Project Manager - Project Manager Ford Audio-Video Systems Employee Review

Lower pay than any of the comparable AV integrators. I heard straight from Jim Ford's mouth: "We don't want employees who are here for the money. We want people who will work for less money because they love the industry." The corporate offices extend their hands into every aspect of the company without fully involving themselves. Resulting in bad directives based on half-information. Politics enter too much of daily activities. People are too scared of Claire Ford to speak up about wrongdoings or ineffective business practices. People walk on eggshells and fear retaliation daily. I repeatedly witnessed technicians as well as engineers get fired the week before Christmas. Every time it was for recent low performance without taking in the employee's full career with the company. Moral across the board is always low. You will be hard pressed to find a technician who enjoys the company. It takes 15 years to be granted 3 weeks of PTO. The company claims profit sharing is based on a mathematically calculated program but they cannot answer the question "How is it calculated?" "Their answer is "It's complicated." The truth is they manually adjust individual profit sharing amounts. By itself , that is not a big deal but for some reason they have to lie about it. In Denver, a PM can expect about $1,000 per year. In comparison, comparable companies give out that much in a single quarter. I worked on a project for a full year which made over $1,000,000 profit but was denied profit sharing because they posthumously considered it as something other than a project. I was mislead and denied my rightful claim to the biggest profit sharing the company ever had... ever.