What would you do?

behnk01

behnk01

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I say strong arm these motherfucking dinosaurs. Capitalism is tough. Deal with it.


Short Version -

So, I took a SEM analyst job with a start-up in the area and management had no idea what they did NOT know, I put my best foot forward, surprised everyone with my skills, stepped on basically everyone's toes, and they then insisted I could not keep up, so I insisted we go 2x faster..


Long Version -

Established traditional agency decided to hedge the risk of getting into an arena their management had no experience in because they're all over 50 yrs old. They form a separate company, and strategically make the digital arm of the company appear as if it still is under the same operation as the TV agency.

None of the owners have experience in the digital agency setting. 4 owners. 2 have agency experience (old TV model) for which they all are owners still of the tv agency. Other 2 were not in marketing, but knew the vertical very well.(This was all found out by doing a little homework w/ the business registrations & linkedin). 1 of the former owners of the TV agency dissolves his ownership from the tv agency, gets MBA, forms his own consulting business, then becomes marketing director of the digital agency. He hires a former spammer as the "SEO director" pulls a hot dumb broad from the TV agency to become the "director of client services". And then they begin hiring 18 months before I got there...

More..??
 


behnk01 said:
I say strong arm these motherfucking dinosaurs. Capitalism is tough. Deal with it.


Short Version -

So, I took a SEM analyst job with a start-up in the area and management had no idea what they did NOT know, I put my best foot forward, surprised everyone with my skills, stepped on basically everyone's toes, and they then insisted I could not keep up, so I insisted we go 2x faster..


Long Version -

Established traditional agency decided to hedge the risk of getting into an arena their management had no experience in because they're all over 50 yrs old. They form a separate company, and strategically make the digital arm of the company appear as if it still is under the same operation as the TV agency.

None of the owners have experience in the digital agency setting. 4 owners. 2 have agency experience (old TV model) for which they all are owners still of the tv agency. Other 2 were not in marketing, but knew the vertical very well.(This was all found out by doing a little homework w/ the business registrations & linkedin). 1 of the former owners of the TV agency dissolves his ownership from the tv agency, gets MBA, forms his own consulting business, then becomes marketing director of the digital agency. He hires a former spammer as the "SEO director" pulls a hot dumb broad from the TV agency to become the "director of client services". And then they begin hiring 18 months before I got there...

More..??
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I don't know what fantasyland you live in, but if you're just an employee then you're just an employee... and as unpopular as this may be on WickedFire, most entrepreneurs don't give a shit about the in-house search guys and consider all of you replaceable with any computer major or marketing grad.

Actually, now that I think about it--you haven't actually said anything. Except that capitalism is tough, well guess what? It's toughest on minions and you're in that category. :rainfro:

BTW: That dumb hot broad will make more than you in six months if she isn't now.
 
Do you mind adding a TLDR version? I found your short version to be just a bit too long to read.
 
Forgive OP for the jumbled post, he had to get back to the buffet!

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behnk01 said:
I say strong arm these motherfucking dinosaurs. Capitalism is tough. Deal with it.

Short Version -

So, I took a SEM analyst job with a start-up in the area and management had no idea what they did NOT know, I put my best foot forward, surprised everyone with my skills, stepped on basically everyone's toes, and they then insisted I could not keep up, so I insisted we go 2x faster..
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pretty vague but you sound like you're well on your way to untactfully shooting yourself in the foot

godspeed sir
 
Andrew Scherer said:
pretty vague but you sound like you're well on your way to untactfully shooting yourself in the foot

godspeed sir
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This really depends on what his assigned role is.

When I joined my current job, it was to take over the relaunch project of the site.

Technical, Content Structure and internal search relaunch of an infomration portal with then 300K indexed pages of content.

So I went in and pissed on everyone.
I openly told them that they had literally wasted 2 years doing nothing.
The project manager (who was leaving, I was taking her job) was unable to deal with project management issues and political struggles.

At the same time, the govmint wanted this done in 8 months. (remember,they already were at it 2 years without results)

I strongarmed everyone.
People worked crazy hard and everything got done, beautifully.

BUT!

This was my assigned role.
I was brought in by the management as the "strong man", the "expert" from the "Financial IT and search engine background", so I had the support and the mandate (as well as the expertise) to do this.

Sad fact, politics matter.

::emp::
 
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Dude, you are an employee... wtf are your options other than doing your work or finding another job?
 
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