Don’t know where to start with this place. I suffered for nearly 3 years here, and was let go after becoming a target for speaking up against no work life balance and burnout.
Upper leadership is a group of friends, immune to all and any accountability. Shockingly arrogant and incompetent leadership. A vividly remember a group of managers all giving negative feedback about a “higher up” and literally nothing happen, because they are close friends, it was a joke.
From the day I started I worked a bare minimum of 12-13 hour days, on salary with no OT. I would get calls at 5 in the morning, and 10 at night, and weekends as well. My mental and physical health began to decline after the stress and I spoke up about needing more support and became a target and enemy of “leadership” for “complaining”.
I had about 4-5 full time jobs worth of responsibility, without the pay to reflect it. I was managing a team of 21, an accountant processing vast amounts of cash and digital payments, a vehicle maintenance supervisor, and handled all routing, among many other things. This was not sustainable whatsoever for one person and I literally could not continue. Leadership had no effective solutions, and just was interested in people “living for the jersey”. I witnessed more managers break down and cry, question their sanity than you could imagine. The higher ups would get angry at managers when they reported low morale.
My employees would come up to me constantly and ask how I functioned in the role with what they saw WYLD doing to me, and would offer support as they knew I got none from my “managers”
The CEO was invisible, never once inspired, motivated or did anything to instill confidence in the company, and was open about “hating calls, meetings, and speeches” and was very carefree and whatever about the direction of the company. 95% of managers were kept in the dark, and had zero clue of what was going on. Everyone wondered, why are we operating like this and burning everything and everyone into the ground? Who is befitting from this? The C-Suite making money, not the hourly employees suffering. When you see a CEO treat a company so carelessly, why would you be inspired to work for them?
I am still processing the trauma I went through during my time, and was seriously affected by what I experienced. I once had my “manager” (an out of state executive that was never on site) growl in frustration at me over the phone and then hang up on me, and ghost me for nearly a week. I then later got reprimanded for “not communicating with leadership enough” from the same managers. I kid you not, this is what I experienced.
Steer clear. This is a place that will suck you in with pretty marketing, product packaging and paper thin veil of “DEI” championing and burn you straight into the ground.