Not what I expected: Micromanagement Haven in an unorganized and low morale company culture - Anonymous The Public Good Projects Employee Review

Unnecessary micromanagement and company bureaucracy. I made three mild mistakes, and was immediately put on a performance improvement plan. I was heavily watched by the Sr. team. I'm almost 40-years-old, and I felt like I was back in high school. I’d never been on any performance evaluation before; definitely not within my third week of a job. It wasn’t fun. I was heavily controlled by my supervisor, anxious all the time, and worried about job security. It was a very sickening position to be in. I had to report what I was doing everyday, and wasn’t allowed to communicate with some people about parts of the job, even if it was more convenient for my job -- I had to go straight to my supervisor. I was falsely accused of unprofessionalism, going to the wrong people about tasks, and not understanding the target audience for various clients. HR refused to give me examples of things I'd done wrong. Very unprofessional. HR department plays politics. I also never interviewed with with my supervisor for the job. My selected supervisor was completely opposite of the type of manager I said I wanted/needed in my interview process with HR. The moment my supervisor started the role, I knew it wasn't going to work out. My supervisor made it clear that they wanted to micromanage this role. Right away, I was heavily micromanaged, and my supervisor created various problems on the job for me. My experience at PGP did a complete 180. I was filled with anxiety and stress all the time. Not okay, especially for someone working remotely. My supervisor’s role and expectations took precedent over the well being of me as an employee, and my job being successful and sustainable. I didn’t have any autonomy at all and I couldn’t be as proactive as I loved to be. I came from a larger company, where I worked autonomously and ran an entire department successfully. How am I in a start-up dealing with this crap from someone who'd only been with the company for less than a week? I also found my supervisor to be very insecure. My supervisor sent me a random slack message saying, "Just so you're aware the executive team said only employees from Directors and up will be admins on Facebook moving forward". I had no idea why my supervisor felt the need to tell me this. I don't care, as long as I can do my job. She couldn't even use Facebook Business Manager, so she looked ridiculous sending me that message. There always seemed to be a need by my supervisor to run rank on me and make me feel unworthy of overseeing Facebook Business Manager or doing my job. It was childish and exhausting. Every conversation we had, she needed to remind me who was who's supervisor, and that I was her direct report. I just wanted her to be quiet already. She was annoying, and also telling me what I already knew. This role just was too junior for me, and wasn't the right fit in terms of office culture and team structure. It was a lot of waiting for approval on minor things that I could get done much faster by asking the right people or just doing it on my own, because I knew how to do it correctly. This type of managerial style sometimes slowed down my work getting done because my supervisor would be busy, OOO, or just to lazy to response even though they were on slack all day. My supervisor’s lack of leadership experience I believe played a part in their mismanagement of my role. There were C-Level executives who I had more experience than, on paper. This is a fast-pace environment where people are busy and in meetings a lot, so I tried to stay optimistic that the doors of communication will open more overtime. At times, even in fear of getting in trouble I reached out to other senior staff members so I could make sure my work was completed on time. I don't have time to wait on a "Yes" or "No" over silly things. I have work to do. The reality is, this is a company that’s very disorganized and lacks communication effectiveness. They flex around all this power, but people here really are clueless about performance marketing and communication effectiveness. Many senior staff members do exactly what they reprimand their staff members for. I also noticed the majority of the senior team were just junior associates less than six years ago. They are friends of the CEO at his old company. Trust me, their lack of skills showed many times during my tenure. A few c-level executives know nothing about performance marketing and they can't communicate properly in a fast-pace office environment. I did my job incredibly well, and received great feedback from various teams about my campaigns. I was even kind enough to train the marketing team on FB Business Manager. My campaign results skyrocketed. Unfortunately, HR had no idea and neither did my supervisor because nobody communicates at this company and they immediately blame people based on "he said, she said". They're very petty and unprofessional. I was literally put on a performance improvement plan, after a massive increase in results for multiple client campaigns I implemented. The allegations made against me were never addressed to me first. It's also fair to say, I have more marketing experience than anyone in this company. It was a joke! I did not receive the trust and respect that I deserved, based on the work I did for PGP in a short time frame, the positive feedback I received from Sr. staff members regarding my work, and the background/skill set I came into the company with. It brought down morale within my role and HR couldn't care less. I tried to move on and just get the work done. However, it just got worse. My supervisor and HR were making my role unbearable and unhealthy for my well-being. They were condescending, dismissive, and just didn't listen to any of my concerns about my supervisor. Throughout my time, my supervisor was complaining about my job and if I was getting my work done --- Literally day three, she started to cause problems. Funny, because I don't think she's done any work since she's started. All she's done is read documents and attend meetings to get information. She attempted to get strategy proposal's from me in the performance evaluation plan, which honestly should be her job. I should be adding to her proposal, not doing the entire plan by myself. I honestly did not know what my supervisors job was. At first, it seemed like she was only hired to manage me in the right direction, but not do any sort of physical work. One needs to ask...what work did my supervisor do within her first 2-3 weeks except read a bunch of strategy documents (Which I already read 2x) and attend meetings to throw around all of her ideas? All she did was complain, leech off my knowledge everyday, and leave at 5pm EST everyday to unresponsive questions/statements regarding my work that had deadlines within 24 hours. Due to my supervisor and HR's actions and my role becoming high anxiety, I decided to voluntarily resign. I didn’t like the stress of dealing with insane micromanagement that was beyond unecessary. I also felt I was being used by my supervisor and not treated with respect by Human Resources. The lack of communication and non-interest in trying to increase communication from the top-down was daunting. I missed my old job and my ability to lead, run my department, and make minor mistakes without them being blown into major issues. I came from a company that valued proactiveness and good morale. This company doesn't want employees to be proactive. They will jeopardize good company morale, as long as it makes their C-Level executives happy. My old job believed that if you hire good people, you get out of their way. This company doesn’t and it seems to be why they have high turn-over and can't produce exceptional work for clients. The junior team are amazing at their roles, contrary to popular belief internally. They are constantly described as "junior employees" in a very condescending way. They're not respected by senior leadership. Everyone learns from their mistakes, especially when they just started. That's why you make mistakes in the beginning, so you learn and never do it again. Reading the other Glassdoor reviews here, I am not surprised by my experience. I expect more turn-over here and restructuring. I clearly dodged a huge bullet.