Pros
- You get paid, thanks to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) Section 323. - An opportunity to bond with people that are also being taken advantage of.
Cons
- Melbourne is an office of middle managers deft at circumlocution who will bore you with their evasive, self-servient and verbose monologues and shut down any reasoned debate to enhance their perceived alpha male status. - The revolving door Australian GM position is used to momentarily boost moral but masks a lack of confidence in the hiring procedure leading to undermined authority and a lack of direction and trust nationally. This movie replays ad infinitum. Meanwhile, good staff have left and complacency, poor culture and resistance to change have become entrenched. - A confusing and poorly communicated annual review structure that openly encourages individual criticism with no opportunity to provide feedback upwards. An even more opaque pay review process. - Forced vacation / PTO to manage fluctuating workloads and short-sighted knee-jerk business development decisions to combat declining revenue. - Poor roll-out and short-sighted strategic direction / initiatives dictated by the US puppet master that you are expected to learn like a mantra. - Unmanageable ‘qualification card’ system for the supervision of new field personnel that is applied with unwavering ignorance and/or inadequately depending on the agenda of the PM, resulting in an unwritten hierarchy and frustrated field staff. - Repeated requests from HR / owner-employees to submit sycophantic Glassdoor reviews that are transparently posted in quick succession making us all look a bit desperate.
