An Experiment Gone Wrong - Senior Associate Forensic Risk Alliance Employee Review

If you are interested in an immersive experience into US management styles from the 80’s applied to 2020, don’t t hesitate to join. You will find that FRA is the perfect playground, with the added bonus of some additional features inspired from a psychological horror movie. Here are some useful tips to help you understand how the game has played out so far. Without giving to much away as to preserve the experience’s authenticity for new joiners. • General atmosphere: One person controlling everything and everyone, management by fear, think 1984, allied to absurd processes and decisions. Bullying and manipulative behaviour along with petty and churlish politics. • Salary: higher than the industry average, however, this year highly paid staff have been replaced by entry level Associates who are accepting lower wages and willing to work 24/7. Nothing like using a global pandemic to install fear and loathing in, London, Paris, DC and Rhode Island. • Lack of resources: Most of the old staff – at all levels – have been purged and the rest decided to protect their mental health by ending the experiment and exiting the company. • Career development: Promises of promotion are waved around, however you can go from hero to zero in a matter of minutes, usually for reasons of a personal nature and not linked to your ability to do your job. Typically, you crossed one of the sycophantic acolytes who has reported you to the “Supreme Being”. • Work life Balance: Ummmm there is none. • Support from management: None whatsoever, as the ones who didn’t get fired or jump ship, are too busy trying to save themselves. Participating to this experiment requires strong psychological skills and is not advised if any of the following mean anything to you: • Leaders: Leadership is not appreciated, there is one leader, okay maybe two, who are to be blindly followed at all times. • People with basic human values: You might end up being the only one. • Creative people with problem-solving skills: Don’t dare to ask a question about a decision or propose a different solution. This will be instantly considered as a challenge to the “Great Leader”. Even if that decision is absurd. For example, telling everyone they had to use all of their outstanding 2020 leave in half day increments, and only on the day of the week assigned to them.