Frustrating, boring, busy work, meeting filled, unappreciated, thankless. - Community Impact Department United Way Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2015
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Pros

Nice staff, summer Fridays, vacation days, half days. Easy to coast by and do mediocre work.

Cons

Bad senior management, inequitable and noticeable salary gap between senior management and rest of staff, exploits staff, no pay raise or title change, no real results, very top down in management and strategy, very meetings oriented but no yielding no decisions or results, fails to promote staff, terrible communication from senior leadership. Too top down, too many managers, not enough staff not innovative, very slow to change, respond, act. Very disorganized and very reactive, instead of proactive. There was A LOT of turnover when I was there. Over 25 staff left in the first year of the new CEO - Sheena Wright. She was very MIA in her first year and was trying to change the organization, mission, brand, structure and culture. Not clear how much of that actually changed but she brought in a lot of her own people and there was no transparency in her decisions. Staff do not trust leadership and do not feel like they can be honest and speak up. There is little confidence that things will change.

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Cons

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Pros

The mission is meaningful and the work itself can be deeply rewarding. Colleagues are talented, dedicated, and genuinely care about the community they serve. For the right person, that camaraderie carries a lot of weight.

Cons

Over the past two years, this organization has undergone significant and painful change. A revolving door of senior leadership, including the abrupt loss of key executives, created instability that trickled down to every level of staff. Layoffs followed, and then a steady stream of voluntary departures that leadership appeared either unable or unwilling to address meaningfully. Under new leadership, nearly every quality-of-life benefit that made nonprofit-level salaries feel worth it has been reduced or eliminated: fewer sick days, increased healthcare costs, loss of Summer Fridays, loss of Thanksgiving week, and a shift to more required in-office days. The cumulative effect is an organization that asks a great deal of its staff, in salary sacrifice and mission commitment, while systematically withdrawing what made that trade-off feel fair.

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