Pros
Not much I met some great colleagues who are now friends
Cons
It’s taken me a while to reflect on my experience at PA and put together an honest review , I look back and I’m shocked I managed to survive for so long. From the moment I joined PA I was thrown into a toxic and bullying environment , my manager was a bully and everyone knew it , but nobody said anything , management and colleagues would avoid my manager , because they knew how difficult they were and didn’t want to interact , but yet they allowed my manager to treat me and my fellow team mates awfully . I had to complain 3 times , offering evidence of bullying behaviour and threats to finally be heard , and my final complaint was the 10th complaint to be made (and those are the complaints I know of) . When it was finally shared with my manager how myself and the team, along with serval other colleagues had been feeling , and how we felt the threatening behaviour was not okay, my manager reacted (BADLY) and yet , they were allowed to continue on as my manager for a period of months with very little support or monitored conversations following this, imagine allowing a bully to stay on as manager when they knew that we’d all complained and how serious the evidence was - you can imagine how genuinely terrifying the months as they stayed as my manager were - this was not your everyday managerial experience where they get stressed and can be a bit scary - there were serious threats and bullying. Following my managers departure , I essentially took on the role of my manager and was not paid or recognised for it (you’re probably reading this and wondering why I stayed up until this point , I can only think that my confidence had been so badly knocked from my experience so far I just didn’t feel I could leave ) Finally we got another manager , a rushed process to hire someone and again, it was a bad experience - on one occasion my manager decided to shout at us like children , in-front of others in the office for being 30 seconds late after lunch , repeatedly asking why did we think we were being shouted at … the one senior manager in the office listening to this, got up and walked away from the situation , perhaps out of awkwardness but nothing was done or said following this and it was as if nothing had happened, basically telling our new manager it was okay to embarrass us like this. There are so many stories I could tell , from not being paid enough and being told I wouldn’t get the agreed bonus in my contact even though targets were hit , I could have gone to legal but I was told I’d be black listed and by this point Id decided I really was just desperate to leave , when I finally handed my notice in I was offered a much higher salary, it begs the question why it took for me to say I was leaving to be paid what I deserved. My main reason for writing this is to warn others , because it wouldn’t be fair for me to let anyone else go through what I did.