The worst place I’ve ever worked before AND after Adam Neumann
Pros
Everyone is so incompetent that you can do absolutely nothing by shuffling your work around organizations and confusing end-users and anyone else who asks you to work for months, if not years.
Cons
It’s hard not to see everything upper management does as geared toward doing as little work as possible. Every organization wants to eschew responsibility for every incoming issue brought to them. Nobody actually has projects they’re working on; everyone is simply putting duct tape over quickly hemorrhaging wounds. WeWork’s biggest PR focus right now is ensure employees do not share stories of misconduct with the media so that SoftBank doesn’t find out how irresponsible the whole organization still is. It’s not just Adam Neumann that was irresponsible, sloppy, and lazy. The entirety of WeWork is a complete mess and nothing short of firing every single person and starting completely new is going to change that. The attitudes of entitlement, laziness, coupled with incompetence mean that I will stay here for as long as possible and take advantage of this company. I won’t meaningfully work on an impactful project for a single minute and I will collect paychecks, because WeWork has enabled me to do so with gusto. Everyone here is part of the grift. I can’t wait to move on and for my career to progress but being able to do whatever I want and not lift a finger is too tempting to turn down. I’m basically on paid vacation and they’re enabling that. If they offer you a gig anywhere outside of community, take it. You can coast on doing nearly nothing for months, if not years, and the whole organization from the top down will support that. The problem is that if you’re trying to do your job, you literally can’t. Nobody else in the organization will work with you to complete anything. You have to accept that nothing is going to move here. Keep your head down and collect paychecks. Don’t try and get anyone to work; that’s how you get fired.
