One of the most soul-crushing environments imaginable. If you’re looking for a place that drains your motivation, disrespects your intelligence, and treats employees like disposable tools—congrats, you’ve found it.
•Blatant, shameless favoritism. Promotions go to the most obedient bootlickers, not the most capable people. Just work at Spruce, you’ll be handed a PFM position in no time. If you’re not part of the “Promethean Illuminati,” don’t expect to be heard, let alone respected. Make sure not to voice your concerns, that just turns into a big bright target on your back.
•Senior leadership lies as easily as they breathe. They’ll gaslight you, rewrite history, and twist the truth to protect their own image, then blame you when things go wrong.
•Sketchy business practices everywhere. Corners are cut constantly, laws are bent (if not outright broken), and anyone who questions it gets labeled a “problem.”
•HR is a joke. Don’t expect protection or fairness, —HR exists solely to shield management and silence complaints.
•Fear-based culture. People are afraid to speak up because retaliation is real. Expect backstabbing, scapegoating, and management by intimidation. The yearly survey is a bully tactic and you must answer the way the Senior Leaders want you to. When people answer truthfully, the “anonymous” survey responses somehow fall on you and your team.
•Good people don’t last long—they either quit or get pushed out. What’s left is a mess of yes-men, survivors, and checked-out zombies.
HR will follow up with a generic response on how they value everyone, how they would’ve listened if you came to them, they truly care, blah blah blah. Sanford would’ve never stood for this, he had a vision and the moment he was laid to rest the Senior Leadership Vultures destroyed it. Disgraceful is an understatement.
