Hi everyone. I work at a marketing firm that is very small and very traditional in their marketing strategies (think Tony Robbins ).
This place is a mess. The only reasons I haven’t quit is there is not a lot of work in my field in the area and it pays me enough to JUST get me by with the ability to save. However, my boss either doesn’t care about boundaries or is genuinely inept.
He will often fudge his way to results. He will buy leads and give them to the client like his marketing was so good he attracted all these interested people, when in reality their information was some other list and they are not interested in what the client is selling. We, as in the production team that I work on, are not usually involved in these very stupid and kind of unethical services.
This week, however, he decided to involve us. He asked the entire in-office team to go to go WITH OUR HOME COMPUTERS AT HOME and buy 6 months of a very scammy product. A snake oil thing. This came to a $270 order. While he said he would pay everyone back, I don’t have the money to play around with or the time for checks to clear, so I said no. He was annoyed but didn’t press me.
Today, my senior manager tells me he asked the team to make another order, this one got $600 worth of this product. She canceled the order and told him she wouldn’t be doing it, and she said he got so upset with her that she “messed it up”.
Now, we all work in marketing, so I know what he’s doing. He’s either trying to pad a mailing list to give to this client or show the client that he can get more sales than he actually can. So either way, not lying, but almost. And I don’t want anyone to have my credit card info, home address, or home IP address (edit: I KNOW but our office IP address was obviously blocked for spam) without my express consent.
Anyway, traditional marketing is evil. Not to mention I got shorted nearly two days of pay this month and the company tried to FIGHT BACK even though I record my time meticulously and plainly. Fucking ridiculous that people just think it’s okay to treat their employees this way.