Everything else. From below average pay for the industry to control freak micro-managers, there's little incentive to work here unless you're absolutely desperate and your local gas station isn't hiring. You'll quickly find that many (if not most) of your co-workers in your direct department do as little as possible and management is perfectly fine with that since the company often struggles to hire anyone, giving the poor employees a security blanket. As a result it's pretty hard to get yourself fired, and those with poor work ethics notice this. You'll also notice that the other departments don't really care what you're up to, despite management's firm (mis)belief that everyone cares what everyone's doing. Also, if you're a good worker you'll quickly see management overload you with all sorts of additional projects and difficult accounts because they know they can't trust the common employee to handle it.
This extra work may or may not come with a "you'll be rewarded for your effort later" speech which may or may not ever actually happen. And if it does, you'll be lucky to get an extra tenth of a percent for your "merit increase." Oh, speaking of raises, you'll be looking at 2-3% at the very most, and management/executives do everything they can to keep you at the 2% range. Get a new promotion? Congrats! Enjoy your 4% (at most) increase. Good times. But, hey, at least the stockholders are happy.
Ah ha! At least you can hope to advance, right? That's a Pro! Nope. At least, not if you're a good worker. You see, the majority of management is actively afraid of those that know as much (or in many cases, much more) than they do and will do everything they can to keep those employees buried with extra work while promoting the more inept employees that pose no direct threat to their own ineptitude. If you *do* want to try and advance here your best bet is to spend as much time as possible kissing up to management. It's better to not get your work done and instead spend that time laughing and hanging out with management than it is to get your work done and do a good job at it. Many promotion announcements are made with most employees wondering how on earth that person got the promotion. That does wonders for employee morale.
And, while we're on the topic of management, the executives here are pretty much clueless as to what the company actually does on a daily basis. That's why they cram as many buzzwords and catch phrases as possible in all their communications to give the illusion they know what they're doing. Practically every single one of them is clueless to how websites, digital marketing, or the automotive industry works. They'r only here to do the stockholders bidding, which these days is all about budget cuts. The employees, products/services, and company itself is a distant second (or sixth) priority to them.
