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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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Jul 16th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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Customer Success Director
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New Orleans, LA
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Wild Ride with Great Experience and Awesome People
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Casual Fridays is a fast-paced, boutique social agency with great clients and amazing people. I would not be the marketer or professional I am today without the experience I gained there, and I am extremely grateful for my time at the agency.
If you are an independent, talented, determined and solid team player, this agency can give you the experience and portfolio you need to advance in your career. Working here challenged me daily, solving problems and working closely with others on those solutions.
For me, the pros of my experience at Casual Fridays are innumerable. I had opportunities here that I would have never had at a larger organization, and that allowed me to build a really solid background in marketing, account management, client success, and management. This is also true for most other employees who have left: they’ve landed excellent positions in large companies and leadership roles in other agencies.
There is never a boring day at Casual Fridays, which for me was a pro.
Highlights:
Flexibility: Extremely flexible work-from-home (or anywhere), as long as your work is done or delegated appropriately and clients are taken care of. I had the freedom and independence to manage my time and my location throughout my time at Casual Fridays, working from multiple countries, and being able to go to a grocery store or coffee shop in the middle of the day if I needed to.
People: Talented, smart, amazing people who are genuine spark plugs and incredibly enthusiastic and positive. I met some of my best friends here.
Clients: many clients are in the travel or festival industries, and exciting to work with and for. Your campaigns are encouraging travel or music festival attendance, which is genuinely pretty fun and more interesting than other agencies’ client rosters. I was close with many of my clients and still cherish those relationships; I feel incredibly lucky to meet the people I’ve met through Casual Fridays.
Skills: learned all of my account management and client success skills here, mostly from Tyler Anderson as well as my actual clients. It was a great education, while completely on the fly, and drove my career path to customer success.
There is a lot of opportunity here to learn how to build, test and implement processes. Any team member can create playbooks and work with Management on scaling that out. I found it to be a HUGE help in growing my own skills and resume.
Growth: I was promoted twice during my time here within 5 years, as were several other employees (including 3 female employees that moved from mid-entry level positions to directors within 5 years). Employees should be proactive and vocal to be recognized, because it is a remote company; you’ll need to share your wins so other people have visibility into the things you’re doing.
Culture: weekly 1x1s with manager, weekly team meetings, bi annual company retreats, transparent. Communication is not perfect but a lot of effort is made to consistently improve, and all managers and leadership are doing the best they can to keep 20 people in the loop across 3 time zones.
CF is the only place I’ve worked where I have felt that valued as a female employee. I saw a few other reviews mention sexism; that was never my experience here. I traveled extensively with the CEO (30+ trips across several years) and I have probably spent more time with him any other employee has at Casual Fridays. He always valued and respected me, even when managing me was challenging, or I made a mistake. I also twice saw the CTO directly and immediately address sexist remarks made by others outside the company (ex at conferences) about our employees, which made them feel safe and valued. Most of the leadership roles, outside of the two executives, are women. As someone who managed employees at the company, it was my experience that they were not treated differently in any managerial discussions or employee interactions that I was a part of, or said that they felt were treated differently.
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Casual Fridays is absolutely not an environment for everyone, given that it is a small, fast-paced agency with an entirely remote workforce, and that’s what’s reflected in other Glassdoor reviews here. Clients can cancel which leads to layoffs, everyone wears multiple hats, and management doesn’t always have solid answers.
This agency is not for you if you do not thrive in a remote or an agency environment, need a lot of instruction and feedback, struggle with change, or prefer working at a large organization. Anyone applying for a job at CF should honestly evaluate if a fast-paced, remote agency environment is for them before applying.
Many managers and other people, including the C level, are doing their roles for the first time, and will make mistakes accordingly as they learn as they go. All are doing the best they can. Most mistakes from my managers were communication related and I addressed with them directly.
Biggest con is the struggle to get out of deliverables fulfillment mode to be strategic, which is reflected in other reviews. This goes across the board, for every employee from coordinators to the CEO, and in my opinion this is the common struggle of most agencies. So if you’re planning to or already in agency, this is not something unique to CF, and probably is no better or worse than other agencies you’ve been at.
C Level occasionally out of touch with what’s actually happening (also very common in agencies). CEO has made a big effort in 2019 to dive in more and make changes to scopes accordingly, so I believe this con is being managed, actively worked on, and improved. C level frequently meets with directors and managers to mitigate this as well.
