Pros
Free coffee, water, and soda.
Cons
I started out as a temp and was “promoted” to an actual position with Datavox. After making $16 an hour in my prior position they offered me only $17 for my new position. I tried to negotiate and they denied it and said “this is what the position is worth.” I wasn’t allowed to get OT like I was in my previous position according to my manager. So because of that I was actually getting paid far less in my new position to do triple the amount of work. I was hired into my new position with my new manager having FULL understanding that I didn’t have experience with the programs they used. After about 3-4 weeks of training they essentially stopped training me and threw me to the wolves. The manager + team loved to say “ask us if you need help,” but everytime I’d ask they’d get blatantly annoyed. How do you expect someone to learn something brand new in just a month and then throw them to the wolves? My manager even admitted she dropped the ball by not showing me easier ways to execute my tasks. Let’s not forget to mention how cliquey this entire company is. It’s family owned and 40% of the people that work there are somehow related with all the same last names. The team that I worked on consisted of people that I THOUGHT were very nice, but turns out they treat new people horribly. I would say 90% of the time I wouldn’t be included in conversations that were both work related and none work related. I would say my biggest issue was with my manager. She was the fakest manager I’ve ever had in any professional setting. She would constantly boast about how well she wants me to do, looked me in my eyes while I cried about wanting to do well, but then took my work away from me and set me up for failure. In the end she couldn’t even let me go herself, she had HR handle it. I was so scared to enter this position because I knew it had a high turnover rate but I bit the bullet and tried anyway because I wanted to succeed with the company. Maybe HR needs to reevaluate why that position has such a high turnover rate and start taking a closer look at the team and management.
