PECO reviews

-Paid slavery -Obsessive micromanaging -No work-life balance -Lack of trust in employees and no independence. Every week, they have meetings to notify us of new rules and policies that can get us fired (very encouraging to work somewhere that likes rubbing in your face how expendable they think you are). -Socioeconomic discrimination within the company. The call center mainly comprises of minorities many of whom only have a highschool education, thus when trying to network and branch out to other departments within the company, you're discriminated against simply for coming from the call center (despite your credentials, even if you hold a degree or 2 and years of experience) -Modern day sweatshop, literally. You're monitored and graded on your daily performance which includes length of calls, hold time, after call work, making certain statements, and how long you were logged out of the system. You get emails every couple of hours berating you about how long you've done this or that. It's very discouraging. -You're expected to perform like a robot and take hundreds of verbally abusive calls back to back in 4 minutes or less without getting burnt out (remember if you get overwhelmed and try to catch a breather, you'll get yelled at in emails and eventually get called in the office and written up). -Detrimental to physical AND mental health. The strict policies and lack of wiggle room to breathe and feel like a human will force you to be glued to your seat if you want to get a passing grade for the day. Many people have either developed muscle problems, or those who had pre-existing conditions got worse. The Draconian policies also tear apart your mental health, making it the most dreaded place to come to. Some fellow colleagues claim their doctors encourage them to find new employment as this department is exacerbating their blood pressure and anxiety

PECO underground has a culture of abuse, disrespect, incompetence, and backstabbing. Underground employees spend more time insulting one another, and attempting to throw one another under the bus, than they do actually working on electrical circuits. The level of employee entitlement is absolutely insane, and the fact that grown men making 6 figures a year, with no college education, who spend at least 2 hours on each end of their shift eating and goofing off, will spend the rest of their shift complaining about how "hard" their job is, is a disgrace. If you ever wondered why your PECO bill is so high, it's because most people are spending more energy trying to game the system, than they are trying to do quality work. First class mechanics are incredibly negative, and foster an attitude in the apprentices that the only way to be successful, is to be miserable, catty, and a cheat. PECO itself will refuse to get rid of those apprentices who are proven to be incompetent, and both management and HR are to blame. Numerous employees have repeatedly been involved in motor vehicle accidents, destroyed equipment, and failed skill assessments, yet are pushed through their apprenticeships, because HR is more concerned with having warm bodies, and fulfilling diversity initiatives, than hiring skilled and competent workers. PECO's HR department seemingly wants other employees to get injured, because they don't want to fire those employees who endanger everyone else. Management is largely toothless, and refuses to follow through. A number of supervisors are openly racist, and will only speak to those employees who are the same race as them, and making comments about other employees being unable to perform tasks due to their race. Supervisors rarely manage their teams, and are more concerned with keeping themselves out of the line of fire. Team members routinely harass one another, and supervisors allow it to continue, because they are too spineless to put their foot down.