Safety is the number one issue I have with this account. Apparently, CBRE likes to espouse "high safety standards". Reality says different. I have asked for electrical safety gear to handle live electrical equipment as required by the account, After over a year, there is still accessible safety equipment. The irony is the recent dust masks that cost far too much that was purchased as a reaction. By the way, no one here has been fit-tested.
The pay for my work is below market average. This is just the base pay. According to glassdoor.com, I am currently underpaid by about 28% as of today. The other pay discrepancy is on shift differentials. Currently, the night shift is given an extra $1.50 per hour. I understand if a person is working on a short term project and needs to support at night, and there shouldn't be extra incentives to work a different shift. However, it does not provide near enough incentive to work this shift as a more permanent thing. Industry standards point toward a percentage added to the base.
I have respect for HR...to a point. They have a job as the rest of us do, but they shouldn't have the ability to dictate how we run ours. Back to working nights. It's been brought up that a quality of life improvement would be to shift the nights to working 4-10s instead of 5-8s. This would allow for an adequate weekend time off while having to switch between night and day to take care of business that couldn't be otherwise taken care of. Look at it this way: If a person needs to take care of something during the day, they take the time off; If they work at night, they don't sleep. This leads to safety issues both in and out of work.
RISE is quite a joke. Respect, Integrity, Service and Excellence. Let's pick these apart shall we?
Respect - CBRE aspires to ensure that the client is shown the utmost respect at all times. It seems to be a "Customer is always right" mentality. Despite whether the customer is right or not. That same respect is not offered to the employees though. At least not from the top down. It's difficult to ask the employees to respect the client when they aren't shown respect from the same people that they work for. It's like slapping a kid on the back of the head and telling them that "we don't hit".
Integrity - Again the pronouncement of virtues unending from the CBRE white tower. Integrity can be defined a few different ways. The first is: adherence to moral and ethical principles. Perhaps the employees need to be made aware of these moral and ethical principles. If they include covering up for employees that you like while they toss others under the bus for their own advancement, then we would at least know that is what we are working with. The other two definitions are regarding physical attributes about being whole or in perfect condition. CBRE is obviously not monolithic. So, this doesn't really apply.
Service - Yes, CBRE provides whatever service the client asks for without question. This is a double-edged sword. Simply saying yes all of the time tends to make people weak. It makes them even weaker when they pass all of that work down the pipe to people who aren't allowed to argue the validity of the work or whether the work is even possible.
Excellence - Right... As it turns out, if you did a good job that met standards, or even exceeded them, prepare to have the goal posts moved on you. It will never be enough. By the way, you have less time to complete it next time.
Advancement is nearly impossible. I've read enough of these reviews (as I hope you are doing) to see a pattern here. I'm not the only one who says this. If you are one of the Good 'ol Boys, you won't have any troubles at all. If you are outside of their little clique, you're stuck...looking for another job.
