Promising Opportunity, Disappointing Experience - Avoid - Anonymous employee Peter Vardy Employee Review

Unfortunately the Marketing Department is not a healthy environment to work in due to acute bullying from management, micro-managing, and office politics. Veiled threats, passive-aggressive comments, and dirty looks are all part of a usual work day within the department. Staff are consistently walking on eggshells for fear of being targeted by senior management. Over the last couple of years, many members of staff have left due to senior management behaviour leaving the remaining staff to pick up the workload. The expectation to output the same level and quality of work with significantly less staff was frankly unrealistic, thus putting buckets more pressure on those still remaining. The understaffing issue was raised to management however, staff were merely accused of "airing their grievances". This is a typical example of senior management projecting the blame onto staff, and not assume any responsibility for their contribution to situations. One one occasion, I was reprimanded for setting a boundary through asking a senior member of management to use my work email to contact me, as opposed to inappropriately contacting me late at night via my mobile. On another, I was pulled into an "attitude meeting" for sharing a piece of educated advice based on my years of experience within the job to another member of staff during a meeting. I was accused of "deliberately trying to embarrass management in front of other members of staff". PR incentives are established to heighten the business's profile such as the "Free Lunch" initiative that only lasted a few months after being boasted about on social media.