Where do I begin? As you read the beginning portion of this, I may sound like a petty and disgruntled employee. However, if you were subjected to an unethical and degrading work environment, you'd sound like this too.
Pine is run by two brothers, who have no idea what leadership looks like. They know dictatorship, and micro manage like pros. They have hired a pack of managers and executives including the majority of the Human Resources Department to protect them and mirror them, in all their unprofessional and arrogant glory.
Pine is a terrible place to work for the following reasons:
There is no training: You start at Pine feeling like it's going to be a good place to work. Then you quickly learn that there is no training and you're expected to somehow produce without any product knowledge. The owners brag about how they did this 20 years ago all alone but they can't even answer simple work questions now. They make all their employees feel stupid if they make a mistake, but if they'd roll up their sleeves for once they'd most likely not meet their own standards.
Management is terrible, here’s why: This is a “do as I say” company, not a “do as I do” company. The owners and HR have meetings about respect; yet each meeting I’ve ever had has been filled with profanity and disrespectful slurs, and full of implications that the team is stupid and isn’t doing their job correctly. As an employee, you will become used to being spoken to like you are stupid. Unless you are a direct hand in making the company big money, and sometimes that doesn’t even help. The verbal abuse and mind games you will experience from management is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. Be prepared to never feel like you never have job security. They treat you, and on occasion tell you, that you are disposable as an employee. The higher up’s at Pine does what they can hide their wrongdoings at all times, with the customers and/or employees. The owners have even tried to get these Glassdoor reviews taken down as they “make the company look bad,” instead of really reading them and understanding that there could be something they can learn. When the owners or the owner’s friends/family becomes involved in any type of work related issue, no standard employee stands a winning chance. The owners will literally belittle you if you’re talking while working, look like you’re even remotely enjoying your job, or cause them any slight accidental inconvenience. However, the owners will NOT belittle you if they 1) find you attractive 2) you make tons of money for Pine 3) if you worship them and pretend like you actually like them.
HUMAN RESOURCES is a joke: At Pine, HR is there to clean up the higher up’s (or their own) messes. HR rarely sees daylight, as they stay in their office 90% of the time or behind the closed doors of the owners.
Preferential treatment is given for family and friends, and they are a lot of them working here. Some of which are superior to the other, and preferential treatment occurs often. Whether it be employees are constantly getting spoon fed orders because they’re family with the manager(s), or whether an employee doesn’t get in trouble because the owner/management is family or a friend, its happening everyday here. And for those people who show up to work every day and really try, it’s insulting.
I do not know how the owners/managers sleep at night. So much WRONG goes on here and no one seems to care. When an employee gets hired, everyone jokes about how long they will last. When an employee gets a new job, everyone begins to congratulate and literally cheer as though Pine was something to run from.
This is the honest truth. Work here at your own risk.
