| Top 5 Worst Companies to Work For
The Home Depot – Home Depot has legions of angry consumer as well as employees. Home depot used to have qualified personnel to provide expert advice. They essentially canned them all to hire cheap labor. After firing all of their decent staff, they took or severely cut back any worthwhile employee benefits and incentives; merit badges worth $20 each, tuition reimbursement, dental, employee discounts, Christmas bonuses (now just a coupon) credit signup bonuses etc. Several sites host complaints by disgruntled employees, from the Consumerist to Retailworker.com.
AOL – From training employees how to charge credit cards of those trying to cancel their accounts, to censoring or firing employees that stand up to their ethics, AOL has, is, and probably always will be one of the worst places to work.
Best Buy - From forcing employees to practice questionable ethics, to flat out manipulation by managers. Their management system is reportedly structured to the point that there is no accountability; the blame tends to go downward, ending up on the floor employees that work the hardest. Years and years of complaints have been logged at www.bestbuysux.org. Shopping at Best Buy is about as fun.
McDonald’s - If this is your first job, fine but if it’s your second job, it just sucks to be you. McDonald’s is host to incompetent supervisors where “mediocrity is looked up to, but never quite achieved” †. The educational level of even the highest ranks of store management is about the end of high school and will likely teach you nothing. Hopefully this will force you to strive for a positive exit plan.
Verizon - “They destroyed the lives of 33 pilots to save retirement expenses” ‡ - just one example of their business practices. Freezing pensions by email - another. Additionally the poor top-down management has caused some of the lowest moral ever in a company.
† washingtonpost.com
‡ wanderlist.com
I will absolutely agree about Best Buy. I had to work there twice, the second time being worse than before.
you got that right..
please add hilltop family physicians to the list. they cheat you out of pay and fire people for no reason ,except to get money for their new buildiong. the office manager is crazy. no joke you can,t tell from one day to the next what she is going to do. she tells you sone thing one day and then the next says she didnt day it. she is awfull.
The worst company around. TOOOOO many Chiefs and not enough Indians.TOOO many layers of useless management. TOOO uch top down management. TOOOOOOOOOO bureaucratic. Get it?
Front line performance leaders in this compnay are the lazyest pieces of crap that walk the face of this earth and do absolutly nothing at work except personal business. The subrogation department is a fucking mess, especially that office in Malvern, PA
I worked for a divison of The Home Depot (HD Supply/Brafasco)
Let me fill you in on how bad it really is. If you every wanted to know how it felt to work under a bunch of ego driven managers that think only of them selves and have no leadership abilities, or have no clue about the industry they’re in. Please feel free to get a job with HD Supply/Brafasco.
I am not sure why they don’t see that something is wrong with management. Their Ego’s must be in the way. Since January of 2007 over 15+ employees from upper management to regular staff have quit. Somethings wrong and it’s not the staff.
customer service rep is worst ever 50 hour weeks with no breaks. lifting tires twice the size of you, only to get laid off with 12 other people in the district because they didn’t make sales at the turn of the new year. DO NOT WORK FOR THESE GUYS!!!!
Treats employees bad, rewards them with material it barters with. It’s almost like working at Walmart!
Entrepreneur Media
Worst company to work for!
All I can say is that this company is about making money, not providing quality education. They are way more concerned about not getting caught breaking the law than they are with following the law.
In order to qualify for insurance you have to show your tax statements.
Employees first ,, screwed, over-worked, and fired to save for mgmt bouns
this place is so unprofessional. they have a revolving door employment system. don’t train employees well. have a very poor sales team and model. extreme disregard for customers. it’s run by mainly poorly educated, sub pro management.
Add Synnex Corp to this list as well. Probably the biggest scam company in the IT sector. The company is always changing policies to save money and recently changed their pay plan to a draw, where they basically dock your wage from your commission. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if the commission plan was good to begin with. I basically sold close to 5 million and revenue and netted a $600 commission check. They’ve even got so cheap where they monitor you shutting down your computer each day to help lower their energy bill. Plus you get micro managed to a tee. You basically have to keep a log of everything you do everyday.
They do not tell you that if you do not make your quota they will cut your pay. Low morale, idiots for managers, bullying, etc. All decent managers leave in short time. Associates accountable for everything even when instructed by their leaders. Just a lousy environment!
QUILL (owned by Staples) is absolutely the worst company. You have to account for EVERY minute. Take 1 minute extra for lunch and you get scolded even if you came in 10 minutes early and don’t get paid for that time. Take a sick day (that you are allowed!) and “it’s held against you” when it’s time for a raise (which isn’t much to begin with!!) But, best of all….work for them for 30 years and they say “oh, it’s cheaper to pay people in South Carolina than Illinois, so we’re moving and you’re losing your job.” Bah! Buy your office supplies at Home Depot!!!
Fiserv Lending Solution Formerly General American Corporation (GAC). This Company is a terrible company for Appraiser because if you make a manager mad they will refuse to pay for all your long hard work ( this happens all the time ).They do not properly train their employees but are quick to fire people,very bad turnover, terrible moral you have to be a serious brownnoser or a women to get anywhere in this company (very few Men or Minorities in Management). This Company is ran by alot of childless women with no compassion for common folks who have families or even lives, they mandate employees to work overtime every week even when business is slow,they do not alow sick employees to stay home or go home (People are always sick @ work they threaten your job if you leave or stay home) company does not contribute any money to health insurance insurance very expensive, raises are small and rare (sometimes annually if you are lucky),does not give their employees that talk on the phone all day headsets, company tells you that you will get a Christmas bonus than a week before Christmas you get a nice email stating that your nice Christmas bonus $600 just got donated to Charity not that there is nothing wrong with donating to local Charities, they give their employees the option and they should not make their employees pay taxes on money that they promised and took away.
This company is by far the worst company I have EVER worked for in my 22 years of work experience.
Mobis Alabama is the WORST comany all time folks,
Just came across your website and wanted to let you know about the horrible experience that has been to work for a company by the name of Grip Marketing (Get Mail, Inc.) here in Atlanta, GA. It’s not just been me, it’s everyone that has gone through that company. I had been trying to get out of there for the last year and now I just got layed off. No severance, no nothing.
They never put anything in writing (for their benefit), and if you had to sign a contract with them, they would not even allow you take it and have it reviewed by an attorney.
We had no benefits whatsoever. We were verbally abused constantly by being called names (dick, bitch, etc) by the officials of the company and at times sexually harrassed… showing porn movies, stacks of Playboy magazines in the bathrooms, etc, etc, etc. I’m contemplating in filing a civil law suit against them. Not to mention… most of the software programs there were pirated, and they are a publishing company, so I could imagine the consequences of that.
People out there (professionals, employers and clients in the industry of direct mail, marketing and advertising) need to avoid this company and its two officials. We have to spread the word so that other people don’t get emotionally hurt and damaged by these two individuals.
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All the people above and below were fired for being nonproductive whiners.
Add TruGreen Chemlawn to the list. Who cares about sustomer retention? They don’t- it’s all about the new customers and taking them for all their worth the first time around.
management is another name for “powertrip” and they definetly use that to make the employees feel inferior. “Break ‘em down to build e’m back up”-that’s their management theory.
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I was working for Verizon and had a non work injury. The supervisor was calling my house and harrasing me back to work. Verizon had legal threaten to fire me multiple times while I was off including sendind certified letters to my house; when I did return about a month later, she wrote me up in a yearly review for being injured. When I reluctantly went to HR, the full Verizon legal machine went into action. The same supervisor then started changing my employee records and manipulating sales records under my name. When I again brought this to the attention of HR, they could not find that the supervisor did anything wrong; and in fact, she is still working there.
I left and it seems that the good people just jumped off this ship while they keep unethical people working there.
Jungheinrich GB (Ltd)
lying, backstabbing, cheating and ruthless.
Unfortunately, I have experienced much of what is stated above at many companies. I believe it to be the wave of the future. There is no loyalty towards employees anymore. It is all about the bottom line, numbers. Companies have sacraficed customer service and knowledgable employees for cheap labor. Managers being hired from outside the company that do not have a clue about the jobs their underlings are doing nor do they care. As long as the numbers look good they look good. If management only understood what a very little bit of reward would do for morale and loyalty. Customers will hopefully soon stop settling for the nonesense and demand more therefore requiring companies to retain, reward, and promote good employees.
I work for a Metropolitan Water Utility, and am beginning my 26th year there. 6 years ago, there was a change of Personnel in top Management. Things have gone downhill ever since then. We went from always being a Revenue Producer for the City to over $50 Million in red ink in the last 6 years. Employee Morale is at a 35 year low. If it wasn’t for the Union Job Benefits, many of these caring and knowlegable employees would’ve left long ago. Management is currently trying to cover their “assets” with both hands over hiring a Consultant for $300k w/o proper approval from the Water Board or the City Common Council.
The Front-Line Staff has been saying all along how to fix the problems, but Top Management consistently refuses to take them seriously. The Mayor is upset, The Common Council is upset, The Board of Water Commisioners is upset, The 200,000+ Customers are upset, The Utility Staff is upset. It’s only a matter of Time before the top positions in this Organization are summarily fired by the Mayor.
And Good Riddance!
The truth is that your 5 worst probably would be somebody else’s 5 best outside of the US. The rest of the world haggles the price of everything, and each ‘consumer’ would gladly push their own grandmother out of the way to save two cents on a crusty pair of used socks. They accept that Price is king, and that Quality and Service are indentured servants. We (on the other hand) want, what we want, when we want it, at the price we want at–with up-to-the-minute top-quality technology, and flawless, english-speaking service…yesterday. An educated consumer doesn’t need to rely on the poorly-operated businesses; it needs to take control and consume them. Buy only sale items at the worst locations, and save your really devoted purchases for those that provide all-around quality service–which in the end will always save you more money regardless.
Verifone - one of the worst: it’s a sweatshop, the bosses are bullies. One boss will scream at you until her face is purple, then the other one threatens to take you “outside”! And do WHAT? I swear that beotch beats her husband and kids too. HOrrible, abusive environment. What an awful place to work in. STAY AWAY.
I worked at home hepot expo in san diego for a year, and it was Horrible! The management was so terrible, constant backstabbing and immature actions, talking down to employees. I have NEVER worked at a store where everyone I knew hated their job, and especially not when there’s 200 people working there. The store manager there is Horrific, home depot is absolutely terrible, expo most definitely included!
STOP with the BS. Turn it around and it’s your money. Companies small, medium and large are getting sick and tired of hiring people who cannot adjust to changes in the system. Change is going top happen. Get your self a degree stop complaining or just showing up for a dam paycheck and get to work. Than open your own company, let’s see who is the first to say something.
Best Buy gets the top for me, was a geek for a year, a FEMALE geek with 20 years computer experience and they pushed me to sell because actually DOING MY JOB-ie; HELPING CUSTOMERS WITH THEIR COMPUTER PROBLEMS-thus making them happy and more apt to buy more products was NOT what they wanted me to do. I proved it over and over again by disobeying the bosses and actually helping people who bought computers from 20 year olds who bragged about the $ amount they sold. I helped one man who wanted to throw the computer AT us, I spent 25 very quality minutes with him and he turned around and bought 2500 dollars worth of home entertainment equipment. Trouble was, he got NO HELP with that. He came back to me, luckily my background is extensive in electronics and not sales and once again I pulled their butts out of what could have been a return of all products. Still, they sent me to sales conventions and I told them to shove it and quit.
Veolia environmental formally
Onyx waste services
BAD BAD company to work for, they lie to their employees they lie to state and federal, they over work their employees then find a reason to fire them, this is the st pete office at the pinellas county land fill.
i would love for you to add CAREMARK onto your list. if anyone knows who caremark is you’ll need no explanation Beware caremark employees CVS is after your jobs, they already took Mather Ca away.
I have to agree with Brian above. SYNNEX is a terrible company to work for. Not one bt of positivity comes out of managements mouthes. Nothing is ever good enough for them.
Totally disagree about Verizon. The management is great, people are top notch. Plus, they have a tuition assistance program for Partime employees of $4,000 and Fulltime $8,000. Not to mention a great online resource center with thousands of programs including technical. Yes, they froze the pension plan in the USA, but they really beefed up the 401(k) plan and match program. I’ve worked for both small and large companies and the US Government– Verizon is one of the best in my opinion.
Koch Industries took over Georgia Pacific and is driving away good, experienced, loyal employees by the hundreds. Check the want-ads - Koch can’t find people to fill the positions - noone wants to work for them. Too much has happened to go into here - suffice it to say that this company doesn’t have a clue how to operate the company they overtook. Managers who have no experience in the industry they have been put in charge of, employees blamed for management mistakes, intimidation tactics, buddy-system hiring(and firing), incompetence abounds at the corporate level. Why won’t they sell the GP segment of the company to someone who cares? They are driving it into the ground.
THEY FIRED ME FOR HAVING 12 MINUTES OF OVERTIME AND ASST. STORE MANAGER HAD THE OVER TIME LIST IN HIS BACK POCKET SO I COULDN’T EVEN KNOW I WAS OVER TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT HE SAID WASN’T HIS JOB TO KEEP TRACK OF HIS ASSOCIATES
John Smith you quoted:” I worked for a divison of The Home Depot (HD Supply/Brafasco)
Let me fill you in on how bad it really is. If you every wanted to know how it felt to work under a bunch of ego driven managers that think only of them selves and have no leadership abilities, or have no clue about the industry they’re in. ”
Brother, you have no idea how right you are to a degree. I had worked for Brafasco for 8 years, and have seen alot. Watched this company with so much potential go for a dump.”Too many Chefs not enough Indians” has always been it’s problem, everyone knew it, just shushed. When the corperate Juggernaut(Home Depot) took hold of the reigns all hell broke loose. Back stabbing and politics galore. And believe me when I say John, you guys weren’t the only ones feeling it. Try being in a conference call every month with the director, your boss, several other upper management teams in what I would call a witch hunt. Your sales could be up 10% but your GM could be off as little as 2%(vise-versa!) and your getting flogged! If it wasn’t about the numbers,it’s your associates. Or how about having your boss micro manage you for 6 months and then ignore for the second half of the year. I could go on, and on. Believe me, I like to think myself as business savy, I do understand that to a degree this is their job, but scare tactics never produced results and being shunned for speaking your mind kills confidence.
