In Corporate Services, the work environment and culture is very hostile and a favoritism environment. To elaborate more on that, if you did not fit into the “cool” circle or fall into the “favorite” bucket, you were slated for failure in your career. The manager had already pre-determined who would be in the “favorite list” versus the “non-favorite” list. If you are in the “favorite” list, then you are provided opportunities to gain more knowledge, lead projects, and get praised for not doing much work in front of the whole team. However, if you fall into the “non-favorite” list, you get slotted to fail in your work and career and have to live with a fear of being fired if you made any mistake. For example, employees that are surfing the web all day and are part of the “favorite” list, are promoted within a year to 2 years of being on the job; but if you are truly a dedicated hard-worker, you will not see a future in this company. Also, if senior leadership tells you that the job you are in is not a good fit for you and is super excited to see you go instead of helping you find a role that is a good fit for you to grow in, then that is a big red flag that this is not a good company to be a part of, with no growth at all (unless of course, you are the favorite to your manager). If you try to find other opportunities within the company - outside of Corporate Services, senior leadership immediately looks upon you as a traitor to the company. Of course, there are some senior leadership employees who truly care about your career, but are outside of the day to day scope of the internal teams to know what is going on. Lots of micro-managing occurs and you don't have a say in projects or provide opinions. Projects are only slated for favorites. Secret meetings occur behind closed doors and its comes as a surprise to the team when some new project has already been assigned to one of the favorites. There is no open communication between the manager and employee or the team overall.
