Saturday, August 09, 2008

Email from Newsweek reader Stacie, former Crocs employee

In the second installment of our recurring feature called 'Emails from Newsweek readers', I bring you an email from Stacie:

Call me slow, but I just stumbled onto your website today as a link from the Newsweek article. Anyhoo, I love it! Long story short, I worked at Crocs 2+ years ago and it was hands down the worst job I have ever had.

My two previous jobs I had been at for 5 and 5 1/2 years, I lasted a mere 7 weeks at Crocs. I started there as the Art Director which was a new position in the company. Needless to say, it was a cluster from day one. The environment was complete chaos. Everyone running around trying to capitalize on opportunities and doing things half-assed. My supervisor would dump a ton of work on me, then leave early to go running. My average day lasted anywhere from 14 - 17 hours including working over the weekends to meet impossible deadlines.

The ethics of the company were questionable as well. The saying in the office was "you worked at Crocs because you were either related to someone or sleeping with someone" and that was true. The CEO's wife and daughter worked there and the daughter was the completely clueless footwear product manager. The web guy's wife was related to one of the owners. One of the vice-presidents was dating a girl in the Rx division...so on and so forth. It was literally enough to make you sick.

I was there about 3 weeks when I realized I had made a terrible error in judgement and desparately needed to get out. Luckily, another company that I had interviewed with offered me a position which was my saving grace. Just showing up to work at Crocs made me physically ill. I'm am glad that I got out and yes, for more reasons than the fact they are ugly-ass shoes, I too HATE Crocs!!!


-Stacie


Good times! Thanks for writing!

You can get to the shop by clicking HERE.


17 comments:

Anonymous said...

You know, its kind of funny; I just launched a fashion blog, which started with an article about why I don't like crocs.

Anonymous said...

I think the escalators have the right idea!

Bumwithrum said...

so ts obvious that you were not related to anyone there by teh treatment you received so who were you sleeping with and why did it end in 7 short weeks

Anonymous said...

Well to be honest, I personally think they're ugly shoes. But I mean, their just shoes. No need to start a blog about them.

Anonymous said...

I hate crocs too, anyway.

Unknown said...

Hi, this is Samatha. Recently, I visited your blog and found some useful information in your blog. I hope my blog which provides online discount coupon codes information and might be helpful to your vistiors in getting discount coupons while doing shopping. So, I request you to place my blog link in ur blogs roll. I also invite you to review my blog at your convenience. Kindly do the favour. Here is my blog information online discount coupon codes
online discount coupon codes

http://online-discount-coupon-codes.blogspot.com/

Thanks a lot...Have a nice day..

Sara Henry said...

Hi, i checked your blog, its quiet interesting. Guys if you want to save money on your purchases like laptops, cellphones...Online discount coupons are available. You can get more discounts using iMac Coupons and it is fast and easy to use.

Anonymous said...

I also used to work for Crocs for over 2 years. I can say by the time I left that I hated the company and they way they always seemed to be changing the way things were done. You only got promoted and raises if you kisses someone's rear end. I believe you should get ahead by hard work and nothing else but Crocs is based on just pushing numbers and product while they really don't care about their employees at all. They walk on or fire the best people that they have all the time. I think in the end Crocs will continue to have problems because they really have the worst structure in the world plus they don't treat their employees correctly.
The one thing I noticed since leaving Crocs is that my feet don't hurt anymore and I used to have dry heels all the time. I stopped wearing my crocs and my feet are better. I feel better all so since I am not working 12 hour days and getting paid nothing.

InHyderabadMall said...

Send Gifts To Hyderabad, Send Flowers To Hyderabad, Send Cakes To Hyderabad, Send Toys, Send Sarees To Hyderabad, Send Sweets To Hyderabad, Send Gifts On Special Occasions, Events, Festivals, Send Birthday Gifts, Send Wedding Gifts, Send Christmas Gifts, Send New Year Gifts To Hyderabad, Send Special Valentine Gifts and much more offerings as per your needs from inhyderabadmall.com.
http://www.inhyderabadmall.com/

Gifts to Bangalore said...

Nice blogs!!! I have enjoyed looking your blogs. Keep up the great work and Info. Send Gifts to Bangalore please visit. Gifts to Bangalore

rajeshkanna yadhavan said...

Heya¡­my very first comment on your site. ,I have been reading your blog for a while and thought I would completely pop in and drop a friendly note. . It is great stuff indeed. I also wanted to ask..is there a way to subscribe to your site via email?







Online Gifts to India

Unknown said...

Thanks a lot for sharing such a good source with all, i appreciate your efforts taken for the same. I found this worth sharing and must share this with all.
Wedding Return Gifts Hyderabad | Silver Plated Gift Items Online

Unknown said...

Very knowledgeable information, I like this.
Silver Plated Gift Items Online | Wedding Return Gifts

Wedding Return Gifts said...

Very Useful and Informative Article...Thanks for Sharing

German Silver Gift Items said...

I found some useful information in your blog,it was awesome to read, thanks for sharing this great content to my vision, keep sharing.

Invitation Cards Online said...


Very glad to read your blog.Thank you for sharing this article.It is great! I will keep your article in my idea. Very happy reading.

Flower Delivery in Hyderabad said...

great Blog, Thanks for Sharing