Glassdoor reviews

There is a common english saying "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" meaning there are some things that you should not do even if you are able to do them. Just because you are knowledgable in the Glassdoor products and processes does not mean you should be a manager or leader. I will never doubt the manager that I have in their knowledge about Glassdoor, but as a leader they have very few leadership skills. Where are the surveys? quarterly, yearly reviews to give feedback on management? I have to submit self reviews, but you would think that getting feedback from a team about their leader would be imperative. I get nervous to do anything that is not how my manager thinks for fear of retaliation. I have had leaders in past jobs that I have learned so much from. I have adapted skill sets, learned about the company how I could move up in them, put together strategic plans to get to where I wanted to be, collaborated etc. I feel like the "black sheep" of my team. I am not sure if its because I speak out, but I am definitely targeted or spoken to in a way that my other teammates are not. I definitely don't feel supported in my role. It takes days to get a reply to an email and half the time you don't even know where your manager is to ask a question. Training? Wiki? Useless tools. The wiki is so unorganized and there are so many things in it that haven't been updated in years. It really grinds my gears when I ask a question and the reply I get is "Did you check the wiki?" Yes I have. I am coming to you for help because you are my leader and you are knowledgable but if you cant take the time to help me then why are you in management? I would love to get involved in adapting a better training program, I think its vital to an organization and I believe would lead a lot of people down a better path if they started with better tools and resources. Not only the tools and resources but how to use them in a more efficient way. You hired me for a reason and saw skill sets in me that would be a good asset to this organization and team, so when I come to your for help/ express my concerns that I may not be comprehending a task, I need a visual explanation on it or just need some more clarity, I shouldn't feel foolish for wanting to be more knowledgable in my role or for wanting to understand something better.

Someone else said this perfectly: I feel like Glassdoor broke up with me. There are a LOT of us who were hired with a promise of certain benefits, work style, and career development. But they have recently just decided to change all this and force employees to go from exempt to non-exempt - even people who have been here for years - based on their job title/status and strip them away of their benefits. Our so called "unlimited" PTO is now restricted to 15 days and to make that worse, we're now only starting with 7 days. What if we didn't take much vacation over the years? But it goes beyond PTO. The majority of us that took the offers took it with everything it has to offer, including the ability to give it our all. That means loving the hours we work outside of the office, no matter how long it is, because we love what we do and we want to contribute all that we got. But now, with a strict 40 hour week (and some departments aren't even granting OT because of budget reasons), how are we supposed to do this? Some of us have huge projects, deals, clients that we want to take full responsibility for...but now we can't. We have to pass it on to other "exempt" employees. Like someone else said, this feels like we've just got grounded and belittled. How are we supposed to feel that we're valued? People are ACTUALLY saying that they're exempt because their job is more valued, or fancier. This is wrong and this is not the culture we, or I, signed up for. We all love what we do, no matter what level we are. I want to love coming into work, knowing that I'm bringing the same amount of value as everyone else. If I don't feel that way, that's wrong.