Taking Advantage of a Global Pandemic
Pros
Salary was reasonable competitive compared to other opportunities
Cons
The moment the pandemic hit, the President of the company (Jamie Ward) had a company wide mandatory meeting. In this meeting he looked us each in the eye and ensured use that we are an essential business, and that no one's job's were in jeopardy. Two day's later, some of the most seasoned employees in various home office roles were made to print out "essential worker" permission slips so they could drive to the office amid a global pandemic, just to be laid off by the company. Within two weeks, rather than bringing back the members of their "TD Family", each one of these positions were listed as 'Hiring' on TireDiscounters career portal, making it obvious that this company did nothing more than take advantage of a global pandemic and use it as an opportunity to cute down on overhead. If that weren't enough, they followed up by threatening lawsuits on anyone who didn't personally deliver their company equipment rather than putting up the pocket change it would have cost them to simply send their ex-employees post paid shipping boxes. I've been apart of the development for more companies than I can count, and I've never once felt the need to warn other developers about the potential bad decision they would be making by working for a company, but in this case, you should absolutely just turn around and run.
