They lied about pay, benefits, and job description. When I was hired, I wasn’t looking for a job. They approached me. I specifically asked if it was a leadership position or a micromanaged position and explained that I shut down and am not successful being micromanaged, as I’ve been leading most of my career life. They said leadership.
Day 1: They gave me an unattainable list to complete and scolded me when it wasn’t finished.
Day 2: They gave me a completely new unattainable list and scolded me when it wasn’t finished. They had not added anything from day 1 and they expected me to constantly bark at the warehouse crew.
Day 3: completely new unattainable list. I explained it wasn’t attainable and my job was threatened. I then got uninvited to all internal meetings.
The girl who they claimed was terrible at her job and didn’t know how to do her job was assigned to train me. My punishment for speaking up and tell them the way they were expecting me to lead was not how I operated and I would need training resulted in me getting banned to the back....
With budgets. They asked the same girl to make a budget for an event. I asked if she knew how to make a budget. She didn’t even know what one was. I trained her. Then I sat down with the owner, discovered they hadn’t been making any budgets for years and had no idea what they’re profit margin was. When I asked him what profit percentage he wanted he said 60%. I worked out the budget for the event, discovered we were already at budget just with catering. So he completely cut the budget for the event that was less than a week later. We had to cancel contracts for contract workers and cut food budgets, all last minute.
I told them I like doing budgets and would enjoy taking on the budgets for each event. They scoffed at me and banned me to the back (I think this was all day 3), saying someone else would do them.
At one point they wanted me to literally count beads. Operations Manager salary (though much lower than they originally agreed to and then lied about) to count beads when there were lower paid employees that could have been doing that.
I fought to have water on site at locations and they consistently did not provide water. I fought for a crafty table and they refused. Sometimes, the workers worked 12-14 hours with no break, no snacks, and no water provided. I got talked to about fighting for this. Every so often they had snacks and water. Once they ordered pizza in the warehouse, where it’s not even that important. The owner offered me snacks more often than the workers who were actually lifting most of the heavy things. The way they talked about their warehouse workers was offensive. They called them lazy and acted like they didn’t care at all when I’m reality, they were working really hard and had pride in their work.
I was fired after a set up day for an event. Apparently, I was supposed to be in charge but was giving practically no prep meeting, wasn’t given a key to arrive early to prepare for the truck and gain my bearings, had not had communication with the lighting designer or them on what he was supposed to be doing, he didn’t know either. We did not finish what they wanted done and I was told to leave (because they didn’t trust me) instead of staying to keep working to meet their goal, even though I was on salary and willing to keep working.
They fired me via text, didn’t give me a reason though they did ask me if I knew the drape inventory numbers off the top of my head, while on location setting up an event, and the drapes was a task I asked multiple times for training and help on. I was told the task needed two people and was never granted that person.
When they sent me the things on my desk, they mentioned 3 times that boxes often get lost in the mail and if it did, it wasn’t their responsibility. When I received the box, they had not put my personal mail box # on it, which I definitely gave them as its part of my full address and I checked my records. Luckily, it still went to the location where my box is and they were able to look up who I was and what my PMB # was. If it was going anywhere else, to an apartment or anything, it likely would have never came. I thanked them for sending my stuff and let them know I received it (mostly out of entertainment since I knew they attempted for it not to come) and they never communicated back... not a surprise, but I felt good letting them know I still got it.