The downside to working at F2 (besides the company not having enough revenue) is having to lie on the company's behalf, deal with management’s bizarre behavior, questionable business ethics and unpredictable decision making.
F2 management makes up lies about himself and his company to make him feel better about his life and his career.
I was instructed to make false statements on a conference call saying that I had done more projects than I actually had and worked for F2 longer than I actually had. The client and senior members of another company’s leadership team were on that conference call and I was instructed to lie to them.
When F2 asked me to lie about my professional background and experience, I felt like they were ashamed of me. I felt like F2 didn’t think that I was good enough to display truthfully to clients. But later I learned that it was the manager’s own insecurity that was being projected onto me. He lies to his clients and employees because he doesn’t think he’s good enough. He asked me to lie to his clients because he isn’t proud of the company he built. I have talked to numerous former employees and I learned it had nothing to do with me. F2 management doesn’t think he’s good enough and you know what, he isn’t good enough and he is proving that he isn’t good enough every day that he lives a lie. Don’t ever let someone else’s insecurity get in the way of your dreams and your aspirations.
The F2 management team lied to me all throughout my interviewing process and the lies continued throughout my employment at F2. F2 used an agency recruiter to reach out to me who represented herself as a fulltime employee of F2. Then, I was told that F2 had a bonus plan in place, that was lie. I was told that F2 offered a generous health insurance package, that was a lie. There was is no health insurance at all. I was told that F2 had a 401K matching plan, that was also a lie. Those benefit plans were advertised on the F2 corporate website. These plans have been removed from F2 webpage but you can look up old versions of the website. Website archive searches show old versions of the F2 website. That way you can follow how the F2 lie has evolved over time.
F2 forces us to rad from scripts in which we have to tell the person on the phone that we spilled coffee on ourselves. F2 told us that this would accelerate trust and rapport with the people we were speaking with. It is literally part of F2’s normal state of operations to repeatedly lie to people… as a way of building trust. You can’t make this stuff up.
One employee finally pushed back about lying to people over the phone. This employee wasn’t comfortable with saying something that wasn’t true so F2 management told the employee to put drops of coffee on his pants so that it would be a “soft” lie instead of a “hard” lie.
Management also makes verifiably false claims about his abilities and skill set on a nearly daily basis. One the wildest yet most enduring lies is that he knows people in the intelligence community who taught him how to detect lies over the phone. This of course does not have an ounce of truth to it but that doesn’t keep management from repeating this to anyone who will listen.
It wasn’t like this was just casually mentioned over beers by a drunken malignant narcissist. No, management’s ability to detect deception from interviewees, over the phone, and train others to do the same is one of the central tenants to F2’s competitive advantage. That right, the vast majority of F2’s value proposition to customers is built upon a false statement.