Management Ignorance (Arrogance?) On A Massive Scale - Pre-con Manager McKinstry Employee Review

1.0
Feb 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation was OK - just OK. Health care and retirement are good. The buildings: PDX headquarters & SEA headquarters are quite nice.

Cons

The title says it all! The "C" level managers are leaders and are quite good. The Mid-Level management is the worst that I have experienced in my entire 30-year career. These individuals are, for lack of a better term, arrogant morons. The employee surveys that we took reinforced this fact every year: our managers were some of the worst (had the lowest recorded scores) of any managers that the survey company had ever seen! When we pointed out to the managers how they could improve their performance as managers and/or improve employee moral, we were either fired, laid-off, or "written-up". When we sought other employment - as most disgruntled employees do - we were fired on the spot if our managers found out (or even suspected) this fact.

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Cons

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