Overview
I have worked in corporate jobs for 10+ years and I have never worked with a group of people so beaten by the status quo, they have completely given up on changing anything, mentoring, or teaching others. For those that don’t know, this company is 100 years old and has failed to keep up with the time both in attitudes and views on work.
Culture
Very unsympathetic management styles were you have wanna be alpha males managing and have an upfront “sink or swim” management/ attitude were if you are able to swim you are accepted into the “boys club”. The modern management concept of employee “Development” does not exist here. You can often tell who is a new employee because they are the ones having lunch alone so culturally it’s not a very inclusive place. This is a place where employees awkwardly greet each other in elevators/ common areas and speak with each other only until “after they clock in”.
There is constant cross departmental fighting and not behind closed doors but out in the open floor for everyone to see. Everyone that sees this just looks the other way and accepts this as “the way things are”.
Overall this is very “watch your back” type of culture that leaves one continuously feeling like you are walking on eggshells.
Middle Management is an Atrocity
I personally saw a manager get up and go home when “things” hit the fan and left a lower level employee crying and stressed to handle a massive workload on their own.
In addition, there was constant public beratement of a manager and older employee that couldn’t grasp “technical processes” that was just cringeworthy.