USDA Contract: Co-workers great; Management and client awful - Anonymous employee Harmonia Employee Review

Harmonia and our entire team exists first and foremost to deliver solid IT solutions to our clients, which we do - evidenced by multiple awards and repeat contracts. We do this so that, as most companies on earth, we can generate a profit. This is a fact. But as you have acknowledged, we pay reasonably well and have good benefits, i am puzzled as to what the gripe really is. And as far as the statement that "you are expendable should your profits ever become an issue", fact is, that is true for every company on earth. Not that i would dare to compare ourselves to such great companies, but layoffs are a truism whether it is Apple, or Microsoft or Google or any other small company. i would challenge any company to say otherwise. When profits suffer there are layoffs. I would be lying if that were not true in Harmonia, however that is NOT to say that we don't protect our people when there are downturns. If that is what you are implying you are just wrong, plain and simple. To give you an example of protecting our people, even as I write this, we have had a contract which is wrapping up and the agency has lost its funding and we are working to ensure that every single one of a team of 20 employees is protected on other projects. In KC city by the way, or for that matter in other location for that matter, we have not thus far let a single person go because our profits were suffering. All that said, i will say i am very sorry that you received a grumpy response to a complaint about the company. The company has an open door policy, so i really wish you had brought your issues up to executive management. in fact he monthly lunch that you mention is intended primarily to solicit any issues anybody might have. You have the option to bring it up in that forum or privately if you feel that is necessary. If you had come to me, i would have been more than happy to try understand what the issues were and see what we could do to improve ourselves. IN any case, best of luck with your future endeavors. I hope that your current job allows you to use your previous skillets as well.