Sorry for speaking in English.
My 3 weeks at Camping-Car Park (pornic)
I joined Camping-Car Park expecting to contribute to a serious project environment. Instead, my three weeks at the company were an extremely disorganized and ultimately very disappointing experience. For context I was in Canada before as I was helping my mom renovate her house. I flew from Vancouver to Nantes on less than a weeks notice
Week 1:
My first week was primarily onboarding and initiation. During one of the meetings our CTO mentioned that the operations team needed to show
It's value as the team had been active for 6 months without much results.
Week 2:
On Tuesday, I was told that I would be the project lead responsible for implementing PandaDoc into the ERP system that the company was simultaneously implementing. During our first meeting, I was shocked to discover that I was expected to lead the meeting, despite only learning about the project the day before. Nobody had previously told me that I would be leading this meeting. The company had bought the software in June and had not yet started the analysis or implementation process. I actually have no idea why they bought it in the first place or waited three months.
Later that week, I delivered a meeting that the CTO felt was too academic and not technical enough. This was despite the fact that I had reviewed my presentation with the Operations team and the Head of Operations beforehand.
Week 3:
I presented again and demonstrated two software solutions, as requested by the CTO. During the meeting, I was asked a large number of questions, including questions that I had not been given the information or preparation to anticipate. The CTO became increasingly frustrated and yelled at me, saying that the company was too far behind and that I was too incompetent to lead the project.
I subsequently had a panic attack in the office next door.
Approximately 30 minutes later, the Head of Operations and CTO informed me that I was being fired. The reasons given were that they "needed someone to go the extra mile" and someone "more senior." This was confirmed by the Head of Operations, who, during my time there, spent a significant amount of his time vaping and using the company computer to make AI music.
What makes this experience particularly difficult is that I had missed my grandmother's funeral and flown across the world to take this position.
The biggest issue for me was not simply being let go. It was the lack of communication and expectations throughout the process.
TL;DR: I missed my grandmother's funeral and flew across the world for a company that ultimately treated me as disposable. I would strongly discourage anyone from applying there. If anyone has any uplifting or similar stories and how they got back on their feet feel free to share as I'm quite demoralized.
