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Many Try but Few Succeed - Assistant Canvass Director Work for Progress Employee Review

2.0
5 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Their campaigns work on important causes, and winning a campaign is a good thing for people and the country.

Cons

This organization, and many of the other organizations within the public interest network, have a really hard time with employee retention when it comes to the canvass director and campaign organizer roles. In a lot of cases you end up working so many hours per week it works out to be less than a minimum wage salary. In many cases the canvassers that you hire as a director, make more an hour than you do. There are a few situations involving canvasser's concerns/safety that were not handled well by higher management in my opinion. I also feel that you are very much just a number in the overall organization of the team. When myself and others raised concerns or decided to quit because we were uncomfortable with the way things were done, the management seemed more than willing to drop us and find the next person who would be willing to blindly follow their game plan. Because of that, I really didn't feel valued.

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Pros

Good workplace culture, fun projects

Cons

Long hours and sometimes communication problems

1.0
29 Oct 2018
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fulfilling work, work with some great people (and some not..)

Cons

Upper management hires extremely unprofessional kids for the director position. They crack under the pressure and they act out. It's all a favorite's game, if you stay on their good side, you get the best opportunities. If they decide they don't like the way you look, or something equally unimportant, then watch out - they'll go out of their way to make things difficult for you. Their values are out of whack, they'd rather pursue childish grudges than utilize their resources as best as they can. This all leads to a mess of an "office", and drives away talented and hard-working employees.

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