Taking this job was a bad decision
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Taking this job was a bad decision
I posted roughly 6 weeks ago about a pretty awful experience with the HR person at a new employer asking for the wrong kind of background check, giving them the wrong SSN, the check coming back with inaccurate info and the HR person telling me to fix it even tho the background check company gave me all the info to give to the HR person for them to call because they said it wasn't my problem but the employer's mistake. After the HR person escalated it, it was resolved without any further ado.
Fast forward to my first day. Apparently I have 2 direct reports - no mention of that - I can work with it but still, odd.
My second week on the job, there is a colleague with my same title that is sending emails to internal clients (mine, not her own) telling them what I am going to do (cc'ing me) about something that none of us are in charge of and is a different dept. The tone of the email is as if it is a crisis. Turns out it was all for naught because it was outside of our purview and her read on the situation was inaccurate. When this happened 2 more times the following week, I finally let her know that I was confused by her emails which are very excitable and involve internal clients within the reporting structure I support (was never hers at any point prior) about P.O. reqs for catalog items handled by an entirely different dept., something that I was told to not worry about. She confuses and upsets the internal clients, she tells the procurement person to reject the request when she has no authority or business to do so, and she creates a lot of chaos, all of which is a time suck and hijacks hours of a work day, for literally nothing. It has happened 4 times in 2 weeks; I just wrapped up my 3rd week on the job.
By way of observation in how people respond (or not) to the bolus of emails, it is pretty clear that no one wants to engage. I asked a colleague if this happens frequently and apparently so.
Maybe I am oversensitive but I have a major pet peeve with anything that interferes with me being able to do my job, part of which is to e sure my internal clients are happy and trust me and my team.
Another issue is that we have a CLM system but no training for those of us that manage it or the internal clients we expect to use it. Some of the contracts are handled outside of the system and some not, with no clear rationale as to why. I can't think of a better way to implode a team and make clients miserable than inconsistency, no training or leading by example, no resources to turn to, and allowing an employee to insert his/herself into situations that don't require his/her involvement let alone misdirection.
I am having a visceral reaction to all this meaning, a migraine that lasted 3.5 days, stomach ache to the point I can't eat, and nausea.
What do I do? I feel like I need to constructively table my questions to my boss, leaving names out of it, and make her aware of my concerns while also volunteering to create a training for all on the CLM (which I have done at prior companies) and also propose that we have a "come to Jesus meeting about the bloody requisitions namely, let the Procurement team do their job and if they have questions, they come to us.
Am I out of line here? I am already ready to quit.
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