The hubris of Cengage leadership is responsible for the current dysfunction and fear that pervades the organization. They are shameless. What do I know, I went to a state school.
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I've been in the room many times. I can guarantee you that not one time does anyone say "I'm concerned about the impact of this to both separated and current employees.
Please get your head around this, for your own sanity!
I don’t know how many times I have told my manager that I have a boyfriend.
MH smiled in my direction once.
With Cengage, you’re either in the cult or out of it. Sacrifice your dignity and join the masses of simpering hangers-ons who know nothing and accomplish nothing but show up to every all-call prepared to wax intellectual, lick boots, and slurp the company Kool-Aid as the rug is literally pulled out from under them.
Or, choose self-respect and acknowledge that that choice will lead you elsewhere. Losing your career is hard and sad, but in time and with a lot of work you can recover and rebuild somewhere less sinister. Losing your self-respect is harder, more damaging, and difficult to come back from.
The good hardworking employees who have made this company what is it deserved better, but ultimately that doesn’t matter. The world isn’t fair or just, and we have to deal with reality, not nostalgia for the past or longing for what could have been.
All I can say to my colleagues is… choose yourself. Believe in yourself. Don’t let the cult dissolve all notion of how profoundly powerful and brilliant you are. Whatever they may say or imply: you have so much to offer the world, and you are seen, respected, and needed in it.
They believe their own pr. They'll spin it as they write fake reviews on Glassdoor.