Waste of skills - Anonymous employee PETA Employee Review

2.0
Sep 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary only and a brand name that is all this organization can give and has.

Cons

Very poor HR policy, no provision of providing monthly salary slips, no freedom to give work related suggestions to the line managers and CEO, high level politics by older employees, irrelevant expenses incurred by office administration perhaps enjoying cuts from the vendors. Would request people aspiring to join this organization, please think of some other options. Working here will be share waste of your skills as you will never be allowed to use your ideas for the betterment of the organization. Ideas will be their and you have to implement those like a puppet. No growth opportunities. No balance in work life and personal life leads to frustration and suffocation. Many talented and hard working employees had been showed their way out of office in the past two years. The organization is running under a DUMB leader who has no experience at all. She even does not know how she is being fooled by the older staff. Goes on hearsay and never uses brains.

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