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The other colleagues were quite easy to get along with
During the interview, they said they had been looking for someone for this position for quite a while.
They hired me on the spot (I’ll describe the actual work situation below).
Throughout the interview, the boss spent more time probing the applicant’s reactions.
Here’s what the actual work situation was like:
On my first week at the company, I was basically left to fend for myself.
On the first day, they only told me that I needed to consolidate and plan online and offline events, and then asked me to become familiar with the company’s products within two days.
After that, they gave me no further instructions.
I could only rely on my own judgment, ask my colleagues for advice, and plan what needed to be done next.
One day that week, shortly before the end of the workday, the boss handed me over to a certain department and asked me to provide some opinions. I stayed until almost 7 p.m. before leaving.
One evening after work, he sent me a “concerned” message.
Then he sent another message over the weekend... (BTW, there was no overtime pay.)
He asked me to present a proposal for the follow-up plan the following Monday.
????
(At that point, I actually wanted to resign.)
Because he himself had no idea what clear and specific tasks this position was supposed to handle. He seemed to expect the other person to precisely guess the marketing framework he had in mind.
I had just entered this industry, and on top of that, I hadn’t received enough information, yet he still expected me to prepare a proposal.
In the end, I managed to produce one, but it wasn’t what he wanted.
He then asked me to plan all of this year’s activities within “two days,”
along with the posting schedule for the social media platforms.
That morning, he even told other colleagues not to put too much pressure on me because I had just joined the company =.=
The next day, he said he would be out and asked me to report earlier. After I presented it, it seemed that it still wasn’t what he wanted.
I had originally planned to resign the following day, but HR asked me about my work situation that day, so I resigned immediately.
There was no systematic management or record-keeping for the marketing work.
They said they wanted me to organize events, yet they couldn’t even produce records or plans from past events, expecting me to create everything from scratch.
They were single-mindedly trying to seize this huge piece of the market pie,
completely ignoring market research and market share. Very strange.