Not all of them John were useless. Speaking for myself, I worked 12 demographics, numerous cold calls, sales meetings, meet and greets, seminars. Eat sleep crap the industry I was in. I knew my job, my products, my competition and most importantly my associates. Mind you not everyone had the level of committment I had. I bled Orange, John.
I’m glad I left though, the stress, lack of fairness and unrealistic expectations was driving me to an early grave. This comapny is going in the toilet Brafasco/ CTF And it’s sad, there was a time when this company was great to work for…
Worst consultants, a system that pretends to be a flat community and in real life pays mistreats the “little people” ask claudia picci-round or peter “heart attack”
wrote that about EZI is sooo right
and so fired
Home depot USED to be a great place. Nardelli, who was ceo but now joins chrysler, left GE after not getting Jack Welch’s job. It was all downhill from there, since nardelli brought with him the backasswards corporate strategies of GE. I.E., me first, employees last, shareholders dictate everything. Fake efforts to be safe through days of training, simply to put the blame of an injury on the injured. more responsibility, mandatory “poor performers”. Its al B.S. When you work for a big company, you HAVE to put yourself first, thats the survival kit!
worst place is macy’s no promotion from within the managers do not give a hoot about the employees to be promoted you have to suck up to someone in more ways than you want to think about.
If you ever have the chance to work at VINE or Sala-Sabor de Mexico in the Virginia-Highlands…DON’T DO IT. This company has an owner that claims to be all about family, and yet has no regard for any person that works for hard for him.
This man purchased VINE in March and Sala from the Fifth Group in July. He came into both places with smile and a somewhat alarming smarmy act like he really cared. You want to believe the phony little creep, so you do, and later find out just what a selfish, lying fake he really is.
When he purchased Sala, all of the employees who had been working for that company (some for 5 years!) lost their 401K plans and their health insurance. he had the fifth group sign some kid of contract that they wouldn’t ever hire any of the existing sala employees again. then, he immediately fired the bartender who had been there for 5 years because she was upset at the loss of her former management.
He then began firing at both restaurants left and right…firing people who had been at both places for years and had given their hearts and souls to their restaurants for no real, substantial reason. in the last month there have probably been about 6 or 7 of these firings. Many people feel that their careers are ruined because of this.
If numbers are down and things are not the way the owner wants them, he “fixes” the situation by finding a scapegoat and firing them. Of course, he fires them after he gets them to unknowingly train their replacement, promising them future raises and financial success in the process (for instance the GM at Sala.)
He pays his management staff so poorly, that he forced one of his top employees to get paid under the table so that she could keep the extra money that would have gone to taxes. He said that it would only be for the summer and that he would give her a raise in the fall. He had her purchase a computer for work stating that he would pay for half of the bill. All the while, he was planning on getting a couple of servers to do her job for about the same price (because they’d still be serving and would attain income from it.) He then fired this woman with no warning, no pretense, no compensation for the new computer, and no thanks for her hard work.
He promises kitchen staff raises and never gives them. He fired the “cleaning lady,” as he called her because he could never remember her name, for no reason. She is pregnant and has 2 children and a baby on the way. Her husband has worked for VINE longer than anyone. He was also promised a raise and never got it.
He talks about Mexicans like they are not even people and then goes and buys a Mexican restaurant. Nice.
These places are going to hell in a handbasket. Even the Fifth Group and Paul Jordan were better than this. The positivity we used to have has just moved to negativity and I can’t wait to get out. I’m looking for another job before this man fires me, too. In fact, most people are trying to find another job.
Getting fired has become the running joke around here. We all live in fear of termination because we are all dispensible to this man. He’ll probably sell these restaurants within a year anyway.
We used to love this place. He has killed everything that was good. I guess that’s what you get when an idiot that knows nothing but numbers takes over a small, independent neighborhood restaurant. What a shame. I miss my friends and the great people who really cared about VINE and Sala.
OCM who sell slop to college campuses for funraisers, are by far the worst. All the management there have horns, but they have great smiles.
Providence Health & Services is the worst. The core valuesa are God’s love for all and Stewardship of employees. They do not practice what the preach and have consisent turnover.
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nail salon in Seattle….they sell products that are not their products. The re label products that they buy for $2 at the beauty supply store for 10X as much. Treat their employees like dirt. High pressure sales DAILY. Just all around a miserable environment with Shi*ty people running it.
McDonalds is a terrible company to work for. I unfortunately did time there. I go so called training on how to make the different food items. When I got evaluated, I got written up because I did it wrong, and I did it the way I was trained. I told off the twit who trained me, and I told her she was the worst trainer ever.
I later told the shift manager she has no business managing anyone. I quit a week later when I got a better paying 2nd job.
News Faxers’ is the worst company to work for: they promote racism and gossip and the workers, ceo and company are all corrupted. They dont deserve to be in business!
I would have to say Dollar General. I been working there for two years. They closed my store down and than sent me to another store which in a couple months also closed and than they sent me 1hr from my house without giving me milage. They said that we would be getting a new store which was to be built in July of 07. Its now October and we are finally moving in it, but I won’t be. I have to stay at the hr store for I don’t know how long.
Also to add to this. They pay managers below what they should be getting for the amount of work they do. They alot down, but never pay and never give us enough hours to get what they want done.
The worst company to work for is STEFANS ASSOCIATES in Woodbury Long Island. They are the worst people to work for…mother and daughter-the biggest IDIOTS in the world. They treat people like slaves-with complete disrespect because the have money, scream at their clients and treat them like crap. BY FAR THE WORST COMPANY I’VE EVER WORK AT. No same person ever last more than a month there.
They are very very poor at training you for product knowledge. Every time I asked a manager if I could do some training on the computer. They always said no. Then they turn around and talk amongst each other behind my back and on my 89th day I was fired for poor product knowledge. They claimed that my customer service was bad. Well, in my opinion, if they trained me, I wouldn’t have that problem. They are cheap because they don’t want to pay overtime, If you have as little as 15 minutes of overtime, they make you go home early, so they don’t have to pay you. They don’t want to pay to train you and worst of all, when they let me go, they paid me in cash because its cheaper than processing a check. Now thats what I call very low
Please use file complaints with wage and labor, EEOC and any other state or federal agency you can think of. These bastards cannot get away with unfair and often illegal business practices. Find a good lawyer and litigate the pants off of them. CEO’s are raking in millions and millions while the middle class jobs are going overseas or across the border. Wake up Americans the enemy is not in the middle east. The enemy is in our greedy corporate board rooms.
What a bad company to work for….They don’t appreciate there employee’s. They over work there staff, asking them to do more then they asked and then not paying them appropriately. Also, they have put there employee’s in harms way with chemicals with no information on them and what over exposer will do to them. Under paying, No Appreciation for hard working employee’s and hazard est work enviorment ….BAD all around.
butter LONDON - What a bad company to work for….They don’t appreciate there employee’s. They over work there staff, asking them to do more then they asked and then not paying them appropriately. Also, they have put there employee’s in harms way with chemicals with no information on them and what over exposer will do to them. Under paying, No Appreciation for hard working employee’s and hazard est work enviorment ….BAD all around
Home Depot: WooHoo, were number 1! Take that Lowes! Home Depot stock in Jan. 06 = $41.00. Today $28.00. When your stock drops 30+%, you might start to get the idea that something is wrong. And if you look at the customer sat numbers, you will find the smoking gun.
If I could not do a better job running H.D. after 1 year, I will let you kill me.
It’s all about the customers you dumb shits. Make them happy and you will prosper.
Lebhar-Friedman should be added on the list. They had me do a freaking drug test, a computer test on Microsoft suite that’s dated back like 1994 and make you do 5 hour test online on algebra, geometry and your personality. The test had nothing to do with the job as an Administrative Assistant. They pay nothing and they have classes they offer to employees but if you decide you want to do one, they say no, by saying it’s not in the budget. The HR specialists in the NY office are full of themselves. Everytime you speak to them, they give you a look of how dare are you talk to me, don’t you know I’m better than you. Also, I never did sh*t at that job. Both of my bosses were never around. One was always traveling and the other off at a bar watching baseball for 3 freaking hours. They both came late every morning. 2 hours late. Everytime I asked for work or a project to do, I was told there’s nothing for now. If I initiated a cool idea or a project you can start on, they had to ask every boss whether or not it’s okay to do, and it always denied. I did nothing in that company. I was paid nothing just to waste time. I asked what my real purpose or responsibilities in the job, I was never given a straight up answer. The company has major turnovers and last year there was major layoffs and rumor has it there’s gonna be another one. The company is definitely not for a younger generation. The company is very old. I’m young and I needed out. Very few are promoted and if someone got promoted is because they’ve been there for 10 years. The company is stingy and I mean extremely stingy with money. If you want coffee they have you pay 25 cents and they are extremely cheap on supplies, like paper, pens and pencils.
I work for Best Buy and I love it. Our managers rock and our sales team is even better. How do they possess questionable ethics? I go there day after day and work with the customer to fulfill their needs…whether it be a $300 laptop or a $1400 desktop. It doesn’t matter. Every single person I work with knows what is expected of us and we do it. It’s not like we are force fed some cheap salesman tactics to somehow trick a customer into buying something. We learn strategies to make a customer understand that you need Anti-virus protection on this laptop or that Geek Squad can install that stereo system for you if you either don’t have the time or the patience. So…where exactly are you getting your facts from? Probably lazy employees who know nothing about retail or never had a real job. That, or customers who don’t understand that what we do, day in and day out, is hard. Juggling 3 or 4 different customers while trying to make sure everyone gets what they need is hard. Get the facts right or just be quiet.
GM Ac Delco in Ohio one of the worst warehouses of GM to work for, discharges indivuals for standing up for work ethics, harasses and intermediation of employees -union and salary, changing data and numbers to fit plant managers, and hr persons needs, not training general foreman and supervisors before placing them in management postions. The lies, the work place, and the environment is horrible.
Making up lies about others, and treating people with disrespect is an everyday thing there. Working for other divisions of GM was great but this plant was very stressful and very disappointing. Asked to lie and change data was wrong, and lying about others in order to get rid of them is done daily. Work ethics is important but not in this plant.
You can add Braintree Eye Associates in Massachusetts.
The Dr. that works there cut my hours. There was no sick time and he lied to me about the retirement plan there.. You think bosses are supposed to support you. Ya right I was harrassed on the job by patients (sexual comments)and I was the one written up. I was threatened by the Dr.’s office manager but he didn’t have the balls to face me. (COWARD)!
JoAnn etc…They have very unethical business practices, DO NOT have anything framed there, you will be ripped off, we were trained on how to do it. The management treats you like dirt, like you were twelve or something, the way they talk to you is beyond degrading. No full-time positions exist, only to a few select ass-kissers no matter what they tell you in the interview. That way, they don’t have to pay benefits. But they do expect you to work your butt off and get they same amount of work done in half the time. Very poorly run. The morale is horrible and turnover is very high. Gee, I wonder why?
Worst place to work for
Lacks Enterprise in Grand Rapids Michigan with serious ethics issues. Think about it Lacks invested in a Cancer Center hospital and still they allow smoking inside their facilities.
ADD ANDERSON MERCHANDISERS \, THEY MAKE YOU WORK 60-65 HRS WEEK WITH A PAY COUNTING COMMISSION OF 25-30K.
wITH THOSE HOURS YOUR BETTER OF SHUFFLING FRIES.
I have also had the plesure of working for Onyx Waste Services at the pinellas county landfill,I do have to agree that they are a really bad company to work for,If the general manager and supervisor dont like you they discriminate against you,they go out of their way to try to make you quit, if you dont then they fabricate a reason to fire you,then when you file for unemployment they lie there way out of it with the help of talx services, I STRONGLY RECOMEND not to work for this company.
add kaplan india to the list. it is one of the worst company to work for.
this company allowes discrimination and encourages it! if you dare complain or bring it to anyones attention BEWARE! they are a shady company to work for or buy a home from. they have a lot of lawsuits pending from buyers to employees, it’s just a matter of time before they are exposed… BEWARE
THE ABOVE IS TOLL BROTHERS!!!!
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois should be on this list
You should add The Bon*ton to the list as well.
1.The managers could care less about their employees
2.Lack of help, espically the holidays.
3.The customers are snobbs.
God for bid they leave their coupon “in the car” they pratically want to kill everyone in sight (its not like there isn’t a coupon every day). The atmosphere is very negative. Shouldn’t shopping be fun? Not for that store.
The bon ton in state college, pa is the worst place to work! Don’t bother shopping or getting a job their!!!
Don’t work for Hell, the BMOC (Mike
Dell/Hell) is an athiest and treats
his thousands of employees like not very well paid slaves! I quit after a mere 3 months’ hard labor.
This company sucks. They are located in Beverly, MA and thier HQ is in the UK. They treat the employees in the UK better they have a pension plan.
Here in the US they don’t offer 401k and direct deposit even though they said they do when they hire. They messed up their credit. They said they don’t have financial assistant.
They give vacation days but question when you take one and reprimand you when you do. Oh when you are sick they don’t send you home… also they lie about the job requirements.
They have set a lunch and break time. All employees have to go at the same time. Shoot I think is better to work in a factory than to work there.
If they don’t like you for any reason they fire you without a warning. They don’t even know anything about HR especially since they don’t have one.
Also they rip off their customers. They sale online ad space for their online fake magazines for about $3k to $12 and they don’t even have the audience. CUSTOMERS BEWARE!!!!! The ads are not worth it… trust me.
here are their sites
http://www.whitedm.com
http://www.execdigital.com
Stay way Americans, stay away… you will loose your hair, time, and even money!!!!!
I currently work for Coinstar, which offers a coin counting service via over priced machines, and also recently purchased multiple toy crane companies (for whom I work).
We don’t have set shifts, you work til your done off of a hourly wage. Sure, you do recieve overtime, but there’s no gurantee of a 40 hour week. Also, and more irritating, this company is so unorganized that I haven’t recieved a paycheck at the same time in the past 3 months and usually there’s an issue with hours worked. Lunch breaks are looked down upon, regardless of federal protection. We’re under staffed in many areas, and untrained to pick up the slack left by posts unattended. Our corprate structure has changed so much that there’s minimal communication between the different levels of the latter, thus only adding to the choas that they call commerce.
