Fast paced work environment with lots to learn - Manager Wearecrane Employee Review

Good frontend staff and supervisors. Some of the most passionate and honest crew I've ever met. In some ways, the incompetence of management can lead to good leadership development on the job, if you can count that as a good thing.

Sincerely the dumbest and straight up unethical CEOs who abuse the term 'community'. Terrible business decisions being made time and time again, horrible treatment of staff, and no care for both customers and clients. Crane lacks direction in every aspect. Crane is essentially a events company, but 80% of staff is based overseas, and they're doing finance and marketing. Yet somehow, frontend staff (all 5 of them, across 3 locations) are also expected to do marketing related work. The actual events and operations team is dwarfed by marketing alone. Frontend staff do 95% of the heavy lifting to keep Crane afloat, but we are the ones who get blamed for every single wrongdoing and never get recognised in any way.

- Encourages experimentation and contribution of ideas - Great team that takes care of each other - Work spaces are accessible and conducive

Going to start off the review with an unbelievable point, but none of the employees are covered with insurance for workplace safety/liability issues. There was once the the ceiling collapsed at an outlet. The employee onsite that found the ceiling on the floor was lucky it didn't collapse on them. But even if it did, I doubt all he would have gotten by the bosses is a gift hamper and a "get well soon" text. Unethical business practices. The events/space bookings for instance involves fees for movement, or set up and so on and these jobs are usually very labourous. One would think those fees will be given to the ground employee (yes usually there is just one guy doing everything, maybe two guys on a good day) but the company absorbs all those fees. So why put a fee for movement in the first place? Quick cash grab? The CEOs perceive everybody as disposable/replaceable. I shouldn't have to elaborate further, the other reviews on this platform have said everything. But besides the bosses intentionally firing people (or in their words, "asked to leave") the turnover rate overall is insane. People leave as soon as they join. Additionally, people who are new to the company are never being orientated/trained well enough and always thrown to figure things out by themselves on the second day of work. This brings me to my next point. Absolutely POOR ROSTERING CHOICES because it is driven by the bosses' stingy fixation on wanting to "cut costs". There have been multiple times where my colleagues and I would attend an event held at one of the company's spaces and we end up helping out the employees on site because the workload given to the 1/2 people rostered was too much for them to handle. Besides an understaffing issues, I heard from a colleague who is still part of the company that someone was rostered "9am-12pm" and then "6pm-10pm" and they has to clock out in between which I found absolutely nonsensical. When the employee asked about it, they were told to "take a break" in between their two shifts. I shouldn't even have to explain how that is unethical. For majority of the employees, they don't even know what they are employed as. Especially for the newer employees, their job title would be completely different to the things they are told to do or promised they would be doing during the interview.