ALERT! THE WORST WORKPLACE IN THE WORLD - Solicitor Longton Legal Employee Review

Working here will be severely detrimental to your mental health as it takes great efforts to repress your feelings to tolerate the level of absurdity and humility here. This is the most toxic, abusive and unprofessional workplace I've ever worked and ever heard about. You won't have access to your computer, email, phone, necessary working software, access card for several weeks or even longer time. You will not even get a signed employment contract (and the contract itself is unfair and weird). People use abusive and offensive language frequently. Senior staffs genuinely do not want to teach you anything. They simply want to feel good by making others look stupid or taking the most of their power (they have nothing to offer as well). So-called training from the partner is a mental torture made up of 99.9% mansplaining but nothing about law. The unprofessionalism in work I observed here literally raised my ethical concerns (however, it is not to the extent that warrants the intervention of a supervising authority). The pay is also shockingly low (almost half of another offer I rejected). I made the stupid decision in the first place because I was largely misled by the advertisement and interview and had the impression that there might be greater career development here. And it turned out that even lawyers working here for 2-3 years only do basic repetitive administrative stuffs and have developed very limited lawyering skills. I do not deny that some staffs look nice (I checked Linkedin and found they all joined recently) and some teams might operate like a normal place but overall, this is a place you should definitely stay away from no matter you are looking for career development, meaning in work, work life balance, or decent pay. I fully agree with the ex-colleague that left comment on 19 April 2023 that the boss think he is managing a prison. But I also want to add that junior Chinese staffs might be prisoners that have the more inhumane experience here because we have less bargaining power and our sufferings might be invisible to English speakers. I also feel very embarrassed as a Chinese-speaking person each time those senior Chinese staffs act in a rude and unprofessional way and that's why I am unsociable in the office