Social media skills are mostly learned on the fly, from other team members, or on Facebook Blueprint and other resources. You are genuinely responsible for growing your own knowledge base. OKRs were not in place actively when I was there, but the importance of those was recognized and hopefully implemented soon.
I personally found the cons of working here actually made me better: I learned how to think on my feet, prioritize, create solutions rather than focus on problems, invest in bettering myself, and create a close working relationship with my teammates despite the distance between us. I also learned how to set my own personal expectations for what my work life balance should look like, and honored that as best as I could.
Without a doubt, no con of working the agency outweighed the benefit of the experience, skills and relationships I acquired at Casual Fridays.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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3.0
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5.0
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1081270
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Open
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Keep trusting your managers - they are the closest to your clients and your employees.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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6.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 20th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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So Much Potential for So Little Success
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Remote work, while not for everyone, provides flexibility for a variety of lifestyles.
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Company has no growth plan for its employees and no genuine growth plan for the company itself. Lip service is paid to these concepts, but a lack of follow through or action by top-level management continues to drive the company's best talent out the door and leaves the company uncompetitive in the market, which appears to be driving clients out the door as well. This has created an environment of insecurity and competitiveness among employees that undermines the values CF claims to uphold. If this were an office environment it would be toxic, but the remote experience at least provides the ability to step back and recharge. Though the fact that no employees are paid market value for their work makes recharging difficult.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1081270
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Open
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Stop treating the company like a stepping stone for building your personal brand, and get serious about the future of the company with the incredibly talented staff you have left. I would also encourage management to look into diversity training to address rampant bias within the company. Having a staff primarily of women doesn't excuse poor behavior/attitudes and that bias trickles down quickly.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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4.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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Aug 11th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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Social Media Coordinator
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United States
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USA
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Great Place to Work
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I worked at CF for a little over a year and a half and saw the company go through a lot of transitions internally & externally. Transitions can be tough, and if you don't have a strong support team to go through them with, things can easily fall apart. Luckily I felt that CF had a pretty strong team dynamic and the leadership found cool and creative ways to keep the team morale up during each transition.
Overall, this is a great place to work if you love social media marketing and want to learn more about the growing industry. Each day was super unpredictable with last-minute client demands and account transitions, but that's agency life.
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As I said in my pros, each day came with new challenges that could be stressful to some. I'm the type of person that likes new challenges so it wasn't a problem for me. If you're used to a more traditional work place, I would not suggest working here.
My biggest con with CF was that communication with the team wasn't always the best. I was on a remote team of 6, so we rarely got time to work face-to-face with each other and caused some communication issues within our team. By the time I left the company these issues weren't fully resolved, but I will say that our team lead tried their best to help the team come up with solutions that worked best for the team.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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3.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1081270
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Open
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You guys have a great leadership system and I think if you continue to encourage and support each team member, you'll be in great shape!
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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Jul 6th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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Social Media Coordinator
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Working from home may be the only pro.
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No structure.
No organization
Training is a joke.
All other reviews said it best.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1081270
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Open
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Listen to the feedback given to you by current and former employees.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 26th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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Amazing Opportunity
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My time spent at Casual Fridays was an amazing opportunity that I feel provided me with a valuable new skill set , allowed me to gain insight into what I wanted my future career to look like, and allowed me to feel a part of a team of capable, driven individuals working together harmoniously. I felt supported during my time at Casual Fridays and everyone was eager to make sure that I was integrating well and comfortable with my roles.
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None, I had a great experience working at Casual Fridays.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1081270
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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INTERN
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 18th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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Social Media Strategist
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United States
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USA
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Fast growing (& fast paced), fun, flexible agency
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A team full of smart, talented, ambitious and fun people, who you'll learn a lot from. Management that keeps an open line of communication and treats their employees like human beings and wants to help them succeed. Interesting clients, plus some fun business travel. Good perks, casual environment and generally good vibes. Flexible schedule and opportunities to fly solo and take initiative when you feel comfortable. You'll get the opportunity to pursue areas of interest (working with particular clients, helping out with the email newsletters, community management, social ads, etc.) if you want to build skills in a particular area. Yes, you'll work hard, but you'll also learn a lot and will generally be a social media marketing badass if you ever choose to leave. It's a company that's always trying to be on the cutting edge of its field, so you're going to always be learning something new and be ahead of the game when it comes to tools, technology and tactics.
