I literally thought I had found a job I could build a career and have a tenure with. I was so wrong and still today the effects of working at Zilch has an impact on my life.
In summary you are expected to work 12-15hours a day if not longer. It did not matter that you were hitting your goals and helping the company progress. When you asked for help it was ignored.
Management set goal posts, yet when you achieve them they move the goal post again so you never end up progressing.
That’s not even the worst of it…
Management are not open with each other, I mean from the COO, to line managers and heads of departments. Which left myself in the middle between them all to take the brunt of all the backlash when they clearly didn’t agree with each other’s ideas. People hate a messenger.
There was only so much I could take as now I was being targeted several times a week. To the point in one event I was called with other peers on the same call to be shouted at for something that was their fault and for something that was the COO’s doing. It was making me feel extremely low, belittled, bullied, I didn’t want to work, it was started to take over.
When I let my line manager know what was happening and how long for as well as how it made me feel, they advised me to perhaps make them aware as it could be unintentional. Sure, that sounded like some good advice and perfect for me as I never want to cause anything especially at work. I decided to go with it and after the worst incident yet I still acted professionally and let the manager know how they made me feel. Unfortunately that didn’t work and in fact made it worse. So much worse. (I have the conversations still as I was so shocked).
My next thought was I can perhaps approach another manager above mine to discuss what has been happening when I’m in the office so it’s face to face. They explained it’s probably because my line manager and that particular manager don’t like each other. I couldn’t actually believe what I was hearing. Not only was i dismissed in my concerns I’m being told it’s because I’m on the “wrong side”. What happened to we are all one team?!
With some courage from a colleague I reached out to the COO. He never responded. Ever.
With all that happened it was affecting my health which started to involve HR which also knew of my situation but never acknowledged it until it was too late.
I ended up suffering for 4 months until I couldn’t take it anymore and I attempted to end my life. From this point my doctor didn’t want me to return given my deteriorated health. Even at this point did no one take responsibility for their actions.
In the end I resigned and never received an apology from anyone.
