RUN, DO NOT WALK. WORST COMPANY EVER - Senior Project Manager Designory Employee Review

1.0
26 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everything is temporary. If it's too late to avoid this company altogether, remember that even if you've accepted an offer that you can quit at any moment, with no notice, and save your soul.

Cons

Can't wait until this company comes crumbling. The verbal abuse from management is unheard of. I've never experienced anything like it before. No transparency about pay, hierarchy, career mobility, responsibilities, schedules. Managers have been reported to HR dozens of times and then get promoted to new titles that didn't previously exist with huge bonuses. You want a cost of living adjustments for inflation? Nope. If you think a few dozens reports of verbal abuse and misconduct get you fired, don't worry. Here at designory, it's basically a requirement to be an awful, vile, lying, monstrous, incompetent human being in order to be employed here. Need to get a hold of HR? Good luck. And if by the grace of god you can, they'll go to the ends of the earth defending upper management and add something to your record. Questions about your pay? Radio silence. I need therapy from my employment here. I cannot possibly tell you how important it is that you avoid this company at all costs. I've lost my sanity dealing with Account Directors and Project Managers who expect unpaid and undocumented overtime on a weekly basis. Work life balance? Just accept that you'll never have a peaceful waking moment again once you start working here. Want to take a lunch? Don't even think about it. You'll be hounded with messages and told to reschedule. Being assigned work that is explicitly not under your job? Shut up and do it anyways. Project managers lie and pawn off their workload to anyone they can. Time off request? Immediately rejected. Manage to get a time off approved 8 months in advance? They will call you and ask to join calls on your day off. Are you sick? Have COVID? They will only ask why you don't log on work since you're home anyways. COVID outbreak in the office? Still won't require masks. Still require you to come in. Office culture? The least diverse group of people you've ever seen getting drunk on the clock. I've lost all motivation to live working here. It's soul sucking. It's abusive. It's been the worst experience of my life. Hoping the board of labor gets involved STAT and this whole entity comes crumbling down to prevent more suffering.

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Designory Response
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. Your feedback is surprising as we don't feel that the sum total of this post reflects the current culture of the agency. We care deeply about our people and an office culture that promotes growth, transparency, learning and equity. We don't always get it right, but we are constantly working to improve our employee experience based on constructive and thoughtful employee feedback. We support healthy work-life balance, including encouraging employees to take vacation time and to make use of mental health days off. Our commitment to increase diversity is real, we are not requiring employees to return to the office, and follow local guidelines regarding the wearing of masks when employees voluntarily come into the office. We and many of our 500 talented, collaborative and hard-working employees are proud of who we are. We of course invite employees to share any concerns or challenges they may have with our People Ops team or to or Paul Hosea, CEO - we are always available to discuss.

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