Working in offices

i have worked in a couple of offices here in the UK...i have found the atmosphere very similar to that in the US...been thinking i need a career change after working in offices the past ten years...rite now i am working in a small office..which i have to say that i don't enjoy working in small offices as much..i have found it very cliqueish....but working here has definitely helped me adjust to living here

.but working here has definitely helped me adjust to living here

I know that if I hadn't started working as soon as I got here then I'd most likely not be so comfortable living here as I am now. It's definately helped me adjust.

Funny you said that about small offices, I found it the same. I found it very difficult to work in a small office. I prefer much larger companies.

Ive found with small companies the managers tend to try to micro manage me more than in large ones. I dont take kindly to being micro managed to watched constantly.

I didnt work straight away once I moved and I think since Ive started working Ive actually grown to dislike the country more than when i wasnt working. at least when I wasnt working I didnt have to consistantly come into contact with incompetant asses every day. I dont have much patience for them and it ends up ruining my day or week when I have to deal with stupid people. work and I surely dont mix.

hopefully there'll be better luck on my new job starting on the 1st.

I'm in a small office and I love it.  But maybe it has to do with the type of work you do and the type of office?  I've always been a legal secretary (well, since I was 19, at least) and I really like a smaller legal office than a larger one.  This one isn't anywhere near as clique-y as the one I worked at last in the US - but maybe it's because I just don't let any clique-like behaviour bother me at this point?

I think you are right about not letting clique like behavior bother you....at times it can be difficult though when your colleagues have been working together for a long time and aren't open to new ideas about how to get the work done...