So many cons, I don't even know where to start.
It is now all about the money. Higher ups don't care if the school or program is right for the student, advisers are pushed to get as many students signed up as they can. I once had a student whose child was dying in the hospital and I was belittled for not pushing them to start school because the team wasn't going to make goal, money comes before people.
Advancement - it is all about sucking up to the right people & being in the boys club. Low performing men get promotions because the "fit in with the masculine culture", women & POC have to work 10X as hard to a senior position or management.
Work hours & expectations - when I started a few years ago, I could put in my 40-42 hours a week and exceed my budgets & goals and still have a life. Every term they keep upping the budgets & goals, without taking anything away. The only advisors who make goal term after term, are the ones who work 45+ hours a week. It is very impossible to meet the metrics without the overtime, which basically makes it mandatory. If you don't meet your metrics, you are gone.
Raises - they don't exist beyond a measly 1-2% raise. Managers are only able to give out a couple of 3% raises, and everyone else gets 2% or less. Kind of like a teacher who is only allowed to give 2 A's, and everyone else, regardless, can only get a B or C. Of course the 3% raises don't go toward the high performing advisors (the ones actually meeting budgets & bringing in the $) When you are given a 2% annual raise, they act like it is something to be excited about - it isn't even enough to keep up with the cost of living. I never missed a budget, performance reviews where always positive & I brought in the most $ out of my team, I would get the same 2% as the person who is on performance improvement plans and eventually was fired.
Everyone was "retrained" earlier this year - we were told they want everyone to be "easily replaceable and to drink the koolaid" It is moving toward a "used car salesman" way of working with students. If the partner schools knew what was going on - they'd be appalled
Also, the former COO sent an email out company wide praising Nathan Bedford Forrest - that is the culture you are walking into here
