Den of thieves above, vinegar factory below - Anonymous employee The Standard Employee Review

2.0
Jun 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Better than unemployment, working outside or on an assembly line. During slow season in the summer you can totally get away with goofing off on the internet all day.

Cons

CEO Greg Ness made his millions by sacrificing his employee's health and sanity. Managers are sociopathic narcissists. "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." That crime is working 2,000+ people to death for peanuts and 1% raises, then paying their snobby management overlords to sit in meetings about nothing all day and tell their workers to "Smile!" The caste system is in effect. Upper management would rather leave the room than look a temp in the eye. Just a sick unsustainable system fueled by a huge uninterrupted inflow of nonrenewable one year temp contracts. They intentionally do not let their massive temp workforce stick around long enough to get promoted and change things for the better, which is what would inevitably happen if the company were allowed to reach equilibrium. The work environment has nowhere to go but up, they know that and intentionally keep it there in order to maintain control over their tin pot dictatorship. If the whole company were a single person it would be a bitter old white racist baby boomer millionaire with a slowly progressing terminal illness on an IV drip made of the blood of snake people keeping him alive. The closest real life thing to a vampire.

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