Got the dreadful phone call at exactly three months into my employment. Worked as a growth marketer. Company had 0 marketing assets and I had to design and create content from scratch. Everything worked in a waterfall fashion outside of my control due to quality check on designs and content.
My growth partner focused on the sales side gets all the credit for my sourcing work. I spend the countless hours looking through thousands of target profiles and building out contacts lists while my partner sends connections for outreach and sets first meetings. Co-founder always praises him for setting up the meetings as if he’s the one doing all the behind the scenes work, and partner doesn’t take a moment to give me credit and instead steps on me pretending he did all the sourcing.
Long story short, meeting generations were phenomenal on the sales side. I’m juggling 3 projects involving sourcing, ad creation, and developing new pipelines (social/marketing/etc). My growth partner is only doing sales. He’s a pretty toxic guy. I’ve tried numerous time to make his life easier and help develop organization to make outreach easier, but time and time again he is disrespectful and unwilling to negotiate. I let it all slide. He talks being my back to co-founders that I’m doing a bad job on the lists when 80% (if not more) of his meeting generations were from my list. Still let it slide.
Today, without warning at all, I was laid off. No warning, no prior discussion, no let’s see how we can support you, just the good ole fashioned “board of investors” decided it and that’s it. No real explanation. I suspect I probably got baited into an incognito 3-month contract (I was hired as full-time).
What to do now? Are all startups doing this type of stuff? Just absolutely no warning lay offs? Best of all, I’m currently in progress of three projects that I’ve spent 30+ hours setting up, but haven’t even had the chance to execute on.