During disagreements with the stores in which we operate, the company will sell out there own employees to keep even the most unproductive contracts. When you add all of this with overpriced and under satisfying medical insurance and a vehicle maintence firm that doesn’t want to pay for the upkeep of our eqiupment, it makes you want to cry. Yet, they still have the nerve to deny raises and constantly “warn” (threaten) lay-offs.
I’d advise not applying for any Coinstar company, which includes. Coinstar, Coinstar CES/Sugarloaf and Red Box DVD Rentals.
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Worst Companies to work for in London Uk:
Newsfax International
Bunch of lowclass assholes and the CEO is a greedy money hungry ass that promotes gossip and racism within his company.
the worst company to work for is Scott Reams Virtual COrporation. He and his clown Margarett Langstett couldn;t find their way out of a paper bag. Scott steals proprietary information from clients then calls it his Intellectual property. He makes people work on their days off and gives them nothing in return. FOr christmas, he gave a whopping 100 Bone-us with the words, office expense on the check. What a FRAUD. THe cou-de-gras is that this Jerk will yell at you, yes yell at you because he is in the wrong. What a Jerk, stay away from Virtual COrporation. Oh, and for the profit scharing that we passed on our anual raises for, he tells us, you recieve 2/3 this year, and a 1/3 has been designated for next year. DO you smell rip off. Greedy Jerk off
Definately the worse place to work at. They force you to basically lie to consumers. Not to mention if you have problems with management they banned you from the store for no good reasons.
Hy-Vee is a terrible company too, we have a money grubbing store director that wont buy anything to increase easier flow of work, anything to have a bigger bonus check. Yea Doug Overlee suck it!
Cedar Point [In Ohio its a amusement park] IF you do the fallowing and ONLY IF. Other wise it was an okay place and really didn’t have that many problems. Its not a huge pain but…well…normal pay but free entry into the park EACH day to ride the rides? The bosses were kinda lazy but didn’t yell, didn’t talk down and answered any question I asked. So these are WARNINGS for you. Cedar Point is nice UNLESS….
1. Agree to live in the housing BY the park when at around 10 PM each night they have a Firework and big screen TV show each night for about 30 min’s to maybe an hour I don’t remember. Ask if they have that each year you work if you like to sleep early.
2. That you don’t know any of the places around the park like where the mall is where the places to eat are. Also you need to find a bank to cash in your check [90% sure about this] So make sure you know how to drive even though there is a….
3. There is a bus that drives around the park to outside housing to the mall. If you have trouble reading a bus timeline then GOOD LUCK. Buses can be abit early or late but not CRAZY time to be a problem. But the bus will be your only way around and its on a set path [normaly] each day. Good luck getting back home if your stuck at the mall.
4. You bring nothing to entertain you on your brake/day off. If you don’t then you will have to depend on the park to keep you busy. So if the park makes you yawn then its your problem.
5. They might hire too many workers…I check the time line. Someone had…NOTHING to do for 7 days…zip nada. That means no pay…so watch out for that.
6. No free food unless its a special day [Free movie of 007 on the HUGE screen in the park with free home cut french fries as an example normaly like one fun day each month.]. It was 1.50 for a egg sandwhich. Small prices but still you have to pay for your food. Best to get a mini frige and get the smallist food you can.
That’s about all the problems I seen. So remember this is JUST an warning more like tick off things then worse place to work at. Easy to join and easy to quit.
Go Obama
I have worked at Home Depot in the past, but I’d have to say that my manager must’ve been one of the better ones. They’re not all bad (as can usually be said in cases of generalizations), but I can say that putting that apron on felt like slapping on a yoke, and it was one of the most boring jobs I’ve ever had.
Ask any Toronto teenager, and they’ll tell you Canada’s Wonderland is one of (if not THE) worst places to work. I would assume this applies to most theme parks in general.
I recently held a credit analyst position with BAC and after returning to work from Maternity and Child Bonding Leave, the day I was scheduled to return I was told there was no position for me and that I had 30 days paid to find another job. During my pregnancy I was treated very unfairly and giving higher goals when about to leave to have my baby. They lied to employees about our reaching our goals saying that we had reached them thats why our incentive was harder and paid less but in reality we just found out. No one hit the actual goals and the incentive was changed to save the company money. The are horrible to customers and employees and only care about the bottom line. Based on their practices I think that they will fall through in the next few years, with my fingers crossed.
Any list of worse places to work wouldn’t be complete without a mention of CVS. I worked in a store that had 8 different managers in the three years I worked there, for reasons including: theft, sexual harassment lawsuits, mental breakdowns, general imcompetence, etc. Most of the non-full timers were drop-outs, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. Pay was crap, raises (such as the yearly) typically had a six-month delay, upper management would frequently short hours, etc. I stayed just because the store was close to campus and I wasn’t really depending on the money, but I feel sorry for anybody who has to work there for a living.
Target is even worse than Best Buy. Even if you are under 18, they make you work late shifts, give you horrible hours and dock pay by randomness.
*cough*Sears*cough*
I wouldn’t rank it as worst companies ever, but I used to work for Hannaford, grocery store chain. We had some pretty crappy managers: put in for a request for time off, sometimes it doesn’t happen because it was in a spiral notebook. Yeah, scrawl it on the paper and hope they get it right. Secondly, one manager made a comment that a whiney dramatic girl interpreted as sexual harassment and he got transferred. Meanwhile the manager of personnel hit on every girl in the store, even proposed to one girl who was 17 at the time and never had any consequences. Not to mention useless, hypocritical managers.
I once worked for a company called Eemerge in new york city. While the office manager was a wonderful, hard working woman, everyone above her was a complete assclown. After forgetting a tie one day I got chewed out by one of the managers insisting how important it was that everyone maintained a professional image, yet he rarely wore a tie, and most of the other managers rarely looked professional. They also would ask for suggestions, I’d mention an idea, they’d tell me that it wouldn’t work at all, send me off to look for cost options to get what they want done, and once I’d spent two days on the phone, they’d simply go with my original suggestion, but pretend it had been their idea all along. I was getting a feeling I was going to be replaced (I was put there by a staffing agency so getting a new job wouldn’t be a huge chore with enough notice). When I asked several of my bosses if I should call the staffing agency about getting a new job, they all said ‘No’. The next week when I was out sick I got a phone call telling me they’d replaced me and that I wouldn’t need to go back there on Monday. A very unprofessional group, don’t work/give your business to them.
Travel Solutions, Inc. - horrible company to work for. No training, very snobbish management- a very ME-ME-ME environment. Management doesn’t allow comments or suggestions; no discussing work with co-workers!????? I could go on, but suffice it to say, if you have a choice, never work for them. They are based in Columbus, Ohio.
I am currently involved in a class action lawsuit against Mastec/Advanced Technologies (The DirecTV install contractors) for back pay. That is one bad company to work for. I also have had the privillage to work for Best Buy. Lucky me right? All the horror stories you have heard about working there are not true…… its worse. I was denied a promotion because i did not hang out with the managers at the local bar. Im not joking.
I worked In IT Operations at 3M for over 38 yrs and experienced nepotism, the director said, “I will kick your ass”, to me, a manager used the “F” word to me twice, another manager I had never held a technical job in IT in his life and had no back ground in IT so the only thing he did was screw over good people. From what I saw in my career I am qualified to be a CEO, companies please contact me to be your CEO, or to hold an executive position.
If you want to know what means to work in hell, you should work in RTX (Rapid Transfer Xpress), this is a San Diego, Transportation company it really sucks how thier CEO treats people.
They are unbelievable!
Agree about DirectTV company comment. My brother worked there and maybe he should join in the class action lawsuit.
Add Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to the list
I work for Ingram Enterprises subsidiary, Ingram Barge and they’re a great company. Pay us good wages, plenty of bonuses, breaks as we need them, and plenty of vacation and sick time. Fell sorry for you guys, haha.
I agree with the AOL one, I think my sister is STILL trying to drop that piece of crap. At some point they will get the BBB on them, THEN they will get to dance.
I’m sorry, but in response to the one person bashing TruGreen: maybe your branch wasn’t all that great, but working for TruGreen has been the most fun I’ve had ever in a job. Great sales team atmosphere, non-stop laughs and some of the best results-driven managers I’ve ever had.
DO NOT WORK NOR GIVE YOUR BUSINESS TO A COMANY NAMED SSC SERVICE SOLUTIONS. THEY WILL DESTRORY YOUR LIFE. THEY EXPECT YOU TO WORK FOR MEAR PENNIES AND WILL EXPECT THE EVERYTHING PLUS IN HAND. THEY P4RCTICES ARE SHADY AT BEST WHEN UNDER CONTRACT. BELEIVE ME I USED TO WORK FOR THEM! SAVE YOURSELF AND NEVER BEGIN A CAREER WITH THEM NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF SITUATION YOU ARE IN. YOU WILL REGRET IT AS I DO NOW!
Gamestop, Inc. While I’m sure not every gamestop is like this, as I’ve heard from employees of the chain in the midwest that they’re not as zealous, Gamestop in Southern California is rediculous. Like anyother retailer they care about upselling, but more importantly the main drive was Reserves and Subscriptions to a rediculous magazine. Why? Because in their “circle of life”, it means repeat business. Even when you’re in an outlet mall where “walk-ins” are inevitable and reserves/subs are unlikely due to walk-ins being tourists. Management skills and proper training mean nothing so long as your reserve/sub numbers look great each day. Promotions are strictly based on such, while shrink loss and overall store condition is an afterthought until higher management comes in to check stores. This a long with our store practice of altering time sheets to fit the hour requirements alotted by management. There’s only 4 hours worth of overtime a lotted each week and more than likely you’ll be cutting into lunch breaks or staying after because there’s not enough people in the store to properly cover the floor and cash registers or your boss comes in an hour late. But you won’t get that overtime because your boss is busy “adjusting” the hours worked at the end of the week to fit the hours, while he gets the overtime alotted whether you worked more than 8 hours or not in one day. Your boss will always take Sunday off (since he’s a church-going man), and more than likely Saturday, which are the busiest days of the week a long with Friday.
Couple this with a egotistical District Manager that’ll call you each hour to verify res/subs and will write you up for not meeting the minimums of 15% Res/10% Subs so he can look good for his Regional which will in turn look good to Corporate, eventhough you only earn $7.90 an hour (which is respectable in most states but is minimum in Cali) and earn NO COMMISSION for such a highly demanded skill of selling people on tacked on crap.
Furthermore, justifying trading in games for a reasonable price based on market value but then selling it for 3 times as much right in front of the customer doesn’t help either.
I won’t say every store is like this, but they had so many management quit last year because they weren’t meeting sales demands, that they had to change tactics and stop the zealotry on res/subs and switch it to trade-ins. Couple that with several lawsuits pending across the US in regards to management overtime pay, and you have a typical retailer with high employee rate turnover, which is probably a problem on both ends of the totem pole.
Some will say I didn’t care about getting people to res/sub. I guess bringing in your own $500 Mini-screen and taking the time to download multiple gametrailers to my ipod and then showing customers the trailers and explaining the games rather than just bullshitting my way into a res indicating it’ll be the hottest title ever wasn’t acceptable. My way didn’t show up in my data, so therefore it was inferior to just displaying the boxes on shelves and bullshitting the customer (I mean correctly informing the customer) into reserving the game.
Xanterra Parks and Resorts- the pay is not good to begin with, and it does not get any better- every year you have to go through an annual review, which your manager is told not to make too positive. Irregardless of the outcome of the review, everyone gets the same base rate pay raise of a whopping three percent. Lots of long term employees and supervisors make pennies an hour above a grunt trainee for twice as much responsibility.
While housing is provided, basic maintenance is too much to ask for. A rusthole in the stairs at my apartment was looked at by the head of housing and he commented that the stairway would last another 10 years. Peeling paint and warped wood are common. No one seems to know how to clear ice and snow from anywhere. Though rent is cheap, it is not free, and people deserve safe/respectable housing.
The company does not recruit very many Americans anymore. Instead, international students come for three or four months as cheap government subsidized help. Many don’t speak enough English or to be helpful to guests or take direction. As soon as they leave, a major staffing crisis ensues.
Nothing is provided for in terms of meals/drinks. Recently, a memo warned employees that taking of coffee from a certain area would be treated as THEFT OF COMPANY PROPERTY! Even food that can no longer be sold can not be given to employees- it absolutely has to be thrown out.
All employees areas are in dilapidated condition, and equipment to work with is often briken or run down.
You forgot one:
The Chicago Bears. $30 days during Training Camp winds up to be 2 dollars an hour. Six hours of sleep a day and terrible food. Room and board only adds $500 (approximately) to the over all $900 check, before taxes. That is still a grand less than minimum wage.
Did I forgot to mention we don’t get paid for home games? That is right thirteen (give or take) hours of a Sunday gone for nothing… oh and they hardly feed us.
LOL they got to Bestbuysux.org, now it advertises best buy .com. These guys will stop at nothing to get your hard earned dollar, Like trying to sell you services you dont need, especially in home services which are just there so they can get a crack at selling you more crap you don’t need. look up what a complete solution is and ask yourself if you need even 3 out of the eight things on the list.
BestBuySux.org is actually an advertisement page for…. BEST BUY!!!! Way to go on advertising for em “EDUGREE”
Who ever took up for Verizon on an earlier post must be an upper management douche bag!
those people are backstabbers, immature shit talking- worst pile of company that is racist and discriminates against any employee that does not fit into their circle of bullshitters. They feed people lies and then they work them like dogs with no promotions and with no respect to individuals. AVOID VERIZON BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY!
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I have one for you. Rapid Refile in Pa. The boss is a spineless man. The girl Tracy working in the office has manipulated and lied to get not just me, but 3 of us, fired. The girl I replaced was fired for being late a couple of times by 3 minutes, yet the office skank comes in 45 minutes late and leaves 1 hour early . The skank brings her kid in (this business has machinery) occasionally. Now mind you she is a temp worker like me and the others before. All of us where told we were trouble makers, and so on yet the man who owns this business doesn’t have a clue that we were just a threat to her and the fact that she has no idea what she is doing. Pretty soon this guy won’t have anybody to fill the orders for his clients since she will get rid of them all.
