Pros
Better-than-average pay and okay benefits for a small company/good PTO & holiday leave
Cons
If you want to become a basket case in no time at all, work at BASYS! Many managers at BASYS are gaslighting experts. Expertise in the damaging psychological practice appears to be a management prerequisite. If an employee is being undermined, bated, belittled, relentlessly teased, or otherwise verbally and/or emotionally abused (all quite common here) by a manager, team lead, or co-worker, the victim best not alert or complain to HR or other management. Should you bring such behavior to management’s attention, shortly thereafter the abused and any co-worker who corroborates such abuse will be the ones who are considered the problem. Then the victim is further targeted for retribution by the abuser, who has been informed of their complaint by management, including HR (no confidentiality here). I watched this over and over during my tenure at BASYS. This company does not appreciate, let alone admire, truth to power. Why? Well, what might happen if upper management at BASYS, including the CEO, finally acknowledge that they have a real problem on their hands, especially with one manager in particular, who for years has been widely loathed and feared, not to mention considered incompetent. It took me months as a new employee to realize that the cause of my manager’s extreme, red-faced irritation every time I asked a question was that my manager did not know the answer. Does upper management fear that the acknowledgement that a manager is abusive and undermining could lead to a lawsuit? Much safer and financially prudent to blame years of victims, I imagine. Should you alert management to practices that you believe could be unethical and/or not in the best interest of the company’s merchants, you will become the bad guy. Should you alert management to abusive and inappropriate behavior by managers, team leads, or co-workers, you will become the bad guy. Do anything other than be a relentless BASYS promoter, self-promoter, and yes-man, and you will be subjected to intense scrutiny and targeted. Employees learn this quickly through their own experiences and the tales of others, and they fall in line if they want to preserve their jobs. Current employees are acutely aware of the treatment of years of employees who have gone before them, from bogus reprimands and write-ups to terminations to employees quitting because they can’t take it any longer. They know the price of honesty, their job, and they know that it is all meticulously planned in advance.
