Name changed. I recently moved jobs to take up an ostensibly more senior middle management role within my industry. The job I left I liked, and I was well thought of by the leadership team but there were limited opportunities for growth. I was persuaded to move to this new job for the same salary on the basis that I would be able to hire into the small team and they recognised the need for investment. After 2 weeks, I feel huge regret and am also massively stressed. The investment I was told would be feasible to increase the resourcing in the team now doesn't appear to be there ( I specifically asked this before accepting the role), onboarding has been non existent, and I was firefighting within 1 day of starting the role. I have had no time to get up to speed on anything and have one critical deadline after another. There was no handover with the previous incumbent yet the expectation seems to be that I know everything that is going on, and can just swing immediately into action without familiarising myself at all. I understand the need to 'hit the ground running, and I'm usually pretty good at assimilating information but I feel totally overwhelmed and unsupported. I tend to trust my gut, and my alarm bells are ringing about the unreasonable expectations. I'm pretty sure my old company would have me back. Has anyone had any experience of this? I feel so stupid. I'm relatively seasoned and experienced but have not been sleeping and crying every day since I started.