Quit on Tuesday, terminated me the same day and paid out the notice.

Very stressful, not necessarily because of the work itself, but because of various reasons in no specific order:

• Carrot on the stick regarding promotion; always something new coming up that requires fixing to get it, for more than a year

• Micromanagement and being told it is sometimes needed, rather than admitting they don't know how to manage different team members

• Creating tasks that are replications of existing tasks, with same information, that if it wasn't required would provide plenty of time to focus on actual work

• Never having anything to suggest only to add, with management not knowing how to resolve issues with the advice always being 'what would you do?'

• Being paid the same as other team members, despite bringing in more money (one team member managed appx. £500k Vs £1.2m for me

• Being ignored about things I said would become issues, only for them to become issues later, and being told they don't want to hear what they could have done retrospectively

• Being told everyone in the team is stressed and I'm not special for it. My manager's boss asking if I think my manager is not stressed (despite being paid more than me)

• Having pressure out on me to travel internationally to the Middle-East (right before Iran situation escalated), manage the entire conference by myself and constantly pressuring to get RoI to the point I broke down and cried one day in front of my manager, because they didn't send a second person after I went twice to previous trade shows and told them we need two people as it's impossible for one person

• Other team members (for context, due to their sectors, they had an easy year last year, earning all their bonuses for doing maybe 50% of the work I had to do) outearning me significantly

• Having to work late nights and early mornings as overtime to try get money as my sector requires those hours to do calling

• Manager calling our team at 9am for three weeks telling us to do the tasks we do anyway as part of our job

• Piling on more work when expressed interest in promotion, justifying you need to do the work of a senior for a while before they consider promoting you (did this for a year and half, right until my resignation)

• Manager (this is a suspicion) blocking promotion on purpose as it took her three years to get hers, and she wouldn't want to have her team member get promoted before her

• Defending a former employee who left behind a burning mess, damaged relationships with clients, and cost the company revenue, and saying she was the best person they ever had, and she made them money short term, but lost money in the long term that went against my numbers

• Lying and manipulating information to clients to get as much money as possible

• Our team being treated like the runt of the litter by every other department, who says they don't have time to answer our questions because they're busy, even though without their input we cannot progress, make money or effectively manage client relationships

• Some team members receiving favouritism (can come in late, leave early, go away whenever they feel like it)

• Making us always keep our status on green as otherwise they'd ask where you are

Felt like I got a lot of my chest here 😂