Toxic culture with bullies as managers - Recensione dipendente - Charity Worker presso Children First

Great local services, frontline staff really care about children and families Good annual leave

Toxic management culture, despite frequent surveys things never change. Poor learning and development opportunities, dishonest and insincere attitude towards diversity and inclusion, teams frequently understaffed due to people quitting from unreasonable workloads/bullying. Gaslighting and manipulation from senior leaders, bullying and intimidation frequently reported by staff but never resolved. I think senior leaders believe their behaviour can go on undisputed however from the amount of staff leaving these things cannot stay under wraps forever! You would think this review, just like the many others posted here, would prompt some sort of reflection, and yet it did not happen during my time at this organisation.

Holiday allowance was fairly good even for a new start.

The days can seem very long especially if you have to travel a lot. One of the team leaders came across as rather abrupt and rude sometimes. They would often give me dirty looks and would whisper about me in front of people - which made me really uncomfortable at times. There is no need to whisper about me when I am right there unless you are speaking negatively about me. Even on one of the first days, the said team leader was speaking to another member of staff from a different location and snidely and sarcastically laughed at the travel I would have to do for another meeting. "Only 20 minute walk." "Yeah, just 20 minutes." When they knew that wasn't the case - it was going to be longer by over 10 minutes. It made me feel a bit bullied as they laughed at my expense knowing that was the way I would be commuting, I even had one of the door swipes thrown at me instead of just giving it to me as they sat next to me. This was in front of the line manager who might not have seen as I was behind several screens. However, it seemed like the minute it was made aware that my notice had been handed in, some people (especially TL) seemed to be dry, abrupt and not not very supportive. It was like the moment you are leaving, they office team just don't care. Spent many days within the office not speaking much as I was often left out of conversations. For example, due to the constant whispering.