Where do I even begin.
The company will paint the most beautiful picture of itself, making you feel like this is the opportunity of a lifetime, and that you should be on your knees, grateful they even considered you. They brand themselves as a "mental health company," but let's be honest, it doesn't go beyond that label.
Behind the polished front, they will do everything in their power to make you feel worthless. You will question yourself constantly, in ways you never imagined you would.
The work week is 6 days. The starting salary is decent for the market, I'll give them that.
If you're in the back-end role, go ahead and say goodbye to any hope of actually working directly with children; that dream gets filed away pretty quickly. They'll dangle the offer of taking counselling sessions, but don't be fooled. That just gets quietly piled onto the workload you're already buried under, which includes mountains of documentation that somehow feels like a matter of life and death to them. The truth is, they're obsessed with their data because it's what they use to sell themselves to more schools and lock in more contracts. That's what this is really about.
Nobody wants to run the school workshops, so guess who ends up doing it every single time? You. On top of everything else already on your plate.
Appreciation? Doesn't exist here. What does thrive here is putting people down; they've genuinely mastered that.
And when the negative reviews pile up on platforms like this one, they have a ready-made answer: "Oh, those are just disgruntled people we let go." Every single time.
If you start asking questions or pushing back, you'll either be shown the door or you'll feel so cornered that you leave on your own. And if you do resign early? They won't let you speak to a single person on your way out, and they'll quietly tell everyone in their little ecosystem that you were removed for being incapable. There's no recourse. No voice.
At the end of the day, this is business pure and simple, no matter how loudly and repeatedly they insist otherwise.
And it doesn't stop there. You will constantly find yourself crushed between the school management's expectations and the company's policies, left to figure it all out completely on your own. The company hangs you out to dry and calls it independence. They will promise things to schools, programmes, initiatives, and workshops, for which they have absolutely no materials ready. And then they'll expect you to pull it all together without a single clear instruction on how to do it.
Everything, and I mean everything, becomes a policy here. Unnecessary things, pointless things, all dressed up as procedure.
The CEO is in a league of his own. He loves to lie. He loves to use fear as a tool. Nearly every word out of his mouth is detached from reality. And eventually, you'll be expected to carry those lies into your interactions with schools too, which will come back to bite you, because the moment things go sideways, the company will deny everything and demand proof and documentation that, conveniently, they never gave you in the first place.
Take a look at the turnover. Hardly anyone lasts beyond a year here, except the management, that is. Draw your own conclusions.
Go in with your eyes open. Or maybe try not to, for your own good.
