(c) Management Reviews

Poor benefits like expensive healthcare

The reviews here that mention how “cliquey” the organization is are very true. This was one of the biggest problems even before the buyout. There was a very “mean girls” type of vibe. There was an in-crowd who always had lunch together, hung out outside of work, and were very selective as to who got invited/excluded to hang with them. People in this group were favored by leadership (a couple WERE leadership) and got all of the company’s praise and attention. All of the 5-star reviews left here were left by this group, I could point out exactly who left them. If you weren’t part of the in-crowd, you were pretty much destined to be stagnant, no matter how accomplished you were or how hard you worked. If you tried to have your own group of work friends and they found out you did something after work without them, they would report you to HR for “not being inclusive”. While some of these people were edged out by the buyout, the overall problem persists since the people who left remain in touch with those who stayed and still assert their influence. *** The other problem that was a problem before the buyout and has gotten worse post-buyout is the workload. CMI/MJH takes on more projects than they can reasonably manage, and you’ll get stuck with the extra work. A 40-hour work week is a rarity. You will be told that you just need to manage your time more efficiently. That is a lie. They put more emphasis on the bottom line than making the workload sustainable. People burn out and leave, they hire cheap and underqualified people who can’t take on that kind of workload, and the cycle perpetuates itself. Once you go thru a couple rounds of this, it becomes so obvious, especially when you have to pick up the slack without being noticed or recognized. (See previous comments about the cliques.) The extra trainings, meetings, and nit-picky babysitting tasks MJH throws into the mix also eat up big chunks of your time that could be spent doing your “real job”. *** If you decide to take a job at CMI/MJH, make sure you have other healthcare. It is so crazy expensive I don't know how anyone can afford it. You have no holidays from NY to Memorial Day, and less than 15 days vacay and sick for the whole year. Then you lose what you don't use and they won't pay you out if you leave. If you have a family, make sure you are okay with occassional unpaid time off.