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I lost my job for being loyal

I want to share my experience about my last job, I work in the design industry. I am just starting out in my career, two years ago I had entered an agency in which not only had a toxic culture of “grinding everyday” but also the spam of unexpected calls from my creative director at 11 p.m. Asking me made “quick” changes in projects that I wasn't involved in and I didn't have the obligation to do it because it was another designer's job, but since I'm a bit young and I'm starting my career I did it without hesitation. All this because within the company they always promised me that I would grow with them and that I would be promoted, get better skills, and my inexperience thought that I had to always be loyal and not hesitate about anything because I was thinking that was an opportunity to…


I want to share my experience about my last job, I work in the design industry. I am just starting out in my career, two years ago I had entered an agency in which not only had a toxic culture of “grinding everyday” but also the spam of unexpected calls from my creative director at 11 p.m. Asking me made “quick” changes in projects that I wasn't involved in and I didn't have the obligation to do it because it was another designer's job, but since I'm a bit young and I'm starting my career I did it without hesitation. All this because within the company they always promised me that I would grow with them and that I would be promoted, get better skills, and my inexperience thought that I had to always be loyal and not hesitate about anything because I was thinking that was an opportunity to “learn” but there came a point where it was so unbearable to work in that environment, it was a competition between employees, internal groups already formed (staff and some senior designers) inside jokes, they expected us to always give our 300% so that my creative director wanted me to do web design every day after work, I was exhausted, the slacks notifications made me so paranoid and anxious, but I always remained loyal. The fun part is that I was contacted by another agency offering me a better position, better salary and benefits but I had in my head their discourse of “we are a family, we are going to grow together!” I rejected the offer and in the same month that I rejected the offer they fired me because according to them they can’t afford a junior designer (after hiring other 3 juniors after my layoff). In summary, I lost my job for being loyal.

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