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I am surprised that you did not add Pfier to your list. Horrible HR practices, treat employees without respect, no diversity and promotes racist leaders. Currently all leaderst that get ahead are political yes men and women and incredibly mediocre. Lie to employees and are so not open adn not fair and out only for themselves. Completely backward and old fashioned HR policies with incompetents in the various roles. Questionable ethical policies and laying off people in droves. they force you to sing a confidentiality agreement before you get your money and that is why no one complains. You should take them to task.
Add Schwans to the list. They screw you every time!
American Power Conversion is one of the worst places to work for!!! The global services division and Tiger team members are out to screw the field service workers. On call 24×7 and not paid fair wages for it. back stabbing managers with no brains on the real world!!! NEVER WORK OR BUY PRODUCTS FROM THEM!!!!
mcdonald’s is pro.
If you ever have a chance to work for Nike, don’t. Especialy in the IT area. There this Director that works there, he does not have a clue what it takes to run his area, he came from customer service.
He has a huge ego, and all of his friends that he hired, who works under him, or worse than he is.
Those dorks, are a bunch of dicks!
An article of my possession came up damaged one day, and non of those pricks would admit to damaging it.
Had I caught one of them in the act, I would beat the living crap out of that person.
Take my advice, stay away from that area…. You’ve been warned!
If you ever have a chance to work for Nike, don’t. Especially in the IT area. There’s this short azz dictator type of Director that works there, he does not have a clue what it takes to run his area, he came from customer service.
He has a huge ego, and all of his friends that he hired, who works under him, are worse than he is.
Those dorks, are a bunch of dicks!
An article of my possession came up damaged one day, and non of those pricks would admit to damaging it.
Had I caught one of them in the act, I would have beat the living crap out of that person.
Take my advice, stay away from that area…. You’ve been warned!
When I worked at Aerotek, there were people there that did not give a damn about the people that worked for them.
They never told them, when they had enough vacation hours to get paid for time off. They would conjure up bullshit excuses for firing employees.
There is this big fat woman there, and she never seemed to be happy.
She always was hell bent on making another persons day bad.
I did not sweat them at all, cause, I never saw them, except in those instances where they wanted to start some shit.
I could give you so many horror stories. It’s funny how people treat you when they feel like they have a measure of control over you, when in actuality, it is the illusion of control that think they have over you.
I sat in an interview recently, and it was a total crock of shit. I had numerous people in the panel all firing questions at me, and none of them seemed happy.
I’m sitting there wondering, how did they get their jobs, if outwardly, they don’t seem happy. I’m not saying that they should walk around daily with a shit eating grin on their faces, but at least look as though you are happy about what you are doing. I won’t divulge , who the company is, maybe I will come back and tell you later, but this was not Aerotek.
But for all of the individuals who go to their jobs, and feel as though they can put the screws to somebody just because they hate their job, their life, or whatever the case maybe.
Get over it, at least you have a friggin job, that pays well, think about the other 1.6 million of the unemployed, you could be a part of, the next time you feel like taking a shit on the next person.
This was probably close to the worst job I ever had, if not a very close second.
Jack Crews and Cindy Sparks deserved a medal for the way they mis treated employees. I hope they got their just deserves. Cindy wondered why her personal life was a mess,
because of her mis treatment of other people, sneaky azz backstabbing bitch.
Jacks azz kissing antics should have given him an oscar, bad breath and a brown nose, he kissed this vice presidents azz so much, he should have gotten an award.
I hope that they are no longer working there I’m just glad I’m not working there anymore, horrible pay and over the hill women and men directors who think their shit don’t stink.
Their about as incompetent as the insurance that has been ripping off the elderly for decades now.
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ONYX WASTE SERVICES at the pinellas county landfill they are one of the worst companys to work for they are a discriminating company and i agree about the fabrication for reason to fire to get out of paying the unemployment
the general manager couldnt tell the truth if it ment his life, he is two faced,if he dont like someone their time is limited, he fires people for things others get away with,he is a real piece of work
I’m rather shocked that Wal-Mart isn’t on this list. Though I must admit, it depends on the manager running the store and not so much as the company itself. It’s just a sad fact that most Wal-Mart managers do engage in questionable ethical practices. Examples include discrimination against women as well as against people with disabilities and chronic illness. I was once an assistant manager and witnessed these things first hand. The truly sad part is that these managers received a pat on the back from home office for engaging in said offenses.
Let’s add “Modells” in College Point NY to the list. My girlfriend worked there for less then a month due to the intense racism she experienced by the minority upper management and employees. Simply put, she was the only white girl there and was immediately “taken care of”. The register girls banded together and concocted some bull-shit story about missing forty bux from one of there bags after my girlfriend was forced to share a locker with one of them, meanwhile, it was them who robbed her! She notified management that she was missing 20 dollars and instead was accused of stealing the other girls money who was allowed to leave the room while these two douchebags interrogated her to tears for two hours! When that didn’t work, the next week they accused her of steling almost a thousand from the register with NO video evidence whatsoever and once again interrogated her at length (despite the fact that the other girl had direct access to the cash box via a key she was issued… she was never even questioned) They were successful. After harrassment, threats, accusations and group interrogation in a locked room by upper management, she quit. I suppose this kinda shit goes on in many companies, but I know that she has worked at key food now for a yr while attending college and has had a much better experience there, and it doesn’t make sense that one person who can do so well in one place can be so mistreated by another place and somehow believe that it is my girlfriends fault. Like someone above this said before, an education is key. The less you are needed, the less you are valued and it’s as simple as that. Oh, let’s add Dunkin Donuts to the list. Many of you may not have worked there before since they typically hire only there own. By this, I mean that the job is bullshit, so the manager of any given dunkin donuts typically hires his own race or only the majority race of a given area. I.E. I worked at one where there were about four pakistani workers. I was only hired because they knew it was my first job. I worked forty hours a week after I got out of class in HS (something I think they cannot legally do at the age of 16 in NY). After telling them I had to take a day off for a test, they pretended not to know me when I returned to work! It was all a big game to them! I looked my manager in the freakin eye and asked for my paperwork back. They looked for it (which makes no sense because if they didn’t know me then why look for my working papers!!!) Then she returns and says she does not have them, in front of about 10 customers who could not believe what they were witnessing. Stay in school my friends, thats the way to go. I work for the post office now and am about to graduate from college and i’ve never felt better. Good luck to ya!
U.S. Steel Has to be in the top 10. You are treated like a convict or slave. Every one there can tell you how many years; months; and days untill they can retire.
I have to add Swainsboro Technical College to this list. Talk about mismanagment of public funds, unethnical behavior….its all here!!!
My name is Chris Rolfe. I worked at IKEA in Tempe, Arizona. I worked for IKEA for around six months, from February 07′ to October of 07′. It started alright, I didn’t care about how much I worked because I wasn’t going to school at the time. The company seemed alright at first, they seemed to have good health care and benefits, such as tuition reimbursement, which is why I applied.
After a few months, everything started going downhill. For one thing, this company ALWAYS, ALWAYS downsizes. I almost never had enough help on the busy days(Friday-Sunday), or when it does happen to get busy on a weekday, I couldn’t get any help. Most of the time, nobody was available to help. I would often have to make customers wait for a ridiculous amount of time so I could deal with the other twenty people that are still waiting. The company never hired enough employees.
Secondly, the management here is a joke, at least at my store it was. The only manager I though that was at all capable of working with new co-workers was Diann. She was the only person that I felt didn’t speak to us like we were human beings. I had two other managers, Tillie, and Erwin. Tillie, a woman who talked to everyone like they were five, and my main boss Erwin, who was much worse. In July of 07′ I asked my manager, Erwin, a month before the college semester would start, that I needed to reduce my hours from about 40 to 25 for school. Erwin said “That would be fine.” and gave off the impression that it was no big deal. After signing up for classes, and with the semester soon approaching, I was still scheduled for 40 hours a week. I spoke to my manager Erwin again, and he basically ignored my request, as if he wasn’t able to hire anyone to help. After continuing to bug him about it, he still ignored the issue, and I had to cancel my classes. I now regret that, and I wish I would have just not shown up considering my manager told me it would be fine.
That’s not it either, and this tops the list of the all time stupidest things I’ve experienced working retail. At my work, we have two adjustable desks. They adjust up and down to make it more comfortable for the co-worker. I’m fairly tall, or at least I was taller than many of my co-workers, at 6′0. I usually raised the desk to my height so it would be comfortable for me, right? Anyways, one day, someone unplugged the desk, so it wouldn’t go up at all. After hunching over all the time, I got fed up and tried to figure out what was wrong with it(I didn’t know it was unplugged at the time). While I’m fiddling around the desk, my other manager, Tillie, tells me not to mess with it right now. Later, when nobody is around, I find it’s simply unplugged and I just plug the desk back in and raise it. Well… get this, my main boss, Erwin, tells me that since I plugged the desk back in I could be fired. I figure he’s joking around with me, and I just leave the desk up. Later, Erwin takes me into his office and gives me a warning about RAISING THE ADJUSTABLE DESK. I find this ridiculous, and I argue with him about why he doesn’t have anything better to do, and basically ask him how I am doing anything wrong.
Eventually, I get written up, which includes the horrible act of adjustable desk raising on the written warning. This disqualifies me for tuition reimbursement. I’m very upset by this, I find it outrageous that I worked so hard at this company and this is what I get for that dedication.
The ONLY people I ever liked there were the co-workers. All of my co-workers that I can remember seemed like decent people and were more management material than the current management. When I was about to leave, I made a big fuss to HR about how poor the management was and the problems I was having. Honestly, HR seemed about as incompetent as my management. They didn’t really seem helpful at all. Thankfully, about the same time I left, one of them, Taylor, I believe was promoted to management.
Months later, I found out from an old co-worker, that my manager Erwin was demoted. BIG SURPRISE! My old co-worker even told me that the place was still downsizing, I have a hard time believing that’s even possible, but no way in hell am I going back to check.
You may ask yourself why I wrote all this. Well, I really don’t want anyone else to experience what I did.
DO NOT WORK AT IKEA! DO NOT WORK AT IKEA! IT’S AWFUL! CHECK THEIR TURNOVER RATE, IT’S HORRIBLE!
Agh, I wish I could edit this.
Taylor was one of my co-workers promoted to management, he was not HR.
I spent roughly 6 months working for Client Logic as Earthlink Tech Support. They want you to either solve the clients problem in under 10.5 minutes (time averaged thoughout your shift), give them a couple of simple things to try (then they are forced to call back), or unscroupulously blame their OEM (original equipment manufacturer) or their Operating System (Microsoft Windows / MAC OS) in order to just get them off the phone. Every Hour we received emails listing everybodys average call times so people started finding better ways of getting people to get people off the phone. If you actually try to help people like I did (I have an IT education) they get on you about it. Then after all that they sent our already low paying jobs with no real benefits to India. If you have Earthlink and wonder where that great friendly service went you have Earthlink and ClientLogic to thank for that.
I never really had issues with McDonalds, was much better than Burger King.
And really I don’t know how Wal*Mart didn’t make their list, they suck.
I work for a company that has the good ole’boy syndrome so bad that when there is a good manager that comes along(i.e. one that treats you like an adult)the people at the company drive them off. If you think that Dennis Koslawski was the end of corruption at Tyco International you were completely wrong. I think that it is worse now by tenfold and getting more and more bold and brazen.
Their stock are down 300% over the last few years, they had a land deal fall through, and now they are firing employees and fighting not to pay unemployment. Pitiful. Chicos FAS is one of the worst corporations to works. They are located in Fort Myers, Florida. They are a womens apparel manufacturer.
Aerotek
Pmoroy
JDResources
These the first three come to my mind…
these people are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have ever seen!!That’s why some companies suck!
Barnes and Noble. At least in LA. blows in ways you can’t imagine. they will only hire in as parttime at base pay which is a joke above min. and they they will drag out upgrading you for years so they don’t have to pay any benefits. they cut back hours so they have one sales person covering the work of 4 and then berate the sales staff for not answering phones fast enough, not helping every frigging customer. the managers are so cheap and insensitive that they ignored a sales contest going on during the holidays and cost their staff a potential $125 that wasn’t even coming out of the store’s money. not to mention just being total jerks. it’s not a shock their final numbers are higher than Borders. Borders (where I have also worked) spends more money on treating their staff right
Let’s not forget The Orange County Register and it’s parent company Freedom Communications! These companies offer demonstratable proof of the hell that Libertarianism brings in it’s wake and the doo-doo philosopy that it REALLY is!
They claim to live by the Golden Rule - which is true if you’re referring to “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
They should just hang a sign above the Employee Entrance of every Freedom Communications company that reads: “Abandon all hope ye who enter here - welcome to the 7th circle of hell!” and be done with it. At least THAT would be honest and not hypocritical!
Work 40 to 50 hours a week with no benefits and still considered part time. Plus they can’t even pay a living wage. Even if you have experience. And no benefits or pay raise at all if you work other departments.
I like how this page is brought to you by a payday loan place. Another way to take the fun out of your life - go into high interest short-term debt.
They employed an export sales manager to develop European Sales and spent three hours grilling him over his first mobile phone bill when away on business, MD used to be a transport manager, Sales Director used to be a works manager, on the first anniversary of the sudden death of the lab managers son the MD somehow forgot this fact and dragged the fella into his office ( known as the Kremlin) and gave him such a grilling! An employee off on extended sick leave due to stress and anxiety was sent repeated redundancy letters in a desperate attempt to avoid paying out a few extra £££££ when rules were changing a few weeks later. Quotes include “Our customers are treating us like a f**king shop” ( MD), “remember your customer can never be your friend” (Sales Director)
To all the good employees:
if you worked in retail I will encourage you to check out USA Dept of labor; we have been cheated of Overtime,even if you were paid “salary” Once you determine you have a case,look for an attorney that specializes in Overtime…if you have already,start making copies of your overtime hrs and NEVER TRUST HR personnel,they work for the company. Also, Google: Overtime vs.Electronic Boutique in CA,also do Rite Aid,Walmart,StarBucks,etc
Know your Rights…Good Luck
I think the point here is that everything is relative to whom is telling the tale of good/bad of a company. I’ve experienced both types: the ones that complain because they don’t want to work so anything that impedes on them they complain about. Also, there are the ones that complain because they’ve legitimately been wronged or are just another victim of the “bottom-line” way of modern management (as in only caring about the bottom line - and their own personal profits). I have also experienced this for myself as an employee of many of these companies - crazy hours, physically & mentally-draining work for low pay.
