Started a new job recently. Same organisation, a university, and a very similar job but a different department. Should have been great - I'd worked there before albeit in a part-time but more responsible post and I was very happy at that time.
Moved back to this dept recently. Very much more office bound than before. I'm with a couple of people who are friends outside work, and who are working together on several projects and not including me.
It is hurtful. I'm supposed to be working with one of them - we share the same cohort of students - but she seems to find me rather dull - well, something, because I'm being ignored, barely spoken to and then it's rarely about work.
I hadn't expected to be quite so isolated. This soon into the job.
I have tried, hard, to be pro-active, I make every effort to be friendly and I am naturally inclusive. This is difficult. I'm sitting here now, the other two are giggling away over a session that they're organsing and I feel, well, very lonely. I'm trying to make alliances outside the team - the job lends itself to that - but within the team - it's really them and me.
Boss - not sure - might be OK but I'd like to deal with this within the very small team.