Management is awful, and the clients that Curative serves deserve much better. Management grossly abuses power without any fear of consequence (because there isn’t any). One individual in particular, has a bullying managerial style and is unnecessarily argumentative and combative, even over the most mundane of issues. Management is not bound by truth and will fabricate narrative as needed to manipulate employees (I’m talking borderline pathological-like behavior). Other managers within therapy department are complicit, mostly likely out of fear of losing their job. Upper management and Board of Directors either don’t know and/or don’t care re: manager’s unprofessionalism; perhaps it's too easy to turn a blind eye, as there’s no need to solve a problem that you deny even exists. HR’s main purpose is to protect the employer, not the employee. And management will just lie if you ever bring forth a real issue, and HR will blindly accept management’s story over yours 99.9% of time; I know this to be true because it happened to me.
I personally experienced several disturbing encounters with management. I also heard an alarming number other employees report similar 1:1 experiences, in which they were berated, belittled, and/or verbally abused by management; which then attempted to gaslight the employee into thinking it’s all their fault (whatever the issue/conflict may be). I cannot stress enough how astonishingly unprofessional and off-putting management is, which is so devastating for morale.
New Speech/OT/PT graduates - this is a toxic and unhealthy learning environment for you. There are way better jobs out there if this is your first. Normally I would say if you’re desperate for a job, then do what you have to. But this place is such a disorganized cesspool of unprofessionalism, I would recommend working at Jimmy John's before selling your soul to Curative. There’s a good reason the turnover rate at Curative is high, and why so many employees have “jumped ship”, especially from the New Berlin facilities. If you choose to accept a position here, you will know exactly what I’m talking about within a matter of weeks, and wish you took the "other job"; your happiness and sanity are worth more than a paycheck.