Working here destroyed my mental health - Campaign Operations Manager Shift Paradigm Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You will be employed You will be payed for your work You will have healthcare If you work in campaign operations, you will work with great people

Cons

You will have no work life balance, but will be shamed for working overtime as it goes out of scope, despite the whole reason for working so many hours being the amount of work put on your plate Your pay will be magnitudes below market, raises will be as minimal as they can get away with, and bonuses are dependent on the people at the top not messing things up any further so don't hold your breath Your healthcare benefits will be minimal and decrease in coverage and quality for the cost as time goes on You will watch the great people you work with be abused by clients with no intervention from leadership, spin their wheels trying to execute on last minute or poorly prepared requests, and burn out as they continue to "consolidate" teams, asking every person to do more and more with less and less

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Shift Paradigm Response
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Thank you for your feedback and perspective. You have given a lot in your review, and I invite you to contact me directly to address the multiple items herein. Many things you have posted about are not exactly as you have described, but I understand and respect your perspective, and I will look to how we can make sure that we do a better communications job to help employees understand things in our PTO plan and what we are doing with our survey results. We have work to do on this, and I thank you for the direction of continued work we can do to better our culture for all employees. I wish you the best in whatever is next for you, and please feel free to reach out to me anytime. -Michelle Hytry, Director of HR

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Cons

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Shift Paradigm Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We're sorry to hear that you felt overwhelmed and unsupported during your time with us. Your feedback about workload expectations, work-life balance, and development opportunities is taken seriously. We recognize that unrealistic deadlines and unclear boundaries can lead to burnout, and this is not the environment we want to create. Our new leadership is working to actively address these issues. Again, thank you for the feedback.
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