Life of being employed after a yr of funemployment

Yes peeps, I am finally back to the corporate world after a year.

If you have been following through my funemployment diaries, you would have known my whole journey starting from enjoying my funemployment times to being excited when there were interviews to starting to become anti-social and demoralised.

But after a year of ups and downs, I finally secured myself a position in the corporate world.

My current role is something that is a total new change for me, be it the industry that I am in and also the nature of the job scope.

If you ask me whether I am happy with the change, I would say I am not resisting it as these skills that I am learning now are easily transferrable, which I am actually quite optimistic about it. But this would also mean that I would need to go through a steep learning curve as all these are pretty new to me.

I would say that my current role may not exactly match the JD that I have applied for, but it is good for me since I have always wanted a change (something not so operational) to have a diversified skillset.

Two weeks into my role, if you ask me whether I am happy, it might be a bit neutral, or I should say I wasn't very happy in my first few days.

On my first day of work, my supposed-to-be leader (let's name her G) was out of office and so there was no proper intro of me to the team.

My assigned buddy (let's name her K) was one from another team (different team from me) and lucky enough, she was a nice gal. She brought me around the office, showing me more concern that my supposed-to-be teammates.

And the funny part was both of us assumed that my team would be having lunch with me, but guess what, I had lunch on my own instead on the first day of work.

I was waiting for my team to be back at their seat after their meeting (earlier on the admin did intro one lady who was my supposed-to-be teammate), but when they were back, they just went out for their lunch and they never even invite me.

Some people may say "you could have asked them if you could join" but hello, usually on your first day, your teammates would be the one who initiate it not you right! At least if I am the teammate, I would ask the new joiner to join the team for lunch, not wait for the new joiner to ask.

Two days later, when I finally met A, she was treating me as if like I am not reporting to her. We had a meeting together with some of the teammates and our department leader (let's name her C). When the meeting ended, it was C who was telling me that she would check-in with me on a daily basis so that I won't be so lonely and G just quietly sat one side with no comment given.

What worse was, she and the team just happily went for lunch and they never invited me again. They saw me when they went out and they just didn't ask, not even G!

Some may probably say "are you a baby? Keep on need to wait for people to ask you!"

But then, as a leader, if you see your new joiner, you would ask them if they want to have lunch together right, especially when they are just few days into the new workplace (at least my past leaders would do so).

And because of such behaviour, I am back to questioning again.

Why do they seem like they are outcasting me? Aren't they my teammates? Why do I feel like I am not welcomed at all?

I talked to K about it and we had the conclusion that it was probably because although in system, I may be under reporting to G, but I am actually reporting to C so G probably didn't feel that I am her teammate and didn't bother to bond with me and the team.

So I am like now a lost and abandoned kid but after our lunch with C yesterday, it seems like I am in a team on my own (lonely lonely🥺🥺)

Well well well, although the first week's lunch drama was a hiccup in my new journey back to the corporate world, I am still receiving love from my two weeks old colleague. K and her teammate surprised me with x'mas gifts yesterday!

I was really shocked because I didn't expect that they would prepare presents for me when I only just joined 2 weeks ago and they were not even my teammates.

Okay enough of my rants.....I will be back with more updates of my corporate life.

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