Vantaggi
The mission is admirable. I also appreciated the freedom to work remotely.
Svantaggi
It took me a while to realize just how systemically toxic this place is—the gaslighting is unreal. They have extremely high expectations, expand your workload and provide limited support. Notice how vague the job descriptions are—it’s for a reason! The lack of professionalism and disrespect is rampant. And when I finally gave my resignation, the marketing and communications director pitched a fit because I wouldn’t write their Q4 creative brief in my short time left. That’s says pretty much everything.
The workload was unsustainable and, as the sole writer for the organization, (along with doing your own project management and dealing with continually unresponsive stakeholders who create roadblocks), burn out happens fast. I was told the marketing team quit during the merger just because turnover happens during mergers. But I wish I’d seen the red flag there.
It’s sad that Christian organizations see people as expendable—and the turnover the almost year I’ve been here has been dramatic! But it’s for a reason. I made the excuse it was because of the merger—and perhaps that’s true. Leadership doesn’t really know what they’re doing. Plus, dealing with hostility from your boss as she bullies you in front of others and makes passive aggressive comments where everyone can see—that’s another level of dysfunction. Especially when it’s done in front of HR.
There’s no real career development opportunities. You’re stuck with poor pay, a couple days of PTO, not all the federal holidays, extreme expectations and expected to show up with a smile on your face. Prayer time is also really sad. It’s pretty dead and people clearly don’t want to be there.
Money is the baseline. Leadership really is trying to please everyone, but they’re also really unprofessional and don’t seem to know what they’re doing other than they know they need more money.
They also are really focused on the global aspect of the organization now. But it’s kinda falling apart because of the lack of professionalism in coworkers who never respond to messages, emails, tasks. You literally never know if you will get the support you need or if people will show up to meetings, but the expectation that you provide that content is still the same. You will burn out trying to get responses from people.
When I first started, the last remaining member of the pre-merger marketing team quit without two weeks notice. I was appalled. But now I get it—he’d been bullied and was done. I’d ask that if you’re a writer and reading this, you’d learn from our experiences. This place isn’t going to change, but it will change you. And it’s not worth it.
This place claims to be Christian but man. If this is the shining city on a hill Christ talked about, it’s not wonder people run to darkness.
