Manipulation At Its Finest! - Marketing Employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Sourcebooks has published many great books over the years.

Cons

It's an illusion! It looks great from the outside, but once in the inside it's a disaster! The CEO is not a nice person, she berates, talks down upon anyone that does not agree with her or (accidentally) proves her wrong. Her own mistakes fall upon the person that is not in her good graces at the moment, and her ego is fed by her notorious sidekick. Her offensive behavior has made some of her MVPs physically ill and the non-stop gossip about her is amongst upper management seems to be all they can focus on. She actually wouldn't be where she is today without her dedicated robots that where actually asked to cover up any bad posts about her on this very site. She is a control addict that tries to control her staff and will threaten them if they do not conform to her requests. Another con- inappropriate banter in the workplace. These older men are either overly nice or actually flirt with us younger females. My manager shared too much about her conversations with her superiors.

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