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This is a small company -- and it has some of the downsides associated with start-ups. Will you feel overwhelmed by work at times? Yes. Will you wish they would hire another person (or 2) to help out with your accounts? Totally. But I never doubted that management had anything but the best intentions. They're trying to make their business successful and just like any small company, that generally means keeping a pretty lean team and growing smart, not just fast. If you're into start-up culture and don't mind a few weekends or late nights in return for flexibility and interesting work, you'll thrive here. If you want to clock in at 9 and clock out at 5, this is probably not the place for you.
As far as internal promotion and growth opportunities, I was there for about a year and a half and in that time saw more than a handful of promotions (that's a lot for a small team). Yes, in a few instances that led to some awkwardness -- competing against your own friends/teammates for the same promotion -- but management was clearly listening to employees' request for more growth opportunities.
Some of the cons can be at least partially attributed to the field itself -- social media is 24/7, and so is the travel industry, which is where Casual Fridays gets most of its clients. So while management tries to do its best to maintain work/life balance, there will occasionally be fires to be put out on the weekends or after hours. And yes, this kind of culture tends to perpetuate itself -- if you happen to check Slack on the weekend and you see your co-workers or boss working, you're going to feel the need to jump in too. That's what happens when you have a bunch of ambitious, fast-paced people all working in one company.
There can also be some friction between the San Diego and remote teams, each feeling at times like the other team has it better. If you're part of the remote team, you'll have more flexibility and independence. If you're part of the San Diego team, you'll be surrounded by more teammates (including your bosses) who you can turn to for support and collaboration, and when you do awesome work you'll have a team there to notice and give you a morale boost.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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1081270
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Open
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When it comes to work/life balance, show the team that you mean it by leading by example. Invest in them, and they'll invest in you.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 15th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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Don't Even Apply
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- Flexible work from home hours
- Hard working employees who get along
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- No room for growth
- Poor senior management
- Promotions are rarely given within the company
- Propose new roles then take them away and say it was "bad timing"
- Favor certain employees over others
- Every company outing is "your time your dime"
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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5.0
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2.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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1081270
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 6th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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San Diego, CA
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So much potential...
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- Flexible schedule (for the most part)
- "Work from home Mondays" for the San Diego employees
- Getting to work with your friends (before their promotions)
- Gaining valuable knowledge about social media
- Diverse client base helps to keep things somewhat interesting
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Where do I even begin...
Casual Fridays used to be an almost exceptional company to work for. It seemed as though the cofounders truly valued their employees and the employees all got along very well. I used to look forward to going to work every morning, even if I was maybe a little overworked and underpaid, but the company culture was something to be proud of. As soon as the company started signing bigger clients, company culture went out the window and the cofounders seemed to shift their focus from quality to quantity (but maybe they never really cared about their employees to begin with). At that point, it didn't matter how many clients each strategist and coordinator team was managing, even if quality inevitably suffered. Overtime became a necessity, which my bank account appreciated, but work/life balance is important for your health and your brain stops functioning properly when it's constantly spinning so rapidly. When finances became an issue, overtime was restricted to no more than an hour per week, per employee, so those extra 5-10 hours of work were expected to be completed within the confines of 40 hours or you were going to get slapped on the wrist for letting things slip. Seems reasonable, right?
When the cofounders finally realized they couldn't ignore the high level of stress permeating through the office anymore, they implemented "TinyPulse" as a way for everyone to provide anonymous feedback. If only they actually cared about anyone, TinyPulse may have actually had a positive impact on company culture. Alas, they simply used it as a way to weed out the "complainers" and repeatedly encouraged those with concerns to speak face to face with management (which negated the blanket of anonymity), otherwise these concerns would just never be addressed.
As for upward mobility, it's pretty nonexistent. One of our team members applied for a higher position after more than a year of employment with Casual Fridays when the position was eliminated without notice to anyone in the company, including the employee that applied for it. That employee was let go shortly after along with two other valuable members of the team, including one who had been with the company longer than anyone. She was made to fear for her job multiple times by the cofounders even though the clients she managed that left the company did so due to their own budgeting issues, not because of her competence. The employees that were "lucky" enough to be promoted were actually fortunate enough to take home more pay for less work. That extra workload was left to the coordinators, who mind you, were already carrying more than their manageable share.
