OMSI Reviews

This has been the absolute worst work experience I’ve ever had. I have worked for non-profits all my life, other non profits with which I had very positive experiences with and never have I dealt with such a shady, unlawful, and unprofessional workplace in my life. I deeply regret working here. Machiavellian plots are launched against other co-workers without another blinking an eye. Lying to vendors and visitors is highly encouraged just to save a buck or two. You are expected to work constantly - including straight through lunch. Just eat at your desk! Pretends to be all-inclusive, but the good ol’ boy system of hiring your friends son or whatever is alive and well here. They let in some people of color to give the illusion they care, but they really don’t. They also bait and switch, telling some people they have a certain job, then say the job description was typed up wrong, thus making it too late for you to jump ship because you’re already on board. Telling HR anything is wrong is pointless because they care about protecting OMSI, not you, this just adding another bullet in the chamber against yourself. Run as far away as you can. It’ll be the best decision you’ve ever made. I wish someone would have warned me.

1. Absolute no advancement opportunities unless you literally spend years trying to climb the ladder while getting paid minimum wage. Or, the quicker way to move up, is to be the relative of wealthy donor, great "equity lens", right? 2. The ENDLESS office politics. This is a museum whose mission is to show science is for everyone or a firm on Wall Street? Hard to tell sometimes. 3. After they laid off over 1/2 of their staff (over 100 people) due to the pandemic, they would not even notify people when their positions were available again (a year later). Did not offer any type of support or severance for laid-off folks (some worked there for decades). Oh wait, they paid for their portion of our health insurance for a month or two then forced you to COBRA or nothing (peak pandemic). 4. They say they can't pay better since they are nonprofit. Do yourself a favor, if you have a job offer from them: go to guidestar.org and search for OMSI, you can view their "tax" returns (990s are tax returns for nonprofits) and see what the top folks get paid and the amount of money they've spent trying to "redevelop" the property 5. Sexual harassment and nothing is done about it. If I had to hear "hey baby" from this one long-termer older gentleman one more time... oooh boy. It was always glazed over as it was supposed to be a nonthreatening joke he always did.