Getting Fired over LinkedIn Account

Summary

This is the first article of work horror stories on dealing with clients and workplaces. Give it a read. Why in the first place ? Working in a startup is a different feeling. Engineering takes a back seat when revenue is not proper for the company. When they are pursuing clients and leads, they wanted me to know the process and the difficulties they are trying to automate. They were also low on leads to pursue and wanted me to reach out to some. The CEO and the COO sent me a list of 100 contacts and to reach out to them via LinkedIn and calling them in a day and do it everyday till they told me to stop. When it came time to ask questions, I answered with wanting two things. A phone number to make the calls to their calls and I would create a new LinkedIn with the company email and to reach out to the people. Both of the asks, were fair as you will see later. This is exactly what I had in mind, but as soon as my asks hit, the CEO was listening but writing down something hard on his book and got furious, “Don’t you trust the company to use your own LinkedIn?” Why do you have to use a separate LinkedIn ? Don’t you want to be associated the company mission ? Are you ashamed to be doing this ? If you don’t use your personal LinkedIn, you are FIRED. The COO had some cool, told the CEO to go for a walk and talked to me. A guy shocked over a linkedin account (It's made with my self-hosted AI, the misspelled linkedin makes it even better I explained the COO my reasons. I don’t want to be answering client calls after work hours and calling them with a personal phone number will be greeted with “Hello” not “This is xyz company”. I am not experienced about loans to answer anything anyways. The LinkedIn also had reasons, The people who clicks on contact with find my personal email associated with my account not the company email, they will find my personal experience not the company’s. If I wanted LinkedIn premium or gold or any of the paid tiers they offer (They apparently have...