Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: New job worries
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Wed Aug 26, 2026 09:16

  Re: Re: New job worries
  By: slacker to Nightfox on Wed Aug 26 2026 02:06 pm

 sl> Congrats on the new job! Ramping up can suck but it should get better.
 sl> Back when I started my current job, I was in a similar situation where
 sl> most of the team was on the other side of the world so having to figure
 sl> out tasks with little documentation or people to ask questions to was
 sl> tough. After a bit, it wasn't all that bad and since I've tried to make it
 sl> so when we get new people on the team they don't have to go through what I
 sl> did.

Thanks.  I feel like it's not just the ramping up, but the communication as well. I have a daily online meeting with my manager at 8:30AM my time, which I suppose isn't so bad, but feels somewhat early for a daily meeting. In addition, my manager might sometimes want to talk in my evening about my daily updates, so it's possible I could have meetings both in the morning and evening, which can make for some slightly long days. Also, with the language thing and my manager's communication style, I worry there could be chances of misunderstanding about tasks & such.

Also, since the job involves helping with customer issues, there may be customer escalations that require meetings which may be at odd times.  This has already happened once so far; I had a meeting at 10PM my time last week where people were discussing a high-priority customer issue. The reason it was at 10PM my time is that it included mainly people in other time zones.

I feel like I'm getting a little more comfortable with the job, but at the same time, I feel like my confidence and enjoyment of the job is still not great yet.

 sl> How's copilot been? We're just starting to get licenses here for us to
 sl> use.

It's not bad - it has been helpful so far.

Nightfox
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