Starting New Job, Gave Toxic Previous Employer No Notice
Hi all,
I went into a role with an extremely small company, interviews were great, owner seemed great, and all was well. No insurance was provided although a generous stipend was offered.
Fast forward three months into the role, they let go of 1/3rd of our office staff, I resumed that position along with my current workload, company was sold to an investor with ZERO interpersonal skills-when I tried to explain my frustration with the workload and limited training they said no problems, only solutions-meaning they didn’t want to have to deal with it. Then I was told that I had to fill in for my supervisor for nearly half a year at the end of the year as they were going on vacation, all while almost exclusively training the new person they hired on what I barely knew how to do myself.
Breaks were also not taken and frowned upon. I would leave for 15-20 minutes a day after working 8-9 1/2 hours during busy season and my supervisor asked if I planned on doing that all year. Uhh…yeah.
They were also extremely micromanaging and would confront me with a list of things I did wrong (didn’t label something exactly how they wanted it, forgot to put a single photo in a folder) all while still dumping additional work on me that I couldn’t keep up with. There was frustration from other employees as I was never properly trained on specific things and they would EXPLODE, like children not getting their way, with zero grace and understanding of the position I was put in (I think it was more upset with my supervisor.) I get that but I was doing the best with what I had.
I received a job offer aligning way better with my needs and to be quite frank, this place was killing me. I have some health problems that I’m sorting out but I’m waiting until I have insurance through an employer as the states insurance blows even if it’s costly for one individual. Once I signed and returned the offer I left and didn’t look back.
I’m slightly worried that this will reflect on me negatively but I couldn’t handle it anymore. I suffer from anxiety and I keep worrying that they will reach out to my prior employer who will just shit on me, but there are two sides to every story, and if I was let go I would get zero notice.
Has anyone been in a similar situation?