Horrible - Anonymous employee Southern Marsh Employee Review

I only worked at Southern Marsh for a very short period of time. After three rounds of Zoom interviews, one large creative project, and an in-person meeting, I was hired to join their marketing division. I felt confident in the responsibilities of the role and meshed very well with the hiring team. During my onboarding and training, I was encouraged to ask for clarification, to take notes, and to soak up as much information as possible. Things were going great until I was pulled into the conference room after lunch one day for what I was told was a quick check-in and informed that some of the questions I’d asked made people “uncomfortable”, that I didn’t fit the culture at Southern Marsh, and that I was being terminated. Never in my several years of workforce experience have I been the subject of a complaint, let alone multiple within a week, so of course I was absolutely horrified to hear this. When I asked for clarification as to what these complaints consisted of, the manager would only give me two examples- one where I had asked if we had a business account for a graphics website (this happened over email; the person I asked later came to my desk with follow up information and they explained why that website usually isn’t compatible with our procedures but they assured me that what I wanted to use it for was completely fine) and the other where I had a question for IT regarding something for work on my personal phone (I was receiving a pop-up notification when trying to add the company email to my Gmail app that I’d never seen before). My chat with IT was also normal and they were similarly very knowledgeable and understanding. Both times I was specifically directed by the same employee to bring my questions to these individuals, and both conversations happened within my first three days. To add to my confusion, I received positive feedback several times on the quality of work I’d produced and on my integration with the team (including by one of the individuals who allegedly complained about me) AFTER these complaints would have been made. The manager outright refused to give me details of the other complaints, nor a more specific understanding of the complaints she did directly mention. Additionally, the manager told me several times as I was gathering my things to call them the next day. When I called as instructed, they didn’t pick up, and despite leaving a voicemail they never got back to me. My unemployment paperwork says Southern Marsh claimed I didn’t have the skill set for the role, which makes no sense given that I was actively and effectively doing my job and that my team members told me multiple times they were happy with my output. How can both of these be true at once? This isn’t even taking into account that the manager never brought up concerns regarding my ability to perform my assigned tasks during our final conversation. I am beyond distraught by the way this was handled. Management had MULTIPLE opportunities to address any concerns they may have had, but I had NO IDEA anything was wrong until I was being fired. “Devastated” doesn’t even begin to convey how this has affected me, especially since it was too late for me to return to my old job. This is not how a business should treat its employees at any point of their time with the company, and certainly not a brand new employee who is trying to learn the ropes. I have no idea what I could have done to warrant such a disproportionate, baffling response to completely normal workplace interactions or why there wasn’t better communication beforehand if problems were truly present. I would have never left my previous role had I known I would be gone before I even hit double digit days. I left a good job with a caring team for what I thought was a great opportunity only to end up jobless. This has been the most bizarre, stressful, and deeply upsetting experience of my life and I regretfully but highly encourage others to stay far away from Southern Marsh.