Executive Assistant - Executive Assistant Pearle Hospitality Employee Review

1.0
Dec 6, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Insight & exposure into the Hospitality & Hotels Business -Opportunity to try many of the restaurants

Cons

-Poor treatment / no respect or recognition for hard work -Verbally abused regularly -Never thanked or recognized for going above and beyond -Strange working hours -Strange family dynamics with working for a family run business -Dealt with sexual harassment -Did tasks that were out of my job description - for example: The Owner of Pearle forced me work in a building / construction zone and scrub floors / clean up after the construction workers in order to allow students to move into the building. I had my lungs filled with debreigh and felt extremely unsafe being around the construction workers. As a 26 year old young women, I found this crazy that I was being asked to do this - I was an Executive Assistant...why was I asked to do this? I was often alone in this building and felt extremely nervous and unsafe...and experienced harassment from the workers daily. I was there for 3 whole weeks scrubbing floors, handing out cleaning supplies. No to mention I had to run up and down 21 flights of stairs. -After everything I did...I was fired without cause as they "no longer needed me anymore". This was a massive slap in the face after everything I did for the Owner Aaron Ciancone and his CFO Jocelyn Maurice. I will never forget the abuse I was put through.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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