Micromanaged rural ISP run by a husband and wife. - IT Manager Wecom Employee Review

-Job description was for IT Manager and ended up moving IT equipment for an office move into a WeWork. The company said they were remodeling the old office space (which was built next to a torn down slum with graffiti on the side of the building.) - I managed 0 employees. There was no need to manage any more for a very long time. The IT workload was minimal. - Most people recently started with the exception of a few that are in the family. It's a weird vibe of "Faith" family photos and college football on display. - There were 22 people in the office and 65 in the company total. The potential for growth is minimal with the need for government funding to make any kind of profit. They want to take money from the government to subsidize installing internet lines to communities that are underserviced through the Biden Infrastructure Act and with the help of outside investment. It seems like extremely small margins, but as with all startups, they promote growth. - I was fired after 3 weeks on the job... and immediately after the office move. - I was fired for tasks they asked me to do, but wanted to talk about them first before I did them. I expressed how that was micromanagement and not what I wanted to do, so they then asked if I was quitting. I said no, I just won't be micromanaged. This all happened at the end of my third week, after hours on a Friday, through text messages and I suggested we meet to discuss. I was watching sports when my access was cut and the explanation I received was that my reaction was so poor to wanting to talk about the tasks, that I was being terminated. - The interview promoted similar things that startups encourage to lure candidates, "no red tape", "no micromanagement", "no fluffy language, let's get things done" and a "bonus that we will provide in writing at a later date on how you can achieve it". Those things were not true and they are extremely sensitive. - I watched managers assign tasks without explaining them to anyone, expect them to be finished, and have no recollection of when they communicated the directives. Whenever it was mentioned, they leaned on issues in their personal life, and asked for flexibility. The demonstration for flexibility on their side was minimal. I don't think they had much else to do and just wanted to tell someone to do it while they were going through a hard time or just take it out on someone. When talking to employees at the Switch Datacenter, they would call them "stupid" with profanity for their security practices. I watched them say this directly to their face with another employee present. -The CEO ordered laptops. Not just paid for them, he specs them and asks for updates on their status of when they will be delivered... so, if you were under the impression as an IT Manager you'd be having a say in the machines being used, you'd be wrong. - There was a strange security practice that the old owners be kept on the Office tenant so they can email government officials from a @company domain. I can't even begin to reinforce how bad that is. -The overall feeling was that they needed someone to help with an office downsize and have minimal understanding of IT security practices (local accounts, shared passwords, manually generated groups in AD, etc.).