Pros
Benefits and short term training into the industry, but employees will leave, based on current culture. If you’re not part of the groomed management staff in Bloomington, your career will collapse. It’s how they promote to the executive levels. Join or start looking for a legitimate career opportunity.
Cons
In 2008, Bill Cook addressed his executive team, espousing some key cultural ideas. I was fortunate to hear his comments. 1. He didn’t want the government telling him how to run his business. 2. Employees with “Grey hair” had value and should be retained, as they had helped build the company and knew its sacrifices. Today, the company intimidates its older employees and coercesses them to quit, before they get fired. The new strategy of the company is “job architecture” and allows the company to degrade employees that provided value, but now moved to jobs there not trained and then, the company uses HR to threaten them to quit, instead of firing them. Seems a bit illegal in the broader sense and not the culture the founder wanted. Shame on you Pete! I believe the company has gone too far in the DEI movement. They have openly stated on conference calls, with no less than 100 people on the call, all things being equal, hire the diversity candidate. Seems like a race/gender based ideology.