Award winning Jo bails out

"The week before I resigned out of sheer frustration, I was awarded the Marketing Director’s monthly award for commitment. The full horror of the situation was obvious. Not that there was anything wrong with the £200 gift voucher. The Sales Director had obviously seen me working late, night after night. Actually, it was exactly what he expected. Ambitious young woman focused on a fast track career. In fact, I was trawling the Internet for jobs and filling out application forms. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. They assumed I was working late because I was highly committed to making the company a success. Plenty of my colleagues who got the job done and went home at 5pm were written off as ineffective. It’s a travesty."

Johanna, 31, Marketing Manager, Pharmaceutical Company