Pros
Lunch is provided some days Get to learn new tasks Most people are nice Easy job Creative community
Cons
After being at Spoonflower for some time, I’ve noticed that people of color are heavily watched, monitored, & micromanaged, while others are not. I haven’t had this happen to me specifically, but I’ve observed it on MANY occasions. It’s to the point where it’s pretty obvious and blatant with certain supervisors there. They don’t even try to hide it, so if you pay attention, you’ll easily see it. I’ve watched someone who isn’t of color take numerous extended breaks, leave their station continuously, & arrive late to work many times for months to close to a year before anything was done about it. If a POC goes to the restroom once, it’s automatically thought that they’re taking extra breaks or leaving work to horseplay. They don’t get NEARLY as many chances to correct themselves as much as those do who aren’t of color. Most POC there are treated like children by their supervisors & obviously aren’t given the same respect as those who aren’t of color. Not all of the supervisors do this, but a lot of them do. It also seems as if supervisors get away with doing inappropriate things in the workplace simply because they are supervisors and have become friends with other higher-ups. If they do something wrong to an employee, it’s likely that nothing will happen and they won’t get reprimanded for it, which has also left some POC & non POC feeling super uncomfortable in the workplace. There are MANY more examples I could give that I’ve seen. To wrap it up here, it can get pretty depressing at Spoonflower for POC because they feel as if they’re one “bathroom break, wrong look, or perfect little lie told by a higher-up” away from getting fired or written up at all times.