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Once. I was shown a nice window office, told I was taking over the dept and hired m...only to be led to an internal office much smaller than the guy they had told me I was replacing- who was still there. It was then my job to do his job (there were performance issues and he was removed from some accounts) and phase him out. He was significantly older than I was (and I’m female) and clueless as to what I was even doing there or why he had so little to do.
Cowards. The men that hired me were cowards.
Yes. Was told an account was going in an entirely new direction. It wasn’t. It was doubling-down on past garbage and I was the sacrificial lamb.
Never take what’s told to you in interviews as 100% truth. It’s their job to position the company in a positive light...i mean we work in an industry of deception and persuasion after all. Talk to people who’ve quit, talk to your network, check Glassdoor, Google search the agency, look at past work, etc. Do your own homework. Trust your gut, if you feel like there’s something off, there probably is.
Yes, that’s happened at 3 previous jobs for me. It usually starts with the, “you’ll have the power shape this position however you see fit,” or worse, “this is a brand new role, so you’ll have a lot of freedom to tell us what you’ll be doing to help us reach our goals.” Sounds exciting until you start working there and realize what a dumpster fire you got yourself into. A recruiter reached out to me recently for a job, and when I asked for the job description, I was told there wasn’t one. I also discovered this company was “really scrappy and entrepreneurial” and didn’t have an HR department either. Hard pass for me. I’ve been burned enough and we work too effen hard to add another layer of chaos and misery to our lives!
OP, I think the sad reality is that there are waaaay too many places like that and we unfortunately can have a lot of shared experiences but at very different places.
I was told this heroing story of the junior team that was leaving, they produced a really good national TV spot, and they talked it all up and down the interview. I assumed I’d be taking that role over, so I made the mistake of not confirming what I’d be assigned to. They put me on web and I’ve spend the past year writing feature descriptions for all my clients cars on their website. Never even got to look at a real brief since I’ve been here. Jumping ship soon
What were the lies?
it's standard.
Companies lie to potential employees all the time.