Customer Service Department is a joke - Customer Service Makita Employee Review

1.0
Nov 11, 2013
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Pros

No real Pros. Just a paycheck.

Cons

Customer Service Department is being ran by idiots. Two higher ups recently left and the only manager left fired our supervisor who was the best "leader" we had...The amount of paperwork that is completely useless is mind boggling. Zero training and the one department manager left is clueless. The La Mirada Customer Service Dept. is ran with negativity, demoralization and someone like the G.M. or new VP of Ops should step in and actually make this a decent place to work, because right now it is awful. Stay away and find a similarly paying position elsewhere.

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Cons

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Pros

- Great work/life balance. - Great teammembers (outside of IT management) - Near market pay. - Good health coverage. - Annual Christmas tool raffle/prizes. - Professional development/e-learning materials are provided. - Working in a beautiful and modern facility (clean and well-kept)

Cons

- Toxic motivation practices by IT management (threats of termination, frequent negative reinforcement, calling out a mistake in a large email group with the intent to embarass the employee rather than addressing it one-on-one, asking other employees their opinion about another employee that is late once what they think about the tardy), - Misleading employees about new opportunities that don't materialize. - Micromanagement practices (reviewing every support incident, reprimanding after a single Teams message sent during a lunch break), - No performance-based raises. - No bonuses (except an $85 gift card annually). - Little-to-no advancement opportunities (layoffs to reduce headcounts were performed in 2023). - Very minimal (almost non-existent) training and sparse knowledge base documentation for new hires. It is mostly sink or swim. - No performance metrics or SLA to determine employee performance. Performance is often measured by emotions and the personal relationship with management.

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