Good people, bad management. - Anonymous employee Events East Employee Review

3.0
2 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The only pro of this place is that you sometimes get fed extra meals, you get above min wage but below industry standard, and the management allows people to say and do whatever they really want. Many coworkers are good fun people. Come for promises to be broken but stay for the staff.

Cons

Catering at EE is heartwrenching at times. You are expected to work like crazy potentially with no breaks whatsoever. You are responsible for cocktailing bottles of wine in the $50s with a 6 minute 'training' with dozens of new staff in their revolving door and berated for not remembering. They claim wages are higher than industry standard but they have been frozen so long that they now are standard. No tips save for wine service. No gratuity despite clients being charged for it, it going in the coffers with the rest, no OT, no respect for sick days with you bracing for angry calls demanding answers as to why you are ill.

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Events East Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We’re glad to hear that you enjoyed working with the team at HCC. We appreciate your honest feedback on our workplace culture and employee training & development. While it’s disappointing to hear, we really do value and rely on this feedback to guide our leadership teams as we develop strategies to better support our employees through a significant period of growth and change.

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