Underpays and takes advantage of fresh graduates who don't know better - Photo Studio Coordinator Haddad Brands Employee Review

1.0
Jan 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

At least puts an effort to seem like they are a very employee-oriented company. Also gives adult out of school their first bad job experience.

Cons

Treat US employees slightly better than what I imagine the employees at the sweatshops they have overseas are treated. Take advantage of freshly graduated students and pay them as little as possible. The amount of nepotism that you witness is astounding. If someone from the owner's family asks you to do something, even if they have little understanding of how basic tasks are done, you are told to just nod and do it, until they realize on their own how bad of an idea it is. I've also seen fellow employees discouraged from taking their full hour lunch. They don't come right out and say it, but they encourage you to eat at your desk and immediately return to work. The company also makes you to enable a GPS app on your phone where you sign in when you get into work and sign out when you leave, which makes no sense because you are salaried.

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Pros

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Cons

A lot of workload short deadlines

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Pros

The holiday party. Oh wait, it’s on a Tuesday or Wednesday so no one can truly enjoy themselves, so nevermind! Absolutely no pros.

Cons

If I could change one thing in my life, it would be working at Haddad Brands. Coming straight out of college and it being your first job, you truly have no idea how warped working there is. The delusion and greed of the family should be studied-the workload and how they treat their employees is inhumane and honestly disgusting. A crash course is the hours are 8:30-5:30-giving them an extra hour of your life for absolutely no reason. You’re looked down upon if you take a break or step out, even just for a minute. You sit in a jail cell, with no windows, for 9 hours a day-elbow to elbow with the person next to you-and cameras watching and tracking your every move. The Haddads actively work to fire people (don’t be mistaken I wasn’t one of those people-getting a new job was probably one of the best days of my life)-who they consider to be ‘C Class Players’ which is anyone who doesn’t dedicate blood, sweat, tears and overtime to them. All you do is make them money but when it comes time for raises, promotions, benefits etc., they can’t put their money where their mouth is. The work is genuinely not even close to manageable-no matter how hard you work-and everything is under a microscope and scrutiny. The work from home days that have now dwindled into basically zero is laughable and there is no work life balance whatsoever. Just know that if you work at Haddad, you will be worked like a dog-no ifs, ands or buts.

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