Ruthless management, toxic atmosphere in UK and Germany - Hotel Product Manager HRS Group Employee Review

1.0
Jun 1, 2019
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Pros

All ok until things go bad for the company. I worked with HRS for 4 years developing a very good portfolio of a previously untapped market. 4 years is a rather long period of time until they showed their true colours.

Cons

Mr Tobias Ragge himself made 25 out of a team of 30 people redundant within a couple of hours. No warning, no staff meeting, no letters, nothing. He flew in the morning from Germany, just to sack people in our office. I had gone into to work at 9am and by 12noon I was jobless. I was called into a meeting room with Tobias Ragge who 4 years earlier told me during my interview with him in the Cologne office, what a great asset I would be for HRS because of my hotel experience background. After the interview, he hired me, and 4 years later I was no longer good and my future was compromised because he hadn't managed his company finances correctly... Not only, he sacked me and others within a matter of minutes but he simply didn't care about following the legal process or hearing any concerns from affected employees. Totally ruthless.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

Team of “intrepreneurs” which basically means everyone is looking out for themselves with no true sense of “team” collaboration. Everyone’s a leader which can be chaotic. Daily miscommunication resulting in a lot of finger pointing (and actual arguing!) when things go wrong. Goals and priorities change constantly, sometimes within the same week, stemming from the miscommunication. I’ve worked in high pressure environments before, but this isn’t that type of chaos. It’s disorganized and dysfunctional. All jobs have their issues, but please do your homework before joining and don’t ignore the negative reviews. I really wish I had trusted my gut when I read them.

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