This company has consistently shown that you have to know someone to get anywhere. Unfortunately “we’re like family” can be taken in a way more literal sense than one would typically expect, because people end up in relationships with coworkers, or get jobs, internships or flexibility and special treatment because their family knows someone in leadership.
When one person is told that they can’t get their schedule adjusted because it’s not “feasible” yet there are people who get to work from home or have flexible schedules because they have a family member in leadership, it’s a slap to the face.
Leadership will go out of their way to make positions for someone they like
Leadership will also actively treat the people they are not fond of with disdain, and enough passive aggression to cause people to quit.
In a most recent example where there were raises, there were people who worked in the credentialing department for several years, yet did not see a significant raise compared to the people who were favored and had worked for the company for less than a year. The former were told that they could have more “improvements” even though these people took on significant work load because there were not enough people to take those loads. They have lost people who were with the company for years, because of this.
There is no benefit to being loyal to this company because of incessant nepotism and cronyism.
The diversity and inclusion here is also very performative. National Holidays like Juneteenth is not a holiday that is acknowledged in the company schedule, but employees are “welcome to use their PTO” to celebrate?… That’s a little odd. They don’t acknowledge Black History Month, But they do acknowledge, celebrate and decorate for St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco de Mayo etc.
It’s very reflective of the company as a whole and the diversity and inclusion can be improved.
There have been attempts to include credentialing into meetings with other departments, but it doesn’t really do much to improve the core issues and people still lack confidence to bring up ways they would feel supported by the company because corporate jargon will quickly shut it down.