Glad I got laid off - Instrument Builder II Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Feb 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Clean bathrooms, they had a nice cafeteria with great food choices. Company meetings that explained how the business is run. Small group meetings with your cell and engineering-concerns and new business roll outs were discussed.

Cons

anybody that worked production more than 5 years was rude and didn't like to work, and if they did they did the very bare minimum. 10 min breaks-not even worth leaving your work space.

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Cons

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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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