People Who Left Their Job Because Of Their "Amazing Culture", What Happened? (r/AskReddit)

redditors who left companies that non-stop talk about their amazing culture what was the cringe moment that made you realize you had to get out had a wall of crazy where the CEO wanted to spend 20k on cool and gee stuff for the office and staff could make suggestions slides beanbags napping pods et Cie project was scrapped when the top suggestions ended up being desks chairs working heating working Wi-Fi health insurance hearing our CEO say compensation is only one part of the employment experience during an earnings call when he was answering complaints about under paying his employees after we reported record profits literally the most important part I learned at an internship that we work hard and play hard means we want you to work 75 hour weeks but sometimes we all put doughnuts in the break room dot if there any leftovers from client meetings not my company but a company from a neighboring building they had an entire area devoted to football pinball billiards console gaming and video booths on the ground floor and it was clearly visible because of the glass windows on street level oddly enough nobody ever used them and the place was almost always empty save for a few people who use the internet kiosks when I learned a friend worked there I asked why nobody would want to take the opportunity to use the awesome-looking recreational facility he told me that people who do use the facility often found it used against them during performance evaluations even when they used wasn't excessive at all after a while word got around and they started avoiding the place altogether the irony is that their recruitment ads always touts a culture of work hard play hard we have a great culture lots of team lunches and drinks when I started our boss had banned the social club birthday celebrations or recognition of birthdays strictly no cake taken away the Christmas party the Christmas break period and tried to stop people talking to each other all the while she'd take every second day off and have long weekends every weekend we had maybe three team lunches in the time I was there and she always made sure to tell us that wouldn't be paid for anything over our lunch break even though she came to we had to submit manual timesheet corrections to remove the amount we took it's like okay fair enough but can't you just let it slide it's not your money and we're talking maybe 20 minutes here a client also invited me to their Christmas party due to our close relationship and my good work on their files and she called them and told them I wasn't allowed to go she told me it was because she was concerned I might reflect badly on the department ironic really lush when we couldn't say bathroom on the shop floor and instead had to ask her manager for serenity I think I would just go around yelling serenity now I worked at B and Q and one of my colleagues was stabbed thirty times by a customer I was completely shaken the next morning we were taken into a big room and made to sign a document saying we wouldn't sue them if we didn't sign we'd lose our jobs also my colleague was stabbed only a month after they got rid of our security guard to save money pretty sure you can't prevent people from suing you might differ from country to country but I icon Germany at least we have laws making ridiculous contracts invalid this happened a couple of weeks ago when HR sent out an email to management excluding me and about two other people telling them to fraudulently leave good reviews on Glassdoor and to coerce others to do the same the post the memo on Glassdoor I was at a fast casual restaurant for a couple months and the GM always talked about the culture you know what a great culture when the morning shift in night shift have their daily screaming matches over crap that they each accused the other one of needing to do it was impressive just how incompetent the entire company was from ownership down not me but my husband worked for two weeks for a family owned and operated business that touted how important family was in that they were all one happy family my husband was on his way to drop our at the time two-year-old son offered bay care before work when son threw up all over himself husband called his employer to tell them what happened and that he needed to take son home and clean him up but he'd be an ASAP manager told him he needed to get his priorities straight he responded with you know what you're right I won't be back in at all he was still working part-time at his previous job where they have been sad that he was leaving so he called them and told them to put him back on the schedule full-time the family business is currently in the process of liquidating assets before going out of business and I cackle every time I Drive past it , all about family , your human family is less important though last year while I was working as a subcontractor and I was assigned a new place of work just two weeks after I started the new boss wanted to hire me he put down the contract where compared to my current contract pay was down 25% average weekly hours hours went up by 20% vacation days went down by 10% and I wouldn't have a company car for personal use anymore before he actually handed me the contract to read it he said I will only make you this offer once but it's only valid if you change all your pictures on your social media and you sell your car it's too flashy for our company unn how about no this is for flight center headquartered in Brisbane Australia but they are a global company trading under many names I think it's Liberty travel in the States anyway everything about the company internally scrams cringe everyone treats the CEO like a fricking god his name is screw and when he takes a selfie it's called a scruffy and they opened a foreign exchange atm if a head office that they call the Scruton which sounds like scrotum if you ask me it's frickin ridiculous I have never understood the culture of CEO worship my first job out of college I had a co-worker come in one day all giddy like freaking out with excitement he said he had just passed the CEO in the lobby I was like yeah no crap man he works here too when my art director wanted to get a pro bono poster on