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Corporate Culture Of Double Crosses/Back Stabbing - Customer Relationship Specialist Knowledge Universe Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

As far as customers are concerned the company genuinely seems to care about children and their education. Frequent programs to encourage reading or learning and lots of involvement in the community. Pay was really good for the job. Business casual dress code.

Cons

My first boss never came out of his office to interact with the team, he emailed us from home to let us know he'd quit and would be using up the last few weeks of his saved vacation. My next supervisor was really great but was in charge of our department and a separate more travel intensive department so she couldn't keep us. My third boss tried to blackmail me for a promotion, HR had a talk with her but to my knowledge no formal reprimand and she worked for another year. My fourth boss in three years selected her favorite agents to be unofficial supervisors so she could manage her other team upstairs, the people selected were unprofessional and had no seniority and made life miserable for everyone around. I was let go this year because of "misuse of employer equipment" and told an inappropriate email was sent from my computer but no email was provided, no details about contents were given, and my team was told I'd gotten a promotion elsewhere. At the risk of coming across like a bitter former employee I really think this company is poison to a healthy worker.

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5.0
Dec 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Team oriented. Positive work environment. Management is exceptionally intuitive. Incentives are abundant. Training is consistent with corporate needs.

Cons

The Littleton corporate office closed and reverted to headquarters in Portland, OR. Only a few employees were able to transfer to their office.

4.0
Feb 16, 2014
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I love coming into work every morning and I have a great and helpful team to work with. There are many transportation options for the Portland area. I am given every tool I need to do my job and management has treated me with respect. This place has the potential to be a fun and stable environment. Early education is till valued by the public and it won't go away any time soon. That doesn't mean that a company like this is immune to self-destruction.

Cons

I had an extremely unpleasant experience with a miscommunication that made me believe that I was to be let go. That made me more aware of how tenuous employment is during this time of extreme flux. The atmosphere of mistrust and conspiracy has the potential to be a deadly form of toxin in a business sense. Things are still in limbo and seems to never move toward a stable pattern of predictability and the mechanisms are not fully in place in all departments for employees to navigate the performance-review/promotion/hiring process.

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