How can you trust a company that doesn't take care of its employees to take care of vulnerable NYers
Pros
Great co-workers who work hard, care about helping people and make the most of crappy pay and a poor work environment Good vacation (3 weeks)
Cons
Look at the other reviews and you pretty much get the picture ... They've touched on the same themes for many years. CEO (google him before you accept the job!!) uses organization to improve his status in community and pad his pockets but he and the leadership couldn't care less about their staff. No interest in building any sort of company culture. No internal HR person or department. Staff are made to work for 3 months in the summer in a windowless office without A/C while the Managing Director and CEO work from home. Constant turnover and people fired in the middle of the work day - expect to befriend your co workers and for them to be suddenly gone the next day. Staff expected to come in during COVID because they are not trusted to work from home, returning to an office that was not sanitized in any way and has mouse droppings on and in desks. Lots of leaks and never properly cleaned, staff working in cubicles with mold spots still on the carpet from floods that happened months or years ago. The exterminator who visited the basement of one of the offices said he had never seen so many cockroaches in his life. Many UU offices are on NYCHA property but that is not an excuse to provide an unsafe and unsanitary work environment. Staff are underpaid for the amount of work they do with upward mobility only available for select favorites. No email to employees asking them how they're holding up with the pandemic or any kind of message about BLM which is shocking from an org with majority black& minority clients. One employee who got sick from COVID had their story used as fundraising material for the organization without their consent...... CEO also runs a PR company that the non-profit staff are sometimes expected to do work for and promote. The org uses nonprofit employee time to work for the CEO's for profit business and for profit contracts. Low level corruption all around. CEO asks staff to write testimonials to fake community support for big real estate projects. If you're a counselor, expect to work long hours to book the maximum number of clients and spend your evenings doing data entry. Healthcare benefits are very expensive and not great in terms of coverage.