Today.
It was my first time ever working from the office in my new company. I was onboarded during lockdown and worked from home the whole time. Already, before going there, I sensed something was off. I've been with the company about a year and a half, but have been experiencing repeated instances which make me believe this is not the company for me. I've been overworked, so when I showed up today, I was absolutely exhausted from working weekends + everyday until 10pm. I was not at the top of my game and barely slept the night before.
I walked in and already, the entrance door got blocked halfway through (great sign!). Then, my manager was looking for a spot where I could sit and he found me a seat all alone isolate from the rest of the team. They were all sitting in one area and I was isolated alone in one (no issue for me, it was even better, but not a good look to isolate someone, especially if there was space available).
As soon as I logged in, I opened a random corporate newsletter email and it was there plastered all over the email, the name of the last company I worked for before joining this one. It was a bit strange, but it somehow made me emotional because the last time I worked in an office, it was with the company mentioned in the email. It made me reminisce the good times in that company.
Then, I had a call at 10am with a project lead and I noticed a documentation gap. I raised it to my manager who advised me to highlight it to the project lead. The response from my the project lead was: "It is not your job to opine on this, so just do XYZ". My response was "No, I know that, but I just wanted to highlight it". It felt a bit confrontational which I hate, but at the same time, I'm basically told to do monkey work without questioning and to shut up. He didn't say it in a mean way, but it was nonetheless a bit rude.
Finally, I asked my manager if he could come and look at something and he said: "I can't, I have your peer waiting downstairs, he's coming to the office to have lunch". This peer is a member of the same team, he can wait 5 minutes and has a badge to enter the premises! He's not a kid.
I had enough, came home at lunch break and started crying thinking of my previous companies and how much fun I had there. This office was cold, I was the only female in today, no one to talk to, nothing. I couldn't even grab coffee because by the time I finished my calls, the cafeteria was closed. It was awful.