Working here will slowly but unmistakably erode and destroy your self-confidence, and by extension your resilience to stress, and illness. It's an occupational death by one thousand imperceptible cuts. Your (successive) people managers will never grasp where you came from, what your qualifications are, what your skillset is, or what value you add beyond how well they imagine you align with some ephemeral set of values and behaviours. A set of values their favourites will perversely never need to satisfy. You'll waste endless hours abandoning your core work to fire-fight with busy-work, explaining the simplest of things to stakeholders who are determined not to understand, justifying your decisions, arguing with people operating outside of their brief purely for clout, manually Excel tracking your trackers of your trackers in a manager overseen shared document, even though the work you do is already logged and recorded in a ticketing system. This entity will automate nothing unless it can be used to eliminate the inconvenient overhead of needing to employ human beings. Lazy managers expect to be served everything via Outlook and to never need to look for or locate anything for themselves. Anticipate being buried in endless emails marked "Fwd: FYI - In case you didn't get this", coming from several managers competing for the organisational limelight. A more incurious, incompetent, insecure, and insolent bunch of jobsworths you will never meet. Expect to be undervalued, underpaid, distrusted, demeaned, degraded, inconvenienced, insulted, gaslit, and gagged. Evergreen advice is: never trust HR, if ever you can contact them to begin with. I wouldn't recommend applying here to my very worst sworn enemy. The dysfunction is endemic.
