If You Want to Waste Your Talent & Potential, This Place is It - Anonymous employee Better Being Co. Employee Review

You know it was a bad sign when the salaries for marketing jobs pay $15K less a year than the state average for comparable roles. What a mistake this place was. It honestly feels like being in high school, all over again, where the teacher focuses on his/her own things and gives the class occasional busywork. It's a straight, white dude culture with so many "conservative" attitudes. Even their mask policies and COVID policies were a joke. Upper management don't care about your health or safety; they care about the "bottom line." My team once had to have an awkward conversation with upper management about using inclusive language in campaigns (especially around pronouns) which upper management scoffed at, saying (verbatim), "Ugh. That's a whole word that just doesn't make sense." It took a voting of the entire team to convince leadership to use "they/them" and "non-binary" in demographic surveys sent to clients. This is a culture where "the loudest people in the room get the most attention." Say goodbye to any work from home culture. Upper management doesn't trust anybody they can't visibly see in their seats because upper management doesn't actually produce anything and, therefore, believe nobody else is either. Thus, they take it upon themselves to talk constantly and book meetings literally all day to "earn their keep." You'll get "emergency" emails at all times throughout the night (between 1:00am--4:00pm) and be expected to respond. Yet upper management doesn't trust or delegate and rules with an iron fist, functioning as a "gatekeeper" to his incredibly-uninspired brand. Creatives: you won't be judged on your abilities to produce. Digital team members: your performance won't matter. What matters most at this place is "visibility." As long as you yap about in meetings and contribute to the disgusting, heteronormative "bro culture," then you're hitting all the right boxes. Your individual contributions DO NOT MATTER and WILL NEVER MATTER. Get ready for constant "control freak" behavior. Many "big-shots" give all interesting creative work to external, private agencies that are friends of the C Suite. You'll essentially be doing minor tasks and not given any creative control. Your responsibility will be to listen to the "CMO's" every direction and regurgitate his ideas into creative formats and market them because he lacks any actual skill set besides talking and boasting about how great he and his team and his connections are. There is absolutely no project management, no delegation. The self-ordained "CMO" has a direction and everybody else is along for the ride. He lies and says he's "grateful for his team" and then turns around and un-involves said team in any of the projects that might be worthwhile. This position manages lame email campaigns and organic social content--which all has to "be approved" by the "CMO" and fit his (incredibly generic) "Brand Guideline." At best, you'll get to either write some copy or work with writers who hate their jobs--same with designers. If you're lucky, you might get to work with the in-house photographer to create content for organic social that the "CMO" will (mostly likely) say "isn't on brand." Leadership is genuinely convinced they're going to revolutionize the world through the most basic, lackluster "active lifestyle" campaign I've ever seen in my entire career. Oh yeah: and 1:1s never happen and your manager will not give a damn about you. Nor will you ever have any performance reviews or increases in merit. Look: if you're looking for a gig where you never have to try and all you have to do is show up and sit at your desk for 10+ hours pretending to be busy, this is your spot. There are ZERO project managers and everything is "tracked" ad hoc through emails and some Asana tasks. Nobody knows what's going on. Lastly: don't count on growth, don't count on professional development. Don't even count on doing the job they'll hire you for.