Ryan reviews

I sat here for a good amount of time trying think of positive things to say about my experience working at Ryan, but I could only come up with a few. The bad certainly outweighed the good. For one, don’t be fooled by MyRyan. They lured me into my position thinking I had the power to make my own schedule as long as I get my work done. This is only true if you are lucky to get a manager who actually is okay with this ideology. I was not. I worked there for over a year and only got the opportunity to work at home twice. When I took vacation for a few days I still received emails. It was like you never had a vacation. We received emails late at night, on the weekends, you name it. Needless to say, I was not very happy and basically felt trapped there. If I left work at 5:00 PM, it was looked down upon by not only my manager but my co-workers as well. It wasn’t as if I was leaving without doing my work. I did my job and kept up the pace, but at Ryan the work is never done. I could have stayed until 9, but really, there is always something else to do so it was always hung over my head if I didn’t stay until 6:30 every night. In terms of job duties, they are pretty mundane. I got tired of doing the same thing over and over again. I found it really weird that the company always pushed us to fill out surveys to win awards… and somehow they have a history of winning. With all the turnover I saw there, I’m not sure if those surveys were filled out genuinely or not.

Not sure if exit interviews are used for the stated purposes. Exit interviews/pre-exit interview was used to send out behind the scenes email to leadership team to trash personal reputation and performance. This was just unbelievable and quite disappointing. Raise system needs to be reviewed. Never had a formal review. Had to approach management when I sensed something was wrong. That's when the floodgate opened with all of these "issues". What happened to ongoing communication and coaching from the "LEADERSHIP" ranks? Attestations regarding data entry errors were not my fault, but it was easy to blame it on "the help." Company pushes fitness and wellness on a corporate level, but on the local level the managers had a problem with it. What I did on my unpaid lunch break became a sore spot for management and I couldn't understand why. Management complains about outside interests as if that were a crime. Making a one word generic LinkedIn profile containing "entrepreneur" should not have been raised to me as a bad thing. How dare I think more of myself than just being an admin? Apparently it was felt that I had some nerve to describe myself in that way. Pay not competitive for admin roles in NYC, but the expectations on how your attitude should be was as if they were paying you big bucks. Make the salary match what you want out of the person so they won't have to think about doing something else outside of work. Manager wanted a so-called "Dallas-like" personality as if I had not been professional in the 6.5 years that I had been there. I had "lasted" because I had did a good job and got things done. Not because someone was doing me any favors by letting me stay around.