not a good time - Anonymous employee GoodTime Employee Review

1.0
Jun 12, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

loved everyone that I worked with. learned a lot from the entire team at the time I was there.

Cons

what I was promised was not what I got. promised: unlimited PTO, commuter benefits, gym reimbursement. what I got: tracked PTO (essentially capped at two weeks), no true PTO as you were expected to respond to emails, slack messages, and phone calls while you were on "PTO", no commuter benefits, $5 off equinox (lol). other cons: worked 14 hour days often, worked weekends. often had meetings discussing issues that led to no resolution. preferential treatment to certain individuals/teams. gaslighting when conveying your feelings to management. promises that things will get better when they never did. aggressive treatment from HR and management after putting in notice.

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GoodTime Response
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A lot has changed at GoodTime. We are constantly making an effort to make things better for our team. I think there are some misrepresentations here as our PTO is 4 weeks plus an end of year shut down for a week. I also believe some people feel their own pressure to answer emails, phone calls and slack message when on PTO. I would have recommended unplugging and that would have been in your right to do so. Also, I think aggressive treatment is a misunderstanding and/or misrepresentation of what HR or our management team is doing. We truly want to understand and encourage people to stay as we value the contributions of our team members.

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