Toxic Workplace - Manager UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Beautiful campus, excellent students, and many of the faculty are outstanding. Benefits are decent. Flexible work schedule after years of service. Some departments are healthier than others. Very safe neighborhood.

Cons

The administration is toxic from the top down. Sexual harassment is common and men are promoted much more easily than women. Leadership is questionable. Very outdated internal systems both technologically and in human resources. People can be lazy due to strong job security. Sometimes I felt like I was working at the DMV because administrative staff would not help students or other staff members. Very competitive internally. Never have I seen so much dishonesty at work. A lot of CYA and passing the buck. Parking fees are high for staff. Employees are afraid to tell the truth.

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Pros

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Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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