I was offered my dream job. A C level job. The company would be considered a startup, it’s been around for 5 years. During my interview I asked about the prospects, and how business was. I was told they have 10 year client contracts and are growing every month. The business is growing, and is sharing space with 2 other companies and they expect to need a new space soon too.
They also offered me the job after two interviews, when there should have been four (that’s what was outlined). Looking back it Should have been a red flag. The offer was a small pay increase (red flag two), but I was excited for the chance to move up career wise and fancy title. I explained I didn’t have the background but was told ‘that’s fine it’s a new company I can learn and grow with the company.’
I moved to the new job and on my first day I sat in an office for almost 3 hours, the owner came in gave me computer credentials, then left me again for another 3 hours. I went looking for something do, I was not ‘onboarded’ no hand book or anything. When I found the owner he told me I need to hit the ground running. Then he called me to talk to a manager at one of the other companies for work to do . The manager gave me a list of repairs to do for his staff. Confused I asked the owner about what I was hired for, not this and he joked “if you don’t like it there’s the door.” I assisted the other users and went back to my office. I sat at my desk. At this point the time is around 5pm. The typical office hours I was told when I interviewed were 8-5. I checked in with the owner and asked when is quitting time? He said summer hours are 8-5, but this fall we shift back to regular hours 8-7pm and most weekends. I was a bit taken aback because that was not mentioned and that schedule is crazy, I’m not invested in this start up. But I shook it off and went home.
The second and third day were less eventful, the owner had me attend a bunch of demos. He then dropped on me that I would have to learn the product to do client installs. This was never mentioned during the interview process. My job was supposed to be a support role. When I mentioned it I was told support is doing installs. He told me next week I would do two installs with him there and then he was going on vacation for a month, and I would have to be the one leading the installs. He also said I have to be in the office everyday, the job was supposed to be hybrid-remote. Only come in when needed. He then dropped on me that I would have to be there physically if he wasn’t. And he plans to spend more time away from the office and to expect to be in every day.
On Friday he left at 10 am to run errands and then stay at home for the day. I sat in the office and tried to learn as much as I could, I still had no intro or map of items so I tried to find stuff n my own, and the owner teams called me to tell that I would have to be on call for his other two businesses, which I know nothing about (which surprise were the ones sharing the same space) I objected to that, and he told me that he had outsourced support, and is canceling that at the end of the month and I would be filling that role too. It was a cost saving measure.
There was one more call after that and I had learned that those 10 year contracts I was told about we were already 5 years into. And The contracts that were the ‘bread and butter’ the clients opted out (I’m guessing they weren’t happy). They really only have contracts with 1-2 years left and need to get more companies on board and adapt our offerings …. So the place is not doing well imo. It’s been 3 days and I still haven’t been onboarded, no tax stuff or anything.
It was a lot to unpack but I was basically lied to by the owner and his answer to me pointing that out was there is the door.
TLDR owner lied to me about a job and wants me to do the work of at least 4. I’m quitting Monday. Fuck that.