Avoid It. Seriously. Stay Unemployed If You Have To - Editor Oxford University Press Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2019
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Pros

This place sounds very good on paper. If you are capable of exaggerating, it will speak volumes on your resumé.

Cons

I don't even know where to begin. Aside from the gross underpaying for the industry and it's location, the job is not only thankless, but management is unappreciative of any work that you do. I worked here for 5 years and the only thing more worthless than management is the pretend help you receive from HR. I was placed on a PIP after nearly 5 years of work, citing what was an apparent lack of work ethic that had been in place for years. I had weekly check-ins with my manager who had nothing but higher praise for my work until one day there was an about face, where they sighted a multi-year problem. I was sexually harassed by my manager and before I got the chance to even report it to HR, I was suddenly placed on a PIP. My boss then quit, and I was put with an interim manager, yet the PIP was still in place. This is like having a substitute teacher be told about the problem child in class. In addition, there was an awfully loud Pro-Trump rhetoric leading up to the 2016 election. This felt out of place considering the location (NYC) and industry. Also, after 5 years, I was making 50k in a supervisory role and any complaints I had about it were quickly squashed and detailed as being insubordinate. Stay away if you're a liberal. Stay away if you don't want to be sexually harassed. Stay away if you want to make an honest living. Dive head first if you're a great liar. Keep it for a couple years, take notes, position it for a better job. Maybe one day you could pull the ultimate mic drop and get OUP to publish a book about how you took them down from the inside.

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