Business support functions like marketing are not valued by the majority of the business - always seen as a cost not as an essential function to help the business grow. The team always made to feel as if they were never quite doing enough, creating a huge blame culture from management down to the team. Despite EVP launches, basic suggestions for employee retention (at least on the support side) or complaints weren't listened to - career progression, lack of resource and pay were brushed aside and turned into the employee's issue. Told there were no basic inflation pay rises because we need to "work harder" and always told to prove yourself and you will get rewarded - however, this never happened. Never worked or worried so much in my life only to feel that it still wasn't good enough. Not enough resource on the team so trying to 'prove ourselves' to get anywhere within the company was constantly an issue as projects couldn't be completed efficiently because of lack of resource, changing priorities and increasing workloads. I worked with 5 different managers over the years and various different marketing executives, most left due to pay, progression or workload. Despite three reviews in a row where I told my managers that I was unhappy and wanted to know what I needed to do to progress, nothing was ever addressed. When I eventually threatened to leave, I was then offered a promotion. At the end of my employment, I felt exhausted, undervalued, demotivated and frustrated. Only since starting new employment - which ironically has more responsibility (amongst other things I wanted.) have I realised that work shouldn't make you feel like this!