Aptive Environmental reviews

Very bad management. We didn't even have an area manager for 3 months that I worked there

If you work at Corporate, the disparity of earnings and responsibilities between a VP and their underlings, associates, “team”, etc….is Preposterous with a capital “P”…it’s insane. They all drive new Teslas and cater lunch to themselves every day, have their cliques, you get the idea. It’s their high six-figured salaries and mansions to our FIXED $15/hr and scraping by in a cheap rental type of situation. And its not like they have to manage that many people. We are talking even less than 10 people under them in certain cases. They do have responsibility, of course, but errors, even blunders are overlooked by their administrative circle of Executives and other VPs and strategy can take a U-turn for an unexplainable reason to make up for it. They know they have the best and hungriest (poor) sales guys out there trying no matter what. I personally experienced the most stress in any position at over 23 years in the workforce and I should have flipped burgers for 2 years, at least in fast food they would recognize my enormous effort. It is just my experience. But they piled work on top of me- that logistically was impossible to accomplish, instead of hiring an actual team of individuals, you know, another employee- more money. I paid my dues, and went through my 2nd year, without a penny’s raise. I brought it up for months, had promises broken, was offended by the 28 cents/hour they came up with as a grand reward for my never-ending willingness, and they knew it so they finally came to the conclusion that the job itself, “wasn’t the right fit for me”, yeah- after 2 years lol. So, the compensation disparity is aggravating and downright unethical really. But also, as a company, the operations happening on the ground, and the operations happening at corporate, are not aligned by business philosophy, by strategy, and often is openly opposed and they ignore corporate counsel, but there is no arbitrator or channel to address such things to create consistency. Otherwise you’re a divided house and I don’t see this getting fixed without more maturity in leadership.