verbal abuse done faster by screaming at the designer when I went to firm drinks in a public bar and the firm's fund committee handed our song sheets and a choir of employees led by a bad guitarist sang a song about how great the firm was to the tune of cause I'm happy we were expected to sing along it was at that moment how I realized I was in a cult everything is awesome when I had to phone around to the corporation leaders to find out why none of the mechanics I had interviewed were hired the mechanics had come from all over the country and some had waited patiently for months to know if they got the job or not turned out the CEO had changed his mind and wanted me to take care of all mechanic work I was a factory manager but they knew I'd be upset so nobody HR or the CEO wanted to be the one to tell me the freakin bounce lessness of that move is astounding I worked at this business that was real keen on telling everyone they were like a family and chastising me for not going to company parties etc but that also refused to pay overtime and expected me to work late two or three times a week as well as doing a 14-hour a day twice a month for stocktake end of month apparently because we're a family we were all expected to chip in on the big days except it was literally justice bottom ter workers who had to stay late I quit that place and never looked back we're a family here is a huge red flag from you after similar experiences expectations of family burdens are always placed on the employees and family style benefits are only enjoyed by higher-ups there's also at least one person who really needs to be let go but won't be because they're like family I worked for a company that prides itself on being in the top 100 places to work in the US they bought the hospital I was working for currently while I was doing IT work there for a year they let me stay at the current hospital I was at I worked with a team for countless hours getting ready to switch out IT infrastructure over to match the places new software etc we changed out all 900 computers at our location after that was done I was then told that in the next few months I would have to commute to the main campus to keep my job a driver for me was over five hours round trip they did not offer me to transfer or even pay compensation for driving there I was literally forced to quit at this point all because a new manager took over on the new fiscal year and decided that the IT department I was in needed to all be at the main campus this is considered constructive dismissal and you are eligible for unemployment benefits when our University's VP explained that the goal of every tenured faculty member was to write enough grants to pay our salaries and replace us with TAS every semester ideally every undergrad class also we'd be under a hiring freeze but could feel free to be creative and use temporary grant money to hire tenured faculty also we'd all be paying an extra two hundred and fifty dollars a year in parking fees to fund a new student parking lot dear Lord was I glad I'd already decided to leave holy cow what is happening to academia these days so many people get outraged about campus politics but there's so many deeper fundamental issues that need our attention now bought out by an equity group new President on call with thousands of employees says we have two kinds of employees those that work a tremendous number of hours and as the bat should find another company to work for we have two types of employees former employees and morons my last job was at an independent school in the UK the wealthy type during a period of streamlining the entire faculty were called into a hall and told in up big terms that we were struggling to make ends meet salaries were too high perks were too abundant and spending was unsustainable for clarity salaries weren't too high and perks will practically non-existent but spending was definitely unsustainable however in part because they were spending hundreds of thousands redesigning the senior staff offices to hide all the cabling and install proper wood paneling so then they started listing off perks and assigning them were value for example free parking well no crap the school has a lot of land and isn't in a city why would you charge secondly nice surroundings well again no crap that's part of your marketing appeal long holidays nice try but I work all holiday they didn't even get as far as telling me what they plan to do with my job and pay I was gone in less than three months my district manager told me to talk Mike he held you out of going back to college mind you she wanted to be a doctor they were proud that no one had degrees that's fine but I'm not working 45 plus hours a week and mandatory holidays just to sell some shoes the loyalty my co-workers had was so cringy they didn't understand how we were being taken advantage of because we didn't get our degrees anyways f you going back to school is the best decision I've made we management team spent months working with a business coach trying to collectively come up with meaningful core values we devoted a ton of time to it and really tried to decide which direction we wanted to take the company culture everybody agreed on teamwork reliability a couple others that I can't remember now and then one day the owner came in and called a meeting he sat us down in the boardroom and told us he spent all weekend brainstorming and had decided on the core values they were meaningful ownership neighborhood engagement you does anybody see what that spells he literally wanted it to be money and just came up with words that sort of worked the way you do in elementary school writing your name poem hero branded the entire company from t-shirts with giant first letters and smaller letters for the rest of the word straight down the arms to plagues wraps on the cars every freakin thing and that when we all knew it was going to get bad money is great but it was mortifying walking driving around with that plastered everywhere I was in sales and it was an all right office had a keg in the break room that we could get to in Friday's one day they bring all the salesmen into the break room and tell us over to grab a beer they then told us that from now until the rest of the year about five months we weren't going