Yes, times have changed and many seem to have trouble with adjusting to changing times, and yes there are people that care more about “what’s in it for me?”, rather than “what can I do?”, but that’s on both sides of the aisle - employees as well as employers.
Unless there’s a change in attitudes on BOTH sides, the trend of hiring the cheapest, bottom-of-the-barrel labor (whether in the U.S. or U.S. companies hiring overseas help), cost-over-competency or quantity-over-quality - however you want to say it, is going to continue.
Requirements for attaining a good job are getting higher and more finite - what used to get you the better paying job before barely gets your foot in the door nowadays. The better-paying jobs require at least a Master’s Degree AND it must be in something that the job market demands - NOT what you personally want to do (unless you enjoy doing what is hot in the job market.) Bachelor’s Degrees gets your foot in the door, and Associates & below degrees gets you the working-class jobs that people in this list are complaining about.
It not always practical or even feasible for someone to just “get a degree” in something in order to get a better job. I myself had a hard time obtaining just an Associates Degree at night while working full-time to pay all the mounting bills from years of low-wage retail jobs that have NEVER given any hope of promotion no matter how hard you worked.
I feel for both sides - and something has to change on both sides before we, as a country [U.S.], can move forward toward better quality and happier employees & employers.
I’ve noticed that a lot of these comments are all pretty extreme in one way or another. Home Depot couldn’t beat a Wal-Mart as far as employee turnover and morale; The average Wal-Mart Supercenter has a 92% Turnover rate. Less than one out of every 10 hires will stay with the company beyond 90 days. Here’s an example: out of everybody I was in orientation with [a total of 6 people], all but two of us were gone within 90 days, and the last one was fired– I’m the only person left, and this is approximately a year later.
I think what it breaks down to is you *not* leaving your personal life at the door on the way in. By “personal life”, I mean that you’re walking into these jobs expecting someone to care when they won’t; it’s business, they won’t care about how their decisions affect you. The minute that you start looking for approval or appreciation from most of your employers is the minute they start telling you how bad you are on the job — every mistake you make is somehow “larger than life”, you’re not as reliable as so-and-so over yonder, etc.
What I suggest to all of you is to remember that a job is nothing more than that. You start your shift; you end your shift; you leave. If you get hired on at a job for 40 hours a week then are expected to work 60 hours a week, I think you need to assess what questions you’re asking your potential employers during a job interview. There are some extremely important topics to cover on your side that most people forget about:
1. What is the average starting salary or pay for an employee of your skill in the company you’re applying at? What benefits are available to you as an employee, and when do those benefits kick in? Does the company issue bonuses to their employees for good productivity, and do they calculate their bonuses by the overall productivity of the company/store or by the individual employee? How often does an employee have an opportunity to receive a pay increase, and what factors does the company consider to be important when determining a pay increase?
2. If they did hire you, would they be willing to understand you have commitments [sp] outside of work and are only able to accumulate overtime when you notify them it is a possibility? Can they accept a strict 40-hour, 30-hour, 20-hour schedule? And if not, can they make accomodations to your responsibilities outside of work [i.e. family, financial, social, etc.]?
3. What do they believe their company needs to improve on? [Don't settle for "there's always room for improvement, they need to give you an actual issue their company faces yet has no implemented solution for; every company has at least one.] How does this issue affect the turnover at their company? What are ways you and this potential employer can work to prevent this issue from affecting you on the job?
4. What is the general morale of the employees? [Not management, the employees] Are most people generally happy or generally disappointed with having to come to work at this company? From the company’s perspective, would the disappointment be due to unreasonable actions taken by the company, or personal issues of the employees themselves? Can the company give you an example of a complaint you’d hear most often from other employees, and what they think the solution is?
5. Can you expect management to be consistent in their wants and needs? If you’re being managed by more than one person: are there clear lines of communication between the managers? How would they rate their ability to follow an organized, group plan? If they can provide one, have your employer explain a time they strayed from a group plan, and the effects of that action.
6. Do they provide full training for the position you’re applying for? ["Full Training" meaning that you will only have to happen upon minor functions on the job that you did not learn during training.] Can they show you a training plan for their new employees? And who in their company would be more-than-capable of teaching you things you didn’t learn during the training program?
Now, some major questions to avoid:
1. What is the reason most employees quit? [This will put your employer on the defense, which can almost guarantee you won't get the job.]
2. What does the company look for in people for promotions? Are most promoted from within or hired from outside the company? [You are just starting at this company and should have no ambitions to be promoted before gaining some experience. Your potential employer will view this as you getting ahead of yourself.]
3. Do not ask any questions pertaining to public complaints about the company. [Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Home Depot all have web sites dedicated to former employees who have disdain for these companies. Do not mention to your potential employer *anything* that you have read, seen, or heard about the company that could be negative.]
4. Don’t ask any questions pertaining to the company’s ethics or values. This topic is covered quite well on lists of the best questions to ask during interviews, but you will usually not be happy with the answers either way. Shoot for the job then observe how the company runs itself, treats its clients/customers and employees, and handles quality control once you’re there.
Just remember, guys: A job is a job, a career is a path. Never attempt to apply yourself at something you don’t plan to be long term; in other words, don’t look for a job, look for a career.
i tried clicking on the link to bestbuysux.org, but then it leads to a site that is promoting best buy. is this a mistake?
HEY FRANK WHY DONT YOU TELL US WHAT KIND OF JOB YOU HAVE?
IF YOU WILL GO TO THE TOP YOU WILL FIND THAT THIS IS A SITE ABOUT COMPLAINTS FOR BAD EMPLOYERS, SO IF YOU FEEL IT IS ALL CRY BABY’S
MAYBE YOU DONT BELONG HERE,YOU SHOULD FIND ONE OF THE JERK-OFF SITES, ITS SO EASY TO SIT BEHIND YOUR KEYBOARD AND FLAP YOUR MOUTH
New Employees -
Fire people often especially if you’re a new hired - Beware, you may be fired after 3 months probation. They don’t inform in advance. They will just call you before you leave for home and will tell you not to come again on the next day.
Freelance Contractors -
Beware, they take forever to pay. You’ll have to be after them all the time. It may take more than a montth to get paid and worst part is, they don’t accept their mistake. If you don’t go after them for your money and you’ve left the company, you may not get your paycheck at all…LOL
Callnet Call Center Services is a horrible company to work for. Their attendance policy is strict as it should be for an emergency call center but they go to the point of being unrealistic and unethical. They are constantly short staffed. This is an answer service which means not only is it hard on the employees but they lose business for their clients by losing them customers on a daily basis. Can you imagine calling a suicide crisis hotline for help and having an operator take your message and tell you they will reach someone right away and you get a call back finally an hour later. As an employee you are dispatching several ER calls and short staffed so you are doing the best you can but you get behind especially during very busy times of the day. This is not an ethical way to do business. You just have to hope the person isn’t going to hurt themselves in the mean time! Can you imagine having to leave work to take your child to the ER and getting a message from your manager 2 hours later saying they are worried about the 5pm rush? What employer expects you to leave your child in the ER and go back to work? But I did, I had to. Unfortunately these things aren’t illegal in Indiana because your employer can fire you at any time for any reason so if the job pays better than others in your area and you have a family you just have to eat @#&^ politely with a knife and fork everyday. The worse part for me was talking to clients daily trying to make excuses why it took so long to page the plumber or the Dr. In the mean time someone’s basement is flooding or your child’s temperature is rising and it’s no fault of the company you called for help because they haven’t even been made aware of your call yet. Next time you call a company or a Dr’s office after hours for ER help, if you don’t get a call back withing 15-30 minutes make sure that you tell whoever does finally return your call that their answer service sucks. Often they don’t know unless you tell them. I had excellent attendance aside from being late a few times usually due to working over the night before or being called at 3a and told to log into the system and take calls from home because they were busy. I missed a partial day due to illness and received an email entitled “Team Work” the next day. I felt like I was the poster child for team work. On top of this I was working and I was still very ill. I gave my notice logged out and went to the ER. 7 years of this abuse was enough. I had been to sick to go to Dr and I was told that I needed to do so outside of my scheduled hours which wasn’t possible. I had let it go to long and at this point they had to give me 4 liters of fluid to hydrate me. Isn’t this still America? When are people going to speak out without fear and make companies like this treat their employees like human beings. I feel that if you devote yourself to a company and you are there they need you they need to do the same for you. I watched this go on for 7 years at this company and not once did management get the clue that this is why they have such a high turn over. It is especially concerning when you are losing your core people because of poor management styles. Instead they continue to employ the same management people who have caused them to be perpetually short staffed due to unethical decisions and treatment of employees. I was lower management. Their were only a handful of upper management but they had their children in the break room while they were working almost daily during spring break or after school. I had received a call from my childs school that I needed to pick my child up because she was ill. I was managing the shift so I couldn’t take off work the rest of the day, and as a single mom I had no one to take care of her. I had to pick her up and have her wait in the break room for several hours. This was the first time my daughter was ever in the break room. Our vice president was out that day but my manager told me that when she returned she would be unhappy that I had my daughter in there for so long. What was it then I was supposed to do? I wasn’t allowed to leave work. As with most situations there you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. This is no way to run a business and if you are a client or employee of theirs I would suggest that you detach yourself from them asap for your own sake and your customers.
I went to the EEOC and won, If you find yourself working for this company and feel miss treated start documenting and make sure you have witness to each thing that happens! I did, wrongful termination and lied about by two department heads, they were promoted and given a raise before I was then terminated…For christmas I got a coupon, to shop at the store I worked….Thats poor taste!!! After I helped set up stores for them after Hurricane Katrina and got an award for my work I was set and CANNED !!! Yea Shop at Lowe’s, atleast they don’t have to talk bad about the competitor to gain business and worker support….!
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Came across your site.. In aus ING Australia is run by a bullying management, actually its company that is run by consultants.
Very bad moral.
I’m totally amazed to read all these stuff from people who work/ have worked with companies everyone believe are giants; and in the US for that matter! I’m looking through these and thinking its no different here in Nigeria. We won’t give up!
I’ve worked for Best Buy for the past four years, and I absolutely LOVE IT! I’m a full-time college student at CSULB, tackling 18-units, and working full-time at Best Buy as well. This company pays for my tuition, my books, and I’m proud to say as a college student I’m making 40k+ plus bonuses AND benefits. (And NO, I am not even a manager.) For a job “just to get me through college” I would say that’s not too shabby. But above all, this place is an awesome enviroment to work at, the line-level are friendly, the managers are understanding and supportive, which I believe is more rewarding than the pay. I highly recommend Best Buy to personnable, intelligent, fun, college students. Do I plan to work at Best Buy for the rest of my life? I wouldn’t mind. But that’s never been my plan. But Best Buy has given me amazing business skills that I can take almost anywhere.
Add West Corp. to the list,these racist people have issues with african americans who don’t kiss people’s tails.The EEOC will definitely hear about the problems going on in that company.When the owners of the company are that way what makes you think the employees won’t be that way.I’ve heard some horror stories about this place now that I’m gone,it’s unbelievable.Believe me,they are not all that they seem.
Frank,
Why did you come out here in the first place? The thing that gets me about people like you are, you come to a site like this, maybe you have never had a bad experience on a job dealing with butthole employers.
Well, maybe you never had a job because you don’t have to work. whatever the case might be
snapperhead, if you don’t have any employer related complaints or bad experiences, take your ass and find you something constructive to do with yourself.
I really don’t care what you do, just long as you just GO AWAY!
Don’t go away mad, just go away!
I’ll have to second the comment about CVS.
It is clearly the worst job I have ever had. I keep it out of pure desperation. Jobs are very, very hard to find in my area.
I was promised the world at my interview, 7 months later I am just a minimum wage cashier. No training, no raises, and people hired after me making more and working the job I was hired for.
It’s humiliating, soul killing, and the MINUTE I find another, I will tell CVS where to go and how to get there.
Wise and Healthy aging is the worst company to work for hands down. They seek master level employees and offer high school diploma salaries. They are run by childless women who have no campassion for their workers. All they care about is how much money thecan skim for their bank accounts and thoae of their freinds! They hold mandantory meetings and tell the employees to bring a dish to share-pathetic…
ADD (SCI)SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL TO THIS LIST!! With an 80% turnover rate they will keep the incompetent managers and get rid of everyone who talks about the problems caused by the incompetence. This company is the BIGGEST provider of your loved ones funeral/cemetery needs and they are unethical!! BEWARE consumers and employees. A “career” with them will last maybe 2 years!!
I agree that Service Corporation International is among the WORST!
Once you start bonusing you will soon be fired, they are similar to a fly-by-night vacuum cleaner sales business, but they are entrusted with your family funeral arrangements! Employee turnover has always been horrendous (but they do keep the incompetent general managers and market managers) They change their compensation plan constantly so as to keep ahead of paying bonuses.
EMPLOYEE BEWARE! Consumer beware!
valued employees are the thing of the past at the depot. they are weeding out long timers. the lazy asses have no problem keeping their job its the dedicated hard workers that they pick on. every thing they say they stand for is bull!
Generally an ‘evil empire’ - avoid it.
Whatever you do don’t get a job with them. They are so evil.
The Navy Exchange in South Carolina. They break every EEOC rule and treat the employees like slavery is still legalized. They hire people on false pretences and horribly threatened peoples jobs with verbal profanity and disrepect.AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COST.
Let me add another famous company to this already long list. The famous QuestDiagnostics, could care less about their employees they allow Doctors and their staff to insult their employees with the worst offenses.
As an employee you are to take any kind of offense lightly and kiss up to the client without regards to your feelings.
If you try to vent at work you are repremended for demeaning the company, at this time of economic hardship people get up from their desks and quit in the middle of the day because they can’t take it any more. Working for QuestDiagnostics have been the worst mistake I have made in my career, I can’t wait until my new career as an accountant takes off, please if anyone reads this and is in need of a freshly out of college accountant, help me get away from this famous company who supposedly cares so much about humanity, in reality they could care less. CASH IS ALL IT MATTERS.
It use to be called and considered a coffee shop, now, they are referred to as MCstarbucks, I lasted only a year. Worst job ever, no support and no management backing. Too bad. I was excited to start as a “fun” job, but ended as a nightmare. Avoid working and going there for your own sanity.
