Talbots Law Reviews

I think it says it all when there is a very high turnover of staff in the corporate and commercial department. Several former employees have been on stress leave (which is talked about openly in the office) and are openly called names as the butt of jokes in poor humour. Everyone currently there is either waiting for retirement, hanging on as they can't leave or looking for another job. - Bullying culture: department is known for the poor treatment of team members. Some quotes from other departments "X is known for being a bully, nobody lasts more than 6-9 months"… "he was awful to X too when they worked here". - Really low quality work, high volume and embarrassingly low quotes. You're pushed to produce work as quickly as possible and "skim read" documents. Incredibly questionable. - No precedents, guidance and the PA has very clear favourites- to the extent juniors have to do much more admin. Lack of clarity means there are changing goalposts for some if they don't like you. - Unmanageable and ineffective BD targets. You're expected to attend one BD event per week- entirely on you to organise, limited budget and the favourites are taken along to the better events. Very aimless and a waste of time. Most BD events are totally irrelevant. - Poor and very outdated compliance policies, data management system and frameworks. Feels very risky. - They will ask for input to help improve the team, but will push back on any and all ideas. If you do make any suggestions, they'll take it as an attack on the team. - Type of team where when you leave the room, certain characters will complain about you openly in the office. I've seen this done to others. It's a very uncomfortable environment. - PA acts as a informant to the head of the department. Tracking what you do, what you say and relays everything. Everyone in the team knows this but has to act nice or they'll be the next target.