Imagine Scientology in TED Talk format. - Anonymous employee Ajax Union Employee Review

I'll try to keep this as brief as possible. -The biggest red flag: they make you witness them firing colleagues. It's embarrassing to watch. But that's not all. Before the executives fired one person, they pulled someone else into the conference room to tell her they were firing him to test if she could keep a secret. After she left, the executives started giggling and turned on the CCTV app on their phones to watch her go back into the office and see if she told anyone. -I was told the last person who had my role quit to move to Washington DC to take the same role for another company, and they "coached her to get the job of her dreams by taking a leadership mentality and finding out what a problem is and telling them they can fix it". There's two problems with this story: 1) the executives in this company are incapable of fixing minor problems, let alone big ones like business strategy, and 2) the last person who had my role never moved to Washington DC: she's still in New York City. She is not working in the same type of role. -They stack LinkedIn with fake profiles for supposed executives and managers that have been working at AU for close to a decade. I never saw these people or read emails from anyone with those names, and their profile photos are all crappy stock photos of people in suits that you can easily find around the web. -They fired four people in the span of a month. This is a company of less than twenty people. Everyone said at least two of them were exceptionally competent, bright, and friendly people, which made their firings very confusing. (They were also entrepreneurs themselves.) The executives explained it as "restructuring the company". Except they're constantly "restructuring the company"... -There are some roles they readvertise on Indeed, Glassdoor, etc every few weeks.They hire and fire VERY frequently, always saying "it's not working out". (It's not you, trust me.) Anyone who knows the first thing about business knows that hiring new people is one of the costliest things for any company. Since they can't understand this very basic fact of money and time management, imagine how the other parts of the business are run. Why does AU do any of this? Who knows. Lastly I will confirm what countless other people have said in other reviews here: -Your other coworkers indeed are some of the greatest people you'll work with. I can't say a bad word about any of them: they were very lovely and genuine people. -Yup, Joe is too busy taking selfies and promoting himself like he's a celeb/cult leader every hour of the day to bother running the company. He misses meetings and management blames other people for it. He puts on a happy "I want to help you be a superstar" mask. When he removes the mask, he is the complete opposite: angry, abusive, and treats everyone like they're simple children. -They will court your suggestions to make the company better ("ownership mentality!"), but anyone who makes suggestions will be fired. And then they'll take all your ideas and claim them as your own. This happened to a couple colleagues. -Yes, all work for clients is indeed outsourced to freelancers, many of whom are overseas. This is probably how the company pulls their profits. P.S. What DID happen to Zevi?