Natwerk Designs

Does my employer has the right to do that?

Ok, here's the story, it's been affecting me a whole lot, so I decided to share it. I'm a student who graduated with an associate degree in Marketing, and although im from Canada, where it is very possible to get financial aid for post-secondary education, after a couple years, the numbers still add up. So, after college, I still had in mind to go to university, but I wanted to see what was there for me in the workforce, so I went and looked for a job in quebec. At first, I needed something quick so, I went and applied for a job at a calling center. Three months later, I noticed in the same building, a company, specializing in web marketing, web design, and web optimization. So, I went and got some information. I asked the secretary if I could speak to a manager. She told me to bring my resume, and if they are interested they would call me back. So, that's exactly what happenned. I got a phone call from Mr. A telling me if went to come over for a job interview. At that moment I was really excited about all this, I really thought it would be my chance for the job I was looking for which integrated sales, creative, design, innovation, and a lot of technical skills together. So, I agreed to meet him for an interview. The interview lasted well over an hour, and what made it so interesting is the fact that me and Mr. A turned out to have the same last name, and the low probability of a minority having that name. So, we laugh a couple minutes about it, then he ask me about my origin, my education, and every that is said in an interview. But the irony made it that this interview was in no way stressful and very informative. In my interview, I told Mr. A about the projects I had in mind, my strengths and weaknesses, to really let him know what he had in front of him. At the end of the interview, he said that he would get back at me to let me know of the results. Two or three weeks later, he called me to let me know that I was chosen for the job. I was so happy, I called all my family to let them know. Next time I met with Mr. A was to discuss the terms of the contract. Briefly, it was my salary for a year, my job title, what I should be expected to do for the company, privacy terms like, sharing of technology, strategies or tactics of sales, client information, etc. The contract also had a clause stating that they could take me to court for breach of contract or any damage. It also said that if I get fired, I cant work for a competitor who's market is the same as theirs. I took the time to read it over and over, to understand everything, and finally after 2 weeks, before I signed it, I discussed it one last time with Mr.A. On my first day of work, I was introduced to everybody in the office. In total, not more than 15 employees. we were 5 in the sales department, including Mr. A who was there to oversee everything. The first 2-3 days were strictly training, I was working with one of the employee who really thought me everything about everything. He thought me how the softwares worked, the sales process, and what everybody does in the company. Mr. A helped me improve my sales pitch, and also showed me the softwares that he was working on. I thought Mr. A was the owner, but it turn out to be someone else. And that someone else had his son working there too. At first, I didn't think it would be a problem. I worked with mostly young people, I thought they would be able to relate on some ideas, But I was wrong. On my first day on my own, Mr. A was gone to a meeting, son comes at me saying (with a lot of hand gestures in signs of professionalism) "Listen Dave, I've been listening to your call for the past 30 mins, and it seems like it your first time doing this type of work? And he came back a split second later, before I could even say anything " It's not to offend you, no, no.." I told him that's how I've been thought to do it the previous day with Mr. A." And then he said " Listen Dave, that's not the way to do it, if you want to do something, you have to do it right." and then a split second later he said " and we're[the company] gonna show you how, don't worry." He said "From now on, if you have any concerns, you either come to me, if im not here, you go to my father." Since I was never raise to be disrespectful to people, I kept all I had in mind to myself. Next day, Mr. A was only there in the morning, but announce that he was going to a different office. when he left, son came to me and said " Here, I have this pitch I need you to learn and memorize." (That's after I worked with Mr. A on a pitch). And then he said something about this pitch being worth 26,000$.(The owner's son studied in psychology, so everything he says is in terms of theory, and he tried to used that on me.) At that moment, my job title changed. Basically, everytime I would get a potential sale, I would pass it to him, or to the other guy. On monday we had a meeting with the owner in the board room, where everybody hahd to tell him what th

Public Comments

1. Why not talk to mr A. about it or politely tell the son of the owner you like to do things your way and while his way is really, really excellent, it just doesn't work with your personality, you'd love for it to work since it's the best pitch you've ever seen in your life, but it just doesn't work when you use it ;)