There is no room to move up at EJ. Instead you just get stuck in the middle of constant internal politics that nobody even explains. The environment is toxic and it is wrecking my mental health. Career growth is nonexistent. I should have left a long time ago.
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@b0 at this point Im willing to take a job that pays slightly less if it isnt run by a bunch of low iq psychopaths like what we have right now. Half of this home office will have looked or applied somewhere else by the end of the summer. Im in meetings with other areas all the time and everyone is stressed, anxious, p!ssed off, and totally checked out. @ELT, you d-mb ba----ds were handed a perfectly functional car and instead of taking care of it you drove it off the bridge into a canyon. I swear you people sit around a conference room eating glue and sniffing markers judging by your decision making abilities.
@b0 so they called your bluff.
Now they know they can bully you as hard as they want, and you will sit back and take it.
Big mistake.
Yep. I had an offer elsewhere at almost $20k more earlier this year.
I approached my leader about to and gave them a copy of the offer letter.
They asked what I wanted and I said to be promoted to Sr as I am Jr.
They came back saying they can’t promote anyone because the firm is under strict guidelines financially and promotions will likely not happen over the coming years. If Sr is what I want, I need to take the offer elsewhere.
I asked for a bit more $$
They said no.
I asked for an extra week of PTO.
They said no.
Ultimately I decided to stay because the benefits package of the other place vs EDJ was much better. I’d lose PTO and break even financially in the end, even with the raise, so it wasn’t worth it to leave.
Now I’m regretting that decision to the utmost, WHILE my dept is now hiring a Sr role… I can’t apply because I haven’t been in this role a year, and they can’t “consider” me.
My leader is very empathetic and has been very transparent that they do not agree (offline). I understand their hands are tied too.
Fu----s.
I agree about the mental health damage, and I'm sorry for what you've been through. It's been a terrible year and a half and I'm considering leaving the corporate world entirely after seeing this once very cool associate-owned business bite the dust. Service, retail, and non-profits are all better mental health options for me, despite the pay cut.
When I started here, PP was beloved and on track to become a firm legend. Everyone I met spoke glowingly about her, especially our female people leaders. But I haven't heard a single positive word spoken about her by any associate, people leader, or even GPs (including on ELT) in years. Not a single positive word.
The ladder has been pulled up from the lunatics who wormed their way into power. They took 100 yr business culture of trying to be moral and ethical, and p!ssed all over it for their own short term gains. They are slowly ki-ling the golden goose though. How is an LP going to payout 7% or more when you have nobody left paying into the LP due to layoffs+outsourcing and the business model collapses on itself over the next 3 yrs? We had a record number of FAs jump ship last year. (Almost 1500)