The company operates in a silos region to region, office to office, and theres this constant feeling you're on your own. A lot of promises are made yet broken, and morale had been very low some time. The company is claiming to grow and look for people to expand operations, but there has been a lot of termination activity which discredits that. Sales leadership, which is supposed to drive the company, is absent from the office much of the time, and as a result, much of the sales staff is not present at the office. It's kind of like, 'the cat is away, the mice will play'. The office I was in was struggling from a revenue standpoint, and the bi-weekly sales meeting was literally the same PowerPoint presentation every time with a few minor tweaks, but the general manager didn't seem to care about casting a wide net for business. His focus was on a few major accounts that could potentially inflate the branch bottom line. He advocated the staff being present for meetings with vendors, yet he would not participate, or would find ways to duck out. For example, I had a project manager tell me he requested via email an 'excuse' to leave one. Leaders should lead by example, in my opinion. People, including myself, were laid off because the numbers were off, yet had no control over those numbers. I tried my best to spread my talents elsewhere and to seek other projects to keep myself busy, to no avail. I and others that were laid off were treated very poorly on the way out too. I wanted to believe the company was a good one, but all the encouragement we received in the beginning turned out to be lies.
