Drew is a bad person. - Sales Development Representative (SDR) MPI Impact Employee Review

I don't even know where to start. I saw so much sketchiness, laziness, bad management, bad treatment of employees, overworked/underpaid/underutilized employees, and general stupidity over the years that it's difficult to put into words. So I guess I'll start from the beginning. Awful vibes right off the bat; during my first few meetings as a new employee, different people would warn me and tell me "not to trust" Drew and the management. But I was right out of college and needed a job pretty badly, so it was easy to overlook at the time. It is a generally disorganized place, clients would come and go without notice, and so would employees. Processes and procedures would also constantly change with little to no explanation or notice. Over the next few years, this company would experience turnover like that of a Burger King restaurant. And not just the SDRs, but the entire operations and management team would regularly turn over. Be that because of the lack of advancement opportunities, poor/disorganized management, or the apparent sexual harassment of female employees. It was almost like a yearly event where the entire staff would turn over. This is no exaggeration. There is no HR department, and I'm sure it's because Drew doesn't want anyone making rules for how he can or cannot treat employees. We actually did have an HR manager at one point, and she was quite honestly the best thing to ever happen to MPI, but she eventually quit after a few months, just like everyone else who comes through the door. I saw so many good employees come and go. It's ridiculous how much talent was wasted and underutilized there. The pay and benefits aren't even that good. They're average at best. Definitely not worth the stress and abuse that one could incur from working there. They also keep employees there for 9 hours per day, with no guaranteed lunch hour, and no one is compensated for the extra time. The operations team had it worse, with many of them working thankless 60 hour weeks. People are seriously worked to death because it's so understaffed and mismanaged. There was a brief period of time when the place was actually running pretty well! And that was when a man named Kristian was more at the helm than Drew. He was a colleague of Drew's who bought a minority stake in the business and was tasked to help run the place. When he was around, people were generally happy, things ran well, and I liked to work there. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but one day he suddenly quit (as an aside, employees suddenly quitting was the norm, it's honestly kind of funny, like how bad do you have to be at running a business to fail this consistently, hahaha). Anyway, Kristian left the company to start a new one that's already more successful than MPI. He poached a few employees on the way too. Drew is constantly shooting himself in the foot. The place consistently barely keeps its head above water. I don't even know if Drew wants the business to be successful, it seems like he simply wants to play businessman and to hire people who he can have power over. One of the funniest things to me is that MPI originally stood for "Mind Power Institute". It was Drew's father's yoga business in the 70s (or something to that effect) and it was passed down to him. In the mid-late 90s, he revamped the business to be a commemorative coin selling company that eventually evolved into the cold calling/marketing company it is today. It was still legally called MPI when he became the owner, and I guess the best new name he could come up with was the completely stupid and contrived "Making a Positive Impact". How dumb is that. Like, really? THAT's the best new acronym you could come up with?? To be quite honest, that should have been my first red flag. When I was first hired there, Drew was married. Within a few months, he had cheated on his now ex-wife with an employee who was also married. He is a known sexual harasser and a straight-up predator. I'd heard from so many female coworkers during my time about sketchy/inappropriate stuff he would do or say. And there's probably so much more that I'm not even aware of. I was prompted to write this review after Drew's most recent transgression was revealed to me yesterday, in which he apparently groped a female employee's butt, breasts, and legs in order to coerce her to have sex with him in exchange for a promotion. Drew does not deserve to make the money he does or live as comfortably he does while he profits off of a business where he can consistently harass and belittle people. Do not work here. Do not do business with MPI.