Pros
Company openly associates with anti-union politicians and entities—if you’re into that sort of thing. Hopefully so because they will insist that you share those views and you WILL be verbally abused for having different political opinions. Do you verbally and physically abuse your family and coworkers? Break things at the office? Don’t worry, Tradesmen will protect your job regardless of your behavior if you have good sales numbers. Speak up against it? Enjoy your new assignment somewhere less desirable. Are you racist or anti-LGBTQ+? That’s right, many of Tradesmen’s finest are as well, and won’t be shy to let you know. Best part is that the company is fully able to exonerate itself of any wrongdoing. It doesn’t matter if one employee tells another that they’re going to hell for not sharing their religion. Tradesmen says that’s a-okay, and if you speak up the company will absolutely attempt to threaten your job to get you in line. Want to have your hard work exploited so the company can sell for a few more dollars in the next few years then cut you loose? Come to Tradesmen, where upper management thinks employees can’t see the writing on the wall.
Cons
Protects racist employees. Actively encourages anti-worker, union-busting activity. Routinely misses pay deadlines for field employees. Encourages and coerces employees into performing illegal activities to put laborers to work. Hyper focus on metrics, REQUIRED MONTHLY PERFORMANCE REVIEWS FOR ALL NON-MANAGEMENT OFFICE EMPLOYEES. Limited advancement opportunities, pay increases come with mandatory contracts. In my entire employment span, despite working in an office environment, I had three managers in succession none of whom ever visited me or my office and one of whom had no actual industry experience. Company explicitly expects every project coordinator who is assigned a geographic area to achieve identical metrics goals that are unattainable for the majority of markets. When metrics aren’t met, performance plans are usually threatened. As a result, most entry level positions have no chance for pay raise, bonus, or advancement. Company has relatively high turnover as a result, training is minimal and reward is nonexistent. Most importantly though: the offices with the highest sales are explicitly allowed to bend more rules and actively engage in unethical, illegal behavior within and without the company.