I was an account coordinator in a media company for over a year and it was super great. A few hiccups because of the manager I had (let’s just say she got fired around 6 months later), but overall I was consistently told I was doing a good job. Things started to go south when my only exec and direct manager left and I was coordinating all the brands at once on a big account.
However early this year I was put on a PIP because I was taking too long on tasks/making mistakes and my managers will constantly nitpick everything i did. I was super confused cause my boss (who is different from the manager) only had nice things to say about me and was constantly being known as a hard working person and even got a few positive references out of it. I was so burnt out and I disliked something I was really passionate about. So I resigned and tried PR.
Now the same thing is happening to me again. I come in and everyone is saying how good I’m doing with extremely little negative feedback. However the other coordinator moved on to a different job and one of the managers resigned on the Monday. There are many things I am not happy with but that’s for a different rant. Now we are becoming understaffed and my managers are uping my workload and giving me more negative feedback. Despite saying how good I was, even the manager wrote “overall you are doing a good job” followed with 2 paragraphs of things I am doing incorrectly. Similar to my previous situation.
Good news is I am now offered a job which I am really looking forward to, better opportunities, bigger team, and better pay. But am worried that I am the problem, or everyone is going to mass leave again and I’m going to be put under pressure. I just get burnt out every single time and go down a “depressive” route.