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Granite Construction

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Granite Construction: Good to Work There If You Are In Management - Estimating Engineer Granite Construction Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is a stable company with health benefits. There is not much seasonal laying off of office people. The drug-free policy screens out bad people so you have an office full of generally nice people.

Cons

They have an awful health coverage plan--they pretty much force you into an HSA (health-savings account), where you are encouraged not to get medical help when you need it. Their safety policy has managers doing everything to keep you from getting medical help after an accident because it goes onto their accident statistics if you do see a doctor. There is terrible communication from management as to what is happening in the company, which creates an air of stress as rumors tend to fill in the information gap. There is a "good old boy" atmosphere: if you are a white male with whom your white male manager would like to share a beer, you'll do fine in the company. This is no employee diversity, ethnically and socially speaking. All other employees are left out of the information/career growth/salary loop. The highest management talks about caring about the people but is extremely detached from the common workers--there are company-wide conference calls that supposedly provide a forum for all branches nationwide to communicate with management and with each other, but woe to anyone who actually speaks the truth! Being present and on-time does not matter--it seems that those employees with irregular presence are the ones who are promoted. Managers are either absent or spend much of their day talking about irrelevant topics with their friends in the office--as long as you're a "good old boy", it's okay. New employees arrive and often are not announced; likewise, employees disappear and that disappearance may not be announced to all. Important information is shared more with managers and "good old boys" while information may be withheld from other staffers. Employees can look forward to only a 3% COLA (cost-of-living adjustment) each summer and occasionally a 2% merit raise (if the employee has been assertively asking for it)--but high national inflation has no impact upon employee raises.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- management does not communicate at all. They expect you to mind read and meet their expectations perfectly, even while in training like a seasoned veteran . If you don’t, they will fire you with no explanation and a smile on their face. - no formal training program; I was supposed to be trained for 6 months and they cut it 2.5 months and seemed to have held me to the standards of my trainer who had been with the company for over 40 years. I say seemed because again, no communication! - passive aggressive phone calls; management won’t communicate but they do love to call you and make it your fault when they’re having a bad day. - Lack of respect; i was interviewed by 3 of the managers and I could tell which ones chose me/liked me and which ones didn’t. Any recommendations I had to make dispatching smoother fell on deaf ears as I was not taken seriously or treated as a member of the team. It was clear my boss had not chosen me, but was “stuck” with me and was prepping to fire me from the moment training was done. - overtime all day; my day started at 5AM, but I could easily work until 7PM because none of the foreman/superintendents would give me their schedules until 4-5PM if at all despite every day I asked for them between 9-10AM and instead of holding them accountable, my boss told me “that’s just the way it is” which I don’t believe because we were the only region with this problem. Gotta love a boys' club!

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