You need to add Safeway(Kroger) to this list. I am an accounting professional who simply wanted part-time work. I lasted 2 days. Safeway recruiters promise higher wages but in reality when you are hired, it is minimum wage. The lunch rooms are disgusting, if you get one.. I don’t think I will ever shop there again.
Seriously you guys? Best Buy? McDonalds? Get over it. I was a Yellowstone National Park Employee, under the pseudo-government Xanterra Park and Resorts(according to Forbes the 3rd worst company in the united states to work for). Like yours, it has poor management, and it isn’t particularly exclusive in who they let it. However, it is Federal Property. Which means, anybody? Federal Minimum Wage. 7.25 for a full time employee, unless you happen to have a high paying job, such as a manager, or a waiter, you will pull around 350$ every two weeks. Not only do you get paid not much for a lot of work, we have the dumbest customers. You may think that electronically challenged customers may be bad, but how about several thousand people on vacation. There is a joke that city limits exist so that tourists can check their brains at the door, and pick them up on their way back.
So for those of you working at MciyD’s or bestbuy, shut up, and get over it. And don’t whine about your states minimum wage. You are making a hell of a lot more than me.
Don’t be fooled by the name, nice building and beautiful location of its headquarters (Coral Gables, FL)….Del Monte Fresh is NOT a good company to work for. For starters, the pay is horrible and to make things worse, raises are offensive. They sponsor people for their work papers so they can have them by the balls and pay them horrible wages. Their benefits are a joke and you have to be with the company at least 2 years before you get a parking spot. Management uses scare tactics so you feel like you have no job security. The HR department is not there to protect the employee, but the company itself (even with sexual harassment claims)
The company does absolutely nothing for it’s employees, they even go as far as cancelling the yearly holiday party because according to them, they are facing economic problems and times are tough. Yet in 2007, they had revenues of 3.55 billion and a gross profit of 364.90 million!!
It’s no wonder people refer to it as Hell Monte
Lifetouch Studios a nationwide company should be added to your worst company list. They treat most of their employees like they aren’t human working them awful hours, use unethical practices, call their company family oriented when it is anything but, and lately tell employees they can only be paid for x amount of hours but they expect the amount of work to be done as if they were on a 40 plus schedule. Of course thats only the employees that were not put on layoff so that the company didn’t have to pay them holiday pay…………..Executives and lower management however did not feel the recession crunch…….Hey but its a family oriented company…..
Stay away from Cleveland Foodbank
They are all about politics and not about feeding the hungry.
They also are very racially motivated–black hunger centers are fed before white centers
Definitely in the business for the wrong reason
BOO!
Give to charity –not these phonies!
Onyx waste services is the worst company to work for, they misstreat their employees, they discriminate,
against you, they lie to you, lie to the county,lie to DEP,and they lie to the state of FLA. They display favoritisim,they are a world wide company and they are aloud to get away with murder, they use their corporate power to
practice wrong doing, dont waste your time working for them, they dog you to the max and then get rid of you through false statements and lies.
4706 managers are the worst
4706 sucks home depot is the worst job i’ve ever had
I work for Interstate Bakeries Corporation. They supposedly are just coming out of chapter 11 bankruptcy. I still think they are ready to shut their doors.
They really don’t deserve to be in business. They are a scrooge company. The Union is very weak at best and is totally worthless in my view.
The management takes no responsibility of any kind and just blames the workers of their choosing for all their ills.
The moral problem is at an all time low there they hire only convicted felons there now because any decent citizen has heard of their labor practices and doesn’t want to bother applying there. Not only that, for every convicted wacko they hire, they get a tax break from the government. Pretty sick, huh?
I work for Interstate Bakeries Corporation. They supposedly are just coming out of chapter 11 bankruptcy. I still think they are ready to shut their doors.
They really don’t deserve to be in business. They are a scrooge company. The Union is very weak at best and is totally worthless in my view.
The management takes no responsibility of any kind and just blames the workers of their choosing for all their ills.
The moral problem is at an all time low there they hire only convicted felons there now because any decent citizen has heard of their labor practices and doesn’t want to bother applying there. Not only that, for every convicted wacko they hire, they get a tax break from the government.
If you read in the classified adds about a company that supposedly pays well and offers good benefits, but is always looking for people in the classifieds, chances are that’s a red flag.
If they always have an ad in there all the time, you can bet they don’t keep their help very for very long and all because they treat their good help like garbage.
Add to list worst company to work for. If you in the CLICK you have it made otherwise you might as well QUIT. They treat you like dirt and expect you to work your ass off for minimum wage. The company sucks!
Don’t even think of applying there.
BEWARE…I’m telling you in advance from past experience.
re: above comment the company name is JCPENNEY’s. Don’t even go there!
This company is a joke!! You go door to door and worst of all it is only commission. This is why they have soooo many postings for jobs!!! That’s right Monomy Marketing is a JOKE!! Do not work here.
Fiserv, the worst I have ever seen or heard about from others who also worked at this company.
Very high turnover caused more by the way employees are treated than anything. Pictures “Mean Girls” in a business/office setting where the managers or supervisors are the mean girls and who have to brown nose them and have to watch and rat out others (even make up stuff) to them to keep your job or to get anything
Also regarding Fiserv, in my county the county job workforce center that helps people find jobs along with other service wouldn’t recommend people to work at Fiserv because of the high turnover and all the horror stories they heard about them. This is a company that prepares and handles legal and financial documents, etc. You would want them to handle yours? Constant stream of inexperienced people because of high turnover, and they make money by screwing over their inexperienced short term employees with low wages and long hours to churn out stuff as fast as possible so the quality of the work suffers.
I don’t know how Carnival Cruise Line didn’t make the top 5, I have never seen a business treat their people any worse than they do. Let me clarify, the Colorado Springs call center. Elementary rules; log on and off of your phone no more than 3 minutes after swiping the time clock, no more than 18 minutes per day of aux time (inactive phone time), and do you know how much a general reservations agent makes on a booking…10 cents! I was fired for taking 24 hours of sick time, 4 hours over their limit. I averaged 8 bookings per day, I had agents requesting my extension so that they could call me back, and I made friends with everyone that I worked with. Production, friendliness, sales, and loyalty aren’t important to them. Silly rules of minutes here, minutes there, 4 hours over on sick time, are important to them. I was going to be their best employee, now I realize that I can and will do better. I just don’t think that the Miami headquarters knows how the Colorado office is being handled.
Bealls Department stores in Florida!
Retail in general is a hard feild to be in, 9+ years experience,but I’ve never seen a company run like this. I’m still in shock at what management does to the associates.
Everyone backstabes each other and they provide the worst training. There wasn’t even a training manuel for my position and the people training me said they had no idea what to do with me. My boss would tell me to say completly out of line things or punish my associates for completly unnecessary reasons just to keep them fearful of loosing their jobs. Thats one of the reasons why I quit.
Within the year and a half that I worked there I didn’t meet anyone who liked their job or the company in general. I know of at least three people who are now alcholics and a dozen more with depression all because of the stress from this place.
STAY AWAY
schwans is the biggest mistake a person could do is work for this co. they lie , the cheat you out of money. you work 12-13 hrs. a day the pay sucks. instead of laying you off they find a way to fire you, so it is harder to get your unemployment. THIS IS YOUR NUMBER ONE CO.
Spouting religion and mixing God with work, this company underpays (considerably) their hired staff, usually saying “God will provide” versus actual raises. They overpay underqualified “ministers” that have no common sense or empathy for anyone but themselves and their fraternity of ministers. They practice religious discrimination constantly, as well as blatant bias of gays. To make it worse, this is a national corporation with billions in annual profits (all is profit, as it’s a charity). Where does the money go? To pay their “corporate” ministers, their housing, their food, their cars, their laptops, their cells, cable, kids’ needs, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The wasted money (that people donate out of the kindness of their hearts)would put ENRON and AIG waste to shame if only people saw it!
BUT do these fine people help their employees? NO and NOPE! The employees are usually minimum wage, poor benefits, extra cost for any dependents, few or minimal cost of living raises, usually staff qualify for food stamps and government programs.
AND these fine hypocrites just try to act poor and make us think they have no money-might as well be the fellow holding cardboard signs on streets asking for money; the Salvation Army asks for free money with the impression they will use most to help people, but in reality the government pays for most of their REAL services, while the donated bucks go to help their church and ministers (the church does stuff for their members, the ministers help themselves to whatever they want!)
Shame on you people.
AIG SUX
Heren Energy is the worst to work for. An endemic drug problem, cliques, conniving, an alcoholic sex fiend woman of a managing editor and one of the most intensely untrustworthy people ever and the boss is a tight-fisted psychopath. Bullying, constructive dismissals, totally unreasonable expectations, conniving, just a disgusting place, high turnover of staff except the evil trio that basically are in situ due to their pyschotic expertise in silencing dissenters. A real fuckhole of an outfit.
having to lie to every person that walks in the door. poor saps overdrawing their bank accounts and wants some kind of mini bailout assistance. PNC Bank is by far the worse bank thats yet to go under. I manage 11 people and not one of them want to be there for more than 10 hrs a week but all want to collect paycheck and OT.
my boss speaks in tongues when he has us doing fire-drills, im pretty sure his lesbian supervisor loaned him the two dildos shoved in his ears.
pay isn’t everything when you work 12 hr days 6 days a week and you still dont feel satisfied. and fear the next person walking up to your desk may have a fucking gun in their hand.
PNC bank sucks cow balls. they use “TRAINING” 6-months of “training” shoved down your throat for 2 weeks and then use GALLUP to secret shop your ass right out the back door.
thats right PNC bank has THE HIGHEST turnover rate of any financial institution in documented history. in fact it is listed 4th ALL TIME for RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS-!!
I worked there 6 months the 6 months before me there were 3 other “managers” at my desk-all canned or quit.
do the math.
PNC claims it is “one of the best companies: to work for. not even close.
if a recruiter calls you from PNC RUN for the hills!!
Please add John Hopkins International Hospital, Singapore to the list. It’s like a boat without captian
In Massachusetts I would have to say On Process Technology is probably the worst company to work for. The company owner, Edward Barry takes advantage of the situation all the time. He knows that there are not that many jobs out there so he is screwing over his employees. First, no raises, PERIOD! I have worked for the company several years and I have not had a raise. They tell you that you have 4 sick days a year. Try to take them and find out what happens. You could be dying but they do not care. Take a sick day and you get written up (even with a doctors note). Take two sick days you will now be threatened to either return to work or be fired. The people who get promoted are usually the dumb bimbos with the big tits and tight asses. Ed Barry and his team of managers notices that and insures that bimbo a good job. There use to be company bonuses to work towards. Now they made those bonuses imposible to get. Superman would have a hard time doing it. Next, they cut our weekly hours from 40 hours to 36 hours. Those of us supporting families are screwed. The health insurance is horrible. You’d have to give up 45% of your pay for it. Well …. If you like that life, go for it.
hell adtrack is a bad place to work too hell if your a guy and work in the warehouse you treated like shit if your a girl your asked to do something but if your a guy your told too and if you tell hr they look the other way and boss will find something to fired you over even if everyone does it. its a really bad place to work.
Add Sovereign Bank (now Santander); they’re managers are enablers of abusive supervisors, the HR dept doesn’t care, and they’re loss prevention department tries to intimidate employees to force confessions, instead of giving due process to investigations. Moreover, the Newark-Elizabeth area is full of racism against non Portuguese, or Portuguese decedent employees.
Stay away from Sales Tactix in Mesa, AZ. It looks good outside but is rotten underneath. A guy who hired in with me was gone on his second day. Then a woman disappeared in her first week. I lasted until the second week. The GM called me into his office and said I wasn’t producing enough. No warning or remediation. Just out the door. Then those bastards didn’t pay me my last check! That’s okay, I’m going to go to the U.S. Department of labor.
im a nurse who worked at different nursing homes and they’re all the same. i worked pm and night shift. and its all insane!!! At pm shift 1 nurse and 2 cna for 30-40 residents. on nights, 70 residents for 1 nurse and 2 cna. i know somebody from the state who make yearly checks to these nursing homes. but they cant do anything as long as the nursing home proves that the staffing meet the needs of the residents. just to think of it, again it is impossible!!! im starting my meds at 230 am just to give everybodys meds for 70 patients and this is not okay.
The worst company I ever worked for was Anagram International in Eden Prarie, MN.
-Bad, incompetent management
-Always changing rules and policies on the fly, for no apparent reason
-Sexual harrassement
-Team leads and management regularly refused to help employees with their jobs
-Plant manager set impossible expectations
-Malfunctioning machines
-Much more
-They rewarded the incompetent and punished those who thought for themselves
add Ferguson Enterprises..a international plumbing supplier to your list…they interprupt labor laws to suit their needs…they continuously intimedate employees who stand up for their legal rights under the law and terminate people who use or try to use these rights.they find it least costly to get their hands spanked than to pay for job related injuries through delay,deceit and denial.when someone gets killed at one of their locations due to lack of safety…then god hopes someone will pay attention to their violations
Also, Anagram International, in Eden Prarie, MN, has been trying to get people to quit, instead of laying them off, in order to save money on unemployment. They target women and disabled people, mostly. While I worked there, I was refused help too many times to count. The management there helps who they want. They put on a big show, acting like they care if you succeed, all the while backstabbing their employees. One time, at a meeting, the trashy vice prisident, told the employees, whenever you people make mistakes, we sit and talk about you at lunch”. What a piece of garbage!
Spread the word, don’t buy balloons from this company, Anagram. Management has everyone doing 2 or 3 peoples’ jobs now, so you probably won’t get a good product.
Hyundai Motor Companies or affiliates are also bad. But it is only bad if you have a Korean Manager. As a Korean individual, it was worse because of a double standard of Korean and American culture.
Add Makeup Store Australia. Treats staff like rubbish, the pay is horrible. Has no idea how to run the business, not one creative bone in there body. Staff beware and stay clear of this business DO NOT WORK FOR THEM.
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They fired a woman with breast cancer because they didn’t want to pay her medical bills, they didn’t pay employees for work done and had them do it off the clock, they have racially discriminated against employees and were forced to pay settlements when found guilty, they were sued and made a settlement for using sweatshops in Saipan…I could go on and on about how horrible this company is. So don’t shop at Nordstrom or Nordstrom Rack.
