Political, Petty, and Poisonous - Director IFF Employee Review

IFF is a place where office politics reign supreme. There are a couple of VP's who get to hold the organization hostage. If they don't like you, count your days ------ literally. Leadership is control obsessed and mistakes are not allowed (don't believe ANY of the pyschological safety stuff). Five minutes after they forced EVERYONE to sit through a weird anti racismism and psychological safety, the CEO was trying to lock people out of the room because they were late. Their idea of employee development is making you read 200 emails from the CEO, then you have to go to class with the CEO and listen to him talk about how brilliant he is, how he personally saved this organization, and that city because he is so amazing. Everyone just sits around eating up because if you don't you'll be on the naughty list and will soon lose your job. They are always talking about ONEIFF and how collaboration is the most important thing, then people will deliberately sabatoge you by not sharing information or telling you important things and then waiting until you're on a group call with management to bring something up so you look unprepared and dumb. This place was shockingly traumatic which is said because some really cool people work there. I think the only way to survive is to come in a get in the good graces of 5 key people. If any one of those five don't like you, polish the resume because they will get you fired. They gossip, lie, and cry to get their way.