WORKPLACE **PTSD** IS REAL - Anonymous employee Ascension Employee Review

1.0
31 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

When I finally give my notice.

Cons

I've been suffering in silence for many months, feeling like I was alone. But I just found out a co-worker also has PTSD from being tormented by the same leadership. I feel it would be irresponsible of me to not post on Glassdoor to let potential candidates know about the environment here. (If you don’t know much about PTSD, it will significantly impact both your mental and physical health, hurt your personal relationships and/or have severe consequences to your home life.) The culture at Seton is toxic. After multiple rounds of layoffs, we are on a skeleton crew, and most of the remaining employees have insurmountable workloads and are struggling to tread water creating a CYA environment. Leaders show strong bias in their management style, with “favorite” employees who wander around 8-5 rubbing shoulders and brown-nosing; some of whom literally do ZERO WORK as they delegate to other poor souls who don’t even report to them and then claim their work as their own. Those who are less fortunate have OVERWHELMING workloads. No, not like “every other company” who is doing more with less. Seton is doing more with less because you have to account for the leadership’s “favorites” redistributing their workloads into their buckets. And don’t ever upset your leader, the Seton culture tolerates retribution. If you get on their bad side, or if they just don’t like you, it is apparent in the management of daily activities, in how they treat you, and when you receive your annual performance evaluations. I’ve seen examples of retaliatory behavior from managers through C-suite level. If you are a narcissist or a lemming you might do well here. Everyone else in between with career aspirations should beware of big smiles and false promises.

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