Pros
The box of cookies you get on employee appreciation day.
Cons
In the near future, a student majoring in Business will be told a cautionary tale about Brookfield Properties- Multifamily; a lesson in how to successfully drive a business into the ground while simultaneously casting off as many dedicated employees as it can. Led by the inept and cruel, the simple-minded, Brookfield Properties- Multifamily is the very worst of what one envisions when thinking about investment firms. Where to begin? Shall we consider the group texts among senior management that mock and deride their employees based on their appearance and their clothing? Should we ponder their predilection to refer to their direct reports not by their name, but by the mean and callous nicknames they have created for them? Perhaps we should discuss their open and blatant racist tendencies, such as their desire to mock employees for their being Black- without even the good sense of keeping those comments to themselves; no, they openly make their statements amongst each other and their subordinate employees who have no choice but to listen to it in silence for fear that speaking out will cost them (unduly) their jobs. That's just conversation. Students of business would do well to take note of their presumed glee in engaging in wage violations; they seem to take particular delight in failing to pay their staff who are on medical or maternity leave. But worry not- they will simply call that a "processing error by HR," while offering no recompense or actionable solutions. Should you find yourself injured on the job, or giving birth, anticipate a significant loss of the income owed to you. In the last 30 days alone I have seen six management-level employees leave, all of whom were absolutely dedicated to their careers. Rather than continue to degrade themselves in service of a malicious, uncaring overlord, they'd instead risk everything to leave- even in the midst of a global pandemic and immense economic uncertainty. Their decisions were all the direct result of the inhumane, idiotic, and inane actions of senior management. I am of course being quite generous in referring to these buffoons as Senior "Leadership." If a Senior Vice President resorts to calling site-level staff derogatory names, in writing, in plain view of the insulteds' colleagues, and has no qualms about making overt, racist comments about their own staff (including referring to a 40-year career employee as "looking too gangster" for no reason other than the color of his skin), then a business student can rejoice, for there is no skill necessary to become an executive at Brookfield; merely a willingness to malign and insult inferiors who actually work, while the executives huddle together and laugh amongst themselves at their simplistic, childish, mocking insults and their shared ambition to do nothing but fail in the endeavor of property management but find wild success in deriding hard-working, earnest, kind human beings. Heed well this review; anyone who (presumably in desperation) finds themselves seeking a job at Brookfield should anticipate little more than abuse, insult, over-work, and an executive suite filled to the brim with bullies.
