Terrible Management - Anonymous employee Grant Thornton Employee Review

1.0
Oct 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

the Chicago office is amazing and most people were nice.

Cons

Took a job that would have been a great opportunity in my career. Unfortunately, two weeks in I went to HR in regards to my direct Manager. GT had hired a Director of a department that was unprofessional, disrespectful, and embarrassingly rude to almost everyone. After HR doing nothing, I put in my two weeks very very quickly. I do not believe in verbal abuse from a manager.

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