Pros
Pros: Reasonably intelligent and well read people. Co-workers are mostly nice. Some of the office space is very nice, some not.
Cons
Cons: They hire very, very few full-time employees. I feel like 90% of the staff are temps. So, you are expected to work the same hours (no OT, ever, you can't even bill for it even if you do work the extra hours), same stress, same expectations, but they don't want to pay medical, vacation, bonus or anything else. How is that fair? Then, it's a great big mystery why their employees are so unhappy. I'll tell you why: Scholastic is abusing their power. Even when they have a great quarter, they always told us "Sorry, we can't hire anyone to help you". I finally quit. Average tenure there seemed to be 6-8 months before you snap. Oh, and don't expect any training either. Another annoying thing was that managers tend to be "do as I say, not as I do." Meaning, you will get scolded like a child for being 5 minutes late to a meeting, but your manager can take as much time off as s/he wants without informing anyone, and that is somehow OK. You will also get scolded for some other arbitrary reasons, such as not formatting a Word document properly, yet no one ever told you it needed to be done a certain way. You are just supposed to know. The best was when I saw a manager yell at their subordinate for an hour in front of everyone one, then the same manager chided that subordinate for being upset after being publicly humiliated.
