The company preaches acceptance of all, but it is not practiced among everyone on an individual level. My manager in particular grew more and more distant from me during my tenure with the company as my responsibilities significantly changed over the years and I needed a greater degree of support pivoting with new assignments due to my learning disability. Simply put, I asked them for help, and they shrugged me off time and again. They wanted less and less to do with me and eventually grew to interact with me differently than they would with others on the team in every setting. Given their seniority and very close personal ties with leadership and the company at large, I felt I couldn’t speak up. I felt isolated.
While AAA National has the potential to be a good company, personal experiences will vary within your team. Mine started well and progressively became harrowing from a high degree of uncertainty regarding projects, frequent reversal of project decisions that regularly impacted what I needed to do, being handed new tasks that I could not execute successfully on my own despite my best attempts and challenges I face with my learning disability and being neurodiverse, occasional and uncomfortable ageist commentary during times when the team was stressed from projects since I was significantly younger than others in my department, and eventually being isolated and treated differently by my manager.
Going to work every day during my final months was nothing short of depressing and took a serious toll on my mental health.
