They sued a colleague after laying him off after years over 10 of service and high calibrating performance every year - Supply Chain Analyst Unilever Employee Review

1.0
Jan 31, 2016
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Pros

None that I can think of. It was hell.

Cons

I calibrated very high for the entire time I was there but I suddenly without warning I calibrated ( performance evaluation) very low along with other colleagues who were exceptional. They then proceeded to sue a colleague who couldn't pay a credit union loan on time due to his beIng laid off and out of a job. They swiftly attached his new job check and attached his house. The small Amount he owed tripled because of the Atty fees for suing him. Previous to leaving I reported some serious issues around management behavior and nothing was done so I told the director who said that I was not the first person who reported those behaviors to them on all the people I mentioned and they will take a look but that " they have to trust their management" and that nothing they can do to reverse that decision or take a closer look. Many of my former colleagues are astonished by the lack of desire to retain talent. So many great people have been let go and the new kids play video games and gamble online while the experienced do all the work and management locks themselves into offices and do not know anything at all about what you're doing in role. When you email them updates they deny they ever saw them in evaluations and blame you for them not knowing anything about what their employees are working on as far as special projects. Also, I am a man but I know women who've told me their salaries are well below mine, yet they have many more years of experience in the job than I did so they do not pay women equally. . Also, they take you away from your work to force you to present on useless topics just so they can say they did something on their performance evaluations. During these mandatory presentations my manager took personal phone calls on cell phone. One colleague told me that when they refused a promotion that they interviewed for because the salary was too low she said her manager threatened that she would not let her be promoted for at least one year from that time to punish her for making them do extra work by interviewing but not taking the job. This is just a tiny amount of what goes on in Unilever NA

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