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In this story, a woman who had just started a new job was left feeling confused and upset for being excluded from a weekly ritual that the rest of her team participated in. Every Friday, they would get pizza for a meeting where they shared the positives from that working week.
When she asked her team lead if she could join, she was told that it was tradition to wait three months before a new colleague could join the meeting. The reasoning was that they needed to prove themselves first.
The next time the meeting took place, the employee was sitting at her desk by herself when the department head saw her and asked why she wasn't with her coworkers. When she told her the truth, the meeting was disbanded, and she wondered if she had done the right thing.
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Am I wrong for telling my manager I wasn't allowed in a meeting with everybody else?
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Manager excludes new hire from Friday pizza meeting until she has worked for 90 days, gets annoyed when she tells department head: 'Now there's no more pizza meetings'
It's never easy being the new person in the office.
There are twice as many things to remember as when you are established in a role, or at least, that is what it feels like. Along with trying to remember the training and not make any mistakes, you have to remember names, not get lost in the building, and try to get acclimated to the company culture. It is a lot to take in all at once while attempting to adjust.
As a result, it is a vulnerable time in an individual's career when they really need the support of their colleagues. They can't become part of the team without the team making an effort with them. Too many newbies find that one of the most difficult parts of the job is dealing with their coworkers, simply because they do not like to deal with having somebody else at work.
Despite teamwork being a skill that most job descriptions insist on, it is not always something that is practiced in the workplace when it comes to welcoming new colleagues. Sometimes, the thing you figure out fastest when you start a job is who has issues and how they are going to relate to you.
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