Pros
There are a couple of pros about working here...first being you get to work outside if you work at the bottom of the food chain, and second you can find some really good people that work here.
Cons
The cons...first and foremost THE PAY. If you get a Radaris report on the head of the company you will see that he has a net worth of more than $536,045. He owns a beautiful home in Inman Park (a well-to-do neighborhood in Atlanta), nice suits and an attitude fatter than his wallet, meanwhile the staff is paid below a living wage ($18.75 as of July 2022). They have various excuses for why they refuse to pay their employees more including providing an incentive for hourly to move up to salary (we would move up voluntarily if we were treated well and respected/salary isn't paid that much more), they can't ask our donors to provide more money to pay their staff appropriately because "they just won't go for that" aka folks at the top will not advocate for us, etc etc. They claim to serve the Atlanta community, but the only community they serve are the rich white people that give them money. Higher ups are extremely disrespectful to the labor side, acting as if they are more valuable and important to our so called "mission," and consistently belittle our work while also hardly understanding what it is that we do. Higher ups will not remember your name unless you're salary. They are pretending to want to hire a more diverse staff without bringing on any DEI support, and have never once previously spoken up about the countless numbers of hate crimes in our area, do not make the work environment a safe space for BIPOC individuals to exist, and refuse to pay them a living wage...communication on all ends is horrendous. If you want to work at an MLM cult disguised as a non-profit come to Trees Atlanta!