Perrin reviews

There's a big culture of fear from the executive team at Perrin and the president promotes that by micro managing and encouraging his leadership team to lead as he does. The front office is a very quiet environment. So are the creative art and separations areas. Its so quiet its depressing, and not a fun environment to work in. There is no vision from the executive team in terms of a yearly sales goal, and consequently no monthly or quarterly updates on where the company is throughout the year. This is supposed to be an employee owned company but the employees are kept in the dark except for a once a year update. There is a board of directors made up of the former owner, the CFO and president but it is unclear if/when they meet or what the board does for the company. Again, employee owned, but the employees are in the dark about what the leadership team is doing to move the company forward and grow the business. They have core values posted throughout the building. One being Integrity. In my time there I personally witnessed the company swap out garment neck labels so that the country of origin would not state Haiti for specific customers who specify they do not want goods from Haiti. That is not acting with integrity. Teamwork is another core value, but acting as a team is discouraged between the front office and back/production areas. There's lots more going on there that needs to be dealt with in terms of upper management. Ideally the President should move back to a Sales role, and a CEO should be hired as well as a COO and CIO to drive change in operations and IT. There are some great people there who want a better work environment, better leadership and better more efficient systems to support their work load, but under the current structure that will not happen anytime soon.