Pros
Daily mass, worker bees doing all the work are always incredibly talented at what they do and I met some phenomenal people before they laid them off or unjustly fired them.
Cons
Have you ever met a charming, charismatic guy who tells you exactly what you want to hear and seems too good to be true? Then three months later you find out everything he said was a lie and he’s just using you as a means to his own ends? That’s the Augustine Institute. They use words like “working hard” and “the mission” to get you to work 7 different jobs for the price of 1/2 of one job in the secular world and shut you up from justifiably complaining about the unfair, unbalanced workload they place on the workers. And “the mission” you work for is not God’s, it’s the president and executive team’s. And I can absolutely testify that everyone who has been laid off or left on their own accord has been the hardest working employee who truly wanted to serve the Church but was chewed up and spit out by the severe mismanagement and false promises of the leadership here. Do you want to work hard or be steamrolled in the name of serving an agenda that shifts every two seconds? Your call. If you speak ill, they ice you out. Pretend they want to hear feedback and then use it against you to either fire you or hurt you in some way. It’s only a good time if you blindly go along with the whims of what they think they want, which will cost you your sanity and the company millions of dollars. Don’t think you can use your gifts and talents, as the only things that you actually get done are the things they demand of you. There is no professional growth or development. Even if your immediate supervisor or manager is incredible, they are too bogged down with terrible leadership calls to invest in you. They will make you responsible for fundraising money that they blow through. And they will pocket money at the expense of their employees just because they can. These are things that can happen in the secular world, but as a Catholic non-profit, it does not live up to the values that are promised.
