The Patriots definitely offers a "Boys Club" mentality and I don’t think that they are being progressive women in the workforce which is surprising as we do have a women CMO. There is an extremely obvious favorite-ism towards men in this organization and its noticeable by who is promoted each year. The HR department sets rules but I’ve learned more employees are the exception than the rule. It always seems these rules are created as loop hole so they can refuse to promote someone or prevent them from getting a raise. For example, you are never guaranteed a raise, or so I am told in my review each year. The reason you will be told is that "only 1 person may receive a raise or a promotion and this year it just isn’t you even though we feel you exceed all expectations year after year but my hands are tied with HR" Then you will turn around and see 4 men in the same department all with new promotions in the same month. Sometimes you will even see positions created just so a man can get a raise and a new title. I don’t ever see this happen for the women here but overall everyone should be held to the same standards.
Employee pay is another subject all together. Starting salaries are about $1 above the poverty line and if you are lucky to receive a raise of 2% at the end of the year they expect you to be really thankful for your 9 cent increase. Part of your pay is that you get to tell people you work here and you get a free training camp hat. I keep trying to pay my rent with that and it still hasn’t been accepted.. strange.
The painful part is that if that when I finally brought my take home pay to my VP he was genuinely like “oh…that’s all you make…? I’m sorry I didn’t realize it was so low.” Nothing was done about of course except agreeing with yes.. you are poor. Sadly the decision makers and people who are capable of making a change don’t seem to either want to listen to the employees or just don’t care. There is a HUGE gap of people who have been here for 2 years and then 25 years. The turnover rate is about 1.5-3 years and then maybe 10-20 employees in the 3-10 year range and then all senior leadership is 20 plus years and started with the Kraft Family from the start. Its hard to leave because the people that come here and fall in the under 10 years are so amazing to work with and genuine that you don’t want to leave but are forced out so you can have a life and also be able to afford food & rent.
