Where to begin? Cons are everything other than the clients. From my first day there, Robin was an absolutely toxic manager who fomented distrust and resentment among all of the employees. On my first day, she put a noncompete agreement in front of me that had never been discussed in any of our negotiations, which was completely unprofessional. She and Mike took me and another employee (who also started that same day) out to lunch and proceeded to go around the office and talk negatively about every single employee. This was on my first day!
Other lowlights:
- It was well-known around the office that Robin read everyone's emails. I had this confirmed when a private email that I had sent to my wife at the time was accidentally forwarded to me (with comments) instead of Mike.
- The policy of signing in and out for a salaried position is ludicrous. Lunches need to be taken between 12-1 (why?) and employees are docked for signing in late but never credited for signing in early.
- The employee who started the same day as me had ongoing problems with Mike, and when she gave her two weeks' notice, they fired her so they didn't have to pay her for the time.
- During COVID, Mike and Robin insisted that certain employees (never explaining why) had to return to the office while they stayed at their lake house near Traverse City the entire time and used a newly-installed video camera to spy on the employee parking lot.
- The final straw for me was when they permanently cut the pay of all of the Senior Directors by 30% (and illegally tried to make the pay cuts retroactive) while keeping everyone else's pay the same, citing COVID as the reason. Had I stayed, it would have been an open-and-shut-case of age discrimination, but by that point I had completely had it with the two of them.
If Robin ever had an original creative thought, I didn't see it the entire time I was employed there. She was a petty, vindictive, mean-spirited toxic manager, but only because Mike (her husband, by the way, something that they only tell you after you join the company) gives her that power. They are a match made in Hades. Mike made me promises during my interviews about career opportunities, bonuses, advancement, etc that never happened. Not only that, I never received a single annual salary increase the entire time I was there, topped off with the 30% pay cut at the end. This is to someone who was always 90+% billable, even while working remotely during COVID. Unless you have absolutely no other option, RUN from this place as fast as you can if Mike & Robin are still in charge.
