Pros
The only positive thing I have to say about Circle Graphics is that Adam Meuse, a supervisor there, is a great person and great at his job (albeit incredibly overworked and taken advantage of, as is the Circle way).
Kontras
* Never have I worked for a business with this high of a degree of disregard for peoples' autonomy, humanity and personal lives. At best, Circle does not care about its employees. At worst, Circle has nothing but contempt for their employees. And regardless of what they may have convinced themselves or you to think otherwise, these are the only two options. And regardless of THAT, it's the latter which is felt by the workers. *There is no work/life balance. You will be underpaid, overworked and expected to work surprise overtime shifts or work ridiculous hours for no practical reason and with no practical results. The people in supervisory or managerial positions are squeezed even harder and stretched even thinner, to the degree that their work has become their life...forget about aspiring toward any kind of balance. * The administrative/upper-management team is a giant clown shoe. A bumbling bunch of fools who, amongst a myriad of other transgressions and microaggressions, are apparently antivax and ended up getting most of one of their Raleigh warehouses infected with Covid. I wish this was the worst of it, but when you have a group of people clearly unfit for leadership or managerial roles, well there's always a new "worst" lurking around the corner. * With regards to the Embellishment department, Circle wants talented artists with degrees, backgrounds and specific skill-sets but they don't want to provide appropriate compensation, an appropriate working environment for creating the type of artwork expected, nor do they want to treat their artists with even a modicum of respect or trust while simultaneously expecting them to satisfy their very finicky clients. If Circle had it their way, they'd hire unskilled temp labor and call it a day. Too bad the clients are demanding and exacting...so instead they treat their skilled team like they *are* unskilled temp labor, and they get away with it, no cares given to the incredible turnover rate. *Unsafe work environment. Whether we're talking about physical altercations in the warehouse or just your run-of-the-mill sexual harassment which occurs *every single day*. *Benefits. What benefits? Another clown shoe. *Diversity and inclusion: White people on the top of the pyramid, people of color on the bottom...with very few exceptions. *To call the place dystopian might be hyperbole, but this place is undoubtedly embracing their place within the landscape of late stage capitalism. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that CEO Andrew Cousins has a shrine to Jeff Bezos in his home or that he sheds a single silent tear any time he reads of a business unionizing.