I worked for a small marketing agency from March to October. The position was new; I was the first of an alleged few to pioneer my creative role to expand the company’s horizons. I was lied to by my boss for several months when I inquired about needing help and fulfilling that promise to hire more for my role.
I wasn’t just overworked. My client work was 2-3x that of everyone else, but those workers received help given their team-based structure. I did not. Why? Because the additional hires I was promised never came. There was always an excuse as to why they wouldn’t hire for my department. Despite this, they routinely hired for every other creative role.
I reached my boiling point during what was supposed to be my quarterly review. In the self-assessment, I laid out my frustrations as kindly as I could. I needed help with my work; even just one new hire would have been a game-changer. They understood, they said, but still discredited my worries.
Just a few days later they eliminated the department and laid me off. The move came out of nowhere and it’s left me in shock even two weeks later. I brought in the most revenue for the company during Q2 this year, and I launched a product they’d be sitting on for a year—and they lay me off because they refused to acknowledge the assistance I deserved.
Fuck them. No one deserves to work for companies who don’t care about you.