Pros
You’ll work with some great people, depending on the department. Sometimes there are free snacks - that is, if they’re not expired leftovers.
Cons
It is unclear whether upper management truly believes that the rest of us don’t know about the things that happen behind the scenes or they just don’t care. But we know. Married, middle-aged men cornering and intimidating young women, leadership conspiring to get people fired for their own gain, prejudicial comments met with slaps on the wrist, managers gossiping about former employees like high schoolers, outright misogyny. We all know. In terms of the actual working environment, the situation is not much better. Workloads intended for thirty people piled onto ten, people promoted into positions they have no business taking and no capacity to handle with no training whatsoever, a company that constantly promotes “process improvement” but does nothing to meaningfully address people who actively create more work for their own teams as well as other departments. Replacing employees who leave rarely if ever happens in a timely manner, and the person’s workload ends up getting heaped onto the already overflowing desks of the rest of the team. The train essentially has to derail before anything is addressed by management. Sometimes, you can even be forced into an entirely new position you weren’t hired for or risk losing your job, learn everything about that position virtually overnight, end up improving the status of your working portfolio and keep meticulous notes to help whoever may handle the portfolio next, and still only get the bare minimum pay increase come review time. Imagine slogging through mud, but people are still calling to you from the edge asking you the same question over and over because they didn’t listen to your answer the first time, but they still get annoyed when you don’t answer immediately because you’re trying to work your way out of a mud pit, and the mud just gets deeper and deeper, and it’s also full of fire ants. Every once in a while, someone throws a rope in your direction, but the rope wasn’t tied to anything, so now you’re in the middle of a fire ant mud pit with a useless chunk of rope. That’s how it feels to work at Network. Be wary of positive reviews. HR actively tells us to write them to attract people. My guess is that there will be a spike later this month, after the quarterly company meeting.
