Demos' creates an atmosphere where you are constantly looking over your back. They rely on managers to pick other managers apart, and report on them. If you don't, you aren't doing your job. Which creates a toxic enviroment amongst other managers.
There is also a litany of things you must do everyday. Checklists galore (almost to the point it makes it difficult to do the jobs you are hired to do). And while you are doing them (yes, you need to check each off and turn it in), you are expected to do the job you were hired to do.
And then if something happens while you are trying to achieve the checklists, expect to be called out on it. In my case it was by senior management on the dining room floor, in front of customers. (the Demos' philosophy is that if there isn't "blood on the floor", then you won't learn from it. Their words, not mine). The kicker was that I was doing all the things that I was supposed to be doing, or I would get a write up for not doing my job. And the experience showed me, that the upper management is too worried about being right, that they cannot see the big picture. If the senior manager would have just asked what happened instead of ASSUMING and not letting me talk, I probably would've still been there.
But instead, it showed me, that the company doesn't care about what is happening, they just want to be right. Regardless if they are wrong.
Keep an eye on the BIG PICTURE Demos'. This minute stuff holds you back.
