Granite Telecommunications reviews

I bet this review gets cycled below the bloated fake 5 star reviews. Don't be fooled with the Granite updates and fun facts. You're smarter than that. - Militant schedule for hourly and salary employees. It is not a joke that work starts at 8, lunch is 12-1, and the day ends at 5...but if you leave at 5 you'll get a good eye roll from upper management. - Kissing up gets your promoted...hard work does not. - Upper management consists of individuals from the original bankrupted Network Plus...needless to say they lack professionalism, actual job knowledge and management experience. There are a few management members that truly care about their employees - these are the few that help maintain some semblance of sanity. - When Granite started, the economy was doing poorly and so they capitalized on mass hiring cheap labor. Unfortunately they still see their employees as bodies and not actual people with families and lives. This leads to interdepartmental struggle and conflict as it turns into an upsetting every man for himself. - The commission structure has been cut back significantly on a yearly basis for multiple depts. - Sales and upper management receive great pay outs for the work the other 90% of the company is actually doing. - A cube farm patrolled by robot like management. If you keep your head down and remain silent you might survive. - A common phrase among depts is "make your money and get out." Those who don't get out suffer anxiety, low pay, no work/life balance, and nightmares. I hold a reputable salaried position, so don't think these cons are coming from an unintelligent disgruntled part timer.

SO MANY I DON’T HAVE THE TIME OR SPACE TO WRITE IT! The pay is horrendous for the amount of work expected of you. When you are out don’t expect to come back to things being done, your vacation is filled with stress of the pending doom you are returning to! Don’t be late or they will doc your PTO time and to many tardiness issues and you will be written up, oh I’m sorry it’s a blizzard you should have left yesterday then! Don’t complain or you will be written up for being negative and insubordinate. You are expected to be on call for customers 24/7 as if you have no life and yes that includes giving out your personal cell phone number. Work life balance WHAT IS THAT?! I worked in a few departments but it all boils up to the top where the “cool” CEO is actually a villain who doesn’t offer cost of living raises, takes away bonuses including the Christmas bonus but yet he is worth $3.2B make it make sense?! You get one week of sick PTO and if you get sick and run out of PTO you must use your vaca PTO… If you run out of that you get a warning and/or fired if you don’t qualify for FMLA. But still while you are in the hospital dying expect calls and emails asking when you are coming back. Years ago a college degree wasn’t required, then they changed it and now changed it back to be required for certain departments. But for those of us that started years ago before it was required don’t expect your YEARS of knowledge and hard work to be comparable or equivalent to a 4yr degree ( keep in mind the type of degree doesn’t matter so long as you graduated lol what a joke) you will be told you don’t qualify for a promotion due to a lack of college degree. If you have an issue with management or procedures don’t you dare speak up or you will be blacklisted and harassed. There is no real HR department to protect you it’s the in-house legal counsel that only cares about the businesses reputation. Upper management will yell and swear at people but waived off as oh that’s just him (the whole boys will be boys applied here). On your way out management will swear they had no idea of anything bad and gaslight you! The CEO has told employees if you don’t like it you can leave.