Hi there, I’m on the edge of resigning. 7 months ago I was unemployed because I just got out of another job which I didn’t enjoy or felt I was qualified to do because it was mostly about data bases and data reports and well I’m a graphic designer. I wasn’t an assistant of data analytics, I was THE data analyst and the clients were expecting me to give perfect reports. I also had a toxic boss bla bla so I left. I found this current marketing agency that focuses on the wedding niche and I’m a romantic so I was very interested in it. There was no info though on glassdoor or anything and that should’ve been the first red flag, the second one was when they hired me in a rush because they desperately needed the help. Guys the position they were looking for was web designer and I started doing everything but that. They were even expecting me to lead the design team but they didn’t have guidelines on that. Everything related to design was my fault but I didn’t understand my role, the things they were evaluating me on… My suffering started there. On top of that my boss wasn’t letting go the fact that she wasn’t in charge of the design team anymore so she would give public feedback on slack without knowing any context about the designs we were delivering, even when we didn’t even design them since sometimes the paid media team would design them due to lack of designers. She would just make everything so hard. I confronted her, it was a whole thing. But after a company event she revealed she was pregnant and that the CEO had let go someone pregnant before. We don’t have any license policies, we’re all contractors and from a third world country so cheap labor of course and he exploits that in a good amount, we even have a screenshot monitor. Any way, after 3 months I renegotiated my salary since I was in a management position and I should earn as such however, the CEO was expecting me to double the work and fix everything that was wrong in the company. But this is a mess guys, at first I thought it was only my lady boss that was fucked up but then I saw it was most of the top managers. There is no HR team, they hire people without clarifying if the roles already in place are shifting, I don’t know who my real boss is since even the CEO tries to be, there is one guy that’s supposed to be the operations manager but he does everything but that.

I accepted a management position over 6 months ago and I am very unhappy in it. It was one of those promotions that fell into my lap because I was doing a "good job" and they wanted to give me more responsibility and I felt pressured and didn't want to "waste" an opportunity so I accepted it. The pay is okay, but the stress multiplied tenfold. I work a ton of hours now. It's high stress. High urgency. There are a ton of pointless meetings. A lot of interaction is required daily. I am forced to worry about my teams production metrics. There are hundreds of unnecessary emails. It's customer facing so there a lot of escalation calls and arguments too. I would like to "descend the ladder" but I feel stuck now. The company is remote which is great and that seems increasingly rare these days so I don't necessarily want to leave. I just want to do my job and go home and focus on other important things in my life. I doubt seriously my manager would let me apply for for a new role now not having mastered this one. Leadership is a typical corporate, loves the company, focuses heavily on the metrics and production. Also encourages doing "extra" things outside of the job scope. I am finding it challenging at times to set boundaries. Also typically to apply to another position, you need to wait a year. 1. How am I supposed to tell my manager I don't like this new role? Have I even given it a fair shot? 2. If I am stuck doing it for the time being, is there a way to make a front line managerial role a "lazy girl job" because as a manager don't you have to care about all the team metrics and numbers and stuff?