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Took a digital marketing manager job and they keep changing my responsibilities
I am hoping someone who is out there with some digital experience can empathize with this after dealing with overbearing clients.
I’ve been in digital for 18 years. I managed clients’ websites, SEO, PPC. Everything I did was basically outsourced. Web dev, content writing, PPC management.
I took a director of marketing job with a law firm. I was up front and honest about everything.
They told me initially that we have 2 vendors, one who manages all digital for the law firm, and another which manages all digital for 4 side businesses.
When I accepted the job it was communicated to me that I would manage the vendors.
Then that quickly turned into us firing the vendors, and I’m now responsible for everything.
All social media marketing for 4 businesses, writing all content, developing and maintaining the websites, SEO, PPC management, email marketing, all data and analytics, all questions from the owner who is a pain in the ass, video marketing, traditional marketing. Completely different from the job post and job offer.
I’m already miserable because the owner keeps testing me out and playing these games and I’m miserable. It’s been 2 months.
What would you do?
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a.) Make them understand that you require additional staff, if they want to handle all that in-house.
b.) quit
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Same time period – longer actually- in the field.
Same thing happened to me. Needed a break. Took a job. They kept adding roles/responsibilities, nightmareUnless they up your salary commensurate with the new roles, quiting is the only way to handle an employer or client, that doesn’t respect you, which is what is happening.
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Look for another job. It’s not going to get better and nobody here can help that.
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Had a job like this before. They suggested (without suggesting) that I pay multiple third parties to keep up with my own work.
Such a mismanaged mess. They basically eliminated multiple positions based purely on cutting overhead cost. They ignored which critical roles would be eliminated, and forced those workers that remained to do all the work that remained. It didn’t matter what they hired you for.
If you complained, they changed the rules out of the blue and started writing you up – for not doing enough. By the time I left, they were in the middle of a merger.
Unless you’re desperate for a job or you’re still keeping your resume out there anyway you should probably get out while you can.
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I’m in law too bro your story is pretty close to mine.
You have to put your foot down about vendors. You cannot do this on your own.
Your job is finding and vetting vendors now. Let your boss know you’re gonna find the best ones out there.
Find em. Talk to their law firm clients. Verify they are getting great results.
Then, manage them. That was your original job anyway.
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Start applying for a new job, because if you already feel bad, him continuously testing you out to see if there’s any performance increase will suck, and since you removed the vendors, expectations of performance will be higher, increasing expecatations, increasing agitation to you. Have fun man
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