You applied for the job because you would be leading a team and developing the strategy to support the company’s goals. You would be leading the team on their day-to-day work and impactful BIG initiatives in your area of functional expertise.
This job would add to your marketability, and aligns to your strengths. You are excited to deliver company-wide impact and help the company become an industry leader.
The money is great! You're getting a higher base salary than before, an annual bonus, and an annual LTI grant. You got an amazing sign-on bonus and work from home for four days a week.
As you were onboarded, you realized the job description and interview process wasn't truthful. Instead of developing a strategy and leading a team, you have to do the day-to-day Analyst work.
It’s not that you don’t like doing Analyst work, but you can contribute strategically, and you were looking forward to getting out of the weeds and using your vision and influence to have a broader impact.
You sit in meetings 8 am to 5 pm and then do the Analyst work at night and on the weekends.
You are 90 days into the job. You realize you're a Director Analyst. At least 50% of your time is spent doing the work you should have direct reports doing. You can't get additional headcount approved.
Should you stay or go? This is the same situation you were in at your past employer. They lied during the interview process. You found yourself pulling weeds instead of planning the garden, landscaping aesthetic, and designing the outdoor space (aka strategic vision development and initiative/project management).
It’s a blended job. You can’t succeed the way the job is designed. It isn’t sustainable to work 10-to-12-hour days. Your health is being impacted.
You have set boundaries and only work Monday – Friday but then you fall behind. You have tried to turn off your emotions and “quietly quit” or be “less invested.”
But you care. You care a lot. It doesn’t feel authentic to care and do less than optimal work. You aren’t afraid of hard work, but you would like to be able to go home and do and think of something besides work.
Your relationships with your partner, spouse, kids, or pet, are impacted. And not in a good way.
So, what do you do? You dust off your resume and start networking like crazy. You try to develop some good interview questions so you can determine if you’re being lied to during the interview process.
You don’t want to be viewed as a quitter with short-term employment on your resume, but this is not something you are willing to do again.
I see this repeatedly when I work with my coaching clients, in my own work experience, and as I partner with employers who have a limited budget and are trying to get all the work done without the right level of jobs in their organization design.
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