On Monday I will be starting my 6th week in my new job. I am a professional and have around 5 years experience in my profession. The type of work I am doing in my new job is a bit different to what I'm used to and their processes are a bit different.
After my first week in the job I called one of the senior managers and told him I felt totally overwhelmed. He helped put my mind at ease and told me there is no pressure and it will take me as long as it takes to settle in and understand what I'm doing. Now, fast forward 2 weeks and I felt even more overwhelmed. I'm getting between 50 and 70 e mails a day and meanwhile trying to work on multiple tasks where I'm not sure what I'm doing and attend multiple meetings a day. I mentioned this to my manager at the time. I must have now spoken to my line manager and his manager at least 6 times over the past week about my work load. I've told them I'm new and still learning and asked that they take some of the work off me while I get up to speed as I'm still learning on the job. They told me they can as there is no one else to pick it up. I worked up till 9pm on Friday night getting work finished. Again today on Saturday I've done a couple hours work. I've no where near caught up with workload. My line manager also knows I'm working weekends.
What should i do? I left my last job in the same industry after 1 month as their expectations were totally unreasonable so I don't want to leave this job quickly and seem like a job hopper unless I have to. But I'm tired of working 7.30 am to 4.30 pm Monday to Friday plus a few hours every weekend and still feeling like I'm drowning on work.