Workload is unmanageable/HR is negligent - Paralegal Fragomen Employee Review

1.0
Jan 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. PTO is flexible

Cons

Attorneys/managers don’t seem to know how to properly delegate work; they don’t consider what’s already on your plate before they serve you more than you can manage, they then continue to pile work on you and get pissed and start to micromanage, which doesn’t help. HR is absent or just clueless. Claim to be “open door” but you just find a closed door with a lot of bs “inspirational” quotes; Admin tells us to just knock, but it’s uncomfortable, they are either laughing or it’s dead quite- it’s weird - like what do they actually do?

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Cons

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Pros

Decent overtime pay. I also had a decent training/onboarding experience, but this was not the norm.

Cons

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