Our so-called manager loves nothing more than his daily meetings with everybody, where he publicly ridicules and humiliates those who have not met his expectations for productivity during the previous 24 hours. Of course meeting those expectations means working a minimum of 10 hours per day (on a good day) and often hours over the weekend too. You might be trying to balance several different projects at once, but only hours spent toward the special magical project that makes management look good in the eyes of the overlords at Camping World count toward the much-heralded "non-ridicule" days. Get something done ahead of schedule? Don't expect a thank-you, just hope some crisis in one of the non-magical projects doesn't cause the target to be on your back the next day.
There is no such thing as a raise unless it is a very secretive affair which is done only in hopes of keeping somebody from leaving the company. There are no performance evaluations outside the daily public ridicule meetings, with the exception of somebody getting an HR writeup without ever being told outside the daily public meetings there is a problem.
Other than public ridicule, it seems that the only purpose for the daily meetings is to micromanage each hour of everybody's day -- after all nobody can figure out what they should be doing in each hourly increment of every day unless it is decided by the manager. These daily meetings are done under the guise of scrum stand-up meetings but serve no purpose whatsoever than micromanagement and intimidation.
Ok, I went on a lot about the daily meetings and missed the opportunity for plenty of other cons. I guess I really wanted to paint a picture of how lovely our days are and how much we are made to feel wanted and appreciated.
