Had a talk today with my manager and she is letting me go because of “lack of confidence”. My colleague was also let go for the same reason. While I’m actually happy that this happened to me - I never saw the value of the product and just didn’t align with the marketing strategy (or lackof) - my colleague is in a visa conundrum. There were no warnings given to us for our performance and our manager herself has zero experience in B2B SaaS/tech. I guess it’s a blessing in disguise?

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Would you want someone marketing a product they don’t believe in? Sounds like she made the right decision. I feel like you expected us to take your side but I don’t understand why.

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Also companies and hiring managers can say whatever high-ho thing about their product ad nauseam. These things happen and especially with early-stage or seed startups, where no one has used it much, it becomes very sneaky.

Your job is to market the product…. Why would you make that statement?

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I made that statement when I found the product and company was sold to me on very different “colours” when I applied for it. Basically it wasn’t what I expected and what was sold to me.

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Disagree with everyone on here. OPs interest in the product has no relevance here. Plenty of people market, sell… etc products they don’t believe in. I think firing for only “lack of confidence” is bizarre. What does that even mean? Were there instance of poor performance? Were they documented? Did you sabotage something? Seems like your manager woke up one day and flipped a coin

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Sounds like not a good place to work at in the first place. I will say however a lot of start ups also don’t have structure and the expectation is for you to make it (of course start ups have their pros and cons). But that kind of environment isn’t for everyone and that’s not good or bad. Just different working needs. I think lack of structure is chaos personally.

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Would you want a Marketing Manager who can’t find any value in the product they are marketing? Cute that you “didn’t align with their marketing strategy”…that’s like me saying I don’t align with how EY does their work so I did tax returns my own way. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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OK 🤷🏼‍♂️

Could be a very benign excuse for termination that doesn’t get the company into hot water.

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Some people just live to PIP others - at some point it catches up to them and they have to step off the partner train and live under some opaque title like "director of special projects" with no direct reports.

Perhaps not the karma we'd like, but it certainly derails the reign of terror.

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Yes although I must question why you took the position if you did not believe in the product.

I was sold a very different picture of the product and company when I was in the hiring process. And then when I got in, I was shocked at how far it was from what was advertised. These things happen, btw. Companies and hiring managers will say whatever they want and this is especially true for many startups.

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