-If you are a hard working, fast learner and self motivated person, they will take advantage of you, not compensate you nearly enough and you’ll probably end up pulling the weight of many of your colleagues that don’t care for the work as much as you do. -Management will compensate your work with more work every time and as soon as you speak up, they’ll categorize you as difficult to work with and gaslight you - once you start reaching new levels of responsibility, you’ll realize there are tons of fires and messes everywhere and they’ll blame you for past mistakes or errors and force hard impossible deadlines to fix issues that had been unsolved for years before. - many of my colleagues, from my own team, left for extended periods of time due to BURNOUTS, I would say around 30% of my overall team suffer from this and management did little to get to the root of the problem (hint: they were the problem) -Some people were hired that weren’t performing as well or weren’t a fit but the manager wouldn’t take action until the person would leave by it’s own choice. There would be a lot of complaining from this manager about this person but no concrete actions were ever taken, even as it brought the morale of the overall group down - Managers are not well equipped to lead their teams and there isn’t much help given when you find issues and are trying to take corrective actions - time and time again, I witnessed complaints across the company of many different departments about being underpaid compared to the industry average and there was always a fancy blablabla or excuses why they couldn’t improve - even as a top performer, you’ll hear that you’re not doing enough and that you should organize yourself better to achieve more. (The goalpost keeps getting moved forward while you see your colleagues achieving 10 - 20% and getting the same bonus amount ) - Several complaints were made about my manager and HR did nothing to address the issues despite the systematic burnouts - there was a LOT of talk around creating a career path with the help of HR but I never had a meeting with them and no one approach me to advise me or coach me on anything - I became a leader for my team and received ZERO coaching from my direct superior on this new role or any type of direction or advise from HR, so I was just figuring out as I went and then received bad feedback cause I wasn’t excelling at it - My direct boss would constantly talk about working extended hours and would send messages to us in the early morning (we were in the same time zone) which made you feel like you were not working hard enough -as you’re moving up, they expect you to do your new role and keep doing the other roles too. By the time I left, I had more some promotions, so I was basically juggling different positions and expected to perform in all of them . When I complained about this to my boss, they gaslight me again and said I should be a “team player”
