postr/StutterJune 18, 2025

Bad day at new job

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Bad day at new job Hello friends I recently started a new job at a company, the name of which starts with one of my problem letters. I am supposed to call up some people to set up hiring interviews for them. This is NOT my primary job as I’m not in HR, but the seniors in the team prefer that we team members reach out to potential candidates as the HR process takes forever and we need to hire fast. I called about 10 people today. Out of this, with 2 candidates I had to hang up the call because I couldn’t get through the first line “Hello I am calling from….” I will call them again tomorrow as I do need to finish this task, but I am so tired of dealing with this. It ruined my whole day at work. Hopefully eventually once I’m staffed in an actual technical project with a client, I won’t have to do these type of tasks a lot but I am exhausted of not being able to smoothly finish simple tasks. This feels like a punishment and makes me nervous about my own future too. Please… I need some support here.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSchool & WorkSpeech & Stuttering

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Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionSeverity & FluctuationAnxiety & Social JudgmentEmployment & CareerBlocks & Stoppages