Horrible upper management
micro managed
no reward for working hard
Impossible to get people from HQ to respond or answer questions
Union is completely worthless, and you have to pay dues, whether you are a member or not
Company has no issue changing contracts and not honoring the original contract.
Air Methods HQ in Denver is nothing more than buddies hooking up buddies with management jobs, there are so many levels of management, yet it is impossible to get anything done.
All Air Methods cares about it making the shareholders happy, and not about what is best for the employee or patient.
The president Mike Allen, held a personal grudge against me and would not allow me to transfer back to a base in the US, told HR department that my choices were to stay in Haiti or resign and rehire as a new employee. This was because one of the Air Methods pilots who was picked to work in Haiti let somebody start a helicopter. After it was immediately and properly brought to the attention of management, all AMC employees working in Haiti were flown to Denver to get yelled at by Mike Allen (literally yelled at like basic trainees!) saying it was our fault this had happened, and saying he had known something like this was going to happen, ect... When he finished his rant and asked if there were any questions, I raised my hand and asked as to why this was our fault, after completely dedicating ourselves to the Haiti project with little or no support from HQ, many times having to get things and information we needed from previous base leads because emails and phone calls would go unanswered to Denver! And after we had all raised complaint and issue numerous times with the pilot who had violated policy and being told to just deal with him. And after living in often times unhealthy and unsanitary conditions to make that project a success and make the company shine, and always doing everything to the highest level of safety, always upholding or exceeding the FAA standard. And the fact that although this was Air Methods first debut of an international project, Mike Allen had never come down to see how things were going and to personal check on things, which according to him, where being done so poorly.
He did not like my raised challenges I brought to him, and said he didn't have time for that, and had a plane to catch, and left the room. Really great representation of what the management thinks of their employees.
It is unfortunate that a company that has so many awesome people working for it is ruined so many poor people in senior management.
