While RDG venues market a luxury guest experience, the employee experience doesn’t align with that vision. RDG is famous for abnormally high turnover across the board, so much that employees refer to it as “Revolving-Door Group” and all leaders could do is continue to wonder why people leave while perpetuating a toxic culture of blame, inequity, and favoritism.
As a HR professional, you are battling the embarrassing, toxic reputation of the company while scrambling to sell a narrative that no longer holds.
- The majority of staff get written up in their first week(s) to create a barrier to upward mobility and justify quick firing.
- Explain why not a single person of color has been promoted to a venue leadership role such as General Manager or Exec Chef despite a plethora of viable internal candidates.
- Employees walk on eggshells terrified of trusting each other.
- Autonomy or new ideas are labeled “combative” and punished.
- Archaic micromanagement style where employees are told in team meetings that they’re expected to work on their PTO, their day off and be attentive to work calls and emails 24/7 or risk losing their job.
- 6 month+ black out period is imposed on the HR team where you cannot request or use your company paid vacation days for over half the year.