Traumatizing - werkgeversreview Independent Contractor bij Opswerks

They sort of love bomb you when you start. People come in and warmly welcomed. The salary is enticing due to the low tax and high net salary. And the treats they are giving you through food or material things. They would always preach psychological safety and the culture. Once you are comfortable, you’ll feel that things are changing to a different direction. There are policies implemented immediately without prior announcements, micromanagement, blame game when things go south or if they do not like you. Individual contributors are afraid to speak up. Because they do not want to feel the heat from management. When you give a negative feedback to the leaders, we wouldn’t get a good response. The result of the feedback would be an immediate policy change. Policies aren’t really followed by management. They can easily bend the policy to their favor when they don’t like the person. Since we are only on consultant contracts, policies can easily be changed and implemented. It’s hard to be open to people, specially to the leaders, because of who might snitch to the management. Unless you saw someone with the same experience as yours or they are already rendering that you realize that you can trust those people. You report to multiple offices in 1 week. Plus the other office they have isn’t really commuter friendly. So if you’re using ride hailing apps, it’s hard to book causing you to be late to go to work or go home late. And you’ll be blamed for it. But, they do not plan properly, which causes the struggle of the people, specially we are reporting to the office everyday. PTOs are hard to use because of the high attrition rate. You will not see hope. Every benefit you have is used against you when you’re struggling or when you use the benefit like working from home or your PTOs. Management don’t really understand the feelings of the people. They are asking about your personal life to fish on you, and not because they care, so at some point they can use it against you. Majority of the individual contributors really do not trust the management. Maybe a few. Instead of helping you get back up when you’re down or struggling, management will even use your life scenarios against you and blame you for everything. Morale of the members are currently down which is obvious with the engagement of people in the chats. Opportunities inside are also limited. Specially if you want to go to another team. When management don’t like or need you, it’s okay for you to go and they would stop talking to you while rendering 60 days. When management need you, they will still try to talk to you at the start of your render period. Then if you still want to leave, they won’t talk to you anymore. Which is ironic with what they are saying about their vision. People leave manipulated and gaslighted with their morale and confidence really down, and feel really traumatized that sometimes it’s okay to leave without a company to transfer, just to recover.