Where to begin, If you desire employment from a company that has perfected the art of "backstabbery" down to a science, then Scholastic is for you. Job requirements: Must be a relative of, or good friends of an existing employee. Must be prepared to receive no on the job training and be told to learn your duties at home on your own time.
You must also have no problem being written up for things like "taking supervisor approved vacation time". or being reprimanded for merely saying "good-bye to your co-workers" at the end of your shift. This is seriously a bizarre and pathetic work environment. Supervisors who spend hours a day outside smoking and gossiping but yet they cry that "they have no time to train you" or explain anything of relevance to you that pertains to your job.
The supervisors are the epitome of passive aggressive. They seem to relish harassing the employees. It's as if they have been given the green light from upper management to treat those that they supervise any way that they wish. There is no job security and hard work isn't valued, It's almost laughed at. They treat the work force as third graders. We're talking well educated employees with teaching degrees that are well up in years, not a wet behind the ears fresh out of high school work force. Also if you do take a job with Scholastic and your supervisor decides that they want to get a friend or family member in, and your job would be the only option available, then be prepared to be given walking papers with no legitimate explanations.
This is a well insulated satellite office with a culture of condoning and seemingly encouraging varying types of abuse. I would hope that if the proper people at the Corporate headquarters in New York knew of the unethical and unprofessional practices taking place in this office, that they would implement a thorough house cleaning.
Also, seeking help or filing grievances with the Human resources dept is useless as they are well schooled in letting things go in one ear and out the other.
