A thoroughly horrendous org to work for. In a 20 year career, CITB is the most toxic work environment I have ever encountered.
Senior leadership is unstable (mostly interim after several board members left in a short period of time), leadership is non existent thanks to a toxic and sexist CEO, and a severe lack of managerial accountability throughout the org.
Strategic business processes are non-existent and HR is a non-entity, so serious issues and concerns are ignored when reported, e.g. various examples of mental wellbeing of employees ignored and disagreed with (!).
Extremely unprofessional behaviour from senior 'leaders' such as clear favouritism and openly negative comments about colleagues' appearance to peers and in meetings.
HR's response to reporting this was, "Have you thought about leaving the org?"
Don't believe anything about future business plans. Serial restructures and redundancies are commonplace for the org as a whole (eg. 3 in a 4 year period), as well as with specific teams (eg. 8 in 6 year period).
Example: told there will be no more redundancies over a 6 month period, only to then be told that there will be redundancies just before Christmas.
New structure interview process was then deliberately designed to be difficult for certain employees to succeed (eg. irrelevant questions and short notice given to reduce preparation time), despite their appropriate high levels of experience and skills. Other team members were handpicked for roles when arriving for interview (they were told interview was no longer necessary and told not to tell anyone this had happened).
Unbelievably, these examples all took place in a period of just 9 months and are just a taste of what it's like to work at CITB.
