- Be ready to work, work, work. Not just within your job title, but picking up the slack for those above and below you, cross-functional teammates, and senior staff. Naturally, you won't receive credit for this work. Only senior staff will.
- Overloaded with work and go to your supervisor asking for help, a way to manage your workload? Don't expect anything in return. Instead, you receive a talking to on why you cannot manage your workload and why you must be doing something wrong. So, you end up working early mornings, late nights, etc.
- Clients come and go at the drop of a hat. You must do everything in your power to keep them happy, naturally, but never bill them for work exceeding their scope. You must not write off those hours, either. So, make it work. How do you do this? Beats me!
- Executive leadership is only concerned with their external image, not company culture, employee morale, or team performance. They will oust an employee at the drop of a hat, just because, and already have their replacement, typically someone they know or a friend of an employee they like, waiting in the wings.
- Those in management or executive leadership positions never leave. Why? Because they know too much about you, so it's best to keep the skeletons hidden in the closet. If you dare leave, they never speak to you again. Any employee who leaves feels a sudden weight lifted off their shoulders, instantly bonding with those who also went through the same trauma of having worked at TBC.
- Any given day at TBC is either filled with executives in meetings all day, thus you cannot have a minute to speak with them about your urgent request from a client, executives screaming through the office and barking orders at everyone, or executives out of the office and on vacation, playing golf, or [insert the latest fancy destination here.] Needless to say, there is never a time in which they are available to the average employee, yet they boast in the interview process and during your first week, they are "always available" and their doors are "always open."
