Nostalgia getting old... fast - Manager Scholastic Employee Review

3.0
Aug 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Scholastic name and products are gold. Sincerely true to mission in helping teachers. Great location, good benefits (especially maternity leave), nice people. Great work-life balance office empties 5pm.

Cons

Senior Management in meetings for hours while staff waits for marching orders that often never materialize. Love triangles, blatant favortism, wasteful spending, disregard for deadlines and knee jerk reactions make for rich gossip and poor morale. No real goals and no accountability. Everyone cares but no one empowered. We seem to be stuck in old ways.

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Pros

Remote work and the clients are very nice to work with.

Cons

In my experience, the company's compensation practices lacked transparency and accountability. When employees asked questions about how their earnings, bonuses, or compensation were calculated, clear answers were often difficult to obtain. Decisions affecting employee pay were made without adequate explanation, and requests for clarification frequently went unresolved. What I found particularly concerning was the apparent disconnect between employee compensation outcomes and management compensation. Employees regularly experienced reduced bonuses or earnings, while management and executive leadership appeared largely unaffected by the same business decisions. This created the perception that the financial impact of those decisions was being borne primarily by employees rather than those making them. After repeatedly seeking explanations and receiving few meaningful answers, I lost confidence in the fairness and transparency of the compensation process.

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