Toxic Leadership - Digital Services Scholastic Employee Review

1.0
Apr 27, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really great people and peers

Cons

Horrible leadership. Truly, awful. This vertical is driven by trickery, fear and a deep, dark and toxic environment, artificially paraded to the CEO as bubbly and fun. During meetings with this team’s leadership they will talk negatively about other people or departments and then block you from interacting with them for fear of losing power or for the gossip to get back to that person. High turn around on the team over the years should have gotten the attention of HR by now but instead, the toxic leadership gets promoted and can rein even further terror on this group.

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