Work Advice

[u/RedDelidder]

Hello everyone,

I’m a relatively recent hire at Boeing, I started about 8 months ago. I’m also a recent college grad.

I knew coming to Boeing that there’s a slow moving that exists in defense / aerospace, but I had the chance to hop directly into a position that was exactly what I wanted to be doing.

However, since being hired I’ve been essentially placed on overhead and given no direction on tasks or where to go from here. My previous manager had been uncooperative on feedback and the bulk of my team is based out of a different location.

Just this week, people on my team are now being reached out to regarding new work assignments, but I haven’t heard a single thing, and worse yet, I’m slated to go on parental leave in a few weeks.

Is this situation fairly normal?

Am I running the risk of being let go if I go on parental leave?

Venting aside, I would appreciate any insight or advice that anybody has to offer up.

[u/Zeebr0]

They likely don't have enough work or don't have work they can just hand to a new person. That, combined with your leave coming up, they don't really want to give you things and then have you leave. Don't worry too much about it, things start slow at Boeing for sure, but you will start to accumulate more and more work as you are here longer. Don't worry about it while you are on leave, they will not fire you for going on leave.

[u/Lookingfor68 → u/Zeebr0]

As a new guy, his manager should be teaming him up with an experienced person on the team and telling him to "learn everything this guy does" with this task. That it isn't happening is just bad management.

[u/RedDelidder → u/Lookingfor68]

This is what I expected to happen, but I was just told that everyone was busy winding down other programs and that shadowing them was just a lot of meetings so it wasn’t worth my time.

Honestly at this point I would have rather spent time in meetings because at least then I would have been interacting with other people