Toxic environment/ unprogressive office
Pros
- interesting clients and portfolio of work - ability to travel to different offices to work with other team members
Cons
- many barriers to success due to the lack of empowerment of others - lack of empowerment is due to team members (had been on staff for years) desiring job security over their personal well being and success of others and a large fear of change - a culture of toxicity created by a few at the top who want to remain at the top and hold underlings responsible for unrealistic workloads - some roles not set up for success due to above mentioned reasons in addition to a hierarchy built without much forethought for example my role a project manager was reporting into a supervisor of the media department who had no idea what goal of my role was and never worked with a PM prior - when issues are detected and brought to the attention of others like projects being over budget and quotes needing to be adjusted I faced push back from team members including leads who in turn attempted to hold me responsible for jobs where money was lost that I never managed - finance refused to cooperate in running project financials and help run weekly reconciliations