-Turnover is at an all-time high. Between (many) people choosing to leave, people unfairly being let go or entire departments being laid off due to ‘restructuring’ (which is never a good sign of a stable business), around 30 people have left already in 2017, that's over half the employees.
Reasons for the turnover:
-They say that there’s a good life balance, but their scale for balance is way off. Often people are expected to take there-and-back (as in 5am-to-11pm) client trips and then expected to come back to the office first thing the next morning. 50 hour work weeks, last-minute emergencies, sales calls on top of client calls on top of implementing expectations. The workload is way out of whack (especially for the low salaries across the board).
-Everyone is on the sales calls. You won’t get a notice when you need to be on a sales call and you have to run the call because the sales team isn’t knowledgeable about what The rest of the team does. They’ve received multiple rounds of formal training, but need the experts on the call to make a sale.
-There are 2 departments that are the golden child of the organization. If you aren’t on that team, don’t expect to go to any trainings, or networking events because all the money is spent on using it on the sales team (Even if they are $5-$10), you are expected to pay for your own developmental training.
-Sexist comments about what women are wearing or how they look are commonly heard. Sometimes it felt like because their comments were “funny” that they weren’t sexist or offensive. While no one commented on the men wearing workout clothes to work if a woman wore jeans and t-shirt they ‘needed to dress more professional’.
-Many times the sexist comments were reported and nothing was done. As HR, it is their responsibility to ensure people feel safe in the workplace and that their concerns are heard. This department is just a figurehead for the owners to get what they want and nothing is ever done about concerns.
-The three owners publically don’t get along and make you go in different directions, which is confusing.
