• Very poor work-life balance. Often forced to work overtime and long-hours (including your lunch brake, night, and weekends) with no pay in order to meet tight deadlines on projects that management dumps on you at the last minute.
• Management is eager to load you down with projects and expect you to make a way to make it work so that you can complete them by their respective deadlines.
This typically results in employees having to work overtime on a regular basis.
• Lack of quality control . Employees are expected to make no mistakes in their work and to have high quality standards. However, their is not a revision process in which management and other team members can catch mistakes before projects are submitted to stakeholders. Mistakes are often found after projects are submitted, which results in reworks.
• Lack of automation. Everything is manual in Microsoft Excel; no macros. This results in having to work long hours due to the tedious, manual labor, energy, and time necessary to complete project work. COMPANY NEEDS TO USE MACROS AND STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES to streamline and speed up recurring processes used in projects so that employees are NOT overworked.
• Managers disrespect their employees. They do not value their contributions or time. There is no reward system and very little recognition given to employees in going above and beyond the call of duty. Managers expect employees to manage and prioritize their own projects so that all they have to do is delegate. Employees are often talked down to by management. Managers skip meetings and conference calls on a frequent basis with no warning. Meetings that employees set up with managers are often rescheduled frequently at the manager's will without any explanation. In other words, these meetings get put on the backbench because they're not as important to the employer as they are to the employee (which is sad).
• Management is very disorganized and has a hard time implementing new ideas. New ideas and creativity is promoted and encouraged. However, very few new ideas are executed (and if so, executed very poorly) due lack of organization and the will power necessary to implement them. In other words, management has so many other departmental issues to take care of and fix (issues that have been disregarded or put on hold) that new ideas are forgotten or put on the backbench.
• Lack of cross-training and training programs that are enforced by management. In other words, you're expected to learn most things on your own through trial and error. If you err on your job at any time due to lack of proper guidance or training, it's on you not them!
