Confused...
Today is a bit strange, though this feeling might have originated from my own misconceptions about how the training contract would operate in its earliest stages. Basically, I thought that I would be supervised quite heavily at first, that my supervisor would be coming to me relatively often to check the work I am doing and to see how I am getting on. However, this just doesn’t seem to be the case.
Currently I am getting relatively little guidance on how to find my way to and around the resources we have available to help us do our work (which may be contributing to the ‘slowness’ I mentioned in the previous entry) and I haven’t really had any feedback on the work I did last week. For a lot of what I am given, there seems to be an air of expectation that I will simply know how to get on. For about half of it, that’s ok, but everyone needs a bit of encouragement, especially when you are new.
Consider time management - we are supposed to input our hours and what we have been doing, into a piece of software on the pc. However, the time is split into 2 categories - the first is time that is chargeable to a client, the second is time that is not chargeable. My boss asked me if I was doing this inputting and I replied that I wasn’t. He seemed a bit well, not ‘put out’ but I suppose curious, as to why I hadn’t been doing it - and I told him it was because I had no idea which bits of my work were chargeable and which weren’t. Surely I can’t be expected to know this yet?
Well anyway as I started to say, today adds to the odd-ness. I finished what I was working on last Friday, and the boss wasn’t in the office when I was due to go home. I e-mailed him with what I had done, and let him know that I had little work for Monday and Tuesday and that I was aware he was out of the office on these days. I have come in today and there was no reply to my email so I have been trying to find new things to do with the limited work I was given last week. However, I am coming to the limits of my imagination now! I don’t want to sit and waste time, as I know no one would want that, and I emailed my boss to say I would run out of work by this afternoon, but as of yet nothing new is forthcoming.
I’m just a bit stuck as to how to respond to this. I am nowhere near to meeting the chargeable hours target that I am set as a trainee (even though it is minimal) and I’m not even sure whether I am supposed to be concerned about this at this point. I feel like I am not doing anything the way I am supposed to, and I can’t really see a way through it. I’m keeping a mental note of all this in order to bring it up at my end of month review - but the way things are going I don’t even know if that will happen on time!
Currently I am getting relatively little guidance on how to find my way to and around the resources we have available to help us do our work (which may be contributing to the ‘slowness’ I mentioned in the previous entry) and I haven’t really had any feedback on the work I did last week. For a lot of what I am given, there seems to be an air of expectation that I will simply know how to get on. For about half of it, that’s ok, but everyone needs a bit of encouragement, especially when you are new.
Consider time management - we are supposed to input our hours and what we have been doing, into a piece of software on the pc. However, the time is split into 2 categories - the first is time that is chargeable to a client, the second is time that is not chargeable. My boss asked me if I was doing this inputting and I replied that I wasn’t. He seemed a bit well, not ‘put out’ but I suppose curious, as to why I hadn’t been doing it - and I told him it was because I had no idea which bits of my work were chargeable and which weren’t. Surely I can’t be expected to know this yet?
Well anyway as I started to say, today adds to the odd-ness. I finished what I was working on last Friday, and the boss wasn’t in the office when I was due to go home. I e-mailed him with what I had done, and let him know that I had little work for Monday and Tuesday and that I was aware he was out of the office on these days. I have come in today and there was no reply to my email so I have been trying to find new things to do with the limited work I was given last week. However, I am coming to the limits of my imagination now! I don’t want to sit and waste time, as I know no one would want that, and I emailed my boss to say I would run out of work by this afternoon, but as of yet nothing new is forthcoming.
I’m just a bit stuck as to how to respond to this. I am nowhere near to meeting the chargeable hours target that I am set as a trainee (even though it is minimal) and I’m not even sure whether I am supposed to be concerned about this at this point. I feel like I am not doing anything the way I am supposed to, and I can’t really see a way through it. I’m keeping a mental note of all this in order to bring it up at my end of month review - but the way things are going I don’t even know if that will happen on time!