It's a corporate office, so you have your typical politics and narcissists, but you can expect that everywhere. The main areas of complaints are:
-Instances of nepotism. Ex: multiple interns have been hired without undergoing an EOE interview process and they happened to be employees' children of children of friends. That was one problem. The second problem was that feedback about this practice was not well received by management.
-There was one man who was widely known to make comments directly to women about their appearance, combined with performance issues. Multiple members of upper management and HR were involved, but the outcome was that women who were on the receiving end of the unwanted attention were vilified and blamed by everyone in the office, and that man was terminated and rewarded with a VERY generous severance package. Again- the women received nothing but blame. Other employees would justify his actions with comments as follows: "he's a great dad", "he didn't physically touch you", "he's just having a hard time with his divorce," "he feels ganged up on by the women," "well he didn't deserve to be let go" (yes that's real). AND "witnesses" would suddenly change their story and would not corroborate on the record because they wanted to be on the side of Sr. Management. HR will probably respond to this message about their zero tolerance policies on nepotism and harassment, but clearly the policies are a long way from being effective based on how these type of incidents were dealt with during my tenure.
