Leadership is dismissive, manipulative, and doesn’t care about their employees.
Pros
I loved all non-managerial employees I worked with at Webstacks. People at Webstacks are very talented and passionate about their work and I was supported by everyone who was not in my department, and any other employee not in leadership.
Cons
There are too many bad things to say about the leadership in Webstacks. From the start to the end of my time with Webstacks, my direct manager was very absent. She was on PTO during the time I was to be onboarded, and also didn’t come into the office for my offboarding. Through all of my interactions with her, I never felt like I was truly supported by her. In our one-on-ones, I was constantly the one creating our agenda and action items, effectively leading the meetings and discussions. It would sometimes take her a day or two to respond to her messages. Whenever I needed help or ideas, she would tell me to “Google” them. Although this is a hybrid workplace environment, most employees were encouraged to be in the office 1-2 times a week. However, I would be the only one from my department in the office for multiple weeks at a time. My manager would only come in once or twice a month, arriving in the office at 11AM or 12PM. She took PTO one or two times every other week. My requests, concerns, and feedback were constantly dismissed by her. The list about my manager’s incompetencies goes on and on, and other people have voiced similar complaints about my manager’s lack of care, engagement, and enthusiasm. Furthermore, Webstacks will also lie to you about growth opportunities in the company. I was hired as the Office Manager, a part time employee whose main duties were to help onboard new employees by preparing swag boxes and kicking off their official onboarding. I was also tasked with maintaining organization within the office. Because of leadership’s promises to reward those who went above and beyond their role, I took on more responsibility to contribute to Webstack’s culture by creating more company events, engaging with our remote employees, and planning our 2023 Q1 team outing, which my manager would take credit for during our monthly company wide meetings. In September of 2022, I was in discussion with both my manager and C-Suite about being moved into a full-time position. I was told to draft and submit my own job proposal, and to wait until performance reviews to further discuss this option. I spent time creating a detailed proposal for my promotion to a full time employee, complete with a slideshow and examples of the work I had done thus far with Webstacks. People in the company seemed generally in favor of the idea. Performance reviews were supposed to start in January, then it was postponed to February with little to no explanation as to why, and it only wrapped up around late March, early April. Despite asking about the promotion repeatedly, I was eventually told by my manager that I was being impatient even though they kept delaying the reviews. When performance reviews came around, I pitched my full time job proposal and they rejected my pitch. To quote my manager, “what you are pitching is supposed to be my job.” After my proposal and my continued dedication to do a good job at the company, they said they would be willing to change my title from Office Manager to “Culture and Community Coordinator,” with no increase in hours, benefits, or pay. The new job posting for my role was about 3 times longer than when I had applied for the role as Office Manager, presumably because I was doing way more work than I was originally hired to do. Despite going above and beyond, I was never rewarded for all of my hard work. These were just my personal experiences, but these issues bled through the entire company. Remote employees were often neglected. People were overworked, extremely burnt out, and underpaid. Most people were also afraid to speak up about these issues. This company truly does not care about their employees and all they care about is profit. Management would rather gaslight employees, be dismissive towards feedback, and would like to pretend that these problems do not exist. I would NEVER recommend anyone work for Webstacks. All in all, Webstacks is full of empty promises, burnt out employees, and terrible leadership who seem to be unwilling to make real changes within the company.
