No Golden Rule Practiced Here - Administrative Assistant Mary Kay Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful Building; grounds and building well-maintained

Cons

I was thrilled to be hired on a temp-to-perm basis as an administrative assistant to a Sales Development manager at MK Headquarters in Addison, TX. On my first day the drama and intrigue began. The 20-year experienced AA who was supposed to train me refused to do so and barely spoke to me for the entire time I was there. My manager, also a 20-year tenured employee, was aware of the situation and did nothing about it. I persevered anyway and was able to figure out much of the job on my own and with some assistance from a few of the other admins who took pity on me. There were strange alliances between co-workers in my group that I never understood. In the end, my manager blamed me for not fitting in to the group. At the three-month mark I asked if she was considering offering me a permanent position. The next day the agency called me and terminated my employment. My manager had told the agency I thought I was "too good" for the position!?!

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Wonderful coworkers, amenities at the Mary Kay Building, and overall a mostly pleasant place to work from a day to day perspective.

Cons

Senior management seems totally lost. Strategy is ever shifting, and seems based more on whatever management's current flight of fancy happens to be. Little to nothing has been done to address the very real long-term issues related to the business. There's a reluctance to meaningfully change or address systemic issues leading to an existential risk to the business. It's so bad, the former CEO is suing the current CEO for mismanaging the company. They are father and son. It's that bad.

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