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.
