Mind Games - Chief Executive Officer - Sales G Adventures Employee Review

Speaking of company culture. It only exists for those who are being rewarded, such as executives, and G Force (who is in charge of the company culture). Ever since the Mayor left, it has never been the same. Instead of hiring another Mayor, they hired someone who would help with more of the business strategy for company culture. Nothing against that person, but it was a move that showed that business comes first and not the employees, even though the employees are what drive the company itself with passion to ‘change the world’. Hiring people that love their job promotes the company without marketing. The reason why this is a problem even though there are indeed many fun events, is that the bigger events that you only can get ‘invited’ to, drive people to work harder through jealousy and it builds resentment when they don’t get to go. Needless to say, it’s not that these people do not deserve to be invited, it just needs to be explained why they were invited. Showcase why they were picked, so people don’t create ideas and rumours about favouritsm and lack of merit. Going off of that, let’s move onto management in the Sales Department. Aside from the fact that I’ve heard offside comments that are racist and or discriminatory, most of the time they were unapproachable. Unless you had a personal relationship with them, it was tough to ask them for help without them rolling their eyes or sighing heavily. This was due to the fact that management was also very unsatisfied with their jobs. Mainly because they had the same problems as us, lack of growth and pay. There was a serious glass ceiling for everyone and there were many undelivered promises. Time and time again, they would make ‘improvements’, with out ever consulting the GCOs. It would’ve been useful for everyone to have brainstorms for GCOs to have input and make suggestions. It was also upsetting that even though the managers did have great ideas to improve the morale and productivity, the director was stubborn. The director wanted all of the credit and wanted all of the plans to go their way. The Sales department preyed on youth and excitement. Once you were there for over 2 years, expect to be treated differently. Management had no idea how to keep retention in that department. In fact they would try and push people out, by not giving them any recognition and blocking them from moving to other departments. Yet you would feel like it was because you were not working hard enough. However, the sooner you realized that it wasn’t you, the better. It took a really long time to realize that all of the overtime every single day was not worth a pat on the back and that you were truly working towards nothing. I watched other co-workers leave work in tears because they were put on probation plans because they did ‘too much overtime’. Management felt that they couldn’t manage their time because they couldn’t balance quality with quantity. While the rest of us who knew, pretended we never did overtime. It was strange as they encouraged a lot of emotional investment into the job by quoting the company’s “core values”, such as “do the right thing”, “creating happiness in the community”, and “lead with service”. Yet when you would bring these up, they liked to remind you that ‘it’s still a business.” Essentially saying that those core values do not apply to Sales. They would push you down emotionally and would remind us of how lucky we were, and I once overheard management say we were ‘spoiled’. Other GCOs would go along with this and say things like, “I got paid way more at my last job, but they had no company culture.” You can only do that for so long before you realize that is what they wanted you to say. Making you believe that everything else out there is dry and the low pay and degrading behavior towards you was acceptable. It was even tougher watching people who acted like brats, get rewarded over and over again. I will say, they were great at believing in the G dream, (even if they acted fake) and that is why they were always picked. It still boggles me to this day that even though those people who were being rewarded, were malicious to their co-workers at work and outside work. Yet had their actions ignored and pushed under the carpet. Overall, if you’re wondering why I worked there for so long, it was because of the people you got to see everyday and friendships that you made. It was also the hope that one day you would finally be recognized for your hard work. If you do decide to still work there in Sales after reading this, my advice to you is that stay positive and don’t let management push you down. Take advantage of the connections you make and learn how to play the game. Best of luck!