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Be Prepared To Be Abused Mentally - Anonymous employee Financial Guidance Center Employee Review

1.0
4 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good for padding a resume.

Cons

Is it possible to give a negative rating? All of the previous reviews are so true but there is also so much more to be added. The CEO Michele Jonhson's leadership style is through bulling, intimidation and threats of termination. She has no management skills and shows her disdain for her employees on a constant basis through berating and humiliating them in front of others. She will give inconsistent direction all within a 15 minutes and then ask why you did it the why you did after following her directions. When she is able to secure new programs employees are thrown into attempting to executed without any direction or foresight of what is involved and are then berated for not knowing what is expected. She miromanages and monitors EVERYTHING all emails and in office instant messages. She trusts no one and treats her employees as though they are all stealing from her. She also pits department against department against department and individuals against each other. She also treats employees as though as imbicels that cannot function with out her direction even on minute task. She begins to build a case to fire employee the day they are hired and has them sign paperwork for everything no matter how trivial. Unless you can provide her with meaningful connections you mean nothing to her. Favoritism is blatant and obvious. Management is an extension of the CEO as she tears into them as well. When ask for direction they will berate you for not knowing and then threaten termination for not knowing because they do not know the answer. They will give directions that are contradictory and then say they don't remember giving the previous directions. The answers you receive are based on who you get them from and conflict with other managers and the CEO's. It is a rare occasion when they are on the same page and they like the CEO have limited knowledge of the functioning or information needed to fulfill the positions they manage. Reviews, when received, are all about how incompetent the employee is and how they are not meeting expectations. Staff meetings are the same. Forget about raises except for the chosen few and are generally .25 an hour. The underlying system for all employees including management is to cover your butt even it it means lying and throwing others under the bus to do so. Team work is not encouraged. An employee is expected to blindly follow dictates even if they make no sense, keep your mouth shut, complete all tasks assigned along with you primary responsibilities all within unachievable time limits. What is most important is that you get the bodies in, collect the paperwork for a billable session and get the bodies out. Seniority does not exist. Bottom line is that employees are set up to fail so there can always be a reason for termination. And the list goes on. Saddest part of all is that due to the time constraints imposed and the paperwork (a lot of which is unnecessary) clients get cheated.

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Pros

Excellent Benefits for long-term full-time employees. 401K Match/Employer Paid Dental&Vision Insurance/HMO or PPO Health Insurance choice/Monthly earning of PTO/Paid Holidays. 5 day work week. Good Hours of Operation.

Cons

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2.0
28 Jan 2015
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Pros

The services they offer are actually worth it for the average client. Most of it is free and there are a few (1or 2) employees that genuinely care about the product provided to the community.

Cons

drama dram drama. I have never seen this level of unsupportive coworker relationships. Made me think back to high school she said she said.

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