I Thought I’d Landed a Great Job. Then I Started Working With a Department With an Infamous Reputation.

Good Job July 30, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Liubomyr Vorona/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Good Job, I recently started at a new company. This is my first “big girl” job with benefits and all that. To make a long story short: The company that originally hired me merged into a much bigger company. All was well, or so I thought. I was thrust into a different position than what I did previously. Great, right? Wrong. It was my old supervisor’s job, and she left only two days before the merger. So now I’m doi