Management issues - Anonymous employee OCLC Employee Review

2.0
Sep 14, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Renovations look great and give the building a modern feel. Benefits are solid and pay is pretty good too. Work-life balance depends very heavily on your manager, everyone says they support it, but some departments are thinly staffed so most of the time taking off at 5 really just means working from home for a few more hours that night.

Cons

Across the organization I've seen most of the smartest and most talented employees leave or get pushed out. Some managers in particular have very high turnover in their groups but no one seems to care. The company as a whole is much less mission driven and more focused on the bottom line. It's non-profit mission feels more like a marketing tool than a operating principle. CEO markets himself more than his company. His direct reports fight among themselves and take a page from his book focusing more on improving their brand than improving the company.

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Cons

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Pros

The benefits, particularly the thrift plan, are good for as long as they still exist. The employees are generally smart and caring people.

Cons

Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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