Last Time I Work in a Civil Society Organization - Anonymous employee Rare Employee Review

1.0
15 Jul 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Promises of travel. On paper looked like a good culture. Interesting places to work. Felt there was a chance to solve global problems and become part of something that I really cared for, a mission to giving back something.

Cons

It was all marketing, spin and public relations type blurb. Bad news, good news, they would just give it to DevCom and they would spin it into a positive spin. Nothing substantive and no on the ground work - it is all in everyone's head. No results to show for their work. The real founder of the organization Paul Butler has moved away from overseeing day to day activities that left the organization with no heart or soul. Many problems going on, all hushed up but close to my departure there were mass resignations and stories of rogue accounting staff in Asia and all sorts of things going on apparently, but we were never really informed.

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Cons

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Cons

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