A rudderless ship that's slowly sinking in an ocean of toxicity
Pros
- Good salary for Brighton - Great hybrid approach (6 days in the office per month) - Pension and benefits overall are pretty good.
Cons
The entire organisation is broken from the top down. There is no trust anywhere within any of the teams, and this comes directly from ExCo and SLT. Fair processes have gone completely out the window, with temp staff secretly being made perm without having to go through any fair or equal process, and Directors deciding that they have carte blanche to change contractual and non-contractual benefits and processes on a whim, regardless of whether it is to the detriment of colleagues, particularly women. Senior leaders bully those who have individual thoughts (or thoughts that don't align directly with whatever mad decision they've made that day) and calling out wrong doing puts a big target on your back. This is ironic, given the obvious incompetence of most of those in Leadership roles. So many of the support functions, particularly HR and Facilities, are totally ground down and have lost some great people, as well as any enthusiasm they had - I believe this is due in significant part to the internalised misogyny which is rampant in these areas. Projects are unmanageable, with ridiculous delivery timelines and constantly changing goal posts, if indeed the goalposts are even defined to begin with - it often feels like no one actually knows why we are doing the work we are doing, just going along with a stream of consciousness. The goal of the organisation has become totally lost amongst ego and people trying to out do one another, seemingly in how "cut throat" they can be. It should stand for so much more, but I think it would be hard to say TPR stands for anything anymore.
