Negative Corporate Culture is a Tall Hill to Climb - Anonymous employee Media Source Employee Review

1.0
30 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you enjoy literature for children and/or are a literacy advocate, you will find excellent products produced by the editorial team. Relatively new CEO is making great strides in overhauling the company, albeit is a tall hill to climb.

Cons

This small, privately owned company is unfortunately suffering from years of negative corporate culture due to former old-school leadership where employees were told what to do, how to do it and never given a chance to utilize their own talent, strengths and expertise on behalf of the company. Ideas are shot down instantly. This company utilizes a high pressure sales approach and that same business acumen negatively drives other departments to meet demands in a reactive, rushed, panic mode environment without respectful collaboration and communication. Your knowledge and experience is not valued or trusted. This company has no understanding of project management 101, noting there is too much change going on all at once...creating organizational chaos. Teams are set up to fail using antiquated software tools and manual and outdated processes. When new applications are implemented team members receive no formal training. Middle management gets hit in both directions dealing with executive's demanding constraints and subordinates complaints without viable solutions creating a yo-yo effect. Long hours with high stress levels. Some leaders visibly demonstrate heated and boisterous arguments creating an unhealthy competitive environment. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Overall lacks professionalism and respect throughout the organization, a lot of back-stabbing, undermining and insubordination.

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5.0
6 Sept 2018
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Pros

Awesome Managers that are hands on and always ready to help you succeed. Great family hours. No weekends. No late nights. Great atmosphere. Very caring co workers. Feels like family.

Cons

Sometimes the vending machines do not have the food I want.

4.0
26 Feb 2021
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Pros

This company has an outstanding mission of serving libraries, schools, and literacy through magazines and events, and most of the wonderful people who work there are 100% behind this mission.

Cons

Toward the end of the time I was there, the management team seemed more concerned about keeping the investors happy than in upholding that mission. Which I can understand from a practical standpoint. Their butts were on the line. But when this kind of motivation becomes too transparent, it can hurt the overall morale of the business and even, in some cases, create a toxic culture. From what I understand, though, the worst of that management team has moved on, so it may be a much different place to work now.

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