Toxic - Anonymous employee Acuity Inc. Employee Review

Bait-and-switch: 4-day/40 hr. workweeks are short lived for the majority of exempt employees and inevitably turn into 5, sometimes 6-days, in order to meet pressing and unrealistic deadlines that bleed north of 60 hours per week. This along with the usage of inflated job titles (everyone is a manager) and/or salaries are common tactics used by HR to lure candidates into the door, only to later use the guise of ‘change,’ when employees begin to question the lack of structure and context behind many of the inconsistent or ambiguous policies and procedures, that one would assume, just inherently exist when accepting an organization’s terms of employment. Assume nothing and ask many questions along the way at Acuity. Leadership: Toxic. Fear-based. Condescending. Ambiguous. A farce. Abhorrent at best. Empathy is often perceived as a weakness. Team meetings are often combative and argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. It's common practice for employees to be called out in front of their peers when mistakes are made to further drive the culture of conformity into the “Acuity Way” of doing things. (see examples below.) “Acuity Way” • Reduction-in-force events (layoffs, 2x per/yr.): instead of providing the proper training, guidance, or feedback for day-to-day responsibilities, there are many instances where managers use these events as a crutch to justify exits of employees who aren’t ‘cutting it.’ Duties and responsibilities of the exited are spread among the remaining, who also do not receive the proper tools or feedback to perform their roles, which further fan the flames of the fear-based (figure it out or suffer the consequences) culture from management. • Questionable business practices: Acuity is Enron in the making (Google: Acuity Class Action Law Suit.). • Nepotism: Manager who provides direct support for their spouse’s line of business as an example. Constant re-org’s: High-turnover and revolving door in HR and Financial services groups.