Toxic Culture! - Administrative Assistant NCARB Employee Review

1.0
Oct 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful Office Directly downtown Hybrid work schedule (for the time being)

Cons

The workplace culture is very toxic and dismissive. The upper leadership on certain teams are toxic to work for. They have no empathy or understanding for those around them and are playing politics and favoritism. There is clear favoritism and sexist attitudes. Many managers and upper management are "in each others pockets" which doesn't allow for meaningful change when an experience is shared. When an experience is shared there is often intimidation and retaliation on that person. Certain teams and departments are underappreciated and mistreated, the Customer Relations team being one. I was not on their team and I saw that constantly. Upper management has asked employees on behalf of the CEO to post positive reviews on here which is so unprofessional and false. Whether he asked this or not they said he did. The turnover is crazy especially on certain teams, Every year someone is leaving and leaving having an awful experience that wasn't taken seriously. First time managers need training and employees need to be believed,

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