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Metanoia Institute

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Appalling experience- scapegoating/bullying culture - Anonymous employee Metanoia Institute Employee Review

1.0
14 May 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The students are friendly/ nice kitchen

Cons

Was treated absolutely appallingly at this place, I honestly wished I was warned about the scapegoating/bullying culture before I started working and I would never have worked there to begin with. People think nothing of screaming at you for no reason, the training is very abrupt, I had people being very rude to me when all I did was ask a perfectly reasonable question. The CEO Shelia doesn’t have the common sense to speak to both parties when a false complaint was made she just took the word of the manipulative/lying/two faced/lazy manager trying to save her own skin for her incompetence and believed her side of the story. The staff mock the students because they think they are superior as they have been working there a long time. The scary thing is people come to this campus for counselling, and they are treating people in the same way that people need counselling for. No one ever puts their hands up and admits their mistakes they put the blame on the new member of staff as they know they will not be believed. I have a lot more to add to this but I realise this is getting very long so I will leave it there. Just a horrible place to work for; avoid like the plague, bullying is something you never get over, it’s just something you have to learn to live with, I don’t bother leaving reviews normally, but I wanted to speak out about this place to warn others, I hope my review prevents someone else being bullied.

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