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NRG is making this company very corporate. The culture is hanging on by a thread. Issues take forever to get resolved.

- Challenging to actually deliver on any successful results in a competitive market, particularly because it's a very under-resourced business competing with massive companies, demanding extreme creativity, performance, and sheer amount of time from its employees to try to close that gap. - Meanwhile, very oppressive environment due to a workaholic GM (pretty sure his office location is purposely picked so he can watch who comes and leaves when) who doesn't have any trust in most of his managers or departments, and controls and micromanages every aspect of the business through meetings, during which he oscillates between ignoring the conversation and yelling/cussing at people for not working hard enough or making wrong decisions (from his viewpoint). Many of the senior and middle management are great, but they're somewhat useless because they spend half their time doing damage control and the other half trying to adjust to a constantly changing stream of direction from leadership, instead of working on the (very real) problems and challenges for the brand in their market. Subject matter experts spend all their time trying to figure out what leadership wants and then how to robotically implement it without getting chewed out, instead of creatively problem solving. It's always been this way since I've been here, but it seems to be getting worse and worse since COVID and with the more competitive market. - Unhealthy relationship with parent company, where shared services (IT, HR policies) make day to day work really difficult while the business leadership are completely unaware of the cultural and strategy challenges (or are aware and don't care?) All in all, I've gone from loving my work and the company to having legit panic attacks most mornings as I'm driving in, and I know I'm not alone. Only people who don't feel this way have either completely checked out/don't care or are far removed from/don't interact with business issues and leadership for some reason.