Step Up reviews

Pay. Pay. Pay. Poverty level to below poverty level wages. Difficult to see upper management in high end cars, motorcycles, and planes while staff suffer food and housing insecurity. No work/ life balance. Toxic Upper management. Primarily Caucasian Males, operating under the old standard hierarchal/patriarchal management model where hard work (especially by mostly minority and women staff) goes unacknowledged and unappreciated, bonuses flow upward, directives/mandates down. Staff are only as useful as a billable entity, billing bullying on a frequent and regular basis. Hard and demanding work. Work place dangers run high: bed bugs, client assaults (verbal and physical) on staff are common, as well as environmental exposures related to outreach, vicarious trauma, limited to NO support for pairing up in teams (can't bill for it, so the onerous is on YOU to make up your billable hours.) Police quoted as saying they "prayed for us..." No on site security and staff are expected to take turns policing the Money Management program. Limited opportunities for advancement.

Management is extremely poor. There are limited people of color in management positions and no men of color, which is very unfortunate due to the population with whom they serve. This is not a supportive culture atmosphere. The focus is on numbers and not what is best for it's clients. The pay is below standard.