New York, NY 11/25/2008: Aon’s Entertainment Division in New York City, Aon Albert G. Ruben Company, is a sweatshop being run by George Walden who is an egotistical, controlling, tyrant who obviously doesn’t care about his employees and is only interested in money, himself and power. I’ve worked for a number of years. Although I enjoyed my work, the work environment is horrible and negative. Work is piled on you so much so that it is the equivalent of working the jobs of 3 employees but being paid as one, and not even being paid as one.
Walden screams and curses in the office occasionally and very often does not follow Aon’s Employee Handbook as I guess he feels he’s too powerful to be constrained by the company’s ethical behavior guidelines. Recently all of Aon’s departments were scheduled to move to a new downtown NYC location. But not Walden’s group. He does not want to move downtown but rather stay in a small cramped office space of 13 employees where just about every other week something is breaking down (e.g., toilets, elevators, copiers, air conditioning, heating, etc.). And you know why? The rent is cheap! More bonus money for him and he can continue his controlling ways where the rest of the Aon community in the downtown NYC won’t see what a disgrace of a CEO and slave driver he really is.
Certain other employees, not all, are incompetent, but this is expected when the overall goal in hiring employees is to get them to come in with as low a salary that can be given to them, just as long as they have some knowledge of the insurance industry. That’s good enough.
And the work environment is highly negative, where you can just feel it in the air. Employees pay for their own coffee, never are treated for lunch for their hard work, and are even told should work late or even on weekends to “catch up”. With the yelling and screaming in the office, lack of space, smelly co-ed bathrooms with no ventilation and decrepit equipment, the Aon Ruben office should be thoroughly investigated by the NYC Department of Labor
for health code violations (roaches, mice) and unfit for employees to work an 9:00 to 5:30 shift.
All of the above I state is absolutely true with no embellishments. I worked there and experienced such a disgrace of a workplace for myself. I urge everyone out there to avoid Aon Albert G Ruben Company and don’t be swayed by the term “entertainment” division as it’s certainly not a glamorous workplace and not worth your mental stability.
gee…what a surprise
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Pay -3
Respect -4
Benefits 2
Job Security -4
Work/Life Balance -4
Career Potential/Growth -5
Location 2
Co-worker Competence -1
Work Environment -5
New York, NY 11/25/2008: Aon’s Entertainment Division in New York City, Aon Albert G. Ruben Company, is a sweatshop being run by George Walden who is an egotistical, controlling, tyrant who obviously doesn’t care about his employees and is only interested in money, himself and power. I’ve worked for a number of years. Although I enjoyed my work, the work environment is horrible and negative. Work is piled on you so much so that it is the equivalent of working the jobs of 3 employees but being paid as one, and not even being paid as one.
Walden screams and curses in the office occasionally and very often does not follow Aon’s Employee Handbook as I guess he feels he’s too powerful to be constrained by the company’s ethical behavior guidelines. Recently all of Aon’s departments were scheduled to move to a new downtown NYC location. But not Walden’s group. He does not want to move downtown but rather stay in a small cramped office space of 13 employees where just about every other week something is breaking down (e.g., toilets, elevators, copiers, air conditioning, heating, etc.). And you know why? The rent is cheap! More bonus money for him and he can continue his controlling ways where the rest of the Aon community in the downtown NYC won’t see what a disgrace of a CEO and slave driver he really is.
Certain other employees, not all, are incompetent, but this is expected when the overall goal in hiring employees is to get them to come in with as low a salary that can be given to them, just as long as they have some knowledge of the insurance industry. That’s good enough.
And the work environment is highly negative, where you can just feel it in the air. Employees pay for their own coffee, never are treated for lunch for their hard work, and are even told should work late or even on weekends to “catch up”. With the yelling and screaming in the office, lack of space, smelly co-ed bathrooms with no ventilation and decrepit equipment, the Aon Ruben office should be thoroughly investigated by the NYC Department of Labor
for health code violations (roaches, mice) and unfit for employees to work an 9:00 to 5:30 shift.
All of the above I state is absolutely true with no embellishments. I worked there and experienced such a disgrace of a workplace for myself. I urge everyone out there to avoid Aon Albert G Ruben Company and don’t be swayed by the term “entertainment” division as it’s certainly not a glamorous workplace and not worth your mental stability.