ASPCA Reviews

- Organization is growing way too fast, trying to do too much at once, and no one can keep up. - Shockingly low morale and enthusiasm. Everyone is burnt out. - Very corporate culture. A "get your work done, don't ask questions, move on" atmosphere. Way too stuffy and professional when it should be fun and team-oriented. - No one wants to raise the bar or do anything innovative, creative, or requiring teamwork. - Lots of people in management positions who don't really care, don't know how to lead, and just want to get by doing as little work as possible. - Enthusiasm and innovation not encouraged - Managers didn't advocate for me and made me look bad all the time - Managers didn't understand my job or my work, had never actually done my job - Didn't matter if I did amazing work or just so-so work. No one knew or had time to care. - No clear career path - Egregiously more last-minute travel than I expected - Absolutely no work-life balance - No respect or value for creative people or creative work - Threatened to sue me if I shared or displayed the work I did as an employee - No creative direction, despite having a team of incredibly talented people - When I accepted another job, they rejected my offer of two weeks notice and forced me to leave immediately, which made me feel very burned and forced my already overworked coworkers to suddenly pick up the slack. - Turned me into a depressed, anxious, hopeless pessimist. I was no longer proud of the work I was doing. My job poorly affected my marriage and personal life. - Lots of division between animal care staff and professional staff. Often awkward and offensive hierarchy. Very cliquey. - NYC Adoption Center and its hard-working, dedicated staff very poorly supported - Hiring took forever and unqualified people often hired - HR aka "The People Team" is NOT for the people - My managers didn't even like animals or know much about them - Animals often put into uncomfortable situations to get media attention - Terrible review process, often late, poor raises, and no opportunity to negotiate - No recognition if you go above and beyond (or even work on your vacation) - Inconsistent application of rules and policies - Too strict with animal handling, adoption process, volunteers - way too concerned about liability and the small chance that something bad might happen. - Upper management of adoption center only concerned about numbers and reputation, not staff or animals - Poor support for remote employees and employees who don’t work a typical 9-5 schedule

1) Culture: TERRIBLE place for anyone who is not a white, affluent, straight person with strong ties to christian/classist values. 2) Leadership: Absolute worst CEO and executive leadership team. I cannot stress this enough. Leadership is an absolute joke. Their ways of thinking are outdated and out of touch. They don't know how to run meetings. They have standards and values rooted in the 1990s corporate workplace. Not receptive to feedback. 3) HR: Terrible: no support for employees at at all; treat employees poorly. 4) Senior Managers: unqualified, bitter, easily threatened unreliable, pretentious. 5) Professional Development/Career Advancement: No opportunities to advance in your role and senior leaders who want to "move up" in the org will do everything they can do prevent you succeeding because they are easily threatened and want the minimal opportunities for advancement for themselves. Senior managers/directors see productive employees as a threat to them moving up the leader ladder. Worst offenders at the org: Leaders/Managers in Humane Law Enforcement, Strategy and Research and Legal Advocacy and Investigations, the People Team.