Is this the best the corporate world has to offer?

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1. AnonymousNovember 4,2025 at 2:37AM UTC

   Maybe corporate isn't a fit. Have you considered work as a consultant?

2. AnonymousNovember 5,2025 at 1:12PM UTC

   That’s what you took out of that story?

3. SPNN4 SNovember 5,2025 at 1:52PM UTC

   I have thought the same thing. Being an entrepreneur or a consultant would let her dictate her own terms.

4. Olivia CimoNovember 4,2025 at 3:43AM UTC

   Great work taking a chance at an ambitious role! In my assessment it appears an organizational issue. Don't let this experience get you down!

   The context of all of this is important: We are in the age of disruptors. AI and automated work processes are hot ticket items everyone wants, but the work combined with dollars to do it successfully are often underestimated.

   According Hubspot's 2025 Trend Report:
   47% organizations understand how to use AI in strategy; 47% understand how to measure AI impact.
   54% feel overwhelmed implementing AI.
   92% organizations will maintain or increase brand-awareness investment in 2025 (most related to AI Adoption).

   The pressure is felt globally. Your role from what you describe appears innovation focused. Perhaps, that is the core issue that the organization itself wants to respond to adopt AI/innovation, but is misfiring internal AI/Automation processes such as project management, budgeting, overal strategy.

   It sounds you may have faced a classic “first analyst” anti-pattern: no data governance, poorly drawn automation budget, unrealistic SLAs, and disorganized management with a style that punishes problem-finding, or self-preservationist.

   The PIP and ethnicity remarks you describe potential discrimination, but I am not an expert in those domains. The PIP could be a manager afraid of the consequences of the disordered project plan they had been given down the chain don't want to be liable. Otherwise, manager should have engaged in active coaching, or skill development before the PIP especially for new staff assigned to an innovative portfolio.

   Keep striving and being authentically you :)

   Innovation is tricky. Best advice is to treat this as an org design problem, not a you problem. Your skills are intact. Change the environment, keep believing in yourself and sparkling!

   (Systems thinker perspective)

5. AnonymousNovember 4,2025 at 2:14PM UTC

   Thanks. They didn't use AI but their data overinflated sales for clients. I think they didn't like that I found that out, or that I entered correct numbers instead. In 10 months, they expressed no desire to fix the glitch in their reporting tool.

6. AyianNovember 4,2025 at 1:41PM UTC

   Awful bosses are everywhere. It sounds like in your interviews, you need to vet the management team better for how they respond to situations. Also, never trust a job posting that said you will be designing any part of that role. In nearly 25 years, I have not found any such claim to be true unless I was an outside consultant. I've also learned that if the manager I signed on with leaves, it's time for me to leave as well. It has been an indicator of systemic organizational problems - generally a toxic culture.

7. AnonymousNovember 4,2025 at 2:48PM UTC

   I think one of the bigger lessons learned here is being the 'first' of a role at a company can be quite challenging. Been there done that even in an HR role. Left after a year.

8. Liz MilneNovember 5,2025 at 2:43PM UTC

   "Because of where your parents were from"???? What the actual *%?!

9. AnonymousNovember 5,2025 at 3:39PM UTC

   Don’t quit without another job. Formally dispute these claims of what you say is true. Do your PIP documenting fhe timing. Did your boss really comment on your parents? File a formal complaint with HR. Correct the mistakes you made and move on. Yes. This is corporate America these days.

10. GirlBossanova934974November 5,2025 at 4:45PM UTC

    As a data professional along with being an accountant, industrial engineer, and operations management professional for a few decades, I am rather confused with what you were trying to do. What were getting from these store locations? On hand inventory balances? Gross sales? Was this some sort of order replenishment system? Order forecasting system? If so, there are far better ways of doing this. I have 2 suggestions for the future. 1) Before you take on any manual process like this in the future, get a clear understanding of what the business case is. What are they trying to do? Once you get that, you can take over the manual process while at the same time, changing the process. 2) Do NOT assume people know what the heck they're doing. Do the research to see what others are doing in other companies. As you go furtther in your career, you will acquire that knowledge. Use LinkedIn to reach out to people in your industry, not necessarily profession. The problem with many data analysts these days is that they are focused on software instead of solving the underlying business issue.

