Vantaggi
The clients and families! I worked with some of the most inspiring, brilliant, and driven co-workers. Summer hours and PTO (with tons of hoops to jump through to get approved).
Svantaggi
Well, I will start out by saying my original review was deleted. So, let that be a sign. I watched my amazing co-workers go nowhere in their career. This is why I had to leave. I knew my career was not going to grow. So I took my passion and skills elsewhere. Very little training. On my first day I was told "sink or swim" and they were being absolutely serious. Management (Executive Directors and District Directors) promotes a bully culture where co-workers are publicly shamed in front of clients, donors and sponsors. A few months in I almost went to get tested for a learning disability because they made me feel like I had one. Management is absent, except if you make a mistake- then they come tails wagging! At an event my District Director yelled at me in front of a group of guests for not doing something she told me earlier not to do. People were whispering. I honestly felt embarrassed for her. I heard management gossip about their employees and the clients (YES, THE CLIENTS!) to other employees, call their employees names, swear at employees and belittle them saying things like "Do you know how to read?" in front of their peers. We always told new employees to stay away from our District Director on event days or suffer her wrath. My Executive Director constantly worked from home because her commute was too hard on her. She would never reply to emails, was never available by phone and provided no leadership. But when people from the National office were around, she was suddenly our offices biggest cheerleader. It was so insincere. I caught her on multiple occasions throw her staff under the bus when she had dropped the ball. I came to MDA to make a difference. I left feeling broken.
