Pros
Their services provided to the greater community are extremely important and excellent.
Cons
While non-profit organizations in general tend to experience staff turnover for a variety of reasons, the turnover at Samaritans was continuous and relentless, due in large part to the negative and toxic culture fostered by senior leadership. The leadership culture was to treat employees as expendable and easily discarded – senior leadership relied on the “at-will” employment cause to an extreme degree, firing employees they did not like without any reason given, and without due process that is the professional standard. Common practice is to berate and castigate not only employees both in internal and external meetings, which is beyond unprofessional and leads to employees having their own mental health issues. It was one of THE worst work environments I have ever worked in.
