DO NOT JOIN THIS COMPANY. Toxic, Unprofessional, and Pathetic – RUN Before You Regret It - Client development researcher The Printspace Employee Review

1.0
Apr 22, 2025
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Pros

No pros, only cons. If you see any pros frim any other review — know that it’s paid 🤣

Cons

I don’t usually leave reviews, but this experience deserves a serious warning for anyone considering joining ThePrintSpace. This is, hands down, the most unprofessional and toxic company I’ve ever worked for. They lure you in with sweet talk, impressive-sounding interviews, and false promises — only to pull the rug from under you once you’re in. Let me break it down: 1- Training > Real Work: They care more about silly training assignments than actual work. You could be delivering solid results, getting great feedback from your direct manager (like I did), and still get kicked out for “failing” one internal test. That too, after you’ve started working. So here’s the logic: they onboard you, make you go through all the paperwork, get you started on actual work — and THEN tell you that you’re out over an assignment that could’ve been sorted before Day 1. Are we in middle school or a job? 2- Pathetic HR: HR is cold, rude, and shockingly two-faced. The same HR who was sugary sweet during the interview showed a completely different side the day they decided to fire me. No explanation, no empathy, no scope for correction — just a robotic “you’re being off-boarded” call. And for every valid question I asked, all she did was repeat the same pre-written lines like a broken record — as if hypnotized. It honestly felt like the HRs are nothing but slaves to the founder, blindly following orders without using their own judgment. Whether he’s right or wrong doesn’t matter — they just nod, obey, and execute like puppets. If you’re expecting a human interaction here — you won’t get it. This is the worst HR behavior I’ve ever experienced. 3- Stuart (founder), is the literal embodiment of ego: This man runs the daily STAND UP CALL meetings like a personal TED Talk. No space for employees to speak, no value for input, just endless, tone-deaf monologues. And when he does speak to employees, it’s mostly to nitpick or impose — not lead, inspire, or encourage. 4- Salary? A joke: The number they promise as “cash-in-hand” gets slashed down with deductions they never explain. So basically, they exploit you for long hours (10 a.m. to 7 p.m. + extras) and then barely pay what was promised. Feels less like employment and more like daylight robbery. 5- Cheap Labour and No international exposure: They are just outsourcing masked as “remote work.” This is a UK-based company in name only. Out of the entire team, maybe two or three people are actually from the UK. The rest? All Indian hires, because it’s cheaper. So much for global learning and opportunity. Stuart just wants cheap labor and obedient silence — not talent, not ideas. In short: Toxic culture. No professionalism. No value for human effort. As a former employee, all I got to say is DO NOT JOIN AT ANY COST. You’re better off flipping burgers than wasting your time, skills, and mental peace at this company.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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