The environment is very manipulate. Careful on sharing personal information, management will hold that information over your head and use it against you. They will also share your personal information with others without your permission. Even if its medical. How have they not had a lawsuit!?! Maybe its because they have no HR department and the CEO can be intimidating, gaslighting, and manipulative. He purposefully puts employees against one another.
Favorites are constantly played. If you become a favorite you will get promoted. But be careful, you fall just as quickly. Black sheep employees are shuffled around until they quit or get fired.
Micromanagement is a big problem. Every action you make is micro-managed. Its all about power. Office politics drips from everything. You can watch management in this tug of war that is created by the CEO. Certain people have power, while others don't. Regardless of what position you hold. And just because you have power one week, doesn't mean you will the next. Creating a hostile, backstabbing environment of people trying to climb one over the other to get to the top.
The CEO gets his hands into everything and every decision goes through him. Which sounds okay at first. He's very involved. Until you realize he makes rash decisions on partial information that affects a great deal without even understanding the repercussions. He'll ask the least knowledgeable and least qualified employees about something they know little
to nothing about and then make a decision on their response. Leaving everyone confused and trying to clean up the mess. He is frugal in the worst way. He will spend thousands without blinking, but wont replace a broken mouse or give all of his employees mouse pads.
If you are not in management you are completely in the dark about everything. And treated like "just another body." Before I was a supervisor, I would watch all of the supervisors go around. Whispering to one another. Then when I became a supervisor, I realized it was all office politics. They'd bad-mouth their team, management, and one-another. Very toxic. Before I was in management, I could tell if an employee was on their bad list because they would ignore and avoid that employee. Then, as a supervisor, I felt pressure to fall in suit.
The pay is lousy for the amount of work you are expected to do. Mistakes are scrutinized and guilt-tripped. You get paid only once a month. The gender pay gap is real in this company (even though I am on the better side of that equation, I know other good employees aren't).
The office is in the middle of downtown, which means you have to pay for parking or public transit. There are no company programs to help with this. The company claims to provide 401k but setting it up is nearly impossible. Promotions don't mean increase in pay, but most definitely mean an increase in work load and responsibility.
If you are in management and this company is not your life. You will fail.