As a longtime Verizon Employee I can vouch for the fact that Verizon belongs on this list. Forget about the BARGAINED FOR benefits this company has had a harassment and fire Union Members policy for years now. Pension deprived managers are lying and cheating, anything they can to fire hard working Union Members. They have also fired workers at Verizon Wireless for Union organizing. One Pro union Wireless employee for displaying the American Flag in his cubicle was reprimanded!
This fish rots from the head with Ivan Seidenberg and especially former wireless head and Ivans Heir apparent Denny Strigl. Strigl is the most anti union business executive in the country.
Do nto be fooled by the ads this company is run by MONSTERS. I will leave when the economy picks up and I can find a decent job
I think Healthcare companies need a list all to themselves. I worked for a horrible company in Knoxville TN (Covenant Health) that owned five hospitals in the East TN area. Talk about ruthless. They would mistreat patients, nurses, staff and even physicians. I once witnessed two physicians get into a fistfight in the OR over a scapel since the hospital had run out. They laid off people every other month and then would try to hire new staff when volumes picked up. They often fired people and provided no severance or refusing to pay PTO accruals. Since this is in the South, a little donation to the legislators would always keep them from having to obey federal employment laws. http://www.covenanthealth.com BEWARE.
Newalta, a waste management firm in Calgary, is the worst company to work for. It’s a classic case of a company presenting a modern, attractive exterior while being totally inept and directionless on the inside. Their buzzword is “change”, which is really just code for “complete disorganization”. They do in fact lavish lots of “goodies” on their employees, so they feel they have the right to blame lower level people when things inevitably collapse due to neglect. But the real reason for those goodies is to provid a facade of caring; after all, these things are measurable, so as to hide the immeasurable employee disatisfaction that is everywhere.
The upper management doesn’t care because they know that as long as waste is being produced out there, they will stay in business.
Do yourself a favor and don’t give these people the time of day. Newalta should be renamed “Screwalta”!
They expect alot for nothing. They pay you minimum wage and expect you to never stop for a minute. They fire and hire alot of employees due to the treatment they give you.
No thank you…look somewhere else PLEASE! Don’t waste your time.
Chrysler must be in bottom 20?
I am shocked that Wal-Mart is not on this list. They are cutting hours, moving full time to part time and understaff departmentes just to make more money. They treat employees like third world countries in 1910s.
You should add Hollywood Video to the
list. instead of firing they “suspend you until further notice”
so you will quit, so they can feel
less guilty about themselves and if you don’t quit it can take you up to 3 months till they will tell you that you’re fired…….
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I had a problem with a supervisor and went to his boss. I was told that in order to protect the company, all supervisors back each other up! So I can’t talk to anyone if I have a problem. The Sodexho company has a great rules like one is supposed to be treated fairly and so forth, or so it says in the company hand book. Most rules and policies are never followed, only to suit bosses’ whims.
Livemercial is the worst company I have ever worked for.
A company that should at least be on the top 10 list is Continuum Pediatrics. If your a nurse that’s okay. But if you work in the head office get out as fast as you can. The Company is owned by a pompous, new-money man who thinks degrading and insulting people for his own personal amusement is okay. He acts like a king and everyone has to kiss his butt. Luckily he is almost never at the office for he is either golfing or at his second him in Boca Raton. He leaves his company to his second in command who has been there longer than he has and is practically family in his eyes. Also from his family is his adopted, immature 24 year old daughter, who, by the way, never finished college and is emotionally unstable. She came a couple years ago and he created a recruiting position for her.
The brother of the owner works in the employee benefits department. His brother’s son works in loans. His niece works as a staffer, and somewhere in that mix, I forgot, the person whose in charge of paychecks married into the family.
If that’s not bad enough, everyone gossips like high schoolers, to the point where you cant trust ANYONE. God forbid you share a joke with your co-worker and someone walks by at catches you laughing because they will go tattle to the boss that your not doing any work! In a place full of adults I have never seen so much immaturity!
To add to the ridiculousness a co-worker was diagnosed with breast cancer so she was out of the office quite often. She was practically demoted to file clerk, moved out of her office into a spare cubicle, the boss calls her “lazy” when she would take her time around the office and made a big deal when she couldn’t come into the office because she was not feeling well!
The daughter can do whatever she wants and not have any consequences and blabs to the entire office (since it is her family) about her personal life, including sexual experiences. If there is an issue with her, rather than dealing with the problem directly EVERYONE now must change or adapt to a new rule. She belittles people to their face and they cant stand up for themselves because they risk getting fired.
By far the WORST company ever to work for.
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Well Tracy, I must say I worked for Continuum and if your talking about the same office I am about to write on I know all the people you are expressing in your message.
The Spoiled bitchass Daughter (my on and off again Girlfriend). Depending on the week and if she took her ByPolar, Chemically embalances, OCDC, manic depresssent Medication. This is no lie folks. Yes, She is my girlfriend for now as long as she doesnt get the urge to screw the muscular guy in the office or the guys that are on the first or second level (who she screw while we were togehter and didnt know whos baby she was having between 3 of us.) she killed it anyway. So that being said I cant deny that she is the most unreasonable psychotic female that i have ever met let alone worked with. I’ve never met a person with so many issues, but yet stays in the same place mentally. She didnt even graduate college, has had more abortions then mickael jackson has had surgerys. She has had more partners “during/outside our relationship” then Jenna Jameson, and can not understand the maturity of reality or a real job. For someone who is adopted she sure acts just like her dad. They walk around like their a great person, while He is out screwing every thing with two legs that will open for him, and she’s the one opening them to every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Too bad he adopted her because in a sick way they wold of been a perfect match. Deliusional, crazy, assholes, sluts,and need some serious Therapy. PS my girlsfriends father is the owner of Continuum and looks like an infant shitted a rash on his face. Hes belittling to men and is a huge womenizer. Especially to the one person who holds up Continuum by her finger and acts as his daughters second mother. I feel so sorry for the schmucks that invest in this company. If they knew the real crap that went on here they would probably ask how is this place even running as smoothly as it does. You want to know the answer to that question. The owner was smart He decided to let himself manipulate every family member he can into working for me so that they become my bitches and puppets that I can control. Hes has the most wortped mindset when it comes to people. He thinks because he gives a bunch of money away hes caring. I dare to see him actually get off his ass and go be active with his own two feet and volunteer at a shelter or even go visit ONE of our patients. I know what you all are thinking as you read this why is this prick trash talking his girlfriend and future father in law. 1st reason: If I marry into that family I will be extremely wealthy and can be as unfaithful as I want, and its because we all know my girl is unfaithful. ALLIMONEY.. People, say it with me. If shes faithful, hey, she still sucks a good Mr. Rosen Jr. Her dad could probably be a huge influence to my Golddigging I mean Golfing career and pay my way through it. So yea call me a golddigger, Im just giving them what they give everyone else. So they cant really be that disappointed.
As for Continuum itself, well lets just say its a zoo with a bunch of animals with a sick disease and are eating each other like all the zombie movies you watch. Its like all these grown ass people feed into it and the saddest part is its all the adults over 30. The like 4 people who are 25 and under stay out it unless my girlfriend (Bitchassness) decides to pick on them or make them her next victim to torture. As for the rest we have just a bunch of vaginas (including men) that have nothing better to do at that company then talk shit about everyone and their flaws instead of going face to face and squashing it that way(again BITCHASSNESS). It saddens me to see such great brains be soo useless. Their all like tits ona nun, useless. Its literally like everyone hates their lives, their marriages, their job, but makes it worse for themselves by creating unessaccary drama and tention in the place that is like their second home. I mean come on people you eat shit, work and breathe there but want to make it so complicated and more stressful. I dont get it, and thats probably why I had to leave. I started to feed into it, and I mean its kind of hard not to when the ring leader of it all is your girlfriend. All I can say is their lives have to be pretty pathetic to have to go to such amiture low levels for so old of people. I just feel bad for their kids.
To top off the unfairness there is out of this world. The owners family member’s can do no wrong. I remeber his nephew and daughter were So unprofessional to our receptionist that they we’re cursing and yelling at her infront of clients. All because she didnt get the email that the UPS was down. She fought back respectfully and she was the one who got yelled at and was threatened to looser her job. Sick stuff man. They can parade around being jackass’s who dont know what professionalism is from their jewish assholes to their big noses.
Anyway Im babbling, but all I can say is never work for a company that is owned by all family and they all work their. You will never win or get ahead or be as respected as the family memebers would. So dont put yourself through it. Dont not work for small business because its like one big redheaded step child family. Gossip, decietful, manipulating, fisty, immature children in adult bodies.
Continuum is the worst place to work, and the one place i regret wasting my time there.
Wow,
Sounds like alot of hostility towards that company.
if I had to work at a place like that I would probably blow up the building.
As horrible as this sounds why do you think Natzi’s hated Jews. Because of people like your boss. Their so bitter about what happened that they go overboard now with power. It’s sad.
I worked for Continuum as a nurse and couldnt stand the nursing recruiter lady. She was a horrible person with poor job etiquete. She was the most unprofessional and impatient person i have ever been interviewed by. She had to at least been 23 - 24 and clearly didnt graduate any kind of college. Seeing that she is a mental case explains why she wa the way she was. The place is so unorganized with taking calls anc checking voicemails for the parents and call outs. It was rediculous. I will never go back to that nursing recruitment again. So beware all nurses looking jobs or to do homecare do not go through Continuum. They are horrible company who is family orientated and on high horses and think they wre better then I because Im nigerian and their jewish white jerks.
M&T Bank should be on the list of worst places to work. Management seriously lacks any integrity and treats staff with little respect.
Biotissue managed by Dr. Wife’s, Amy Tseng, certainly needs to be added to this list. They are not affraid on using racial discrimination with any of their employees. They bash & talk horrible of their hard working employees. It’s a degrading work enviroment.
You guys are really overlooking HP. They have 300K employees at treat all but 100 of them like poo. I work at HP, and I WISH I worked at best buy. Seriously.
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ASIAN TELEVISION NETWORK
NEWMARKET ONTARIO CANADA
is an indian tv station, they have poor communication skills, get you to sign away your sick days or they will hold your cheque. they once tried to not give a pregnant woman her vacation pay when she was leaving the company.
The worst, confused middle management you have ever seen. I hear from people that have been there for years that it was a good place, then they expanded and became corrupt.
I just want to kill myself everytime I have to talk to the idiots that are in charge. They don’t care at all about people.
Don’t work there!
the worst company for me would have to be the job that i have now, and that is sally beauty supply. They not cary about all or there lower stuff ( sale people). It is the sale people that make the goals but the manage are the one who get all of the rewards. Not a good company when it comes to a lot of thing, but can leave in till i find something else.
PIC Solutions should be voted the worst company to work. Worst career decision of my life! The employees have no labour rights what so ever!The company constantly demoralise their employees on a daily basis, making them feel worthless, and unworthy, there can be no individual growth in this company. A sad example of foreigners exploiting SA employees!
NO CARUSO AFFILIATED IS THE MOST CORRUPT COMPANY TO WORK FOR, ALL POLITICS!!!!!!!!!! I’M SO AFRAID OF LOSING MY JOB THAT I HAVE TO BE ANONYMOUS!
Add CBRE to the list
No employee pension, no bonus, no glasses or dentist. work 9 hrs and get paid for 8! management lack education, selfish, lack leadership, no loyalty, WAY too much office politics, dirty workplace, health hazardous(chemicals and nasty solvents) saturating the air, you can’t breath in most days of the summer and the winter, 7 cases of cancer in one year! many skin diseases!…what else?
Add Neighborhood Health Plan to the list. They fire people for no valid reasons. Made everyone sign a paper stating that even with a doctors note you can be fired if you miss a day of work. The worst company ever to work for high pay but not worth it.
Do not take a position in this company it’s a trap. almost 90% of Medical leaves in the company are related to Mental Health Break downs of employees related to stress at work. Employees have quit to go to another company with lower pay just because the 3 extra dollars an hour that you make is not worth the stress. I you don’t believe me try it you will be posting your comment also.
I currently work for Best Buy, and I have for some time now. In all honesty I can say that they are one of the best companies that I have ever worked for. The work I do is enjoyable and I feel as though managment in the store treats all employees with respect. Anyone that is complaining about best buy is just a lazy douche bag that doesn’t want to work anyways. As long as you do your job, you’ll be treated well. They have great benefits and the pay is good, I have no idea why anyone would think that it is one of the worst places to work for.
When I get fired for a dumb reason or the manager owner gets shitty with me i just Beat the crap out of them. I beat down 6 Managers already like dogs. It’s The only way to get back at them. the way of natural instinct the way of the jungle im stronger than you there for i beat you down. I love when folks shoot the boss and go postal on these maagers just think if we all united and did it.
Youngsoft and H2H in Michigan is the worst company to work.Many times they are not paying their employee. They are also involved in misuse of H1B visa’s. This company should be black listed and thrown out from business
I worked for a guy Lynn and he is the most unethical, lying POS in the world. Sharp Business Sysytems in Tempe, AZ hires the biggest retards in the world for management…especially this fat guy Rich who sits in his office and does nothing. The place sucks
Cogir located in Brossard, Portebello, QC is a shit company. It does not provide any program support to new employees and it dares evaluate them in 3 days to say they are not to std where these guys have been working for mutinational companies. Cogir employees are racists too especially against asians. <> The Federal Tax Dept should keep an eye on them. It appears they use clients money to do some kind of transfers which is not allowed. They could turn out to be some kind of Earl Jones.
Well, Cogir located in Brossard, Portebello, QC is a shit company. It does not provide any program support to new employees and it dares evaluate them in 3 days to say they are not to std where these guys have been working for mutinational companies. Cogir employees are racists too especially against asians. <> The Federal Tax Dept should keep an eye on them. It appears they use clients money to do some kind of transfers which is not allowed. They could turn out to be some kind of Earl Jones.
Applied Wiring Assemblies Inc. in Georgetown, Ontario cheats people out of their last paycheck. Their slogan is “no shocks”. Your last paycheck will be one!
This department from the outside appears to be doing the job of human service. Wrong! The employees work with no breaks, the exempt staff get no lunch “if needed”. The duality of employee treatment is based on compliments made to management. Confidentiality in this company is a farst. HR provides management with “confidential” information from perspective employers. HR does not know that their job is to provide information to employees when the employee has concerns. HR deems informing employees of his/her rights as “providing therapy”. This is the worst Human service agency I have ever worked. Good luck to all working non-profit I’ll never do it again and will try my best to redirect anyone I know from working non-profit.
