Please Touch Museum Reviews

2.3

15% would recommend to a friend

(57 total reviews)

Melissa Weiler Gerber

56% approve of CEO

12% positive business outlook

Please Touch Museum has an employee rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, based on 57 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Please Touch Museum employee rating is 40% below average for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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57 reviews
1.0
13 Feb 2017

Terror behind the walls

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The children and the good people on the floor.

Cons

Horrible work environment that is hostile and abusive. The museum is run by a bully who carefully manages her reputation on the outside but on the inside instills fear and terror among hardworking, dedicated staff. Browbeating, berating, constant criticism, and disrespecting are the norm. There's constant scrutiny and complete lack of trust, with objectives always changing, micromanagment, and undermining of staff. 4 out of 6 executives have left in the last few months alone. Management is probed weekly on goals, and now with no protection from executives who have moved on. Considering working here? Run the other way.

1.0
4 Aug 2017

Abusive Relationship

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice office space, Nice co-workers

Cons

Working at Please Touch Museum is like being in an emotionally abusive relationship. We are always in crisis mode. We are promised that things will be fixed or solved once we hire this person, or fire that person but the problems never go away. When you question certain situations or bring up failed promises, you're the one made to feel crazy. Over time, you begin to question if you're the problem, what are you doing wrong in this situation and why can't you seem to fix it? Upper management belittle and berates your efforts, fails to acknowledge your accomplishments and yet, still demands more. The CEO stood up in front of the staff and told them that " If you think your busy now, wait until the next few months because we are about to get a whole lot busier!". This wouldn't be a problem statement if everyone wasn't already overworked, underpaid and questioning their own sanity and existence. The best thing anyone can do to end this is to leave. Run. As fast as you can. Most of these people are great, they deserve better and this is not the place they are going to receive that treatment.

1.0
7 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The work environment at Please Touch Museum was extremely toxic. The Human Resources Dept is utterly unprofessional on every level that I witnessed. Human Resources "pretended to care" but then acted completely different. Gossip and unprofessional activity on the executive team and that level is utterly also unprofessional and toxic. Individuals who are talented leave in short periods of time and feel as if they were shut out or not wanted because they tried to stand up to upper management. Ideas that are great are squashed and lower level management and staff are constantly in fear of being fired, reprimanded or written up for no reason. Everyone is afraid of being fired.

Cons

Problems and concerns that were brought to HR were ignored or told that something would be done at a later date or nothing was done at all. HR Dept is extremely unprofessional and appeared to also be a large part of the problem. People were constantly in the HR Dept office for every possible reason. People leave after working very short periods of time. The museum is constantly understaffed and everyone is asked to do more despite the fact that they have too much work already to do. The management staff appear unprofessional and untrustworthy and their lower level staff complain about them. The museum's culture appears to be very negative and has a low value among employees.

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