Hi everyone,
I recently started a new job at a brain computer interface company as an account manager. it's been 2 weeks and I absolutely hate how bogged down I am by the end of the day. I took quite a bit of a paycut for this job, because the job is fully remote which is hard to come by these days.
This job is intense, back to back meetings with clients (which I did expect), but what I did not expect is the lack of structure internally.
first, my colleagues keep booking meetings that conflict with my other client meetings, and they expect me to attend these meetings.
The CEO who's not my direct report keeps pulling me into 15 minute meetings that go on to 1.5-2 hours long, just to watch me make edits of active email campaigns we're sending out and giving her two cents on every line. a lot of micro management. worst part is when I have a day that's quite meeting free she'll book a spontaneous meeting just to check in and see what I'm doing (I'm catching up on all the work I haven't been able to do because of all these damn meetings!).
The CEO has no respect for my time and has already gotten visibly agitated with me once. I work through my lunch break and when I asked my team when I could schedule in a lunch break at a time that works for everyone they laughed at me. it's a 30 person company so it's a mess. I wasn't made aware of this during the interview phase. I am doing my PhD so idk if this is sustainable for me. any advice you folks could spare? thanks!
Icing on the cake, when I book meetings with my direct report to get me trained on the CRM apps we use, he completely ghosts and doesn't attend them.
your thoughts on my situation? stick it out? I'm in a 3 month probationary period. I wanna give this at least a month to see what's manageable for me.
I think what makes this worse is I have autism and I really need a job with a predictable work schedule and maybe a start up environment is not a good fit for me