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Potential for improvement but management refuse to be receptive - Floor Staff Liberty Science Center Employee Review

1.0
Apr 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Co-workers (floor staff) are undeniably the best part about this job. You work with intelligent and capable people and friendships are bound to be made. It's also enjoyable if you like interacting with people and children.

Cons

A forever "PART TIME" job with "flexible" hours but will easily be forced to work a consecutive 5-10 days with loopholes. No one with a part time job should be forced to work a week straight. Additionally, they downright refuse to accommodate other jobs. Overworked with minuscule pay. They'll say they promote from within but fail to recognize the vast majority of the more than capable employees that are applying to other positions. With that being said, they'll be bitter ad unsupportive if employees search for other opportunities at other jobs. They speak to you and treat you condescendingly as if you're an adolescent. Punishment system that only applies to floor staff despite the CONSTANT mistakes from those who implement it. The work space is becoming more toxic with irrelevant members from admin who try to sneak up on you with the pretense of seeing if you need help. They want you to prioritize and worship the establishment but do NOT possess any concern, care, or acknowledge the importance of the floor staff. In the eyes of administration, we are dispensable and easily taken for granted. Those who did care for us moved on, so all that is left are clueless or unsupportive people.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Proximity to NYC and having ASTC membership for free tickets at other museums was great.

Cons

Extremely toxic work environment. The head of HR is a well-known insane person who targets people she doesn't like, or if you request any sort of accommodation. Management overall is unwilling to work with employees who do not fit their ideal mold, but claim to be inclusive. For example, in an industry that often attracts neurodiverse workers, they are appalled at the idea of wanting lowered lights in the office, at allowing work-from-home, or accepting that others might have different ways of communicating and interacting with others. "Optional" social lunches or gatherings are thrown back at employees in their quarterly reviews if not attended, claiming that you are not invested as a team member. On a similar note, employees are not at all valued by management. Guest ambassadors are infantilized and micromanaged, with a yearly purge happening at the end of spring where ambassadors are fired over things like clocking in 2 minutes late or taking out a phone to check the time. In other departments, there is zero upward mobility and a high turnover rate-- the manager and director of STEM Education, for example, both openly admitting this and saying if they can keep people for 3-5 years, that's all they can hope for. Burnout happens incredibly fast under these circumstances. The only people who do seem to be able to stay for beyond that time are those who are a department of one, or who simply fail upward by never advocating for themselves or their teams. Overall, employees are completely overworked, and over time will have more and more responsibility heaped on them with less and less support or reward. Despite desperately needing a union for this and other reasons, employees are terrified to attempt organization because the know that when last it was even mentioned, all those employees were purged from their jobs.

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