11. AnonymousNovember 5,2025 at 5:18PM UTC

    No it is not the standard for corporate life. I think the first alarm bells that went off in your post to me was that the role was new. The questions that you might have asked pre-hire at that time would have been about tools, budgets, autonomy to be the SME (subject matter expert) that they hired you to be. Clearly you became an administrivia expert because you had substandard tools to meet the demands of the role. IMHO you might have told them early on that to do what you needed in the format that you needed you would have needed tools like Looker (sample) or others to give them the reporting in a consumable fashion.

    As for the anger management part of being managed. I often coach people to sit down with their manager right after hire and explain to your manager how you get tasks and how you take feedback. Also share with them how you work when you both agree to disagree. I call it managing your manager. It is never okay to stay in a job where someone throws things at you or screams and yells. If you are yelled at immediately leave the meeting and or turn your back on that person. That is a clear sign that you will not tolerate that level of disrespect and abuse. Document it and bcc yourself and let the HR and legal departments know that you are working in a hostile workplace. I feel for you as it sure seems like you know your job content well and should be in a company where you are given room to do the job and also to be treated fairly. Look again and during the interviews ask about conflict resolution and how those things are handled there. Sure glassdoor is a good place to view what people think but often those sites are stacked with posts that are written just after onboarding because HR or other internal forces ask them to write something. Best is to speak to people who have left the company or use Blind a good site for current employees to write true reports on the good the bad and the ugly of their place of work. Good luck.

12. AnonymousNovember 5,2025 at 7:55PM UTC

    Is it “standard”? No. Is this type of thing more common than you’d probably think? Yes.

    Some of the responses here talk about vetting your manager more ahead of time, but it sounds like your initial manager was fine, and it’s the replacement that caused the issues.

    The one piece of advice that I can give going forward is to ask more about their onboarding process. That was the first place that this company dropped the ball with you. In your job search, ask about what onboarding would look like for your role. If a company doesn’t have a true onboarding/training process in place, that’s a huge red flag.

13. AnonymousNovember 6,2025 at 4:56PM UTC

    No, this is absolutely not standard in the corporate world. However, if you can while you are starting out and gaining new experience I'd recommend trying to find a small business to work for or work for some place like a hospital or a school, as they may be a better fit where you can really start to learn and grow, as well as be treated with the respect you deserve. Then once you gain enough experience in your industry, you can think about going to work for yourself, where you can control how things are done and make sure that they are being done properly.

    I was wrongfully terminated due to being disabled, and I could have given up but instead when I kept getting the door closed on me by traditional employers, I eventually had friends and family step up to the plate and help me make the decision to go to work for myself as an independent bookkeeper. I now work 100% virtually from home, which works well for me and my current situation as I can set my own hours and still take care of everything I need to in both my personal and professional life.

14. AnonymousNovember 7,2025 at 7:06PM UTC

    As a fellow data professional, this has been my experience in almost all of my jobs where there wasn't a data team. If you're the only one and you're reporting to people who don't understand data, you'll be seen as a problem when you try to fix grave data issues because those issues didn't exist before you got there (in fact they did, but the people who were there were ignorant to the issues). For your next position, I'd strongly suggest finding a place where there's a data team that you can join! You'll learn a ton and be well supported.

15. AnonymousNovember 10,2025 at 1:38PM UTC

    I had a similar experience in my previous account management role, however my colleague quit unexpectedly and I was tasked with managing her book of business as well as my own (increasing from 2300 customers to over 5000) during an acquisition. Many of my primary contacts (in logistics and dispatch) quit or relocated to another location, as many of them were fed up with the lack of affirmative leadership in that office. When I asked my manager for assistance he scheduled a meeting with HR and smugly explained that I wasn’t managing my time well, to which I responded with all the changes and responsibilities I was expected to absorb while they trained my colleague’s replacement. It didn’t help that he couldn’t access my colleague’s work phone since he didn’t get the password and PIN before she left. In an effort to pacify me, the regional manager suggested I relocate to an office with twice as long a commute for $10 less per hour. It was not worth the stress, as my mental health was suffering, and I left that position without a backup plan.

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