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High School Clique Mentality Ruins - Anonymous employee Temple University Employee Review

1.0
Jun 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Employees and their children can receive free educations from non-professional schools. On-site free medical clinic. Good health insurance and retirement plans. Easy commute via subway and bus lines.

Cons

Pay is below-scale for technical people. Vision plan is sub-standard. Promotions and training are only for those who are "in the clique". Heavy duty nepotism is the norm and is referred to as "the Temple Way". Clique members tend to harass outsiders with assignment overloads, ostracism, and snide remarks. Team work is defined as 2 cliquers are "in charge", 1 clique-outsider does all the actual work.

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Cons

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Pros

Beautiful, clean, and conveniently located campus. Great food trucks! Lots of space to go for a walk and clear your head or sit on a bench and look at some trees. Nice benefits.

Cons

Temple is very large and very siloed, so if you work in one department, don't expect to be able to move more easily to another part of the school than you would if you were just a random unknown applicant. Once you start working it will be clear which people there genuinely care about the school and passionately work to make it better, and which once just clock in and clock out and won't do a single thing that's not listed in their official job description. But that's bureaucracy for you!

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