Toxic environment - Front Desk Belltown Inn Employee Review

Coworkers are fun, busy, great to learn about the industry, potential overtime

very busy at times, a little advancement room

Freedom to experiment and try new things. Flexible hours (for management). Opportunities to learn outside of one’s role. For those curious and eager to not be bound by a brand, there may be legitimate interest.

The current direction has no real interest in the training or growth of its staff. An employee handbook does not only not exist but is actually regularly argued against by management due to the belief that it would set the company up for legal recourse. Regular misogynistic jokes should be expected from the director of the hotel (who also oversees the Mediterranean Inn, Vermont Inn & Pacific Inn) who actively eschews any office norms. There is no one to bring harassment complaints to, so the culture continues. There is no designated HR department at the company, which only encourages this “can’t you take a joke” toxic culture. The owners are extremely old-fashioned and while many hotel owners are similarly profit-driven, their refusal to increase any paid benefits to employees (no health insurance, insisting on charging employees the maximum possible for transit passes, regularly refusing pay raises to management on the basis that they should be “grateful for the opportunities given”) even while they saw record-breaking profits result in a constant cycle of demotivation.