We’re overworked and still told to work harder. Benefits are being removed yet money is being thrown down the drain. We haven’t hit our sales targets in over 6 quarters. Management micromanages yet has no idea what they’re doing or individual contributors are 15 steps ahead. Layoffs after layoffs are happening to good people and reqs are being filled by senior leaders that don’t put their hands on the actual work while the ICs are handed more and more work, being taken advantage of and then told they aren’t working hard enough. Recently, our maternity leave policy was changed… from 12 weeks paid to TWO weeks paid, and retroactively put into effect. As a nation, maternity support is some of the worst, along with high maternal mortality rates, higher levels of postpartum depression etc and just as you think the tide is shifting in a positive direction, Tim, our CEO, takes us back to the 1950’s. And if that isn’t bad enough… during an ask the CEO happy hour, the topic was brought up. Tim provided a basic answer on cutting it to make the bottom line (even though he throws money away for tech architecture we don’t need, prospects we won’t win and VPs he brings in that do nothing) and when asked if he’d reconsider the benefit after we break even, he laughed, said it wasn’t a priority and told people to “just don’t get pregnant”….. it’s disgusting and I’m appalled he’s our leader, because that’s not leadership.
