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Not bizarre, but I found out two months in that the Director of UX Design and I had a major philosophical difference about about what UX designers do. He literally said, "that's not our job" when I proposed a research program to better understand our user's needs and pain points. How the f*** am I supposed to design a product without knowing what the users want/need?
I was already updating my resume before the meeting ended.
In 2016 I was recruited for a remote program coordinator role by a contractor then called Zero Chaos (now Workforce Logiq). While I had never heard of this company and the offer wasn’t great, the position was remote at a time before it was common and the client was a FAANG company. I accepted and began a lengthy and invasive background check process.
In addition to all of the usual steps, I had to submit tax forms and additional documents for employment verification. It took multiple weeks to clear the screening, but finally I was given a start date.
On the first day I arrive for training at the FAANG office with the rest of my cohort. After lunch we were completing additional onboarding paperwork that required checking our IDs. The employee checking IDs asks if I still live in [state] in a concerned tone. This particular office is in a tri-state area, and I lived in one of the neighboring states. Again, this was a remote role with no requirement to come into the office after training.
It quickly became apparent that my state of residence was a problem, and they sent me home with no explanation. Not only did the contracting firm provide no explanation nor apology, I had to reach out to them to figure out if I still had the job. I surmised that they were only authorized to hire contractors in the same state as the FAANG office. ZeroChaos had received my address several times in the background check and new hire onboarding process but apparently didn’t realize there was a problem until the client identified it.
I was furious but didn’t realize at the time that I had grounds to pursue legal action because I had relied on their offer to make decisions. For example, I missed open enrollment for marketplace insurance because I had accepted an offer with insurance benefits and didn’t think I needed to purchase my own coverage. This is by far the worst experience I’ve had with an employer. While I was initially embarrassed, I now share this story widely to warn others.
Accepted an offer verbally, told everyone on my team i would he moving on but after a week, they withdrew my application 🙃.
This happened to me. Fortunately, I got my job back as I was still under employment and was leaving on very good terms. It was a rotten experience but I managed to get my 1st month salary and sign on bonus out the new employer so I was compensated per se.
About a week into a new job I found out I was expected to come up with an entire ux strategy. This wasn’t what I was expecting to do as part of my role nor what I felt comfortable doing (and never discussed in previous conversations or jd). I left shortly thereafter. Also the team had high turnover since the manager liked to hire and fire (someone else who had been there only a short time before me also quit while I was there).
I was leaving a toxic design studio for what ended up being a toxic start up agency. I thought I would be in good hands as the founder ensured that my happiness was priority. Boy was I bamboozled. I became even more burnt out and there were so many red flags I didn’t realize until I got let go. :( what irritated me the most was that they didn’t really know what UX was and glorified glossy, beautiful website designs over functional accessible ones. What really topped it off was as a tactic to help my burnout, they decided to hire a “senior ux designer” to mentor me BUT she ended up graduating the same year as me…… She had such low EQ when I finally decided to tell her how I was doing mental health wise and she told me “you should look on Behance for design inspo to find your passion for design”. There’s so much to my traumatic experience but I won’t get into it.
Interviewed for a job at a web registrar to be level 1 phone support for website, hosting and email support. The first thing I tell them is that I'm not great at sales and that I was just looking to get my foot into the IT support door. After some technical questions, they tell me that they think I'll be a perfect fit for the position and not to worry. That they were more on the support end if things and that I could make sales but that that wasn't the focus of my position.
I take the job and go through my 7 weeks of training on their web tools, ticketing systems, and products and them the pull the switcheroo and tell me that its a sales job primarily and that all tech support is intended to lead to upselling the customer. That I have yo try and keep my calls under 5 to 8 minutes and at least make two attempts per call to upsell. I was also told that I was not allowed to take downtime between calls because the queues were always high and they expected a minimum if 50 calls a day and meet a weekly sales quota of 2000 dollars.
Unfortunately, it was one of the higher paying jobs in the area as it was a former mining town that had shifted to factories and warehousing as its primary sources of income and there were little to no IT jobs in the area, so I ended up staying for 4 horrible years rather than going back to the factory and 12 hour shifts of literally leaning over a machine that mass-produced plastic products.
That sounds dreadful. I’m also from a former mining region and know how hard it is to find a decent job in that kind of economy. I’ve been fully remote for over 6 years because my local market has few tech jobs and very low wages.