Shell of what it used to be - Anonymous employee DRB Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free soda and amenities Good college summer job

Cons

I worked at this company for close to five years while it was still owned by the family who started it. It was a great company to work for and I was happy to go to work each day. Family owned companies have an incentive to care about their workers and reputation along with their profit. Unfortunately this company was sold to a capital investment company who turned this operation into a "pump and dump" and the company was sold again to a different investment company soon after. After the company was initially sold priorities changed to pure profit-grabbing and we struggled heavily in finding the right people. Our CEO at the time was from the restaurant industry and wasn't the right person for the job. I personally had four bosses in a two-year span of time, all of them fired one after another. We took on more middle management burnouts from Diebold and our support department took on a quantity-over-quality philosophy that hurt our reputation. There is also something very upsetting about being lectured on company cultured by people who only started a few months ago. There were a lot of awesome and unique people at DRB that I'm happy to still know but this company has turned into the blind leading the blind. Most of my outdated work is still on their website. You'll notice they advertise on their homepage as having a "4.5 on glassdoor" but that's since decreased and they don't longer have the top workplaces award for 2019 on there. This is a sinking ship.

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First off, thank you for taking the time to write this review. Many things have changed in the past few years since being a family owned company. Since being acquired as a family company there have been a many changes, our company has almost tripled in size, we have acquired 4 other companies and the board has adjusted the leadership accordingly. While we do have quite a few individuals from outside companies and because of our geographic location many are from Diebold. We have a very intense hiring process and choose the best people for the job, we look for experienced individuals that fit into our company model of hungry, humble and smart. Just like in past messages the size of the company may have changed and some managers may have changed but the amazing culture has not. The amazing staff of DRB is what makes up our amazing culture. Lastly, DRB just like many other companies across the US, have had to make difficult decisions these past few weeks because of Covid-19. This pandemic has left many verticals in tough place and car wash market was one of them.

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