Manage Your Expectations; Ask Questions - Anonymous employee ASPCA Employee Review

2.0
Apr 27, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Since these reviews are intended to provide insight for a potential employee to consider, I can only speak to the type of work I was hired to do. I would imagine those in direct care might have a completely different experience. If you expect to be responsible for implementing programmatic work, innovating or developing strategy, or working with communications, ask for one of your 5 interviews to be with people you will be actually working with on a regular basis. Senior management will not provide the resources, direction or support for you to do your job effectively. You will need to rely on the many lovely but overworked and overempowered staff to get anything done.

Cons

Senior management is not evil but they are in over their heads. They rarely hire from outside preferring to promote favorites. This results in a stagnate environment where people feel they know everything about the job and organization. The external communications philosophy, process and tools are archaic so if your role involves communicating to supporters, media etc - know management thinks the website, email and other communications are there to generate donations only.

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5.0
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Pros

Everyone cares deeply about the job they do

Cons

Can be stressful at times

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2.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Volunteers, assisting communities, animal care, fostering cohesive memorable relationships are all a cornerstone of a meaningful mission.

Cons

Where to begin? The word toxic is often thrown around when one leaves a job that was less than thrilling. In my 30 year career in animal welfare this was one I could truly call toxic. The insult to injury is they scream at the top of their lings words like “family, DEI, work/life balance, equality, place of love etc.” This is all the extremely hyperbolic behavior of a predator dynamic. Politicking, back stabbing and manipulation the likes of which would make characters from Game of Thrones blush. Lies and deceit tend to take priority for promotion or advancement. Be extremely cautious of those who come to you as friends. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing. This is a culture that is top down in it’s approach of this type of behavior. I watched so many good colleagues get fired under the guise of bad behavior when there were ulterior motives working against many the entire time. I was glad to finally find a launch pad to another means of income and a career move to get away. Having been gone for a few years now it truly dawned on me just how truly awful things were. Which is such a shame because the actual work being performed is an absolute gift. Animal welfare and bullying is synonymous and I’m glad we’re finally seeing an influx of stories detailing how bad it can be. But this was the worst of all of them and second place is a very distant second. Such a shame.

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