I’m such an ungrateful ass, I know. I mean this man took me on with little to no experience and gave me an opportunity to prove myself, yet here I am being so rude and insubordinate.
I laugh in my head as I type this🤣. I don’t know if to call this growth for my people pleasing ass but I don’t regard that a favour. Yes, there are other candidates who’ll give anything to have what I had, but then let them have it, I’m going in pursuit of something better.
I thought I was finally ready to talk about this, but here I am typing rubbish, anyway, we move.
So I mentioned in my previous post, someone with so much faith in me recommended me for a job. Was doing said job and proving myself, so I was told by my boss. He seemed pissed that I had personal boundaries and wouldn’t work outside of work time, but hey, which self made entrepreneur wouldn’t be?
Let’s get this straight, my boss isn’t a monster alright, he’s just not so great at managing people and treating his staff.
It’s a small start up. The dude is into a couple of things as well as software development for himself and clients. He decided he needed help turning his little thing to a big thing and tried to employ more people, but that wasn’t going too well, for him or the employees.
From the way I see it, he didn’t have a clear plan for the people he hired; managing them, training them, delegating effectively, company policy, alladat. He also wasn’t very good at communication; he expected a lot, wouldn’t tell you and would berate you when you didn’t meet said imaginary expectations. Also, his pay was shit but then again, which start up’s pay isn’t.
I decided that I had enough of the experience, I’d learned all I could from there and what I didn’t learn I’ll learn elsewhere. This wasn’t before I had a fallout with him though.
He told me I was getting a raise. That he had recognised my hard work and was rewarding it. Then he told me there was something he wanted me to do. He wanted me to work on a WordPress site. I didn’t have enough WordPress experience and he said he’ll train me, and in the meantime I should attempt to train myself on the subject. I did, but still required his promised training. Anytime I brought up the subject of the WordPress training, he’ll postpone it, saying he was busy and true, he was, as was I, ’cause he did give me other stuff to work on, and I did.
In the meantime, we got a new intern, some high school kid, wasn’t sure what her work was but hey, she didn’t bug me, so why should I care.
End of the month comes, time for raise, no raise. I asked why, then he told me the raise was tied to the job I didn’t do and since I didn’t do that, no raise.
First off, I don’t remember him making a connection between the job and the raise.
Second, I reminded him on his promise to train me on how to do said job and that we’ve both been occupied with other things. Also, the fact that I wasn’t even given access to said site.
Can’t remember how the whole thing went down, but I do remember him saying he contracted the job to the new intern, that’s why she was here and I should be grateful for the opportunity for the raise as I hadn’t completed my probation era (was to be six months, had been working 4) and that next time, I should take more opportunities seriously.
**so sorry for the length, check out part two for the rest of the gist😉**
The Almost Tech Sis 