Slowly accruing minimal "pension," expensive insurance and other benefits, abysmal employee performance review process, utterly stagnant hierarchical organizational structure, and pervasive incompetence, active discouragement of productivity improvements.
The corporate culture is a disaster. Promotions are rare and awarded solely on the basis of brown-nosing. Failure and incompetence are swept under the rug based on nepotistic relationships between those responsible for personnel decisions. The performance review process is universally despised by employees and functions solely as a top-down review, insulating superiors from their actual responsibilities and punishing managers and employees who actually attempt to expose issues in the organization and improve efficiency. The working environment is consistently surreal, perpetuated by a singular desire to create a utopic impression among superiors. Management openly lies about their errors, attributing failures to subordinates in attempting to hide their own errors. Competence and accomplishments are not valued in the least. Backstabbing and doublespeak are perpetual threats as personnel, especially management, seek nothing more than to hide their faults at the expense of their coworkers. Improvement initiatives are almost always a step backwards and designed to accomplish nothing more than mask incompetence.
Additional levels are review and management are consistently implemented to accomplish nothing more than to produce blame-seeking documentation and to compensate for the lack of competence in management review. Functions are consistently "delegated" by those who lack the ability to understand the work that they're tasked with; such mindless delegation is then recognized and rewarded as a skill. Hiring is mostly based on nepotism, rather than credentials or experience, with horribly unqualified personnel floundering in roles far exceeding their abilities.
Further, the tone at the top perpetuates a complete lack of initiative to develop knowledge and skills of employees, valuing a "check-the-box" mentality to a severe detriment in production and efficiency. Analytical procedures requiring any intellectual capacity whatsoever are rarely rewarded and often consistently discouraged for the sake of “business continuity.” Virtually all project initiatives eliminate potential opportunities for analytical responsibilities, as management seeks to prevent employees from taking on work beyond thoughtless mechanical procedures.
