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Avoid at all costs - Anonymous employee Universal Standard Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Understanding what a toxic culture looks like and how not to build a business

Cons

*Founders lack leadership skills and ability to think past the next 48 hours. *Employees who have no life and are willing to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week regardless if on vacation or at a wedding are rewarded. *No work/life balance - expect to be berated on a Saturday afternoon if the founders feel like it *Mean Girls culture, despite multiple employees going to HR and founders to ask for change, HR/founders deny this behavior and mean girls are continuously rewarded and the damage they inflict on other employees is ignored because they are buddies with the founders *Micro-managed and then blamed for mistakes to other employees (lack of ownership) *Poor performers kept on for months after they should be fired because they are friends with leaders

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5.0
Jul 13, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people and mission at US are amazing. Great place to work. I highly recommend it.

Cons

You work long hours for under market pay. So you have to love it.

1.0
Feb 13, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free clothes Cool office not much else to say it was a negative experience

Cons

They hired me for a job and then completely changed the parameters and expectations for the role. Attached lofty store sales goals to a position that never included sales in the description. The store was located in a sketchy building off a side street on a high floor with no visible signage or foot traffic advertising. Bad business model for a store. Was constantly expected to work late into the evening and my safety was compromised one evening as I left alone in the store to oversee a party with 50 guests.

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