Where to even begin. This is the worst, most toxic, poorly managed, mentally detrimental, highly disorganized, trash fire dump of a company I have ever had the unfortunate experience of working at. Not sure who’s more toxic - the pompous, self-righteous CEO who wrote a book about leadership (yet was silently MIA sitting in his London tower during a global pandemic, company-wide layoffs, and the biggest social justice movement in half a century) - or senior management as a whole.
Despite staffers killing themselves day and night to work on Z-list clients that treat them awfully, senior management time after time comes back with the same, heartless, empty promises that “things will get better”, lacking authenticity, empathy and potential for results and actual driven change. Staffers are forced to scramble to provide data & analytics reports via services that no one trained them on - with 0 support. VPs blindly say yes to every client request, and then assume others will handle it, no questions asked. The demand for stellar results for clients that are - frankly put, unbelievably mundane and command to be on the cover of WSJ - is cause for a mental breakdown, which nearly every PR person here is constantly on the verge of. Let’s not forget when an employee was crying to her manager about her workload, mental deterioration and overall client abuse, and was told to simply buy and smoke a Juul as a solution.
The most hilarious yet deeply depressing part of being an employee at this company, is knowing how little they care about you. A fellow colleague of mine was harassed by a client several times, and in response, senior management simply had them “work in the background” until they made the decision that she should feel comfortable enough to be client facing again, despite the mental abuse she went through.
Minus a few shining stars that truly are the glue of this dumpster hole (who are also underpaid), this entire system is bound to be down the drain in a number of years.
Last warm memory to finish off - a colleague of mine experienced remarks of anti semitism and racism in the San Francisco office pre-COVID from a person who since this occurrence, has been promoted. Additionally, a member of HR commented on an employee’s acne during an all hands meeting. What a mess.
