Not a great place to work - Sales Academia Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The employees on the whole are nice to work with. Good stepping stone company. You'll fast learn how to manage your own workload, as you get little to no help from managers.

Cons

I have never worked anywhere where sexual harassment is more prominent. The directors and managers are constantly flirting with the younger female employees and they even make a competition it. The older ladies within the company (particularly those in the finance team ) spend the majority of their time gossiping about the younger girls and creating an atmosphere of bullying in the staff room at lunchtime. There were no female employees in position of authority in the company or in managerial or director positions (with the exception of HR who on the whole just delivered messages from the MD). The is little room to progress here, mainly because the company has no idea of the direction they want to go in or how to write a clear strategy for how to do this. The company is VERY old fashioned, they ring a bell when a new sale is brought in and the MD likes to spot check employees on the company principles. Company benefits are not existent and the company pension contributions are atrocious.

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