Seemed like a great company, then I realized the frustrating truth
Pros
- Beautiful open loft space covering three floors downtown. Cool setup with lots of desks and computers, a very busy and exciting work environment. - Complimentary alcohol bar and discounted, fair-trade coffee bar on the floor I worked on. - Friendly people, lots of room to move up in the company, decent pay and benefits options. I started my six week trial period and everything was great from the start. The people I worked with were very friendly and helpful, everyone seemed to enjoy their positions and the company overall, and it seemed very laid back despite being busy. I was in training for Member Experience and I was told that I was doing very well in my first few weeks. I was on time everyday, was responding kindly to feedback and was excited for everything, and was being commended for my good efforts so far. Then everything changed for the worst on the last day of my third week.
Cons
- A very drama based, cliquey environment with a primarily female based workforce. It seemed like a high school clique or a giant corporate sorority most of the time. - My training was never consistent and I felt like my leads and managers were never focused on getting us fully trained as much as they were trying to balance many different projects at once, which they did unsuccessfully. - My managers and leads are a bunch of fake, lying, disrespectful girls that acted like children. They told me nice things to my face about my job performance, and then badmouthed me to the head of the department behind my back, leading to my early termination. That stereotype of suburban/lincoln park wealthy entitlement?? This company is full of people like that. On my last day of my third week, after being told I was doing a wonderful job so far by everyone on my team including my managers, I was called into a small office with two HR reps and the head of my department where I was terminated early. I tried to ask them what happened and they told me it was a combination of things: I wasn't a good cultural fit, my responses to customers were not improving, I was responding negatively to feedback and was unpleasant overall. All of this took me by shock...I was told for the first 3 weeks that I was doing an amazing job in all of my work and I was very friendly and looking to improve, and all of a sudden the head of my department, who didn't work with me at all, was telling me that my managers were actually badmouthing me to her, saying things that were the complete opposite of my great job performance. And the vague reasons they did give me as to why I was being fired were things that could have been improved through working and continuing to learn. They wouldn't even give me the chance to do better, they just made a final decision and I had no say in the matter, nor was I given second or third chances to improve which is what they promised us in the beginning. They lied about many things and I feel I was fired because of some image issue that they didn't like....I guess that's what happens when you work in a company with mostly overdramatic, entitled girls who care more about image than hard work. It is a high end fashion retail company after all.