to be paid commissions which was about 70% of our money four of us just got up and left when I started actually working on the floor and management was nowhere to be found welcome to call centers I worked at a popular travel stop oversized gas station it's practically a state icon they are famous for their good wages for a low income job there's a huge sign over every entry with the starting wages around $13 HR in a state where minimum wage is $7.25 customers think it's a great place to work they literally fired a girl for having a stroke we treat our employees like family ignores harassment claims hires from outside the company refuses to give out decent pay we'll write you up for doing overtime but the CEO just bought himself a new BMW I hate that place we treat our employees like family we expect you to always be on call for us always ready to help us out and always forgiving our mistakes in return you may consider yourself a part of our family when I took a 40% pay cut with no change in workload by being moved to salary treat every dollar like it was your own yah-ha right after we went well over targets for the entire year and then was told a Christmas party wasn't financially viable because expenses it's one of the biggest hospitality groups in Australia bTW I worked at an animal hospital that wanted to be and probably is to some the best Hospital in the city had the most modern equipment looked incredibly nice inside good Yelp ratings etc on top of that we were told during hiring that we were a huge family and everyone loved each other this couldn't be more wrong this place was the epitome of superficial the turnaround rate was out of control and people absolutely hated each other the pay was horrible even though we charged double the amount of any other Hospital for our extensive care I give management some credits for their effort but it was more about hiding issues instead of addressing them we couldn't talk about our concerns because it was considered gossip and people were fired frequently for this and apparently they've now put audio recording throughout the hospital to listen in on employees conversation I honestly don't know how anyone still works there ro that sounds super illegal I'm in management and we just got the message that bonuses for the last financial year were severely cut across the business probably going to receive 30% of our total potential at best then attended our financial end of year results meeting the next day to be told that net profits were 18% up nearly 1 billion total are the best performance in years all thanks to us ok planning on leaving now businesses will do whatever they can to report record growth and that usually means they cut expenses to get there are cutting bonuses hours and expenses is one of the easiest ways to look pro flyball this is what the woman who interviewed me said here are cheapskate architects we don't often do all-nighters for our customers then when we do it's a real pizza party also we don't pay overtime we do it for the love and your wage is 22 K even though you are an architect and also I won't be there because I'm HR management because I'm married to the director yes we need an hour depth even though there's three employees we had a problem with the client and the boss dumped all of the blame on a 24-year old woman who was basically his most loyal employee he made her cry in front of the client as if that would somehow help save the relationship how to turn a dedicated hardwork her into a why bother worker 101 right there a co-worker was forced to work while her mother was dying in hospice mum dies she quits they escort her off the premises like a criminal one of my team leads called me one my dad was in hospice to ask me to start a new project and I told her to Frick off and she could talk to my boss she did my boss told her in a nice way to freak off when my boss planned an office day trip to a car show and brewery then only invited the guys in the office even worse when one of the women said we should all go he said no no but why don't you girls have a spa day instead he also put on a hello racist accent whenever he talked about his many Asian clients obviously there were other issues but those two stand out go freak yourself Tony when working at a shoe shop assistant supervisor was assessing people's performances he came to me and said Zelazny akov you greeted the customer well so I am giving you a big smiley face and marked it on his checklist but the customer didn't buy any shoes so I am just gonna mark that is er I got my 50% employee discount on my shoes and just walked away into the sunset to never go back they changed the title of the receptionist to director of first impressions for your information they got that idea from the book the big five for life by John stretchy one of its themes is how one can be a good manager and names like that one are suggested so the person feels important when attending a management retreat and was pressured into buying charity raffle tickets I couldn't afford $20 the two people who won before me donated their winnings to the same charity they bought the raffle tickets from they were middle management people who make $100 K+ I made $32 Kay with a young daughter I won a drawing for $400 I literally had nausea for two days trying to figure out how I was going to pay my bills after my job had just moved the goal posts on some sales performance bonuses I had come in my way dropping it effectively from dollar sign one thousand two dollar sign two hundred but now I'm the butthole who's going to keep the money i won guess I'm not a team player bonus this was four hours drive from home had an overnight stay and one of those middle-management flicks in an example at what should be on or off the clock said we shouldn't be paid for the drive to the retreat Frick you I was on the clock from the time I left Friday until I got home Sunday if you're forcing me to be somewhere as part of my job it's all on the clock my district manager didn't like that and I was already looking for the door you have been spotted by the money pigeon comment gimme gimme and he will bless you with good fortune if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 19min 44sec (1184 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 18 2019