Pros
I am just happy that I had an amazing Director. Although over worked and seemed tired all the time, he was understanding and a good guy.
Cons
So the best way to describe Directive is Lord of the Flies. It is inexperienced kids trying to run a business. There are changes to the rules about every other week. It is inconsistent and the changes don’t last long. Examples: each department was suppose to decide on an idea every week, scrapped after a few weeks, post client leaving meeting, scrapped, time tracking for clients, no one kept up with it and Directors didn’t care, scrapped, skill pyramid for individual improvements, no one has time for it scrapped... it is getting redundant but I can keep going. Which takes me to my next point, everyone is over worked. Nothing innovative or “growing” happens because everyone is drowning with client work. This all starts from the top. If the CEO was able to work you 24/7, he would. You can see the stress trickledown to lower levels of management. Regards to the massive workloads, this is also a race to see how long the client takes to realize that Directive doesn’t provide anything special and they could take the process in house for fraction of the cost. Takes on average about a year for both the client and the employee to realize that Directive isn’t worth it. Also the CEO set a “soft cap” at 3 weeks for unlimited PTO which he made sure to emphasize that if you are at the start of your career you should stick to one week. It’s just another way to save money to not payout people for their PTO when they inevitably leave.
