Don't ruin your resume working for these people
Pros
*More autonomy than most jobs, mostly because management and other co-workers -- who are often temps -- do not get sufficient training if any at all. Like many companies, they praise a deprecated knowledge base as their godsend, but in fact rarely works, and has extremely outdated help. *Benefits firsts day for some new hires *Most co-workers are good
Cons
*Management could give a rat's behind what you do, even if you have to lie, to get the job done. My manager, and their manager, seemed to care less about if things were done ethically and by the book -- as they state they want. *Most of their workers are temps, and most have english as a second language, and have trivial job experience. They are mostly hired because they are seemingly desperate, but not too desperate, as to not be a liability and risk of fraudulent activity as the management is. You will often hear them speaking in their native tongue, and often I have been told, these people are mollycoddled because management is afraid of retribution from these people, but not native born Canadians. *Pay is poor, mostly because they have not had regular raises in many years, and since many good people were terminated, or left the company, this has had a downward pressure on wages along with the desperate foreign-born workers. *There is little to no career advancement unless you play pocket pool with management on the weekends. *It is not shocking that this company gets so high profile clients, because lying seems to be the name of the game, and quality of product is not valued anymore -- or if it ever was. *They say they are a progressive company, but still have management practices from the 1950s when people were mostly unskilled labor. Their immature management style is, and still, leading to quality people, and eventually clients leaving. *They have been caught rigging the SLA system on a variety of clients to cover-up for management mistakes, which they blame on employees. As I said, they still operate as though they are in the 1950s. * "Terminate them with a smile" * You speaking an in-demand language like French will not help you, as they treat them the same as they treat the temporary workers.
