Not All Good at Goodyear - Procurement Goodyear Employee Review

Poor benefits – for a company making billion dollars in profits and record operating income, negotiating multiple million dollar savings projects and contracts, can’t you procure or negotiate more competitive benefits for your employees? High-turnover – unrealistic savings goals coupled with uncaring management who lives “the churn and burn” mentality of retaining employees leads to a constant swinging door of new employees. Understaffed – most teams cannot keep good people, or the good people quickly move out of procurement into departments run by more competent and caring managers. Corporate wide cheapskates – Being a good steward of their shareholders is one thing. Being a corporate cheapskate is another. Goodyear is known to provide its employees with a lesser version of Microsoft Office (2003, 2007) because they do NOT want to procure additional licenses of newer software offerings. Additionally, employees are highly encouraged to utilize smart phones in their work but are NOT reimbursed for them until they are at a higher management level. Employees are often challenged in their expense reimbursement for personal mileage that is used for company business. Corporate vs. Plant mentality - competing for the same resources, savings and projects leads to competitive and dysfunctional drama between “the suits from Akron” and the individual plants. Unrealistic savings goals - unfortunately “the gap” (current savings vs. forecasted savings) is ever present, ever pounded upon by management; leads too many of the issue outlined above and really leads to an unpleasant work experience. BEWARE before coming to work here