When I started at Businessolver, my role was a lot different than what I ultimately left the company doing. I genuinely loved this company and what I was doing (and received high ratings from my reviews) until they promoted another person from my team to manage me. The weird part about this change was that I was still expected to share my work/projects with our Director (my former boss) as well as the new manager, so the review/editing process soon became overly complicated and inefficient as work had to be reviewed by two different people who often had two very different visions for the projects I was working on. Once this new manager transition took place, I was expected to start taking steps to become a leader/manager within the team, but was given very little guidance on what was expected to accomplish this. Despite repeatedly telling my manager I was interested in alternative career progressions, not to be a manager, this was ultimately ignored. With expectations of me becoming a leader, despite this not aligning with my own career goals, I soon found my role shifting away from the work that I was good at/loved and going into a direction that was not only not my passion, but an unmanageable workload for any one person to handle.
Over time, I was asked to manage multiple projects, take on new responsibilities as people were let go from the team and not replaced, in addition to having a micromanaging boss constantly inundate me with multiple rounds of never-ending edits that slowed down my workflow but was still expected to get everything done at a very fast rate (which often had me working until 8 pm every night just to keep up). I also was expected to attend a plethora of meetings that also prevented me from getting necessary work done promptly (sometimes as much as 5+ hours out of my day) despite saying to leaders multiple times that I needed time to be able to do the work assigned to me. There were also many instances where my boss would blame me for things that went wrong during projects that were out of my control/actions that others on the team took.
Towards the end of my time at Businessolver, I was absolutely depleted from the constant negative feedback (even though I was doing the job of close to 5 people) from my boss, who seemed to have it out for me. I refused to let my boss push me out of my role, though since we were finally going to be receiving our full bonuses (something that had not happened since I started there 3 years ago) which made it worth it to hang on even though every day I was treated with such disrespect from my boss that made me question my own ability to do the things I loved origionally about my job.
During the course of my last year and a half there, I received one bad mid-year review that completely caught me by surprise (and was absolutely not accurate as I was purposely set up to fail by both my direct manager and my former boss). During the review, I was informed that both of these managers purposely made it hard for me to succeed to see how I would handle these hurdles, despite having no former experience with taking on some of these tasks, which is not right at all! After that review, it's like everything changed in how I was treated. My boss was constantly on my case, micromanaging every aspect of my day to push me out of the company/resign. I refused to let this happen though because, still, I felt like my former boss had my back on some occasions and backed me up when my direct boss was nitpicking things that should not have been nitpicked.
Conveniently, right after I completed my review for the new year (which also would be the time I finally got paid out on my bonus) I was given no warning that anything was wrong (no indications that my performance was still not up to par or anything from my boss) until my boss asked to connect with me for a quick call before our weekly morning standup. When I got on the call, my boss said one sentence to me saying something to the effect of "Your performance still is not cutting it, so this will be your last day." and immediately transfers me over to an HR person who acted like there were many convos to address my "performance issues" leading up until this point. When I asked what exactly was leading to this, the HR person could give no list of anything that lead to this, nor did my boss address anything with me either since they already had jumped off the call.
Weeks later, I saw that the team had reposted my role with a different name for the title with the max salary being $25,000 lower than what I was making doing the same job. I knew right then that this had nothing to do with my performance at all and everything to do with not wanting to pay someone a decent wage for the role, and not wanting to pay out on my bonus. (Fun fact: the role is still active and they have not found anyone).
I would highly recommend staying away from this company at all costs, because they will destroy your spirit completely, and any joy I had found starting at this company was completely gone when I was let go. It took me months to get my head right after the mental turmoil that my direct boss inflicted on me during my time under her leadership. Luckily, I found another organization that valued my skill set, provided positive feedback regarding my work, and pays well.
