An employer that treated their employees like consumable resources to be used and discarded. - Photo Retoucher Hudson Yards Employee Review

1.0
30 Mar 2014
Recommend
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Pros

We got a thirty min. lunch, that was nice.

Cons

The normal work week consisted of a 12 hour shift, with a half an hour unpaid lunch break and two ten minute breaks. We worked 7-days a week, 12 hours a day. When we complained we were told that we needed to work or else we might lose our client and thus our jobs. We couldn't use our phones, we were told that we had fifty minutes to take care of our business. Which normally would be understandable, however when you're working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week how are you supposed to take care of normal life things? I had to take a sick day in order to do my taxes. Additionally, the managers were terrible, often times taking assignments away without explanation, yelling at the employees, and gossiping about other employees behind their backs. They would never let us know if we were going to be working over the weekend till typically friday, although you could basically count on it, since we worked most weekends. All-in-all I felt used, and unappreciated. The pay was substandard for the work, and the environment was toxic.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
23 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay (though they constantly add more and more responsibilities without pay increases), health insurance is good

Cons

Related is the worst company I have ever worked for and Hudson Yards is the epitome of Instagram culture— totally fake. The center is an absolute joke. They don’t care about anything on the inside, just what the outside looks like. Things are constantly broken (windows, accessible doors, escalators, elevators, bathrooms). Their response to Covid for hourly employees was so bad more than 20 people tested positive within one week. The corporate employees do not care about the customer service part of the company— they will see you every single day and not even say hello. The corporate side has incredible facilities and employee rest areas; the hourly employees break room doesn’t even have air conditioning (as far as we could tell the only thing it did have was Covid floating all over). Whether you are full time or part time you have to have open availability and they will not work with you to create a “set schedule” so your days off change every week/month. Some departments only schedule their full time employees 30 hours a week. There is absolutely no respect from upper management, who have been known to take pictures of employees they do not think are working hard enough. Working for Related will bring out your worst qualities and there is absolutely no motivation to do better. 3 people committed suicide in the past year on the property and they act like there was no way to stop it saying things like “these things happen.”

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