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Not Worth It Anymore - Associate Liberty Science Center Employee Review

1.0
Jun 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are good people at LSC, but they are becoming fewer and fewer almost by the day. You can make some good friends and learn from a variety of different backgrounds and areas of expertise.

Cons

Some of the downsides are being overworked, underpaid and as a bonus, you get to be yelled at by professionals who act more like spoiled brats with management titles. if you are lucky enough to miss that, you can hear the constant complaining and people being accused of not doing their job, by managers that are on ego trips. Whatever you do, stay away from the fiasco known as marketing. Then if you have a problem, you're probably better off getting an employee advocate instead of going to the HR dept. that got their certifications by cheating on the exam and are proud of it! Nothing is confidential. Nothing. This is known by all. If you interview and think "this place is kind of weird" or "this is weird way of doing this or that", you are correct. It is. If you think the same jobs just keep being posted, you're right. There is a reason for that. Do you notice jobs being posted a long time without being filled? There is a reason for that. If you know the stuff you were hired for, forget it. Someone who really has no idea will tell you they know better than you do and how to do it. If you don't, you will be written up, accused of something and either shown the door or driven to the point of walking out. Harassment is overlooked or made up to fit situations as needed. It all depends on who you're friends with. If your buddies with certain people, you can do nothing wrong. Ever. If you're not, don't worry, you will be on the list to be railroaded into heading out the door. LSC is not looking for leaders or professionals. They are looking for followers and those who simply will put on a big smile and pretend everything is unicorns and rainbows and say yes to everything. That even includes some midlevel management. Rock that boat and you will suddenly be put on some professional improvement plan or shown the door.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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