Deteriorating Company - Anonymous employee Veritiv Employee Review

Since the Unisource/xpedx merger a few years ago the work environment has been getting worse and worse. The new upper management teams brought in don't seem to know what they are doing. Safety, while preached by upper management, is blatantly disregarded in practice by them. They also do not follow proper safety processes which are leading to employee injuries with questionable reactions by management to the situations. Advancement opportunities are few and far between anymore with the new teams often bringing in people from the outside they know without even considering current employees. The morale of the employees has been taking a hit as employees are being treated more and more like machines. Overtime rules have changed so employees aren't getting premium pay like they did in the past. Fewer laborers and drivers are in departments which is driving up overtime for those still there but not getting compensated for it like they used to. Vacation rules have also changed to take away flexibility for the employees. Any type of perks, no matter how small, that employees used to have are being slowly eliminated. Management tends to seem like they are interested in employee concerns but then do what they want anyway. Management has been coached in the past few months in management only meetings on ways to word conversations and stage meetings to have the appearance of concern to put the employees at ease; or to deliver bad news or cuts while avoiding key 'negative' phrasing. The atmosphere in the company is becoming so toxic that good, long time employees from the labor/driver level all the way through middle management have been leaving the company at alarming rates in sales, customer service, and operations. If the employee exodus wasn't evidence enough, sales have been down and expenses up from poor management and unsatisfied customers. This is reflected in the drooping stock price over the past 3+ months.