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Office drama has ruined my job

I started working at a privately owned specialty business 3 months ago. Theres 7 of us employees. All of them, except me, have been in this industry for at least 5 years. I am brand new. Day 1, I was thrown into the fire. I have received no actual training, and just clean and do data entry most days. I joined with the understanding that I would become certified in a special position, but every time I ask about it, theres always excuses from my boss about it being too busy and shes getting paperwork for it. I am not trained to do almost anything on my own, and I am so lost. 2 of my coworkers are the most dramatic people I have ever met in my life, and I have been employed at several places over the years. They are very rude, mean, and crass. They hate almost…


I started working at a privately owned specialty business 3 months ago. Theres 7 of us employees. All of them, except me, have been in this industry for at least 5 years. I am brand new. Day 1, I was thrown into the fire. I have received no actual training, and just clean and do data entry most days. I joined with the understanding that I would become certified in a special position, but every time I ask about it, theres always excuses from my boss about it being too busy and shes getting paperwork for it. I am not trained to do almost anything on my own, and I am so lost. 2 of my coworkers are the most dramatic people I have ever met in my life, and I have been employed at several places over the years. They are very rude, mean, and crass. They hate almost everyone, especially their own families. They constantly complain and brag about how abusive they are towards their families, which is horrifying to listen to. Another male coworker hates being around them and spends his time out of the main office. They love shit talking. I am very introverted, and can usually get along with most people. I am nice to them, but I do not engage with them outside of any work related conversation. They are close to my boss. A month ago, my boss told me she was getting on the horn with my training, and she has been having another employee show me the ropes, and has had me shadow her, which has been great. I thought I was doing fine, until I was called into my boss's office today. She told me that she is not moving forward with my certification, because “I have not shown her I am capable of it.” I am very confused, because I have been learning every day, and I am catching on. She also said that I am not fitting in, and that I need to be able to mesh well with everyone or else we can't do our jobs well. I am not here to make friends; I am here to do a job. She told me that some other employees think I am too direct, and I tell them what to do. This BLINDSIDED me, because I only ever ask questions, and never in my life have I ever been told I am bossy. I am very introverted, and because I really don't know what I am doing here, I cannot understand how they think I am telling them what to do? She also said it is offputting.The only example she gave me was a few weeks back, dramatic coworker 1 messed up a custom order. This mistake also messed up legal documents. Older male coworker and I were out driving to another location when it happened, and older coworker realised that yet another document may also be messed up, and asked me to text the office in the group chat because he was driving. I texted “document x may also be incorrect.” This apparently offended dramatic coworker, who started making a scene back at the office. “It sounded accusational” was how my boss put it. I should have worded it better, and I didn't mean to offend her. She never said anything to me about it, no one did until my boss today. This coworker and my boss are good friends. I feel like I have wasted my time here, because I had the understanding that I could get certified, and now thats not happening. In these months, I have felt like I am a temp, I havent even gotten a computer login or email (that I use daily), I have no idea where my paystubs are, I haven't been trained that much, and I am just existing here. I was so excited to start here, but I can't stay. I feel like I have been used.

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