Hate new job or culture shock?

[titanix]

I ran a consulting business for 6 years which I sold recently. I wanted to specialise in a field and a job came up. Now, I am more than qualified for this role so the technical work is not challenging.

The relationships though may be another issue... It may be relevant or not that the "leadership team" (LT) is made up of 5 white men.

Two weeks into my new job I was asked to investigate something and found a mistake made by a predecessor. LT1 tells me that "he won't believe it" until my subordinate checks on my work.

Recently I reported on another ongoing error. LT2 says other professionals in my field have seen this work and did not see an issue. LT2 then proceeds to give me an explanation about work in my expertise!

LT3 and LT4 make a presentation and I missed part of it. I asked LT3 if I could access the recording which impacts on my work. LT3 asks me what part precisely I needed as he was not willing to share all with me. Since I missed part of it, I was not able to say which part I needed.

I am frankly shocked by the complete lack of trust in my abilities.

Please tell me if I am being unreasonable. Should I leave or give it some more time?

Is this a very small place? It sounds a bit like people who haven't worked with an "outsider" recently.

It's quite small. Each LT have their own staff. My role is that I work with all the LTs. It's a new role.

I've recently gone back into the workplace after running my own business for 9 years. There's definitely an element of needing to adjust to working with other people when you're used to having autonomy and calling it as you see it. But having said that, while I'm finding it hard work for various reasons, your workplace sounds like they don't trust you and are possibly undermining you.

Either they've not hired anyone in a long time and don't know how to get used to having a new person around asking questions about how things have always been done, or they perhaps weren't enthralled with the fact you were hired (maybe one or some of them had another candidate in mind?) and are coming to terms with it. That or you've possibly stumbled on a boys' club.

Regardless, YANBU it seems a bit off.

@pinguins I agree that there is an element of getting used to work with other people again but I was just telling DH that it feels like walking into a fraternity!!!

Maybe a bit of culture shock on their side too. But still, doesn't sound great really.

How long have you been there now?

I'd probably at least do some research into the cultures elsewhere so you can position yourself to jump somewhere that won't be more of the same if needed. Especially if this is a male-dominated field where lots of employers might also have the fraternity feel?

@swanling thank you, this is really good advice. I've been here for 2 months.

Unfortunately it is a male dominated area.

I've done consulting work in this field and it was not as bad. No one ever questioned my abilities the way they are here