You're not going to be promoted or make any real money unless you are with the "in" crowd there. This is a family owned business, and if you're not in the Cohen family you have no chance of moving up and making real money.
There's too much gossip and backstabbing.
The environment and mood there is very dull and drab. Rigid and corporate, and not a very diverse or interesting staff for the most part. You are expected to be a robot. Individuality is not part of the culture.
They've been doing business since 1930, and there's a lot of the old mentality and resistance in embracing new ideas and change.
Management plays favorites. It's by no means a fair workplace. If you do a better job than your manager or show them up in any way, they will make you pay for it.
Holidays and days off are few. I was told you are not permitted to take an extra day off next to a holiday. You worked Christmas eve until 5, New Year's eve until 5, and no days off for Easter.
During the 9/11 attacks they would not let the staff go home. They forced everyone to work through some of the darkest days in our nation's history. On Sept. 11th staff gathered around a television. Management turned off the TV and told workers to get back to work.
Raises are pitiful, even if you score as high as possible on the grade scale they have.
Don't work here more than a year or two, you are wasting your time. Pay won't keep up with cost of living.
It seems like it takes forever to get anything done. Too many hands in the pot. Then if a project is going slow the blame falls on the wrong person.
They freely spend money on everything and anything, but not wages.
Too many meetings. Do we really need to have a meeting to plan the next meeting?
