After three and a half years of paid vacation, it's time for me to look for a new job. On Monday, when I rolled in to work, I was called in by my company President to meet. I thought it was in regards to an article that I asked him to review. But as soon as I saw that it was with him and the CEO, I thought we were going to talk about my request for a pay raise. Well, instead, they called me to tell me that they no longer needed my services as their Director of Public Relations. Wow. What a shocker!
I wasn't disappointed in losing the job. I had pretty much run the entire race for all the public relations duties involved in that job. I got them published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, PC World, PC Week, PC Computing, Investor's Business Daily, and about 300 other publications, broadcasts, and online news services. I placed my CEO on TV as a regular participant in a talk show (8 times). I also placed both the CEO and President as speakers at trade shows/conferences and luncheons. There wasn't much left for me to achieve.
I was with my company for three and half years, that's eons in the dot-com world. I was employee number four since the foundation of the company. If you count the CEO/Co-Founder as #1, the President Co-Founder as #2, another friend of theirs as #3, I was #4. I had seen many other employees come and go over the years. Many of my friends at other dot coms went through multiple jobs while I stayed at my company. Suprisingly, I watched my company go from one with less than $100,000 per year in revenue to one that generates more than a million per month. I survived a time when we thought the company wouldn't even make it and was on the verge of shut down. and I witnessed our first month of profitability.
I leave the company knowing that is profitable and has been so for more than two years. It is strong and I'm proud that I am able to look back, knowing that I played a major role in the company.
My only disappointment is the fact that this was prolly done because the company hired a new person who is not qualifed to do marketing. He's a total liar who has been sneaky, dishonest and stealthy in his efforts to rearrange the company. This new VP of Marketing has never done marketing before. His career history consists of the following: 1) working at a car dealership as a salesman, 2) working at another startup in their sales department, 3) working for an OEM in e-commerce. He's never done marketing and his MBA was not a sufficient preperation for marketing. He got his MBA at the University of Phoenix (and his BA from South Dakota State). C'mon! For crying out loud U of Phoenix is not even an accredited school! It's publicly traded on NASDAQ, which means the school is more concerned with gaining profits to keep it's stock price up. Anyways, this guy was annoying since day one, he basically threatened to fire several people since he first came. He even threatened to replace me. He gets on these quick anger spurts and tries to threaten or intimidate people.
This guy has "HBF Disease" - aka "High Bitch Factor Disease". Usually it subjects women who can't handle stress and wig out on other people as a way of offsetting their problems. But gay males often suffer from HBF Disease because of their effeminate personalities. This VP of Marketing, who is proudly gay, definitely had HBF disease. He would get angry very quickly and wig out immediately. He was very condescending, telling people like me what we already knew, already had done, already completed. Worst of all, he would do no real work. He didn't do anything that really was productive or constructive for the company. His only tasks every week were to attend every single meeting of the company. Then he would turn around and assign everything to me.
I came to realize that this VP really didn't have any skills and that he was using my work to show other people at these meetings what "he" supposedly did. That was wrong! He was basically trying to get credit for my work. That's when I realized that the only way for him to be caught in the act of his stealth was for me to leave the company early. So in a strange way, it is a blessing that I've been removed from my company. This VP of Marketing will now have to do everything himself. My CEO and President will soon find out that their VP, whom they sided with has no skills.
My overall disappointment is that the CEO and President whom I worked with since day one of the company sided with this idiot VP of marketing who really has no qualifications to speak of. Oh well, it's over now. The CEO and President will soon find out that this VP of marketing is not a panacea, but rather the result of opening Pandora's Box.
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