Some CorVel managers use staffing agencies to find workers and then abuse the “temp-to-hire” system by doing everything possible (including lying during the interview process) to keep the worker on a temporary basis instead of actually hiring them (thereby denying the worker any benefits). If you are coming from a staffing agency, do not expect to be hired permanently, no matter what you are told.
“Temp-to-hire” workers are not considered part of the team, and are deliberately excluded from departmental activities like Christmas dinners and holiday activities.
Managers are threatened by any signs of intelligence, quick learning or independent thinking from their employees. Proactive attempts to work more efficiently are punished, not rewarded. Managers will go out of their way to decide that if an employee is capable of working independently, the employee must have made some mistakes, even if there are no mistakes to be found.
Micro-managing is rampant. Supervisors routinely treat their employees in a rude, condescending manner, and will blame employees for mistakes that were actually made by the supervisor. The combination of paranoid, impossible-to-please managers and tedious, nose-to-the-grindstone tasks results in an extremely stressful work environment.
The office is deathly quiet. Managers discourage face-to-face interactions by expecting employees to use Skype/IM, even when the manager or co-worker is only a few steps away from the employee’s cubicle. Employees are deskbound and have little opportunity for physical activity other than during lunch or short walks to the restroom.
Opportunities for upward advancement are pretty much nonexistent. (Management is at least up-front about this.)
