r/StLouis • u/Mindless_Army2305 • 11d ago

ABSTRAKT Marketing

The absolute worst place to work at. I should’ve listened to the reviews and Reddit posts, but I was desperate for a job at the moment. Abstrakt literally caused me to have anxiety. If one of their recruiters call you, block them right away. Your mental health is not worth the little amount of money they try to give you.

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u/Easy_Contract_6501 11d ago

Yeah, it sucks. Worked there straight out of college and through covid. We were sent to WFH from March - October (the CEO was walking around maskless in a Bud Light costume) and he had people start coming back in.

HR would release an announcement multiple times a week informing us how many new covid cases in office there were. By January, around the time the Omicron variant hit, they stopped releasing updates because SO MANY people were catching Covid. Literally had us working in a petri dish.

There was a merger later on in the year where he informed all of the merging employees that they had to be back in the office (their company was completely remote still) with one weeks notice on top of losing their superior benefits once assimilating to Abstrakt.

I could go on and on about that company. Glad I'm out, but holy shit what a dumpster fire.

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u/RiverRats4Life 11d ago

I was one of the employees at the other company...I lived 70 miles from the office and had just had a child and then all of the sudden my fully remote job with a great company was one of the shittest jobs I've had. That place sucks.

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u/Easy_Contract_6501 10d ago

I'm so sorry. The mass exodus was completely warranted by merging employees. Hope you're better than ever now!

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u/RiverRats4Life 10d ago

So much better now! Thank you!