unlikely to ever improve - Marketing Coordinator Oxford University Press Employee Review

There's absolutely no diversity, the managers are incompetent at best and downright abusive at worst (it was mostly worst). I was yelled at, gossipped about, left off of emails and meetings, not because I ever received a poor performance review (I didn't, rather all my reviews were glowing), but because the editors and upper management are egotistical, self-centered, bratty, and resistant to feedback. I spent many, many days crying or having panic attacks at or after work. The office is permeated by white feminism, cisheteronormativity, and a flagrant condescension that floats through the air in a WASPy mist of passive aggression. Naive post-college kids, armed with fancy publishing course certificates and Daddy's extra income, come in week after week being told that they will move up, that being good at their jobs will take them far, that if they don't want to take the job for peanut salaries, then some other rich white kid living in Chelsea will be right around the corner and one day become the next star editor of Nobody Reads These Books, published Spring 2032. In reality, no one is promoted, the pay is beyond laughable even if you do move up, and the amount of money you'll spend on therapy to feed your emptied soul negates it anyway. No, in reality you'll spend a few years being verbally abused by crusty Eurocentric editors, each more pseudo-liberal than the last, before you realize you DESERVE BETTER and get out fast as you can for a real job.