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Laudisi Enterprises

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Laudisi Enterprises reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

Sykes Wilford

91% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Laudisi Enterprises has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Laudisi Enterprises employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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16 reviews
4.0
Aug 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly work environment, predictable work load and reasonable performance goals.

Cons

What was once an almost 80's-90's Japanese employment ethos (as long as you don't steal or blow up the place, you will always have employment), as of 2010, now is pretty much 'serve at suffrage'. If you don't rapidly make it into the inner clique, the reasons offered for being let go border on the capricious.

1.0
Aug 18, 2015

Beware of snobs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Deep discounts, good deals, and you get to smoke on the job.

Cons

If you plan on working for this company, beware. Be prepared for backstabbing, backbiting, snobbery, judgemental atmosphere and regular belittle mints who you are in the pipe community. The workplace is rife with xenophobia, corporate cliques, and a well defined class system. If you ever want to make a complaint, you had better have good blackmail material, otherwise the management, you seem to have no backbone, and no qualms about releaving someone of their job for no better reason than to play favorites, you're out. Also, if you don't sit their corporate culture you will also be let go.

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Laudisi Enterprises Response
10y
While I obviously don't know what specifics precipitated this review, I will say that we take what we do very seriously and hold ourselves to high standards. We do think of ourselves as the industry elite. We want to work with the best. Does that make us snobs? Perhaps to some. I won't respond to a lot of the specifics because they just don't make much sense, but yes, if you don't fit our corporate culture, and refuse to work within that culture, you're unlikely to thrive at Laudisi. From context, it sounds like we dismissed this individual. We have two routes to dismissal: significant ethical violations (lying, stealing etc) that result in immediate termination, or for things that we'll lump into 'culture'. Culture is a slippery concept, but it's really just an agreed upon set of values and normative behaviors that let people interact in a group (be it a company, a neighborhood, or a polity). Repeated violations of those values tend to lead to social censure or sanction. So, yes, when an employee doesn't fit our corporate culture, we point it out and discuss the problems it might be causing, but if it's not remedied, we ultimately sever the relationship. This is true of every human grouping that has ever been. We want Laudisians to thrive. We want it to be (and it is) a happy work environment, where the lines between work and play blur, where we have fun getting things done, and take joy in doing new, interesting things, improving ourselves and the company in the process. I'm saddened that it did not work out that way for this individual.
5.0
Aug 17, 2015

Great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working for SmokingPipes.com is the best job I’ve ever had. The people are friendly and helpful, the atmosphere is chill, and there are many “perks” to working here like company events that are more like team building events but without all the "big corporate” fluff. The managers ask that you work hard but we got lots of latitude and freedoms that most people don’t get in their careers. Just for instance, I don’t “get in trouble” when I’m five or ten minutes late because my employer recognizes that i’m a valuable asset to the team. I’ve worked for these guys longer than most, and I’ve seen some “mixed” reviews from disgruntled employees on sites like this. I’ll tell you quite honestly I think that a lot of people have trouble working in the kind of environment that’s not so mapped out, where your manager isn’t breathing down your neck. I know it sounds crazy but I think some people just need more structure than that. Quite honestly the people that have been fired since I’ve been here are the kind of people that take advantage of a employers generosity and then get fired and then wonder why. Don’t listen to the haters. Laudisi is great!

Cons

Some of the people here don't know how good they got it!

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