FORMS + SURFACES reviews

I witnessed a woman fired the day before leaving for maternity leave. A huge order was so far behind schedule that the CEO pulled people from their office jobs such as IT, Payroll, and Middle management for weeks to work in production opening crates, sorting products, sandblasting, packaging the products, and loading them back into crates. When this large task was completed Upper management had to convince the CEO to at least write a letter thanking everyone who went way beyond their job. One person was caught doing drugs in the bathroom. So they enforced a sign-out policy to leave your work area and had grown adults asking to take a bathroom break. Incentives were slowly stripped away until they were gone completely. 1. Christmas time meal was replaced with birthday/anniversary lunch, which was then stopped. 2. Saftey hour became harder to achieve until they eventually took it away completely. 3. You used to be able to have an earbud in to listen to music within your work area, but they stopped that as well. In my opinion, working hard and going above and beyond was not rewarded but only taken advantage of and used against you when things went wrong.

This company is an HR nightmare—bullying in the form of relational aggression, racism & gender discrimination. Several current & former employees have told me that HR has been made aware of the inappropriate behavior multiple times, but no disciplinary action has been taken. Instead of addressing the problem employees, they fire the employees that are being victimized. This is textbook relational aggression, gossiping & complaining about coworkers behind their back. Managers’ response is instead of healthy conflict resolution they just throw people away like garbage. Effects of relational aggression can be quite damaging; we like to think this is petty high school behavior. But people at any age engage in this behavior. They isolate their coworkers & convince managers the victims are the problem. This needs to stop, because of my treatment at this company I suffer from PTSD. After I left, I started seeking professional help & I needed medication to keep from sinking deeper into depression. These effects will be with me for the rest of my life. When I started working there, I was so full of hope. I made good friends, who have been very supportive in helping with my recovery. I am not ashamed to talk about this anymore, if only to save someone else from suffering the way I did.