Disappointing - Anonymous employee A-SAFE Employee Review

A-SAFE used to be a brilliant place to work and had a really positive family-run business culture/feeling. The original owner and his wife are lovely people. Unfortunately, the transition to becoming more corporate and established in multiple global markets has taken precedence over internal improvements. During this time, the business has completely neglected to implement proper HR policies to drive employee morale, create a desirable working culture and protect the wellbeing of staff. Mid-level managers are well out of their depth, with a serious lack of knowledge on people management and various specialisms within their own departments – certainly within the marketing team. As echoed on various reviews, the level of micromanagement was intolerable as an employee and not something that people should have to deal with in any capacity at work. Managers are given far too much control, regularly using personal opinions and emotions to manipulate situations and throw hardworking employees under the bus to protect their own mistakes. I regretfully witnessed managers denying certain work-related agreements and conversations had taken place on several occasions, potentially very damaging to people’s professional confidence/mental health. A-SAFE need to acknowledge the implications of management purposely creating scenarios where they want people to fail and gradually bully them out of their roles. Emails asking for confirmation on work or suggestions for improvement would be purposely ignored so there was no digital trail to refer to if questions were asked at a later date. 121s were constantly cancelled leaving no real time to discuss work, allowing issues to remain unresolved and gradually worsen. Lastly, there are little development plans in place for progressing your career with A-SAFE as they consider most members of staff to be replaceable – a very questionable approach to have towards your employees. The current owners MUST have an idea of what is happening and how damaging treating people in this way is for the company. For some reason though, they will not step in to help employees that are willing to go above and beyond to progress the business.