Tech Data reviews about "layoff"

- Office politics run rampant. - Lack of standardized training in nearly every department. - Lack of direction and feedback will depend entirely on your manager as they operate semi-autonomous fiefdoms of desk clumps. - Despite local awards, there is an obvious lack of real inclusion. An overbearing conservative mindset only fosters this as they use anecdotal examples rather than real solid statistics to market this facet. - HR is there to look out for the company and often powerless or straight unwilling to make any improvements. - Open floor plans do not foster a positive environment especially when the wage gap between even team members is stifling. It's also terrible for concentration in a technical field or when working with large calculations. - Lower level people (nearly all the general employees) are often kept entirely in the dark but are expected to react swiftly and with little to no support. - Will treat your employment like a gift you cannot repay. - High turnover in sales, internal logistics, and at logistic centers (warehouses). - Willing to undergo massive remodeling and branding projects while enduring layoffs had an unsurprisingly negative effect on company morale. - There is a clear double-standard in terms of daily responsibilities and expectations for what is seen as the "inner-circle" of management and their confidants and the rest of the employees. (The 13 Club was a nickname for the entry level people that felt a clear divide between those making entry level pay for years and those shopping for new Mercedes at their desk loudly.) There's nothing quite like watching bonuses get literally handed out to your team members while you're struggling. - Compared to a lot of places around here the pay is standard, but for IT professionals who are often able to work remote at companies, the financial incentive is minimal. - Meetings to have meetings about meetings. It's 2017 and anything that can said in a meeting can be done on a WebEx or in email. There are much better ways to build trust between a team than a meets on weekly numbers. - Don't expect a cost of living or raise in general without a promotion.

- Company always looking to reduce cost (layoffs)

The recent merger with Avnet has caused many changes, some good some bad, like the layoff I was part of. Promoting millennials to management positions without proper people & management skills.

- You are treated as a number - Many layoffs - More concerned about shareholders than employees

low pay, menial & tedious work, large workload, inconsistent policies & procedures, mass layoffs/slow to re-hire, system enhancements are slow to be implemented, lack of a centralized location for pertinent info, lots of digging through old emails to "research", dumb processes & rules that make your job even more tedious What this company does is start laying off people out of the blue, then moving the fired employee’s responsibilities onto the ones that are left. Then as business starts to increase, they continue to spread more duties to the existing employees on a team, but don’t want to pay them extra. The same low pay rate for much more work. They discourage overtime. They would rather burden and overwhelm the existing employees, including management, rather than to hire/pay a new employee. They prefer to have contractors or hourly-pay workers than permanent, salaried employees. If you want to work here, don’t let them make demands on your time outside of work hours…because they will if you let them. Supplier sales reps intimidate customers into orders they do not want and harass them until the order has shipped. It's a very strange dynamic to be in the middle of. Considering the company (Avnet, now TechData) brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in sales from each supplier (and they have multiple suppliers), yet income is near the poverty level, is disheartening.

Lack of developing strong candidates. Be prepared to find your way around on your own through the maze of code in the puzzle of applications. Work / Life Balance is almost non-existent. Layoffs abound...even for employees that have been with the company 10+ years. Revolving door. Too many contractors. Management cares for management and bottom line of more senior management. Favoritism.

red tape bureaucracy, borderline discriminatory, bi-annual layoffs, pushing out long term employees whose pay tops out market caps...