I'm going to list some things that irk me and I just would like some guidance on what to do. Key things to note: I took this job because I needed to save money and I want to buy myself time while I build my own small business.
1️⃣ I work for a startup company where we all work remotely. Before accepting the position, “working whenever you want” was a perk that was really pushed about this job and something I was pretty excited about. Now a year in, I realized that you 100% cannot work whenever you want. You have to be “on” basically all day, everyday. They just tell you that, even though they don't mean it.
2️⃣ I get micromanaged like CRAZY. Everyday we need to submit a to-do list to the entire team. At the end of the day, we need to update it saying what we finished. Every week, we need to write our goals for the week, wins, losses, learnings and next week's goals. Every MONTH, we need to add in our monthly goals and status. On top of that, we need to have meetings every single day with the team stating what we're working on for that day. It's insane. Then, 1:1's with managers every week where we need to share any updates. I was able to fully handle it when I first started but now that I'm a ways in, I can't handle it.
3️⃣ I was intensely threatened by a user of the company's services. Keep in mind, I've never talked to this person or interacted with them. They found my email, found all my personal social media accounts and spammed me saying they were “homicidal” and would find me. I didn't doubt that they would since they somehow found all my personal accounts. On top of that, they went to my small business acts. and commented to my clients saying I'm a scammer and to not trust me. All because they were unhappy with their experience on my company's site. I told the higher ups, only to not get a message back from the top dog and a “sorry that happened to you” from another higher up. I was scared, disappointed and didn't know what to do.
Those are the 3 main things happening. Now hear me out, I'm still here because it took me over a year to even get this job. It's so hard nowadays. I obviously know I need to quit, but financially it just doesn't make sense while I try to grow my own business. Can you just share some encouraging words or advice for me? I'm not sure what to do.