Boingo Reviews

worked for 3 years and 50 weeks...2 weeks/10 work days short of an "actual" year according to Boingo. When I was let go along with 80 other teammates, Boingo offered two weeks severance for each year worked for the company. BUT...because I worked for 50 weeks my last year, 2 weeks/10 days technically short of a year, I didn't get my severance for my last year. I was not offered a prorated, or a partial payment for that 50 weeks that I killed myself working for Boingo. I got $0 for 50 weeks of work in my 4th year. I was only paid severance for 3 years of work. They laid us off the week before Christmas holidays, squeezed everything out of us before the layoffs, and didn't care about the work we did if it didn't technically measure up to a year. What a terrible HR department. They could have provided a prorated severance for my 4th year. This is just one the examples of how awful the decisions that the Boingo HR department makes every single day. Boingo HR upset every person who got laid off, and while layoffs are always hard, they don't have to be brutal. Boingo HR mis handled the layoffs; It was a masterclass in unprofessionalism in HR. Boingo HR is just bad. Full stop. It's well known inside and outside of the company that the HR at Boingo is terrible.

I come to work to contribute and feel good about the work I achieve at the end of each day. Unfortunately, HR focuses on silly games and wreath making and trivia contests and Halloween more than management does on the business. They call this "culture." True story, and read this before you accept your a job at Boingo, for Black History Month, HR did the exact same "event"they did for Super Bowl--a TRIVIA CONTEST! It was the most demeaning thing I, as an African American, have ever experienced in a company. That is why I left. Management does not want to hear it but this place has a major diversity problem. Can you imagine every hour getting a Black History Month Trivia Contest Email from the HR department, and on the second to last day of Black History Month! HR and management are tone deaf about how they treat minorities. A lot of people were mortified at this HR program...that you would treat the importance of Black History Month like you do a Halloween or Oscars or Grammy's event. But you can't complain to HR, they are the people who think it is appropriate. Tone deaf, I repeat, about the way they handle minorities.