Stuck in the past - Assistant St. John Knits Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There weren't a whole lot, mostly the (former) prestige of this company was kind of nice. They occasionally did nice things like flowers on Mother's Day. Overall the company was pretty devoid of anything redeeming. Coworkers were occasionally nice?

Cons

I came to St John foolishly thinking I could craft my career there. Unfortunately I quickly realized 90% of the staff were "lifers". Meaning they rarely let knew people establish themselves and more often let them go. Their was a really weird atmosphere to this place, one of distrust and fear. I didn't really understand it fully until I noticed how rapidly they would lay people off at the drop of the hat and not even acknowledge it. Completely unfair system as management is salaried but the average employee isn't. Countless times as an hourly employee I was inconvenienced by the salaried staffs coming and going as they pleased. Inconvenienced in that I was late to my lunch (my fault and a bad mark against me) or not given enough time to complete a project (cause no over time ever) there's tons of pointless processes and red tape everywhere you turn, the only justifiable reason is so these old timers can justify their jobs.

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