The good days are gone - Anonymous employee Giant Tiger Employee Review

- Used to be a very family-like company. Culture tanked after the death of the founder. Now theres just ego-stroking of new leaders who will sacrifice company well-being to save cents. Turnover rate is high but management won't approve new hires until after the person has left... you'll be doing the work of 2-3 people while being expected to train new staff. All for no additional pay, recognition or benefits. - Company re-structured twice in 1 year, including multiple layoffs of existing staff. Yet all those managers hired in 2022 are given new, better roles during this restructuring... many are not even qualified ... while existing staff are considered redundant and let go. C-suite & those under them are predominantly new hires without any experience in the company or industry. They have no clue what they are doing and are highly unprofessional. Have fun watching someone paid 10x as much as you make business decisions that are detrimental to your mental health and well-being while wearing a T-shirt. - No process or standards. New management doesn't care about existing processes and timelines, and shame you if you don't want to work OT regularly at their whim. - No open feedback channels but you'll need to attend a godforsaken amount of meetings for the management to pay each other's backs and suck up to each other. HR doesn't care about you, and your manager will tell you to stfu and be grateful to have a job. - No internal opportunities or pay raise. Existing staff who try to negotiate a pay raise tend to "leave" the company. HR will pay you the bare minimum legally possible, and have been caught on hot mic making comments about how proud they are to have managed to modify contracts to their benefit without legal liability. - 2/3 of the work you do is redundant. You're at the mercy of unqualified leaders who like to do things by trial or error. Their graphs make no sense and they have no actual growth strategy besides blaming employees for costing them too much money. You will be tasked with last-minute work that gets scrapped anyway. Have your mental breakdown in private, otherwise your manager will blame you for reducing team morale. - What compensation? The company gives you a LOOFAH as a 5 yr gift. You need to be part of the "in-crowd" to enjoy any opportunities or pay raises. Be happy if you even manage to get a 1k increase annually. Whatever, your pay will never match the rate of inflation or cost of living. The only way to earn a liveable wage is to leave the company.