Seriously, take a hard pass on this job. The culture is not just fractured but broken and the ones that can fix it don’t even see it.
Turnover:
- an ALARMING number of people leave this company every month/year. You get a huge email welcoming them and then within a month or two you are almost surprised they still work there.
- conversely, you will wait for months for positions to be filled and you will lose even more coworkers due to wages and overburdening while you wait.
Misleading leadership:
- prepare to be told something will happen and then a week later it’s like it never happened. You’ll seriously question your sanity after a while. I have honestly never worked somewhere and felt so lied to at the same time.
- the carrots of promotion are dangled out often but rarely seem to come to fruition unless you put in a two week notice. Full job positions have been posted and removed when the company changed its mind a few weeks later.
- bonuses metrics aren’t actually delivered so you are working with a moving target. Some people have had their bonus rewritten on the fly to avoid paying it out.
- projects are wasteful since nothing happens with the data or time spent, leadership still chooses to improperly apply the work done and only 2/3 of the people get any benefit from it.
Lack of faith in teams:
- legitimate conversation had with someone “we don’t trust anyone at the plants”. I was floored that someone was actually pompous enough to say this.
- if more than one person quits because of the low pay, your leadership will be questioned by a boss. Easier to blame the manager who can’t change anything seems to be the lay of the land.
- only clear message you will hear is how you’re wrong. Sorry you will also hear how it has been done for the last 30 years a lot.
Ivory Tower:
- the support office (fancy term for corporate) will have get togethers funded by the company while the plants can watch on LinkedIn or a nice slideshow posted in their break rooms.
- support office personnel can obtain three or four promotions in a year while there aren’t any opportunities for talented people at the plants.
- have literally seen employees wait almost two weeks past their pay date for their paycheck while everyone else was taking time off and promising to ship the check “overnight” (for two weeks).
- the term servant style leadership gets thrown around here a lot, but I think they mean it backwards from what most understand it. The employees are told they come first, but no one seems willing to walk the walk after talking that talk. Maybe they meant servile style.. is that a thing?
- Pay is well below market level, but they believe people aren’t smart enough to notice it.
- Be careful of any positive reviews written, there have been initiatives to keep the rating up so people are tasked with writing fake reviews.
- on a plus side you may get a lavish retreat to watch a few days of motivational videos about how much you mean to the company and how to deliver that message to your team back home, but mostly it’s focused on the customer and not actually on your team.
- people who don’t even work with your team will tell you whether they think you should promote them or not when you can finally get a position approved.
Reactionary Leadership:
- you’re ignored until the walls are legitimately falling down around you. Your leadership will call you for their needs but won’t respond to yours.
- the fastest promotions or wage adjustments come from 2 week notices. Saw multiple people level up that way.
- most of the time you will be trying to get the job done with the wrong equipment. Imagine being a plumber only outfitted with cooked spaghetti in your tool chest.
