1. HR is horrible. As the face of the company, this department needs to go back to the school to learn basic manners instead of making the company a school. The HR department is more of a security office, spying through CCTVs and then shooting mails to people who've overshot their tea breaks by 5 minutes. They are also concerned about your friendship with colleagues. They inform the department heads if you are friends with someone or not. They probably also have hidden cameras in the work areas. The reason of me saying this is that the HR claims to know and report things to the department heads without even actually being there.
2. If you ask for work from home for a day or two, they act like you asked for their kidneys but demand weekends out of you shamelessly, telling you that it's your job and you aren't doing any favour on them. In a world where companies collaborate and work across multiple geographies and diverse time zones, this DIGITAL marketing agency cannot allow people to WORK from home.
3. Some employees are hired only to spy on you. Some senior members even go to an extent of finding out which pub you were in on a Friday night and ask about it to you on Monday. Forget work life balance this company believes in your life = ours.
4. Affairs between some senior team members are good for them but terrible for others as there is obvious partiality due to which other junior members end up doing their work and these people leave office as early as possible.
5. People often complain about a particular individual in the company who is infamous for passing vulgar comments on women, often commenting on their drinking, smoking and social life. But the HR claims that this individual doesn't "mean" it. Hence the lewd remarks continue.
6. Some department heads think that junior employees are trash. They have no sense of talking to juniors in a socially acceptable way. Many people have complained about this to each other or their immediate supervisors and even the HR but sadly nothing changes. May be it is because of the number of years these people are in the company.
7. Promotions are not always given on merit. They are also given on biases, affection and how much time you spend in office (not necessarily working but pretending to do so). Their goals are a joke.
