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Be Bold, Be Gone - Manager National Fire Protection Association Employee Review

1.0
Feb 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

There are only a few real people left the the organization. Those very few, really support each other, and know what it takes to be a team.

Cons

When I came into the organization, they promised the world. I really believed in the mission. Then new senior leadership took over, and the ship has sunk. Instead of working towards our mission, they’re working towards building more red tape, and nitpicking on the .01%, so with that, all good employees have left. They are forgetting the real purpose... save the world, but not save your employees. Doesn’t make any sense. You don’t staff appropriately, especially projects. Try to save a buck, at the sake of driving everyone to the brink of insanity by burning everyone out to the maximum, and then scolding them for forgetting to do one little thing or not doing it as awesome as the scolder would, even though that person has done the remaining 1 million other things right. You tell us to be bold, and when we make any sort of decisions, and the unexpected happens... you put us to blame, blame the employees who believe in the NFPA’s mission, who work day in and day out to push our mission forward, and then do everything you can to make us feel bad until we finally leave the organization.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

The payscale NFPA uses means that people tend to get paid pretty well.

Cons

The environment is highly toxic, starting with the CEO. He's great at speaking and seeming like he cares about people and the company when presenting publicly, but he's a very different, mean-spirited person in more private meetings. Nothing pleases him more than attacking others and getting those around him to agree that he is always "directionally correct," which is a term I've never heard before or since, but heard all the time from the VPs. If anyone has to deal with him or the sycophants he's hired around him in the C-suite, your time at NFPA will likely be miserable. If you don't have to deal with them, you might be OK at NFPA.

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