Pros
The biggest pro would have to be that no work place could be quite as bad in comparison. I went into the role having had great managers in my previous positions and it was an eye opening experience having managers who were the complete opposite. The constant criticism has made me tougher and I defiantly learnt how NOT to manage a business if I ever make it to that role myself.
Cons
My time there was spent in misery, mainly due to the constant micro management style from the two directors. They hired fully capable, brilliant individuals with a vast amount of knowledge and skills and then would slowly break them down. The staff turnaround should really speak for itself! In my time there it was about 90% turn over, with 4 people leaving in one brutal week. Bearing in mind it was a small office of about 14 this was extreme. However the directors didn’t seem to think this high turnaround was a problem, in fact it was everyone’s fault but their own. My job role was continually changed from week to week to the point I would have to fight to do the job I was hired for. When someone left (which was very often) the new employee would have a completely different title and they would often throw mis matched jobs together. They didn’t have any structure to the business. There was no progression for staff, training structure or support system. Everything was dis organised and a complete mess, however much you tried to help organise things and put a system in place the managers would put you down unless it was their idea . Small things were over analysed, there was no productivity and creative people were put down and stifled. They didn’t want to pay any money to anyone. A lot of my time was spent trying to get out of paying people for things we owed them. A complete waste of my time and there’s and quite frankly a bit embarrassing. They were forceful and rude but always did it with a smile on their face, the definition of passive aggressive.
