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Hey zesties~
What’s your first FT job like? When I first graduated, I joined company A and was paid a meagre salary. I had a marketing degree and was excited to do a FT marketing role after trying out a few marketing internships.
Thinking back I was pretty much catfished and the role was nothing like what I was told during the interviews and on the jd. I was doing sales support instead which was something I wasn’t interested in back then.
Already feeling unfulfilled from the job wasn’t enough, guess what!!! Cue……. t o x i c m a n a g e r.
Every morning I was to send a list of leads to sales reps in the company for them to make their daily customer calls. I guess marketing leads were expensive back then and they decided hiring a cheaper labour like me was more worth it 🥲 that’s fine though, I can do some manual excel work. After all it’s my first job and I should acquire some work experience, right????? 😕
That’s when things became bad.
My then boss, had a SPECIFIC way on how the excel sheet has to look. IT 👏🏻CANT 👏🏻 BE 👏🏻 DIFFERENT👏🏻
Date must be written a certain way
The texts have to be a certain size
The columns and rows have to be specifically formatted
Blah blah blah 😑
Since I wasn’t used to her format, I did it my way. Good lord, she was so furious. After that, she made me send me work to her EVERYDAY to check. And guess what… she made me pay $2 for every error I made. She put the jar on my table and said that will be team bonding funds.
It’s like a jar of shame 😫
Once she shouted across the office and said - I spotted a mistake again! $2 into the jar!
I started getting anxiety every night before sleep and dreaded work every single morning. Looking back it’s just silly mistakes but I was so worried about being humiliated again in office. Once I had an eye infection and was on MC, she asked for a photo of my eye infection 😳 so I sent her plenty of photos.
🥵 never have I thought I would be penalised monetarily at work… the “announcement” made in the office was so humiliating and just wasn’t necessary!!!! Ngl I felt targeted and attacked. They did also use my jar of shame money for team lunch too. Why were the rest of the team ok??? Call me strawberry 🍓 but that wasn’t okay with me.
So I decided I had enough.
I drafted up my resignation letter and sent it to HR, and printed a copy out and left it on her table the next day. I spoke to HR, who then asked me why I resigned as they were preparing to pass my probation.
The naive fresh grad thought that HR might help me, I spilled the tea about being fined by my then boss (and cried!) only to realise later that HR is always on the company’s side.
FYI, I didn’t have another job secured after company A. Since it was too toxic for me to stay on, I decided I’d rather be jobless for awhile than have anxiety and dread work so much.
While I don’t think everyone has to be passionate about their jobs, could I at least not hate my job and my manager??? ☠️
I wasn’t sure if I will ever find a good workplace with pleasant culture ever since my experience in Company A but of course LinkedIn changed it for me :-)
I shared why I loved working at LinkedIn here
in retrospect I imagine someone with financial commitments may seem difficult to call it quits with job that has toxic culture / boss / colleagues especially when you don’t have another job secured. I’m not saying you should leave your job when you have debts (pls reconsider other income streams) - back then I had none - but definitely make an informed decision and be sure you have sufficient savings or funds to back you up for daily expenses.
Seedly recommends min. of 6 months of emergency funds.
If I could go back in time, I would have resigned even earlier or perhaps spoken to my then-boss about the difference in the actual job vs the JD. I don’t think the latter will change or improve her toxic behaviour but on hindsight it definitely made me grow as a person.
3 learnings I had from this experience:
1️⃣ I unfortunately met a micromanager and didn’t have the skills to identify one during the interview, but now I do :-)
2️⃣ Do what you want others to do to you. Most of my ex-bosses were a “misfit”. While I learnt it the hard way, their toxic traits helped me learnt what I shldnt do as a manager in the future.
3️⃣ Learning to walk away from something bad eventually led me to something better! It always gets better zesties :-) you just have to look out for the right traits.
Would you have left like me or would you bite the bullet to get more work experience?
DO YOU HAVE A TOXIC BOSS? Please tell me more!!! I get excited when people tell me about their horrible bosses because it comforts my fresh grad younger self - I wasn’t alone and will never be alone in this journey 👩🏻🎓
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