Avoid!! - Anonymous employee HOSTMAKER Employee Review

Before working at Hostmaker, I had never had a panic attack. While working there, I had three in the space of six months. Throughout my time at this company, my every move has been scrutinised, any small mistake added to a spreadsheet of errors my first line manager created for all of her subordinates. This was the first thing that shocked me. The second was being hired to do one job and then that job magically transforming to a completely different one, one in which myself and my colleagues were name and shamed to the rest of the team, and if not, externally, by either our manager, or any other of the other managers who worked closely with us. Hostmaker employees are never praised for the work they do, and more often than not, have to put in unpaid overtime with absolutely no recognition. We're told we are numbers (literally, this was said to us) and made to feel like mere cogs in a money making machine. Tens of us were fired on the spot and then the remainders asked to do the jobs of the people who were just let go, instead of or in addition to our own. There is no organisation because it changes every few weeks, there's terrible communication and there are new procedures put in place without informing staff, then those employees are told off like naughty school children when they fail to implement them. We were promised certain things in the offer letter which miraculously disappeared as soon as we signed the contract, forced to watch diatribes every week, not given any opportunity for social events, so there is no community feeling and just a terrible low morale atmosphere.