Worst year of my life, felt small and would cry from the stress from my boss and being talked down to at least once a week, for a whole year... Micro-management to the extreme. Constantly being told to refer to such and such procedure or policy if you do anything wrong in the slightest. Was told by my director to "smile more" and be like the other girl in our department, who he once made cry during our team weekly meeting and we had to sit there as he badgered her to explain why/how she made a minor mistake on front of her peers. Passive aggressive robotic emotionless 1 on 1 meetings with this guy every week and the director would constantly focus on things he didn't like and never bothered providing praise for anything he did like. Was told not to interupt while having a conversation on a topic I was already informed on, and was trying to express this, but he didn't let me get a word in. Ended up sending me to get training on how to better communicate and afterward the career coach didn't understand why I was there because we were communicating just fine. Red flags from the very beginning--even after my interview, the HR woman called me a few minutes after and said I got the role and although she assured the team I was probably just nervous, they wanted to know, "Do you normally act like that?"... Who asks that?! Additionally, the director made us tell him exactly when we took lunch and what we ate. Requesting PTO was always uncomfortable and made to feel guilty about it. Eventually, I was let go based on a list of things the director basically didn't like about me and lawyers spammed me for months after with emails accusing me of keeping design files stating I wasn't able to share anything I made during my employment on a future portfolio(which I knew, I signed a doc at hire), despite telling them before I even left that I had kept nothing. I should mention this was all within the "Growth" department, so there was no one I could turn to because they were it. Never have I been made to feel so little, I was mentally wrecked for a long time after the whole ordeal.
