Of course this is not always true - but it is OFTEN the case:
OVERSELLING IN INTERVIEWS - They lie in the interviews because they have hard times in getting people move to the middle of nowhere.
They promise a brilliant career pathway, lots of money, and flexibility with working hours or location. This will NOT happen.
There are NO development plans, you have to clock in and clock out, they dictate on the holidays you can take, they choose how long your lunchbreak should be, if you work extra hours or during weekends you will not be able to compensate etc etc.
The performance appraisal is non-existing, managers are only senior sales people, they have no people management skills and loyalty and number of MOVEs count more than anything else.
And mind that training happens during weekends or lunch breaks.
You are expected to stay in the office at least 1 extra hour everyday.
MBOs just show up at the middle of the year and they always find ways not to pay you the money they owe you.
RETENTION CLAUSES – since they have a very high turnover they try to keep you by making you sign retention clauses.
They make FAVORITISM.
MISTRUST - they treat you as if you are there to steal money from the company and they are control-freaks.
TOXIC ENVIRONMENT - I have seen managers yelling at employees and did not see many promote teamwork or work to create better relationships among employees.
It is a really tough environment for women. Women in top positions are just a few, and women in general are not treated equally and there is no diversity at all.
The few foreigners in the office live really a tough life.
People are so frustrated that actually wait for the moment in which they can tell you off for doing something in the wrong way. But nobody knows how things should be done or things can be done in many different ways depending on your loyalty/relationship with management.
On top, people only do something when they feel threatened by their manager or by the CEO, otherwise they wait for 18.30 to call it a day and go home.
INNOVATION - Products are really futuristic but the rest is really old-fashioned.
CEO - He has the last word on everything, Senior and Middle Management always say YES.
Social networks are demonised.
Life in a branch is a bit better but everything depends on what HQ dictates.
