Pros
The office had decent natural light, which made the cubicle feel slightly less suffocating.
Cons
- Most of the time was spent sending status updates and waiting for approvals instead of doing actual work. - Every email was treated like a problem, even routine updates to reports, and constantly sent back for unnecessary revisions. - Nothing moved forward without multiple layers of approval, so projects that should have taken days dragged on for weeks, often missing relevance entirely once the news cycle shifted. - Suggestions were routinely rejected, rewritten, and then left sitting in inboxes for days with no response, only to restart the process again. - The core issue of lack of autonomy was never acknowledge, and instead of fixing it, more meetings and check ins were added that only slowed things further. - Over time, there was no motivation left to contribute ideas because execution was never truly allowed.