Pinckney Reviews

The pros I described at Pinckney have unfortunately been overshadowed with poor management from the top down. The people I worked with were great, but the workload they endured and the treatment they got made them consistently bitter and rightfully angry. The events were fun until someone (often in a management position) would make inappropriate comments and actions. And the responsibilities given, though great for experience, were held to the accountability of someone with said-experience and often inappropriately scolded in meetings. When leadership leaves and is instead replaced with underpaid internships, you lose all the experience they brought and ultimately you lose credibility as an agency.

I’m embarrassed to have this company’s name on my resume. For the entire time I worked there, I was taken advantage of. Not just in a professional capacity, but leadership sexually harassed and taunted me the entire duration of my employment. And it wasn’t just leadership. They would allow clients to harass employees to an unbelievable extent. When I expressed my concerns about the client harassment I was told to “use it to my advantage” so we could make more money. During just one of the years I was there, I saw 10 people leave this company. There is a reason. I am not writing this review because I want to. I feel like it is my due diligence to forewarn anyone who is even thinking about working here, especially women, to stop and really reconsider your worth and your values. Let me take a moment to discuss the actual workplace environment. The team is great. The work is terrible: rushed, forced, everything is a fire drill. You will be overworked and underpaid. You will receive no training and you will constantly feel like a failure because you can’t always make the impossible happen. There is no onboarding. I felt intimidated into learning accounts as quickly as possible so I could start work immediately. This agency is supposed to be a HubSpot partner agency… and it is NOT. They make you take a bunch of HubSpot certifications, but then never let you work in the HubSpot platform. So none of it actually makes sense. They just want “merits” for the website and to maintain their partnership with HubSpot and that’s it. At one point, a business coach was brought in to dig the organization out of the unethical pit they’ve dug, however, it has been made very clear that this addition was just enabling leadership to accept their behavior and do whatever it takes to keep the boat afloat. Real concerns have been brought up, and no real action has been taken. In a perfect world, some sort of authority figure would swoop in and shut this place down so that no more women would have to feel unsafe, no other hard workers would be burnt to the ground, and no more people would have to waste years of their lives sacrificing their own self-worth when they could be learning, growing and developing with a company that has real values.