Poor management and over-worked employees with low morale
Pros
Great benefits, Close to home for many employees living in the remote region
Cons
Many of the benefits and perks HR listed as available to me in on-boarding were non-existent. The department was barred from participating in Employee-Appreciation Day (says enough in and of itself), Volunteer Days, and when the rest of the company was released early before holidays, we were the ones left standing til the very end of the work day. Management was passive-aggressive, micro-managed, while upper-level management took extensive vacations, went to trade-shows across the country, and/or worked from home (not available to lower-level employees although we had the system capabilities) while the worker-bees struggled to complete work-loads that were unrealistic and unmanageable. High turn over rate and slow-to-hire for replacements, additional workloads were saddled onto remaining employees. Super low morale and an all-around negative atmosphere to come into work every day. Those employees who did manage to transfer out of the department to others within the company were given poor recommendations, despite high monthly performance in an attempt to keep them in the under-staffed Flood department.
