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Frazier History Museum Reviews

3.2

66% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)
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Penelope J. Peavler

39% approve of CEO

16% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
1.0
8 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Some good coworkers left who are passionate about the museum and its mission. Work day is flexible. Good benefits.

Cons

High stress environment, with constant fear of retribution if not following new CEO's direction, which changes on a whim. Witnessed on multiple occasions actually yelling and slamming of doors from CEO. No formal training. You are thrown into the job, knowing you have no background, and expected to do things 100% correctly from day 1. Favoritism shown towards certain employees/directors which negatively affects the entire museum staff. CEO hires friends who are not qualified as managers, who then blame their poor performance on their staff or other departments. Overall too much drama and not enough time management or actual planning. Always seemed like we were running from one fire to the next. Exhibits are brought in with not much foresight and no one understands why the place is losing money. Everyone who is left basically keeps their head down and stays for the money.

1.0
12 Aug 2019

How is this place still open?

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and salaries are good, probably why most people stay for as long as they do.

Cons

There is no vision...we would work on one crazy project to the next, hoping someone somewhere would give us money and save the museum. What few eggs we had left went into the bourbon basket and it failed. You walk through the galleries and no one's there. It's a hodgepodge of toy soldiers (oh wait, historic miniatures), bourbon, a few guns, and a patched up kid's exhibit (so we could save face and say we're still family friendly). The education department does the best it can with what is left. Hiring 2 former news anchors to bring in the media and publicity works cause of their obvious connections, but it only goes so far when no one believes or cares in the product you sell. Fear still runs rampant, starting at the top with the CEO, and the good employees have either gone or were fired. Also beware the nepotism in the exhibit department, it is beyond ridiculous. Skilled employee after skilled employee have come and gone (fired for poor planning in that department). It's not that hard to notice where the flaws truly lie based on the turnover rate.

2.0
12 Jan 2018

Bad Leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is competitive for other similar places. Health benefits are good.

Cons

Leadership runs fear based culture and does not support employees. Everyone is afraid to speak up or ask questions. People get screamed at and blamed. A lot of finger pointing rather than solution seeking. Not much transparency or information sharing between leadership and employees. Very siloed departments.

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