read a paragraph each.
I felt like I was at school.
I don't want to go in tomorrow
I wish they would just learn you the job and products and you could just do it.
I don't have anything else lined up
Aibu ?

I guess it depends if you are in the group of people who have to work for a living or not. If you quit, how would you live?

YANBU however sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

I do have to work for a living.
Maybe I'm just having a wobble on day 1
Maybe I should ask the girls can I go with them tomorrow.

That sounds like a rough first day. I hate ice breakers and would just just prefer to her on with the work. But they are beneficial when you are spending so many weeks together.
I wouldn’t quit over it though. Tomorrow either take in lunch or at lunchtime ask people what they are doing for lunch. You don’t need to wait to be invited.
In every single training session I have been in there has been a loud person. The trainer should reign them in when you get to the actual work.

When younger, as I assume you are, I always gave a job a month before I decided to leave and u always found another job before I left. You have 5 weeks, so stick it out to the end. I once had 5 jobs in a week, and only stayed for one day in each one.
It doesnt look good on a c.v.. Plod on, say morning to all you meet and smile. Others will respond. You will soon feel more at ease. Good luck

U meant I. Oops

I don’t think there’s any such thing as a good first day at a job. I always feel really anxious because it’s all new and unfamiliar, but the best thing you can do is just get on with it. I wouldn’t leave without giving it a proper go because the next job might be just as awkward on the first day.

Did the other girls know each other? Just wondering how they arranged that without including anyone else in the group.

I once worked in a call centre over 20 years ago and that was the same training then! Really stupid.

Training is always dire and doesn't usually reflect the actual job,

Slog through the training and then see where you get to x

YABU because it has only been one day. It's not like anything awful has actually happened to make you think that the job isn't for you. It seems to be the social side of things that you have struggled with today, which may just be because first day everyone will be wobbling a bit.

Let things settle - the brash and loud ones will usually settle.

Perhaps as another poster suggested, the girls already knew each other before, otherwise how would they have arranged to go to lunch together?

Do you feel that socially you are open and welcoming in these situations? Do you chat, smile?

Yes you are being unreasonable, unless you can afford to not work.

Beginnings are always hard. I don’t know anyone who loved their first day in a new job, even when they came to love the job itself. Stick it out and once the real training starts you’ll have something to get your teeth into and more to talk about with the others.

I'm currently in my 3rd week of a new job I hate. Am desperately hoping something else comes up but in the meantime I have to persevere. I guess there's the chance it could get better for both of us?
At least I didn't have any god-awful icebreakers. When I rule the universe they'll be the first things to go...😡

Were you paid?

A lot of jobs do shit like this. If you get paid all the same, it's fine.

I wouldn't ask myself to lunch with others but that's me.

The two girls were sat at computers next to each other so they said shall we go for lunch then walked out together.
I was sat on the computers behind so couldn't shout over that I would go.

Stay and give it your best shot...but try and find something else. I do think training courses aren’t the best way to judge what the job will actually be like.

Yeah we get paid ,it's about £400 a week training so probs £340 after tax

People don't have to invite you to lunch.

Call centres traditionally predominantly employ younger people without a massive amount of work experience so it may be that the training is not appropriate for everyone.
You mention 'girls', is there an age gap between you and them? I only ask because you're posting on a 'mum' site

Personally, unless you absolutely hate it I would see what the actual job is like, once the training is done, it might be that you're given more autonomy to just get on with it and you might enjoy it.
I've worked in a lot of call centres when I've been in between jobs, they're all kind of run on similar lines and it's definitely a different vibe depending on the demographic of the majority of the employees.
If you only stay for a very short period you don't have to even mention it on your CV.
When I have those kind of jobs I tend to use the catch-all heading of Temporary / Agency Work and list the responsibilities under that heading.

Be smiley and non confrontational, be genial with everyone so that you can rub along with them as you all settle in. Try to fully engage with it all. It’s easier to find a job when you are in one, even if you hate this, view it as experience & that you are being paid to look for work. Don’t give personal information away that you wouldn’t be happy about others repeating. You never know they may all be thinking the same as you and may know each other from outside of work - good luck, think of your pay cheque until you can leave for another job

Also, don't just limit yourself to joining the girls. Why not tag long with a group of quieter guys tomorrow, if you don't happen to be able to join the girls?

Just think of every hour as money going into your bank. Imagine what you will be able to pay - heating, food, rent etc!! (Always exciting to know those are paid for).
Look for jobs to move into.

@breadpp

Yeah we get paid ,it's about £400 a week training so probs £340 after tax

If you need the money, stick with it It's not like something awful happened.

OP I remember being left alone in the office in my first week of a new job when everyone went off for the Friday pub lunch and no one remembered to tell me that it was a regular thing and everyone was invited. It was a very lonely feeling. But then by the next week they'd realised I'd been left out, invited me and I worked there very happily for 10 years. Still have some of the friends I made 20 years later.

So maybe give it a bit more of a chance?