Where I worked, they burned through investor capital like crazy - losing a fortune of money every week. Poor accountability for money spent. Gung-ho managers blind to problems. At corporate, people strut around saying that Misfits was "going to be the next Amazon." To that end, the ping pong table, bean bag chairs and utter lack of a worthy and realistic business plan or competent leadership said volumes. Safety program was a joke. Tried and failed to get upper management to focus on safety needs. Sadly, as with start-ups, priorities were backward – with a focus instead on customer acquisition. We had a fire at the facility and the response was to keep people (mostly non-English-speaking immigrants and many knowingly illegal at that) working - no safety stand-down, nothing. The plant manager never once came to me, his safety manager to discuss. Awful, just awful! Some of the people in HR, management especially had really bad habits - favoritism, excuse-making, bullying, being territorial, lack of mentoring, ignoring sage advice. I left because I saw the writing on the wall, an organization doomed to fail. Tried and failed to get attention of the founder or his COO. Delusional clowns with heads in the clouds (or somewhere else).
