Pros
Its an iconic brand for which I had tremendous amounts of respect for going in. Instead, I left completely tainted by the gossip and office politics, cruel behavior of management, and lack of any response from HR.
Cons
CAREER OPPORTUNITY o Do your news research on the company revenue!! Guess investment ratings are down across all boards. Analysts are advising their investors to SELL their stocks. ♣ Result – there are continuous lay-offs, company wide on all levels o VERYYY LIMITED PROMOTION FROM WITHIN ♣ I have seen countless employees work tirelessly for years to prove themselves for a promotion, yet management (often new) will continuously hire from outside the company • Even with a high turn over rate and plenty of opportunity to promote their employees, they prefer to poach people from other companies, as this is their idea of remaining competitive ♣ Result- 98% of employees are either laid off or move on to a better salary and title at a different company • MANAGEMENT LACKS LEADERSHIP ♣ Office politics are out of control. Many of the higher-ups who have been there for a million years get away with their cruel behavior because they’ve been with the company so long ♣ Management’s only real concern is making sure their boss believes they are doing a great job ♣ To my personal experience, after 2 years, not once did my manager ask how I was doing, offer any constructive feedback on my job-performance, respond to requests for touch-base meetings, or plan a team building activity of any kind. I was constantly guessing what my manager was thinking. Rather simply offer direct feedback, I had to make out hidden messages from a passive aggressive personality. • On multiple occasions, if I made a mistake or wasn’t executing the (never-clear-to-begin-with) way of doing things properly, my Manager would reprimand me via email and CC other managers and employees in the department who had no involvement o This was the bosses was of showing power in humiliating me, and it worked. I was frightened and walking on egg shells all of the time • Of the 10+ departments I worked with, I can think of only one example of leadership in management, team morale, and positive demeanor. That department is Social Media. • HUMAN RESOURCES (if you can even call it that) ♣ After countless emails and phone calls to HR for advice on my manager, not one person responded to me ♣ I reported an injury at work to HR, mainly so they could take action to prevent this from happening to another employee • DAYS after my injury, I get a call from the company lawyer to see if I needed to see a doctor o Just one example of MANY, where HR proved to care more about protecting themselves from a lawsuit than the well-being of their employees