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A Culture of Hierarchy, Favoritism and Willful Ignorance - Treasury Assistant United Nations Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Interacting with colleagues from across the globe. - Accumulation of leave days per month.

Cons

The nature of the organization fosters willful ignorance of problems and issues within a unit until problems reach a fever pitch and boil over. Even when this moment is reached a band-aid is put over the problem and it is never truly resolved. You also run into instances of those who talk the most and complain the loudest being the ones who don't pull their weight in any regard. Favoritism is ingrained in every moment you are in the building and the culture of hierarchy that exists means that the lower you exist on the ladder you will be treated as such. Finally for an organization that consists of staff from all corners of the world and all walks of life discrimination within the workplace is unfortunately a regular occurrence.

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