Pros
The only two pros of this place, and I mean ONLY two pros are; the salary is decent in comparison to the rest of the industry - however that is impacted by the negatives, and you really do have the opportunity to work with some amazing people on the frontline.
Cons
Where does one even begin? I worked at this organization for a few years, in various roles. There is never enough staffing so you are always overworked (hence why the pro of salary becomes a negative). They cannot keep anyone except for people who just don’t have any other options or are in with the evil (yes, I mean evil - will explain later) senior management team, so you are ALWAYS doing the job of minimum 2 full time positions, if not more. Once I was carrying the load of 4 full time positions. The culture does not care about the client, they care about the numbers, don’t be fooled - they fraud those all the time! I cannot tell you how many times I was demanded to ‘make the numbers’ no matter what. Close people to employed who came in employed, or close people to education who were going to VPI’s workshops, or putting through the same people over and over again to make the numbers for target in YJC and ES. The old senior management and the new senior management team are just as disgustingly evil. Not caring about any human being whatsoever. They talk about your personal business with everyone, judge you because you have a varying opinion, if you push back at all because you want to protect your team or the best interests of the clients, you are pushed out the door. I am floored that they are still in business, however the ministry doesn’t pay enough attention either, they don’t care - as long as it looks like they did what they were supposed to with the tax payers money, it’s all well. I left my position to accept one that was well under what I was being paid because it was so toxic. Imagine! In todays climate - a parent, a renter, a spouse expected to provide, that you would accept something almost 15k less because this place was killing your mental health, dignity and sanity so much. They will push you until you break, they will talk about you behind your back with other sr. managers, hr and even other staff. If someone gives their two weeks - tell them to pack up their things at the end of day and get out - not because of trade secrets, because they are just that malicious and petty. One office went through 5 managers in 9 months. Nothing had anything to do with competency. They are being paid millions of dollars of tax payers dollars to operate programs that are scamming with registering the same participants in it over and over, and what they presented for operational costs with staffing is 60% less than what they have employed. Stay away. Please do you and your family the justice of protecting yourself, stay away. Look up all the previous and current ‘directors’, every single one of them were vicious and didn’t care about the hurt they caused people as long as they kept eating all the money.