Pros
The office had decent natural light, which made the cubicle feel slightly less suffocating.
Cons
- Most of the time was spent sending status updates and waiting for approvals instead of doing actual work.
- Every email was treated like a problem, even routine updates to reports, and constantly sent back for unnecessary revisions.
- Nothing moved forward without multiple layers of approval, so projects that should have taken days dragged on for weeks, often missing relevance entirely once the news cycle shifted.
- Suggestions were routinely rejected, rewritten, and then left sitting in inboxes for days with no response, only to restart the process again.
- The core issue of lack of autonomy was never acknowledge, and instead of fixing it, more meetings and check ins were added that only slowed things further.
- Over time, there was no motivation left to contribute ideas because execution was never truly allowed.