Run, don’t walk away; and avoid the kook-aid - Lending Specialist DLP Capital Employee Review

If you are reading about a job posting at this company: run, don’t want away from this place. This is a cult, lead by a a person who has a personality disorder or two, and surrounds himself with syncopates who worship him and sing his praises in front of him in order to secure their positions and promotions. It’s not even thinly veiled. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Part of the brainwashing seminars include learning about dear leaders “walks with Jesus” and the importance of “faith” in a business setting! The guy flies on private jets, so there’s room in the budget for discrimination lawsuits. He warns you early on in the trainings that “those who are most successful here adhere to these principles” Jesus belongs in a church but somehow he’s trapped in the DLP office with the rest of us. This is ripe with toxic positivity. You’ve heard of those negative toxic people? This place is more filled with toxic positivity, you know where people think everything the leader thinks of is “wonderful” “brilliant” “smartest thing ever” and the leader simply suggested washing your hands after using the bathroom. Toxic positively is annoying but it also gives credibility to the mundane and the dangerous and dumb ideas. This is all about the leader: you think you’ve been hired to lend or support lending, but you’re really there to promote and sell copies of his book (which doesn’t have a single original thought at all, it’s simply a menagerie of every other leadership/ management/ goal setting book for morons. Or sell tickets to events where he gets up there and talks about how wonderful he is. It’s like watching a tv preacher at his mega church trick people out of money. So, you finish the work day not an achieving your actual work goals, but the goals of the CEO, selling snake oil to unsuspecting people. This place is a carousel: as in, if you like turnover, people rotate roles and get hired and fired going round and round like a carousel. Also, the analogy works because there is no clear direction of the company. You’ll go in circles for ages before a decision can be made and you’ll have two new bosses while waiting for an answer. Often you’re going to have to pretend that the least intelligent guy in the room is the most intelligent because at DLP, they worship the broken clock that is right twice a day. And that clock is the CEO. (Back to that toxic positivity! “omg, this broken clock is accurate yet again today! Behold!” While you are actually told it is ok to speak up and offer suggestions and constructive criticism, be careful. If you approach those days set aside for brainstorming with anything other than the toxic positivity they have grown addicted to, you will be removed from your job as it “just wasn’t a good culture fit” Back to the place being ripe for lawsuits: part of the brainwashing is requiring everyone to publish those business AND personal goals on a company wide document. And you HAVE to share your personal life with people. Often one is encouraged to share their “personal faith goals” so that may be “increasing my weekly walks with Jesus” so you’re forced to listen to some coworker talk about how she likes to talk to imaginary beings in the morning and you’re expected to offer up some (toxic) positivity. Back to the carousel analogy; if you don’t know where you’re going, any direction will do. So don’t be surprised to be sold a bill of goods and work on your career and client list, only to have the rug pulled from under you, when the CEO gets lost, confused, greedy, and completely changes direction. This will be a temporary job for you: not a career. Bottom line: if you are an intelligent, successful, independent thinker, this is not the place for you. This place only survives off of easily manipulated and radially brainwashed cult followers. So if you like Q-anon, Donald trump MAGA cult, creepy churches, this place is for you. And you’ll do well here.