Oh boy where to begin?
1) Your time and happiness at TPT is very dependent on who your manager is. You can either have a manager that trusts you and knows that you are competent at your job, or you get a micro-manager, which is the case 99% of the time (hope you're sensing a theme here). I was part of that 99% that had a micro-manager that wanted to know what I was doing every second of the day. They wanted to be CC'd on every email, expected me to work through lunch, and scolded me for tiny mistakes. I cannot tell you how many panic attacks I had because of this job since I was so scared to ever mess up.
2) You are expected to work 24/7 for a job that pays so little (another general consensus amongst all reviewers). Even if you are sick, you still have to be online "just in case!", or be forced to take PTO. Or my personal favorite, you can be told to save your PTO and just come in to work even if you are sick. TPT has not learned a single thing from the global pandemic - while most companies tell you to stay at home, TPT actually wants you in the office when you are sick!!
3) Everyone has major trust issues. You are treated like a child by everyone if you are new. Rather than trusting the employee that you hired to do their job, everyone watches every little thing you do like a hawk, and then they pounce on you when you make a mistake.
Overall, I endured TPT as long as I could because I thought this was the norm wherever I decided to go to work. However, now that I have found a new job, the more I reflect on my time at TPT the angrier and angrier I get. I truly do not understand how they are able to get away with treating their employees so poorly. And it sucks that so many of us complain about the same things, yet it seems like nothing is changing.