On another note, when employee feedback WAS absorbed by the cofounders (two men), it was usually when the feedback was provided by one of the very few male employees on the team. You can't tell from the website anymore because they removed the team photos from their site (probably due to the high turnover), but the company is predominantly female. If you ask any of the women that work or have worked for this company, I can guarantee you they'll each have a story about one of the cofounders being condescending to them. I can also guarantee you that none of the male employees will be able to provide a similar story.
These few points are merely cracking the surface of the labyrinth of issues within this company, and they just seem to be getting worse over time. They did a great job mostly hiring people that work hard (sometimes too hard) and want to provide a great product for their clients, but they definitely don't value them or show them the appreciation they deserve. Beyond that, they pay was/is embarrassing for the workload and level of skill.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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10.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1081270
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Open
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Be better. At everything. Show your employees respect (they are in fact people), practice what you preach, pay fair wages, and show appreciation for hard work. Promote from within without making people jump through hoops. It's insulting to have the required knowledge base for a position and then treated as though you're not good enough for the role, especially when those who have been promoted are terrible at their jobs and perpetuate a sense of mistrust. The only reason I can imagine you're still above water is that some of the good eggs you managed to find haven't found other employment opportunities yet. Hold on to them as long as you can.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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1.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 3rd, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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Lack of Accountability & Other Issues
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- Flexible with your schedule and vacation time
- Work from home Mondays
- If you want to be working in social media, you will learn a lot
- For the most part, the team is full of good people
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As someone mentioned below, things move at a mile a minute but there's no real process in place to ensure that people are getting the right training to help them be successful in their role. Management continues to praise people who don't know what they're doing, and managing 10+ accounts is the norm. Not sure what's going on financially but when the company doesn't give everyone raises annually (and those who do receive a raise receive less than a 1% raise) and three people get laid off at the loss of a large client, it's pretty unsettling. There also seems to be a disconnect between what management claims to prioritize - such as company culture and transparency - over what they actually care about. Company culture is a joke (team happy hours? "Your time, your dime") and there is no such thing as transparency when management keeps information from its employees, and as a result, clients know about things before the employees do. Despite being told that Freckle is used to see how much time we are spending on each client (and making sure the amount is comparable to how much that client is paying), it's unfortunately being used to micromanage employees and keep track of the work they are doing. Management doesn’t take accountability for problems/unhappy employees and instead blames employees, which is part of the reason why good people and skilled employees are leaving. Management also enjoys talking about employees behind their backs, such as when they're on business trips and openly talking about their employees to other employees, or the time they talked about a client and an employee’s work accidentally in a public channel for the whole company to see. I was excited to join this company because I was told that management wanted to create an environment that wasn't like the corporate world, and while some of the pros mentioned above are definitely better than those offered in larger companies, the shift that Casual Fridays has taken in the last year or so - less transparency, less of an emphasis on company culture, employees not feeling valued or appreciated, increased micromanagement and strategists being told that working 40 hours is unacceptable and that 45-55 hours per week and working on days off is expected - seems to show otherwise. When employees give their notice and upper management seems unfazed by it and doesn’t even say anything to the people leaving, it reaffirms that feeling of being unappreciated and not valued. It seems that unless you’re on the inside of things, the guys at the top really just don’t care about their employees.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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7.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1081270
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Open
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Bring back tools like Tinypulse and start listening to your employees. Hire an actual HR person, even if it’s just part-time; this hybrid manager/HR role does not work. Employees feel they have no place they can go to actually talk openly about issues or get questions answered. We don't expect everything to be perfect all the time ("that's startup life!") but we do expect to feel valued and appreciated and the entire San Diego office certainly does not feel that way. That’s probably the biggest piece of advice - start treating your employees like you actually care about them and you won’t have people leaving left and right.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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private:casualfridaysinc.
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1081270
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May 2nd, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Casual Fridays
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United States
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USA
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Things have taken a nosedive. Here's why...
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Flexible schedule. Remote staff can mostly make their own hours and office staff can work from home on Mondays. Lots of tools to help everyone stay connected with one another, even from afar.
