Embarrassingly Bad Leadership - Anonymous employee CafePress Employee Review

The leadership is shockingly poor. A few months back, several managers forced a large number of people to write positive Glassdoor reviews because they were loosing candidates (so take the positive reviews with a grain of salt). The CEO seems to believe that he can single-handedly run the entire company by himself, and has dismissed key leadership positions to run several departments on his own. Decisions are never made based on data or expert experience, but basically haphazardly, with the core business strategy and direction changing every 2-3 months. Projects never even have time to get off the ground before they either end up canceled or radically changing. This has led to long-term employees becoming so apathetic that they don't even bother to try anymore--and there is no consequence for this behavior because promotions and rewards are entirely based on length of tenure at the company with long-time employees being beyond reproach while new hires are treated as less than dirt. This leads to a kind of subtle lie about a low turn-over rate because staff are not treated as real employees until they have at least 2-3 years under their belt (the actual turnover rate is very high). After about 4-5 years, most employee only work about 6 hours a day (much of which is spent watching YouTube or complaining about projects until the management gives up and cancels them). This means that many systems are horribly outdated or grossly behind the rest of the marketplace, pushing the company's slow decline to irrelevance along a little faster.