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I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t when it comes to asking for help at this new job.

This is pretty much how it went last week: Me: Hey boss, it looks like I’m covering for x person today. I’m trying to look at their assignments chart but I don’t seem to have access. Can you please help? Boss: Hops on video call with me and sees there is something off not allowing me to see others’ assignments Got it, so there is something going on. This is how you would normally do it but moving forward if you need to cover for someone, I’ll change the settings for you. Boss then proceeds to tell me to ask if I have any questions. Another week passes and I have to cover another person Me: Logs on, sees I’m not seeing this person’s assignments nor am I set to receive their calls. I had some questions on this. So I asked Me: Morning boss! Im not seeing this person’s…


This is pretty much how it went last week:

Me: Hey boss, it looks like I’m covering for x person today. I’m trying to look at their assignments chart but I don’t seem to have access. Can you please help?

Boss: Hops on video call with me and sees there is something off not allowing me to see others’ assignments
Got it, so there is something going on. This is how you would normally do it but moving forward if you need to cover for someone, I’ll change the settings for you.

Boss then proceeds to tell me to ask if I have any questions.

Another week passes and I have to cover another person

Me: Logs on, sees I’m not seeing this person’s assignments nor am I set to receive their calls. I had some questions on this. So I asked

Me: Morning boss! Im not seeing this person’s assignments I need to complete. Can you please help when you have a moment?

Boss: I explained to you last week how to do this dont you remember? Are you needing step by step help again?

Me: My apologies! Its just last week you had mentioned that you’d be changing the settings so I was just following the instructions given to me.

Boss: Go in there and do it, I don’t have time to help you right now.

**This conversation with my boss just rubbed me the wrong way. I just don’t like how I get told to ask questions if anything comes up then when I do ask questions or ask for help, I’m treated like I’m a bother or asking for too much. This is one of several times they tell me to ask questions and when I do, I get responses like this regardless of what the question is.

TL;DR; I cant stand bosses/supervisors who have an attitude when an employee needs their help.

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