At my wits ends - incompetent, condescending management, no direction - Anonymous employee IXL Learning Employee Review

1.0
Aug 5, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It used to be an enjoyable place to work, the culture has completed shifted.

Cons

I could copy and paste every other 1-2 star review and it would be just as valid. The company's answer to treating non-management employees like disposable garbage was answered with a #makeadifference Slack channel where their own teammates or others in similar job roles can validate each other. Start from management. With directions and responsibilities completely taking 180 degree turns on a weekly (not exaggerating, literally weekly) basis. One week you aren't doing enough. One week you're less than an hour into OT and you're doing too much. Which is funny, I can't point to anyone in our team that is slacking off - there's always an abundance of work to get done and it gets done. The job training is a joke, and when you don't know something you weren't trained on you get blamed for that as well. Policies beget policies that beget policies that all contradict each other to a point where nothing you do is correct. And again, mass lay offs, mass hiring, mass acquisitions, mass laying off said acquisitions, and as others said, in the midst of a global pandemic. When IXL buys companies, they're purely conquering their product and throwing them off to the way side to turn a profit for the absolute top. The people I work with on a daily basis enjoy working with me and compliment me on my performance constantly. But 9/10 times (being generous) I hear from anybody above our station it's rude and condescending. "Did you really.." "help me understand" etc. I'd understand if I was truly miserable at doing my job, but my coworkers, my quantifiable results (there are numbers to back up my labor) seem to be opposite of what I hear from management. I know for a fact that this is everyone on my team's experience and seems to be a lot of other reviews on glassdoor. It's like an abusive relationship, I keep staying because I think it will change. And it does change constantly, just always for the worst.

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Cons

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Cons

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