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This company was one of the most toxic places I’ve ever worked. Leadership fostered a toxic environment filled with favoritism, constant micromanaging, gaslighting, zero accountability and disrespect toward employees. They micromanage every detail, set impossible expectations, and treat employees with no respect. Instead of encouraging growth and collaboration, management thrived on control and intimidation. The culture drains you instead of building you up. If you value your sanity, mental health career, or even just basic respect at work, stay far away.

I rarely leave reviews, but I feel compelled to warn others about this workplace. The environment is extremely toxic and demoralizing, with poor communication, lack of support, and blatant favoritism from management. Leadership is unprofessional, dismissive of employee concerns, and fosters a culture of fear and micromanagement instead of collaboration or growth.  Rather than leading by example, they micromanage trivial details while ignoring real issues. Feedback is not welcomed unless it flatters them, and decisions are made based on favoritism rather than merit or experience. If you're looking for a healthy, respectful, or growth-oriented environment, this is not the place. High turnover is the norm, and for good reason—feedback is ignored, boundaries are not respected, and burnout is common. If you value your mental health, work-life balance, or professional development, I strongly recommend looking elsewhere. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of the job was definitely the people. The team is comprised of brilliant, dedicated individuals who are all experts in their respective roles. It’s a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment that makes coming to work a pleasure.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The pace can be intense during seasonal rushes, which naturally brings some stress. But what makes it manageable is the culture—management is incredibly hands-on and focused on finding solutions rather than placing blame. The stress is driven by a collective desire to succeed, not by a lack of support.

You are hired on as a material handler, cross training you across everything without any benefit to the employee. Your reward for being an overachieving employee will only get you more task assigned with no recognition. Welcome to TCM where your supervisor has a supervisor and their supervisor also has a supervisor etc. therefore you will be constantly over worked. Lacks employee development, quickly becoming a “dead end job” . Cliques in management are definitely a thing. management lacks communication and expertise. All of warehouse management is men, lacking diversity and accountability. Many flirtatious and inappropriate remarks by management very unprofessional.

The warehouse leadership team are very unprofessional. Majority of their time they are on their phones and they can be very flirtatious with the employees and the agency people. And I can say I’ve seen it happen. When working 12 hours they take advantage and send you home 15 minutes before so they don’t have to give you your last break. The warehouse employees like to gossip and form their own little groups and are always causing drama within the team. They like to give you more work but not more pay. The only good thing about this job was the paychecks when  there was overtime. 

I’ve worked at TCM for five years in the direct to school sales department and it’s been life changing for me on a professional level as well as a personal level due to my success in the company.  I was recently promoted to a senior title and very excited about that.  I have an amazing manager that  I corespondent with daily and his involvement  helps me learn and grow and succeed.  I cant say enough about how positive my experience has been. 

The company claims to value their employees, but they don't. Be aware that they will act as though they do until they are blue in the face to lure you in. There is hardly any room for growth within the content development department for those who do not have the ever-cherished former teaching experience. Most managers play favorites. (if you're a male, you're in luck!) They do not value loyalty to the company.

The people here are really nice. However, the management is not very good in this company. Expectations are not communicated effectively. Morale is very low (everyone is stressed and complains about others). People will use their seniority over you to put out little fires that distract you from getting your work done nonstop.

There are busy times where its all hands on deck and slower times when you can really take time to think on new projects or events.  They are regularly checking in with employees and focus on areas of improvement each year.

TCM has an amazing mission and vision but they lack strong management. There is a huge disconnect with the home office and the field. 

In addition, they have not advanced the technology in their resources. They are still selling resources with transparencies and CD Roms. They have no web based products and little data to support their resources.

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