AAA National reviews

Where to start? Offered over 200 people early retirement packages because they need the money to pay for a pet project. Now they are scrambling because over 70% of the people took the offer. They were only anticipating 35 to 40% to take it. Tells you how unhappy a lot of people are. Roles being vacated are not be backfilled. Workload being spread across who is left. Management thinks people will be okay with this for the next 6 months while they figure out what to do next. National Office is run very poorly and senior management is very disengaged. Building maintenance has been put off in order to pay for other things. Think long and hard before applying for a position here. Large clubs control everything. National office will not be around in the next 5 years if this one pet project is not successful. Yes ALL AAA eggs are in one basket.

Politics rule. The mission is rarely about putting out the best quality product possible. Instead it is about pushing out broken products to meet a deadline and then pointing the finger of blame at another department when things go wrong. Management only seems interested in moving up the next rung of the hierarchical ladder. Brown-nosing, kiss-a*****, and glossing over major problems and weaknesses is common. Outsourcing as much of IT and Development as possible is now the name of the game with the current CIO. If you like training your Indian replacement, this is the job for you. The almighty checkbook rules all. The bean counters in Accounting make all the decisions. As a result, everywhere you look, the company is squeezing 4 to 5 resources out of 1. Every department on the IT side is understaffed and overworked. There are never enough resources to do the things that need done, even though middle management continues to request them. Upper Management does not communicate their ideas, plans, and strategies (if they have any) to middle management, and then on to the workers. With major internal "restructuring" going on, the workers are often left in the dark wondering if they'll still have a job next week. Because everyone is so overworked and understaffed, inter departmental bickering happens frequently about who is going to do what. "I don't have the resources for that" is on loop 24/7. If your department is on the bottom of the departmental hierarchy, it will be constantly blamed for the faults of the departments above it. Blame rolls down hill, and upper management believes it all. The equipment you'll be asked to use is usually about 20 years old, and the cubicles are not cleaned by the cleaning staff (not paid for by the bean counters). Bring your own duster and cleaning supplies.