The corporate office has many well-intentioned and highly intelligent leaders that REALLY know the store and the marketplace very well. Highly tenured staff in multiple roles. However, over my tenure there, I've learned that leadership's view of the culture does not align with everyone else's perception of it. This opinion gap is important. The culture, based on whom you report to, can be highly toxic. I've witnessed and/or have been involved in countless conversations over the years that include down-talking, constant interrupting, public scolding, blaming, even swearing unnecessarily. I often wonder sometimes are they even aware of this? As I said, these are well-intentioned and good people. When you spend time away from the office for example and have a beer with them, you learn quickly they are people too. We actually had an internal culture improvement initiative which I felt had potential but appears to have been scrapped. My opinion is this: Most of the people and leaders at Micro Center are good people that want you to succeed. From everything I have learned and heard from others, it is only a select couple of people very high up (who shall remain nameless) who are spreading toxicity from the top down throughout the organization. This is such a shame. Because I genuinely want better for everyone there. Including those people.
