The vast majority of problems with this organization can be traced back to the embarrassing low pay and asinine upper management. Upper management’s modus operandi is to hire or promote underqualified people in order to justify grossly under pay them. This fosters an environment of incompetency and create more issues.
1. Brain Drain - Highly experienced and valuable staff have left the company due to low pay or disagreements with upper management’s lack of leadership and honesty. During my many years of service, I saw countless valuable colleagues with decades of experience quit for better paying jobs or because they couldn’t stand their managers anymore. This eventually caused numerous short staffing issues across the organization and upper management’s only reaction was to have people work overtime or take on more responsibilities to make up the losses. If you hear about DC’s “promote from within culture”, it’s because they have no choice since so many people eventually quit.
2. Untrustworthy Management - The current CEO is an exceptional salesman but a terrible leader. He speaks eloquently and confidently in order to misdirect the company from his lies and incompetence. Everything positive that has been achieved during his leadership can be accredited to the talented employees underneath him who actually put in the work. It’s no surprise that the most talented employees and leaders that were directly responsible for positive progress have all quit for better opportunities elsewhere.
3. Incompetent Management – Due to poor planning and oversight, the production floor is either working mandatory overtime for weeks at a time (including Saturdays) or getting furloughed. Upper management is never reprimanded for terrible decisions that waste money and resources and instead are allowed to keep their cushy jobs.
4. Cancerous Culture – The culture has gone from a fun positive environment of collaborative and supportive colleagues to a depressing every man for themselves struggle to survive each day. There is no longer any fun, comradery, or empowerment. There are only the “numbers”, “dates”, and the consequences of not achieving them.
5. Abysmal Pay – The bottom line is that the pay is terrible here. Do a “market analysis” and you’ll quickly see that DC usually offers the lowest pay. Most years you’ll either get no raise or a WHOPPING 3% increase; WOW!!! But hey, sometimes they bring in pizza and donuts when we’re working mandatory overtime so it makes it all okay, right?! In the end, I have no one to blame but myself for staying as long as I did with how little I got paid. However, it helped me to understand my own self-worth which is why I no longer work for this company.
My advice to anyone considering working for Dedicated Computing is to find somewhere else to work if at all possible. Otherwise, if you’re looking for a high stress, low pay, and stagnant place to work while life, happiness, and opportunities inevitably passes you by, come work here!
