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Delicato Family Wines

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Great company, but bad management in certain departments. - Anonymous employee Delicato Family Wines Employee Review

2.0
Jun 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good hours, good pay, alot of perks, good benefits, free wine, family oriented.

Cons

Bad management on the state compliance side and a lot of unprofessionalism. Management allows personal friendships and relationships to spill into the work place, causes drama, tension, unfair treatment, favoritism and retaliation because concerns are not addressed properly because management and coworkers are close friends. Does not offer formal or much training to new hires and sets them up for failure. I do not recommend working in this department at all simply because management cannot separate their friendships from coworkers and it causes the team to not function properly because everyone is uncomfortable or walking on eggshells.

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Delicato Family Wines Response
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We are sorry to hear you had a negative experience at Delicato. We pride ourselves on our open door policy and encourage anyone who has concerns to have conversations with their HR Business Partner. This can be a very effective way to address concerns in a productive, timely manner. If you would still like to share your concerns in more detail with us, please contact our Vice President of Human Resources, Eleanor Gathany at Eleanor.Gathany@Delicato.com. She would be more than happy to hear from you. In addition, we consider one of Delicato’s strengths to be our inclusive culture and the fact that employees are treated as family. Because of this, we encourage a collaborative versus an autocratic approach. We recently launched a culture survey with over 88% employee participation and once we receive the results, we will have a better idea of our areas for improvement. Finally, an area of considerable focus for the company in the last 2 years has been in Training and Development. We offer a variety of courses covering many topics and strongly encourage all employees to take advantage of these opportunities. Thank you for your feedback.

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Pros

They have a generous employee discount.

Cons

Delicato runs on fear and demands conformity. Rather than admit they have no idea what they are doing in running certain "new-to-them" areas of the industry, and seek internal wisdom and counsel of those who have been for years, they choose to rely on "consultants" who have no interest beyond lining their own pockets. Management within departments is purely top-down, and any attempts to innovate or be creative are shut down. Company refuses to provide tools or solutions for people to do their actual jobs, but squash work-arounds, instead prioritizing "figure it out for yourself" as a philosophy, until you actually do.

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Delicato Family Wines Response
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We strive to create an environment that balances operational discipline with room for innovation and independent thinking. Expectations and structure are important in a winery of our scale, but so is listening to our people and improving how work gets done. Feedback like this is taken seriously as we continue to refine how we lead, invest in our teams, and support meaningful progress across the organization.
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