Pros
Trauma Bonded with colleagues about the work environment
Cons
I have never worked at a job that was so incompetently run. My role changed four different times, and half the time I only found out because I had to ask what was going on. Historians will one day study the American obsession with being “proud” of working outside business hours. The kids haven’t seen their dad in five days, but apparently that’s fine so long as the shareholders keep getting richer. There were twelve hands in the pie, all arguing with each other, all stemming from the same poor excuse for a CEO. Jobs would constantly get cut to “trim the fat,” only for the workload to be dumped onto whoever was left. Watching a team of four get reduced to two, only for those two exhausted people to be told, “You’ll manage,” and then a week later be accused of not pulling their weight, was genuinely absurd. It felt like I was watching a badly written TV show where the writers needed management to come across as cartoonishly incompetent and evil, so they stopped bothering with subtlety. Accountability only ever travelled downward. The consequences of terrible leadership decisions were felt exclusively by the people beneath them, while the C-suite sat untouched. And god forbid you were a C Suite pushed back against ideas that were obviously bad for the business or your team. That was the fastest way to get managed out, followed shortly after by the company-wide email saying, “XYZ has decided to move on from the business.”
