residential specialist

housing manager

janitor

assistant

portfolio manager

Plymouth Housing Group

Spent most waking hours doing something for the company. Was forced to work in a hostile work environment. Approached management with ongoing issues and concerns and nothing was done about it. Coworkers would bad mouth me to other residents of the building to which the residents themselves would approach me to notify me of what was said.  Others would often break rules/disregard rules completely, then turn around and speculate as to the reason why I decided to do something a specific way rather than approach me to ask me why.  Would say snide remarks as I would walk by and snicker like we were back in high school and these people were WELL over their 40s and 50s.  Others acted like they were in a assistant manager role but not officially an assistant manager as official title was completely different. Certain "rules" would only apply to certain staff members while others were freely flouted their responsibilities on those with less seniority. Management would often play favorites with their "homies that they used to run with and persue other recreational  substances with" from "back in the day".  Was required to join a union to which the union did nothing for you. The union was more for the company than for the employees. Was often required to go to trainings and/or meetings  with little to no sleep since working swing shift. 

They hired me compliance coordinator and told me it would take me approximately 3-5 months before all the work I was doing would make sense and at that point, we would have an evaluation to check in. However, they fired me after a month and said I wasn’t learning “fast enough” and I didn’t fit into the “culture”. All the software / platforms they used were brand new to me and I would constantly check in with my peers to make sure I was doing everything correctly, and always got good feedback, so I think that was a lie. The team there acted like best friends and constantly talked about their personal lives instead of working. They would invite me out to things outside of work and I would decline, because I don’t like mixing work with personal life. They didn’t like that I wasn’t goofy and loud and resented me for it. There were also SO MANY meetings and presentations ALL the time that would pull you away from your work, but they would still expect everything to be done! Overall, they were dishonest and just didn’t like that I was being professional. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is the best part about working for Plymouth. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No support from leadership and they leave you to figure things out while they work from home most of the time. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is terrible. Because the front-line staff is in the union you get a lot of people who aren't good workers taking advantage of that and not doing what they are supposed to do and when a manager tries to correct them, they get accused of retaliation. The work loads are uneven, and the good workers are constantly burnt out. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Doing case notes helping residents get to appointments and just helping them overall.

What is the best part of working at the company?
If I could have worked forever at this company I would have. I love and miss it very much. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They will work with you on anything and are very understanding, I was more than blessed to have gotten to work here.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Open culture and very understanding environment. They even have quarterly mental health days. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Worked from home as an Accountant, bosses were understandable. Let me work flexible hours sometimes. Compassionate and caring even down to the core.

A COO who only saw what she wanted to see and drove 85% of the managers to quit or take early retirement. Massive turnover that drove organizational instability. 80-90+ hours a week required of exempt staff. Total lack of support for adequate hiring levels. Utter failure to support hourly staff in significant concerns about safety--with one really that a building worker was murdered by a tenant while in Plymouth's building and on the clock. Lousy pay. Lousy support. Just a miserable place to work, with management expecting staff to just sort of get on board because they are a non profit.

I worked in social services and really felt my career blossom here. There are many opportunities for training and professional development, managers are supportive and engaged with staff. Most long time staff are mission-driven and bring a lot of energy and passion to their work. 

As in all social services, benefits could be more robust, though thanks to the union it is being worked on by the staff and have already seen massive improvement in wages. 

This is the sort of place where you get out what you put in.

If you care about helping the homeless and drug abusing individuals, you may belong here.

As a building assistant, often times you have to interact with the residents and their guests.

Its usually the guests that make your job more difficult than it needs to be.

Basically, you building assistants are security, janitor, and social service case workers combined into one job. 

Can be rewarding to help a vulnerable population while also getting burnt out from frequent harassment from drug using residents and guests.

A dynamic place to work with over 160 employees Plymouth provides homes to over 1000 formerly homeless individuals.  As a non-profit funded by many partnerships with different agencies it takes a lot of people with diverse skills to keep it running.  The challenge is communication between departments.  The joy for me is seeing my work contribute to providing and improving peoples homes.

Housing Case Manager for formerly homeless clients.
▪ Initiated programming, supervised and trained employees in the therapeutic art program called
A Window Between Worlds at this facility.
▪ Worked with many parents who have children in the system. Helped them work towards
reconciliation.
▪ Teamed up with clients and worked with them to plan, connect with community resources and
have needs and goals reached.
▪ Led therapeutic art groups as well as activities to help build community and rapport.
▪ Worked from harm reduction, housing first and trauma informed care models

It's hard to say. When you only getting paid less then your worth. I still say it's a good place to learn how to operate in the non profit realm. I would also say don't make this a career goal of sort be prepared to move on in time and seek better. The BM tends to as more from you then requried. Plus there are some underlaying wish washey ways about doing certain things. 

You surely with have to keep a good head and learn the employee polices handbook .

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Residential specialist 29 salaries reported	$30.30 per hour
Housing manager 28 salaries reported	$35.60 per hour
Janitor 11 salaries reported	$30.73 per hour
Assistant 4 salaries reported	$30.65 per hour
Portfolio manager 5 salaries reported	$104,658 per year

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