They need to clean house on the folks that sexually harass, abuse power and go unquestioned
Pros
Great location and very diverse work. Could be a great business if not for some bad actors
Cons
The CEO is a terrible leader and judge of people. He has hired some amazingly unqualified people and put them in charge of several departments in the effort to squeeze more juice out of less lemons. Downsizing seems to be his only answer to gain financial solvency. Doing more with less people is fine if you have the right people in place. If you cant recognize them yourself or trust people with ulterior motives to identify the good and productive ones, you are doomed to fail repeatedly. In 2019 we had the Burke Museum in Seattle. It should have bee a slam dunk. A large prestigious job in town and a prevailing wage job as well. Some people on site made a lot of money, others who weren't on site missed out. Long story short Pacific Studio failed to get this job done on time and only realized it near the deadline. Weekly financial penalties ensued and the job dragged on into the next year. Many layoffs came down after this epic failure, but interestingly none of the leaders of the project. Project manager, lead fabricator and on site lead were all retained. The CEO made the on site lead the operations manager of the whole company. Then COVID happened. Thank god for COVID. I believed it may have bailed out PS with PPP money. Two dosed in fact. Still it wasn't enough They are struggling still. The art department, where I worked was run by a welder without the knowledge or the courage to be a leader and allowed people to do as they pleased, without over site. Sexual harassment and racism were tolerated in the department because the misplaced power and entitlement of a few people. I tried to lead from my position but no one wanted to hear how to make things better. Too many egos and insecure personalities to improve conditions and profitability. This bizarro world situation was more than I could take after 6 years of it. I have dozens of examples of the mismanagement over my time there. Makes me wonder what the profit margins actually were, if they can survive the years of apparent failures. No transparency. My theory is the CEO needs to get the staff down to a small enough number that when they finally pull the plug, it will impact a more acceptable and small enough number of people.