Depending on your account assignments, you may enjoy positive relationships with your clients or you may have an unmanageable and unsustainable workload. That said, a client’s decision to leave (usually due to their own budgeting) can drastically change management’s perception of your value to the company.
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Many, many things.
Management: There’s a noticeable lack of diversity on this team and once you meet the co-founders, it’s not surprising as to why that’s the case. In the past year, a number of people have been promoted to “lead” or senior level positions. This decision seems to have been made based on favoritism and not qualifications or merit. It has been abundantly clear that these people expected a title change to turn them into actual managers – no training or experience needed. Good employees don’t always make good leaders and that’s absolutely the case here. They’ve each been set up to fail while being praised for their shortcomings.
Speaking of these “leaders” and “senior” level folks, they lead other members of management and clients to believe they are exceptional at their jobs while getting their direct reports to do their work for them. It’s at the point where unless the coordinator on the account does the strategist’s work, it simply doesn’t get done and balls are dropped for client deliverables.
Training & Performance: In addition to zero training for the people running this circus, there’s no training for other employees either. We’re directed to read a “playbook” on protocols, even if they’re A) out of date, B) don’t exist (and then you're told to create it...with no knowledge base), or C) aren’t helpful because of your learning style.
Annual performance reviews are conducted, which in theory is an opportunity to showcase all you’ve accomplished in the past year and set goals for the future. In reality, they’re opportunities to provide sexist feedback, such as telling female employees they don’t smile enough or their body language isn’t pleasant enough to make them eligible for a merit-based raise. Yes, this did in fact happen to one of our team members.
Feedback: Feedback is encouraged in weekly 1x1’s and via an anonymous feedback form (side note: the fact that this exists should be a concern in and of itself since people aren’t actually comfortable providing candid feedback). When feedback is given, however, absolutely nothing is done with it except to be used against you at a later time. Those who speak up about legitimate concerns to their direct manager, the cofounders, or anyone in the company are classified as people who are merely negative gossipers. This delegitimizes the very real issues employees are experiencing.
Accountability: it doesn’t exist. No member of the “management” team recognizes the role they’ve played in causing or perpetuating issues that are brought to their attention. It is always someone else’s fault and always up to employees to fix what’s broken. Even after laying of three people, no one was hired to replace them and the work has piled up without any regard for those impacted.
Growth: Although some people have been promoted to “management”, there’s actually very little opportunity for advancement in the company. There’s essentially three positions: community manager, coordinator, and strategist. There’s nowhere else to grow and given the plug-and-chug, cookie cutter nature of our work, I highly doubt there will be much change even if the company grows.
Culture: There are many efforts to facilitate team bonding and leadership’s misguided sense of “culture” by sending “high-fives” to teammates. Many are actually genuine, but you can tell which are for show. Read: ego strokes, and if you don’t stroke the right one, you’re called out for it. There was also “Flip Flops and Chill” for awhile which were like virtual coffee meetups to get to know one another. They fizzled fast, especially when we were forced to follow a ridiculous agenda instead of just speak to one another like people who work side by side, day in and day out.
Pay: Employees are located in a number of markets and it seems just about everyone is underpaid despite the claim that job offers take into consideration the location of the employee. They do not.
Micromanaging: We’re all required to track our time by each project we’re working on. We’re told it’s to make sure that no one task or client is becoming a drain on resources, but it’s instead used to bully people. What you spend your time is on constantly questioned and criticized. If you get your work done in less than 40 hours (not because of laziness, but because you’re good at time management), you’re told you’re not working hard enough. Depending on who you are and if you need OT, you’re either told to be more efficient OR you’re blindly given all the OT your heart desires because you’re on someone’s good side. Efficiency, however, is punished and those who don’t manage their time effectively are given a pass.
In conclusion, this used to be a fun place despite the monotony of our work. The good people made it exciting and now there’s this cloud of despair, fear, and uncertainty over all of us.
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NEGATIVE
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7.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1081270
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Open
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Pay attention. There’s a reason 5 people have quit in a matter of a few months and why half of your team is actively seeking employment elsewhere. It’s not us – it’s you. Stop paying lip service to your “values” and DO something about the problems that are brought to you.
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Jan 13th, 2021 08:06PM
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Casual Fridays, Inc.
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