Pros
Snacks are good but run out by mid week because the company can’t afford to keep refilling them
Cons
Under the previous CEO (Alan), Fortune was like Eden. We were growing, making money, knew what our purpose was, and worked for a person of character. But the CFO was a serpent, whispering in ownership’s ear about the CEO and COO. Once Anastasia had her competition cast out and took over as Fortune’s current CEO, everything began to rot and turn foul. The culture at Fortune has been distorted and disfigured into one based on fear and mistrust. Under Anastasia we’ve seen Fortune report on the RTO mandates, silent layoffs, and sundry behaviors of other companies, as Fortune commits the same DOGE-like acts against their own employees. It’s pure journalistic cowardice and a perfect example of why the American people have lost trust in news media. When Fortune published their annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For, the union threw our own published words back in the face of management. If you worked here you’d be justified in wondering if senior leadership or our foreign owners actually read or believe the stories that Fortune publishes. Fortune has become an amalgamation of all the bad behaviors they call other companies out for. In my final nine months I saw… 🫥 people disappear…one day they’re out sick, then PTO, then gone 🚌 until there’s a problem and the recently disappeared are thrown under the bus 👿 one guy got escorted out during his final two weeks after being laid off because he was too jovial/gregarious…apparently people weren’t miserable enough 🤬 some C-suite managers have been overheard saying they don’t have time to worry about whether their team is happy or not (in fact, targeting certain individuals for misery to get them to quit/not pay severance seems to have been a HR-approved senior leadership tactic)…the Senior Leadership Team is composed of cruel, uncaring, evil people who cannot be taken at their word or trusted in any way 🚫 then they wonder why they can’t hire replacements for the people they chased off…even in the worst white collar job market in decades as many offers are declined as accepted 💸 many got laid off right before bonuses…well…right before when bonuses usually come…they were late this year…and at 50%…and if you got a bonus this year you didn’t get any pay increase…unless you were one of the people who they cheated out of the bonus entirely AND got no increase 📅 five day RTO because we have miserly, dinosaur owners, a weak CEO, no CFO to keep her in check and an expensive lease for five more years 📉 every metric that matters has tanked…traffic and revenue are in the toilet…they’re cutting wherever they can…start looking under the couch cushions for loose change…the company is circling the drain 🤐 leadership that is scared to communicate with staff…we’ve had two poorly received Town Halls and one passive aggressive nastygram when nobody came into the office during an ice storm 💊 I know of at least one person who had a medical accommodation and was asked to modify their treatment schedule over RTO 👨⚖️ I hear that at least two wronged former employees may be suing 🍝 no strategy…just throwing spaghetti at the wall desperately hoping something will stick 🍽️ and they let Alan out of his non-compete so he’s over at Dow Jones eating Fortune’s lunch…Fortune’s conference business is in such dire straits 💸 that they just held their premiere Most Powerful Women conference in Saudi Arabia 🤢 Alan used to say that the current owners told him he wasn’t hired to manage a brand in decline. I guess Anastasia didn’t get that same talk because managing a brand in decline is precisely what she’s doing.