Terrible Place to Work - Landscape Designer Norris Design Employee Review

This company is completely geared toward filling vacant seats for cheap and nothing else. The result is a very high turnover and it has been observed that during the course of a 5 month period in a given office, 5 individuals have either quit or been fired in a row. Other employees have been heard to quip "another one bites the dust" when a new work space appears empty on a Monday morning. There are various factors for this negative work environment including high-strung senior staff who have zero experience in communicating with or managing others leading to an impatient 'you should have known this' type of work environment. It is common for senior staff to micro-manage and watch your actions constantly. You get the odd feeling that you are being treated as if you were a high schooler or a commodity. This is compounded by hiring and office managers who's sole purpose is to pump people through the door to constantly fill vacant seats. It seems that this company purposely hires people with no experience in order to lower their costs of operation and thus find you as a willing and moldable employee. Be aware that you might be offered a mentorship which is quickly forgotten about once you get hired. You will find that your design talents are not needed and that there is no real studio environment. Everything is standardized and the main focus of your role will be as a CAD drafter. This company has an odd 'universe/center of the universe' work model. Everyone is encouraged to work to the 'middle of the universe' while developing their own talent areas internally. You will quickly find out that this odd gimmick is far off base and everybody likes to talk about it but no one can really define how it really works. Senior staff will not be supportive if you really try to apply this model in your work day. Daily work tasks are delivered to select junior staff at staff meetings closed to all others. Tasks are then filtered through several individuals and senior staff becomes completely hands off. This leads to a clique like office environment where individuals are constantly appealing to junior staff to get handed a work task. It is very common for these junior staff to play favorites based on who they like the most in the office. This company has the absolute worst performance review. There is nothing in it about actual work performance data but writing and explaining about your experiences and likeability factors about others. With these reviews, anybody can write any hearsay about you and that information is never disclosed to you by senior staff. Politics and special interests are big in this company. Expect to agree with any social justice, environmental, etc., idea that is e-mailed or communicated to you by others.