ShipMonk: where logic and morale go to die
Pros
A "hip" office (which feels like a ghost town because there are so few employees here)
Cons
Imagine a corporate world where each department is painfully understaffed, creative solutions to problems are shot down immediately, and where everyone seems lethargic and downright miserable - that is ShipMonk’s corporate headquarters, in a nutshell. This place is like nothing I’ve ever experienced (not in a good way). They say that they like to keep the team “lean and mean” and what they really mean is that you’ll be doing the job of several different people for a lower salary. They claim to be a company that is profitable and “doing well,” yet they do frequent layoffs for the very slim amount of staff that does exist. They are always looking for ways to cut headcount. They are always trying to split hairs to save a dollar. Seeing how cheap this company is and how resistant they are to making salaries competitive is actually quite unbelievable to witness. The president is completely out of touch with reality and regularly makes emotional decisions that lose the company money. This individual also bad-mouths everyone else at the company. He even bad-mouths employees who have top notch marks for performance. Make it make sense. I wonder if the board knows how nonsensical the decision making is and how much this has poisoned the business. I had low expectations joining this company based on a depressing interview process (one of my interviewers actually tried to sell me against working here multiple times - total red flag), but I truly could not have imagined the level of dysfunction that this company attempts to operate with. I would only work here if you desperately need a paycheck, but it’s truly impossible to feel any sense of peace in this tangled web of the president’s delusional and baffling emotional decisions which change daily. Avoid at all costs.
