Once great place to work is completely losing its morals and its focus on what's important while using up good employees
Pros
* Still some great people who truly CARE about the company in the rank and file of IT dept * What truly makes the company still good is the employees that still fill it's factories, offices and cubicles, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, its factories in York and KC and its HDFS and HDDS subsidiaries. There are truly still good people there who work hard. * Other departments' staff have been empathetic for long-time IT employees who are being outsourced & have reached out as best they can with advice/references.
Cons
* Upper IT management sidestepped questions about outsourcing plans to an India-based company for over a year, even after being asked directly by employees time and again. Company values that used to be held so dear seem to be long forgotten as they no longer seem to serve a purpose. * After announcing the outsourcing plan in the press, slammed effected employees by saying the outsourcers could perform the work better than employees had been doing it. * Company no longer has family-friendly feel it once had as little as 5 years ago * There's an expectation from mgmt to work long hours, as many as it takes, forget holidays & your family time, with no reward or benefit. I've been called on MANY planned vacation days to provide support with no thanks or reward. * HR is a disaster. Many things have been taken to them as areas of concern and those things have been allowed to persist for YEARS. They just want you to go away at any cost, instead of doing the right thing by their employees. * Good old boy system fully in effect when it comes to job opportunities. More opportunities and fringe benefits are given to those in the Milwaukee home office than other sites. HD Financial services also have different benefits and opportunities than HD Motor Company employees. However, this can work against you if you are trying to get a job site-to-site, division-to-division. If you don't "know" someone, kiss up, have the "in", or sit at a particular site, forget your skills, you have no chance.