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Burn Out - Marketing & Communications Non-GMO Project Employee Review

1.0
11 July 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There are a few genuine and competent people still left at this organization. Opportunities for PTO/flex time if your supervisor approves.

Cons

Subservience is favored over hard work and even the slightest critique is met with criticism. The feedback loop is severely broken due to a top-heavy management structure. Executive Director and her team work in a silo and are resistant to change underlying issues that lead to high staff turnover. When executives get any real work done, praise is solicited and expected. Organizational hiring practices are incestuous and new hires quickly realize that most everyone with decision-making authority is related in some way. Although finding a job at an internationally recognized nonprofit — especially in Bellingham’s market — may seem like a good fit, save your energy and look elsewhere. Good people burn out here and it won’t take you long to learn why.

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5.0
27 Nov 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Heartfelt leadership, purposeful work and mission.

Cons

Low pay, lacks diversity, lack of clarity and support for leadership courage. Mixed messages from leadership.

1.0
2 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Personal relationships that extended beyond the workplace were the only “pro” for me! The fringe benefits that felt nice at first, I quickly grew resentful of.

Cons

- Leadership consistently gaslights subordinate expertise and experiences. Managers readily take credit for others’ work, offer shallow and performative praise, and withhold information under the guise of “protecting you” or “coaching you.” Weaponized incompetence is a day-to-day occurrence. - Power hoarding amongst leadership is known and acknowledged by all staff but continues to remain in tacked. - Social capital is required to be successful here. In other words, expect to divulge personal life/self details that can and will be used to manipulate you and/or will effect your career growth. - The overall culture is passive aggressive, conflict avoidant, and gossipy. They’ll call you family but turn on you as soon as you begin to offer feedback or constructive criticism of workplace culture. - The Non-GMO Project is rampant with allllll of the “isms.” Only those with primarily dominant identity markers will feel belonging here. It’s straight up cult-like (and the way in which staff idolize the executive director perpetuates so much harm.)

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