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I have just been released from a job after about a month of horrific conditions in the dept. It is a start up company, small dept that was in the development stages of hiring a sales force. They fired my boss a month earlier, gave me his responsibilities, hired in a consultant group to help support the developing dept and fired them after 1 week. Then they hired one the contract salesman who was hired to do cold calls from this agency and gave him my bosses position as VP of Sales & Mktg. after only being in the office for 3 days. Needless to say, I was not happy with the way they handled the situation as I was handling all the work, wasn't considered for the position and now have issues of reporting to someone who is not qualified for the position. This new VP has no experience in Mktg whatsoever or been in charge of a dept.
To make a long story short - this new boss was aware that I was not happy with him supervising me and from that point on has made a point to make my life difficult and threatened job removal earlier on (his 4th day there).
I had an issue with his correspondence and communication towards me so I brought it up to HR and had it documented. They were to be addressing it in a joint meeting with us this past Fri. That meeting got moved to Mon. They brought me, I thought under the owness of addressing this situation, and this new boss - indicated that they are doing a dept reorganization and don't need a mktg person of my senior level any more, thus they were going to let me go.
Offered me a 4 week severance but my benefits end at the end of this week.
I feel like they are providing this to shut me up and keep me from filing complaints against the co and the owner. What do you feel the chances are of negot. this severance to make it longer so I can at least find another job without losing everything I own. I took a $30+ a yr cut to take this job based on what they represented my opps would be and what the job was going to entail. That in itself was soooooo misrepresented that it isn't funny.
Words of advice? I have only 6 days left to accept this offer. Also - not sure if I'm eligible for unemployment given the length of employment - 3 months.
I have just been released from a job after about a month of horrific conditions in the dept. It is a start up company, small dept that was in the development stages of hiring a sales force. They fired my boss a month earlier, gave me his responsibilities, hired in a consultant group to help support the developing dept and fired them after 1 week. Then they hired one the contract salesman who was hired to do cold calls from this agency and gave him my bosses position as VP of Sales & Mktg. after only being in the office for 3 days. Needless to say, I was not happy with the way they handled the situation as I was handling all the work, wasn't considered for the position and now have issues of reporting to someone who is not qualified for the position. This new VP has no experience in Mktg whatsoever or been in charge of a dept.
To make a long story short - this new boss was aware that I was not happy with him supervising me and from that point on has made a point to make my life difficult and threatened job removal earlier on (his 4th day there).
I had an issue with his correspondence and communication towards me so I brought it up to HR and had it documented. They were to be addressing it in a joint meeting with us this past Fri. That meeting got moved to Mon. They brought me, I thought under the owness of addressing this situation, and this new boss - indicated that they are doing a dept reorganization and don't need a mktg person of my senior level any more, thus they were going to let me go.
Offered me a 4 week severance but my benefits end at the end of this week.
I feel like they are providing this to shut me up and keep me from filing complaints against the co and the owner. What do you feel the chances are of negot. this severance to make it longer so I can at least find another job without losing everything I own. I took a $30+ a yr cut to take this job based on what they represented my opps would be and what the job was going to entail. That in itself was soooooo misrepresented that it isn't funny.
Words of advice? I have only 6 days left to accept this offer. Also - not sure if I'm eligible for unemployment given the length of employment - 3 months.
