I got Bait and Switch'd? I was at my last company for…
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I got Bait and Switch'd?
I was at my last company for around 4 years. While not the perfect place, it was a job I could have done with my eyes closed. After many issues with my boss, bad HR decisions, fear of layoffs as the company has been making cuts over the last year, and not getting a raise for the last 2 years... I decided it was time to leave.
I'm in a niche role within a niche department. Not every company needs my department and even less need my role. Because of this (and thanks to the current job market), looking has been a long road. I have been able to get a few interviews and even a couple of offers but after around 9 months I was able to get offered a similar role to mine but at a big company that paid me a ton more than the last job. I knew the new place would likely be more work but since I've done basically nothing at my last job all year, I was excited to actually do something... oh, how I was wrong.
I'm currently on my second week at the new job. Not only is it so corporate that I can feel the soul leaving my body every day I am here (I know ai is all apart of corporate life now but they talk about it like its the coming of Christ). No one knows anything about the actual product this company makes, everyone is basically doing the most amount of work with the least amount of coordination, the onboarding was non-existent (both for my role and for the company), and the company culture is "use ai, do more work." To make matters worse, the expectation from my new boss is that I'm available pretty much 12-16 hours a day, basically working west coast hours (I'm east coast), and that I'm always reachable by phone.
I'm not a manager, I'm not a director, I'm not anyone special. I'm a Specialist. A senior, mind you, but still a Specialist. I am salary and I have zero issue staying late on occasion to help people or do work that needs to get done but none of these expectations were discussed during the interview or at the offer stage.
Every company is different and I figured it would be more corporate than my last place (which was not a start-up but had some start-up vibes) but this was a big culture shock coming in. Some of this is on me for not asking but as someone who is very clearly on the east coast and my boss is very clearly on the west coast, you'd think they'd have brought up atleast the hours expectations.
I plan to push back as much as I can but as much as I'm kicking myself, it might also be a good idea to get a leg up and start applying asap. If I can find something before the end of the year, then I can just bank the increase in pay and forget it ever happened. I'm not happy about what this might do to my resume but I can just say this was a temporary W-2 employment thing and leave it at that or omit it entirely if I can find something within 90 days.
Being stuck with golden handcuffs, at a job I'm basically already hating after less than 2 weeks, sucks... but so does knowing that anywhere I go I'll likely get a pay decrease. This sucks...
Everyone I know hates their job. They either work too much, in a place they do not like, or for too little pay. I'm here, at home, working a job I'm slightly annoyed by, where I might have to work a slightly different shift than I'd prefer, and getting paid a ton to do it. I should probably just shut up and be happy I have a job, right?
Hate it here.
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I was at my last company for around 4 years. While not the perfect place, it was a job I could have done with my eyes closed. After many issues with my boss, bad HR decisions, fear of layoffs as the company has been making cuts over the last year, and not getting a raise for the last 2 years... I decided it was time to leave.
I'm in a niche role within a niche department. Not every company needs my department and even less need my role. Because of this (and thanks to the current job market), looking has been a long road. I have been able to get a few interviews and even a couple of offers but after around 9 months I was able to get offered a similar role to mine but at a big company that paid me a ton more than the last job. I knew the new place would likely be more work but since I've done basically nothing at my last job all year, I was excited to actually do something... oh, how I was wrong.
I'm currently on my second week at the new job. Not only is it so corporate that I can feel the soul leaving my body every day I am here (I know ai is all apart of corporate life now but they talk about it like its the coming of Christ). No one knows anything about the actual product this company makes, everyone is basically doing the most amount of work with the least amount of coordination, the onboarding was non-existent (both for my role and for the company), and the company culture is "use ai, do more work." To make matters worse, the expectation from my new boss is that I'm available pretty much 12-16 hours a day, basically working west coast hours (I'm east coast), and that I'm always reachable by phone.
I'm not a manager, I'm not a director, I'm not anyone special. I'm a Specialist. A senior, mind you, but still a Specialist. I am salary and I have zero issue staying late on occasion to help people or do work that needs to get done but none of these expectations were discussed during the interview or at the offer stage.
Every company is different and I figured it would be more corporate than my last place (which was not a start-up but had some start-up vibes) but this was a big culture shock coming in. Some of this is on me for not asking but as someone who is very clearly on the east coast and my boss is very clearly on the west coast, you'd think they'd have brought up atleast the hours expectations.
I plan to push back as much as I can but as much as I'm kicking myself, it might also be a good idea to get a leg up and start applying asap. If I can find something before the end of the year, then I can just bank the increase in pay and forget it ever happened. I'm not happy about what this might do to my resume but I can just say this was a temporary W-2 employment thing and leave it at that or omit it entirely if I can find something within 90 days.
Being stuck with golden handcuffs, at a job I'm basically already hating after less than 2 weeks, sucks... but so does knowing that anywhere I go I'll likely get a pay decrease. This sucks...
Everyone I know hates their job. They either work too much, in a place they do not like, or for too little pay. I'm here, at home, working a job I'm slightly annoyed by, where I might have to work a slightly different shift than I'd prefer, and getting paid a ton to do it. I should probably just shut up and be happy I have a job, right?
Hate it here.
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