6 Questions to Ask Your New Boss

Good thoughts which I would have done 3 weeks ago before my Manager of 4 weeks mentioned after all other staff had gone home that "We needed to talk"

I was given a company orientation but as yet no orientation to my actual role.

The conversation began with " Who do you think your boss is ?" Apparently it's not the person on my employment P.D she informed me; it was her.

Next statement was you are not my equal in this company- you report to me. Followed by her summary of me " I don't know what your old job was like but I get the impression you think this position is beneath you" I was stunned as I had been working up the courage to ask if my role could be clarified as it appeared that they only required me to do one part of my P.D and it doesn't look like that is going to change.

I am bored and feel extremely guilty as I literally struggle every day to fill 8 hours. When I ask if there is anything else I can do I am told to just keep working on the 1 task they gave me. This task absolutely does not fill 8 hours every day. I don't know what to do. I was draw to this role as it was portrayed to me as a colaborative management role. But it turns out I have no say and I am to wait until I am given something she doesn't either have time for or doesn't want to do- Which is nothing, she will not pass anything on and is constantly saying how busy she is. I like all the people I work with including her but I feel that she has moved into a new role but will never pass on her old role to me. Any thoughts?

Maryanne of AL 5:45AM January 04, 2012