Worst place to work. Manager’s are under pressure to work 7 days a week on salary. The big married “mob boss” who show’s up once a month is a lush with as many cell phone’s for his many girlfriends and hitting on the lady customer’s with his fake 1970 pick-up lines. They have manager event’s that are nothing but beer pong parties, prostitutes and drug parties. most need crank to work as many hour’s required. Women beware of shopping for tire’s - they have no respect.
America’s Tire Suck’s
Banner is the worst place to work for at the facility I work at I have been denied transfers to another department at another facility. I have had interviews with the other departments managers and they seemed to really like me. I was told through the grapevine that they are not letting employees at our facility to make transfers because our facility is were they send people who are going to leave the organization. In other words this is were the medical staff “goes to die”. All transfers have been blocked by our hospital CEO according to some staff. it doesn’t matter what department your are in once your at my facility your stuck for life or you have to quit.
Woodmans….Half the employs dont pass their 45 day probation for stupid stuff they make up but most just quite before that, 6 days a week. Cant ever ask off only self covers.. Management has a attitude of if you dont like it quite
I was hired after leaving a career to join PMSI. Promises were made. As soon as I started those promises went down the drain. MS and AD are the worst ever. They do not care about employees. They expect you to work 16 hours a day as they both do not have families or lives. I exceeded all requirements on my JOB however they decided after they hired us that they wanted the job in house so they just let us go no reason. No package and no thought to what we would do. They do not care, they wanted someone cheaper and local and they just eliminated me because that is what they wanted. I just started and gave up alot to join PMSI. What goes around comes around.
H-E-B, a grocery chain in Texas, is one of the worst places to work for. You have to watch your back 24/7 because they fire like crazy. They have a huge turnover rate because they have bad management, bad hours, poor wages, and just to mention again the bad hours. They don’t let you count your till (money) and you have to take someones word for how much money you have. If you are short you are responsible, and can be fired or demoted based on how much even if its not your fault. You can only move up if you know somebody. Managers don’t care about what’s going on in the stores, and don’t really do much. They discipline for personal calls yet take them themselves. They hardly give you hours unless your full time which is very difficult to get. You can’t live on the wages. And they hire like crazy. Instead of giving hours to dedicated employees they hire 4-14 new employees and give them 4-12 hours. This place has pissed me off everyday that I’ve worked there.
VM Comsource theme is work till you drop..
If you drop we will back charge you for the time that you were down..
Wow, its so sad to see so many organizations fall into the holes of unethical practices and poor leadership. Once a hard qualified employee comes along they are booted or forced out the door. I have heard bad things about Banner very sad for a large organization that could be successful with the right CEO and management staff, but they don’t hire and keep the qualified ones. I have to add Orthopaedic Center of the Rockies in Fort Collins, CO. A downfall of unethical practiecs by physicians and staff. Many employees working in fear, a CFO who is the mother of all roots of wrong doing for the organization and physicians to scared to make things right for the qualified who are forced to leave. My friends were put through verbal abuse since their employment, what does management do, nothing! A clinic growing to fast for their own good and soon to fall apart if the don’t fix the problems with past employees, violations, overworked and underappreciated hardworking staff. I never seen so many mean people in one buildiing who are supposed to provide quality patient care for patients having surgical procesures, scary!
Please add Walmart. I worked in the bakery. The assistant manager Kim Bly was running around trying to find a place to hide the single use bakery rack covers they use over and over when the inspector came through. What contamination! Also add to this never respecting the truth from employees. I am disabled I have Muscular Sclerosis and borderline heart disease. I take a strong drug daily to attempt to prevent a heart attack or stroke. I was scheduled to clean the light covers on a high ladder. Osha guidelines say anyone who would be in danger on a high ladder should never be asked to climb one. I was asked to climb one daily. Pay is horrible at Walmart. And they wont give you enough hours to be able to live. I would dare say a food stamp card and room at the projects would be a higher standard of living than they offer. Im out of there now, but I want to warn others especially with a disability Walmart in Winchester Tennessee does not care a single thing about disabled people. I saw a man on the general merchandise entrance side of the store sitting in a chair all day at the entrance on the other side was Peggy who is elderly and just had back surgery she was offered NO chair and could hardly stand up. There is a real sickness in the management of that store.
An employee of Cogir has been waiting for two months for a paycheque. Now that is a bad Company to work for.
Swank Audio Visuals is the worst. They schedule employees to work extensive hours, and then threaten to fire them if they complain. They work days without sleep. Employees either develop heart problems are have heart attacks due to stress. If an employee has a family, they might as well expect to never see their children on weekends.
Falling asleep behind the wheel is a common occurence for Swank employees. One employee even fell asleep and hit a police car.
No lunch breaks … no sleep breaks. Working through weekends. Never ending furlough days. Overtime that dwindles the longer you work. Pay cuts. Demotions without explanations. Swank Audio Visuals is the worst!
That’s kind of funny how CSX Railroad didn’t make the top 5, given that they employ all the same qualities that the above company’s do and treat they employees with the worst harassment practices and fire them for the smallest of infractions. Speaking of moral, CSX employees have some of the worst moral i have ever seen out of a workforce due to this treatment.
They also have a code of ethics hot line that is a total joke and fields phone calls through a third party and then you never hear of an out come and nothing ever changes.
When one of the CSX management is found to be in violation of a sexual harassment or just harassment policy, their answer is they just ship them out to another terminal to work. Mean while if an employee is found to be in violation of the same policy, they are fired! check out CSXsucs.com for some of the true real life stories of the nonsense that transpires in this company. If the public and the share holders knew what really went on and how they fudge numbers to show trains on time and a profit, when the whole operation is in shambles, then they would be questioning the true integrity of this company and it’s operations.
NO respect, NO life, Also they rip off their customers. CUSTOMERS BEWARE!!!!! The ads are not true … trust me.
Stay way Americans, stay away… you will loose your hair, time, and even money!!!!!
I worked for an American job site for Friesland Campina DOMO, a Dutch owned company operating at a couple of sites HERE in the USA.
This is a TERRIBLE company for any US citizen to work for. THEY USE employees that are hard workers, you will be paid exempt salaries ONLY because they will USE you for such EXCESSIVE amounts of overtime above the normal work week. They will put you in situations where you are harassed daily and you have to PUT UP with it . I worked for a YOUNG POOR SUPERVISOR for this company that should never have been promoted to supervision.
THIS COMPANY , DUTCH OWNED OPERATES ON AMERICAN SOIL, AND AT THE SAME TIME BREAKS AMERICAN LABOR LAWS. This country , had enough US companys that did this type of thing WITHOUT LETTING FORIEGN COMPANIES COMING TO US SOIL DOING THE SAME THING.
I filed with the EEOC and HR against them.
HORRIBLE COMPANY TO WORK FOR, THE WAY THEY TREAT WOMAN IS HORRIBLE. IF YOUR A FEMALE MINORITY YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT FOR AWHILE THERE, BUT ONLY BECAUSE THEY USE INDIVIDUALS LIKE THAT FOR TOKENS.
Shoppers Drug Mart Canada where employees are paid minimum wage and they are intimidated and threatened by management. I can speak from personal experience when I was told “if you put one more thing in writing, you will be terminated”. A female employee was told, “if you can’t do this maybe we should find someone who can”. Another girl was told that she DIDN’T SMILE ENOUGH during her performance appraisal. Are you KIDDING ME?? The store managers are glorified STOCK BOYS who get paid management wages but they are so busy stocking shelves they have NO IDEA what’s actually going on in the store. Nor do most of them have ANY FORMAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING or any PERSONALITY either for that matter. And because the stores are FRANCHISED, the PARENT COMPANY does absolutely NOTHING to interfere to help improve the way the employees are treated except LIP SERVICE. Absolutely the WORST PLACE I HAVE EVER workede
I would have to say that the worst company in USA to work for is First Energy. They force employees to work off schedulede hours without the least bit of concern for how it effects their family life. As for have a family life, it is non exsistance in the fact that working when forced does not leave you any time at all to enjoy it. I can no longer even attend my 2 daughters sports activities because of them. I you to coach their teams now I can even go. For a $28 billion company we have the absolute worst healthcare. I am telling you 3rd world countries have better. They beat you down every time you turn around and without a cause.
i live in central new york and i worked at ollies bargain outlet in cicero ny and that place is a joke me and 40 plus people work hard to open the store in a month time and after that everyone quit and the manager didnt have the balls to tell the people working there that the business no long wants them. Dont bother trying to get a job there u would make more money at burger king or mcdonalds
I think this is the worst place; overnight shift job ;sorting heavy mail and been pressured ;lifting sack and working like a donkey and they cut the break for the laborer while they pass thru with a cup of coffee in their hand smiling from others reality ? MTs Rutherford place where fu—— managers and supervisors treat you like a piece of shit ;this is really the freedom in America .
Fu——- slavers .
DHL in East Rutherford NJ .I think this is the worst place; overnight shift job ;sorting heavy mail and been pressured ;lifting sack and working like a donkey and they cut the break for the laborer while they pass thru with a cup of coffee in their hand smiling from others reality ?sometimes they do not pay you overtime they forget . MTs Rutherford place where fu—— managers and supervisors treat you like a piece of shit ;this is really the freedom in America .
Fu——- slavers .
PMSI, Tampa is the worst place ever. THE NEW management in CLINICAL is terrible. DONT WORK THERE they are USERS and ABUSERS
SSC SERVICE SOLUTIONS
1845 MIPARK ROAD KNOXVILLE TN
This company is the worst place to
work they have job openings nationwide they will pay for you to relocate and then if customer not happy with you they will ask you to relocate again and will not pay for relocation if u say no that means u do not have a job any more
Based in Littleton CO. Doesn’t pay the freelancers and the head of HR is also the president’s wife, she constantly lies about when checks were sent and that they are in the mail. If you do a job for them it’s like pulling teeth to get a check in 30 days, if they pay. Stay away from this company. I saw a show on the DIY network about how the owners had there dream mansion built in Montana, but it seems they can’t pay up.
OrionMultimedia LLC=can’t pay up
Based in Littleton CO. Doesn’t pay the freelancers and the head of HR is also the president’s wife, she constantly lies about when checks were sent and that they are in the mail. If you do a job for them it’s like pulling teeth to get a check in 30 days, if they pay. Stay away from this company. I saw a show on the DIY network about how the owners had there dream mansion built in Montana, but it seems they can’t pay up.
OrionMultimedia doesn’t pay period.
Guys,
Intacct Corp is San Jose is one of the worlds worst company to work with. Beware of joining.
The depraved economic climate brings out the worst in employees at companies that are backbiting sweat shops by design. The culture of law firms typically fosters the “every man (or woman) for himself” mentality and though they champion the “team player” in theory, you are not part of a team. You are alone. Additionally, if you are among those who are escorted out of the building after receiving the “I’m so sorry, this is your last day” speech from a poker-faced HR person, don’t count on your former colleagues to give a damn about you or recognize you for the good work you did while you were part of “their team”.
Cogir @ 2737 and 2757 Kipling ave in Toronto SUCKS big time. These 2 buildings are falling apart very quickly. They should loose there licence to practice in Ont.
also if you want your vehicle broken into move to 2757/2737 Kipling ave.
I have had over $600 in damage to my vehicle
If you ever think to start a carreer with PSMi think twice, they offer you a great deal at first, but when you receive your first check oh surprise, they rob you!!! Bunch of thieves, they live from the honest worker, bunch of liers!!! >(
You can add LeCroy Corp in N.Y. to the list. They have a bad habit of over hiring engineers and technicians then laying them off without warning recession or not. It seems the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing. Wages are now cut at 10% across the board. I’ve run into many people who have been laid off there. The worst place I ever worked at. College grads looking to go into electronics don’t fall for their line of crap.
The company has hit hard times so no raises in sight BUT we will hiremore people to do nothing
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VM Comsource theme is work till you drop..
If you drop we will back charge you for the time that you were down..
That is not true! You work for free
crappy bad idea design inc. Company in north hollywood badiadesign.com: exploit illegal immigrant to achieve money and play the game of be little people, oh such an ass camel exploit Moroccan artisans and use economic problems on that country a 1 Dirham = 1 dollar and lets said a chair cost 100 dirham and they sell it for 100 dollars
i still don’t know how people can still buy there. A salary range from 8 to 10/hr help your self S-kill your self at no insurance manner no one is better than the ego owners a guys who is such a crap lier, abusive, ego driven manager, Treats employees bad, They never put anything in writing, We had no benefits whatsoever you get vacation forced when they said its ok. We were verbally abused constantly by being called names: retarded head… most of the software programs there were pirated by a U.S. government moroccan fellow worker. their accounting sucks an are bully together with the owners khalid Belfki and Mohammed Tazi
818-762-0130 yes those mafia ones be careful both buying or working there they will always find a way to rip you off
I currently work for Best buy as a seasonal P/T merch guy or whatever you wanna call it. Ive been working here for 4 weeks now and I gotta say that your comments are bang on. In my departement, the management consists of an 18 year old power hungry supervisor kid, and a 30 year old arduous senior . Since I am the only new guy and pretty much at the bottom of the ladder (Job until school starts back up in Jan btw…), they harrass you for everything. They expect 110% effort and want their work done within the first two hours. Understandable but come on. They expect me to do all the prcing and coporate batches and cleaning by 8 am, while the supervisor and senior do nothing but walk around and make sure im doing work and then yell at me to work faster while they listen to their ipods and sing christmas carols in the warehouse. I guess thats in their job description. They also dont give a shit about what you have to say. Its basically their way or no way. So if you have any concerns or wondering WHY things are done this way not that way, they threaten to send you home (personal experience). I should’ve taken the job offer at future shop. Heck, during my interview at futureshop, the manager even said that lots of people make the switch from best buy to future shop. At first I didnt really take this thoughts seriously but now I understand. Stay away from this place if possible! If you MUST get a job here, then apply for sales. You pretty much do dick all besides help customers and dont even bother to help the merch staff when they are not busy (which they are required to do by management standards but it never happens). Instead they just do a bunch of figures eights in their respectful departments while listening to music or texting. Heck that will probably even make you more of an asshole but thats your choice.
God, I never had a job where I got this angry with less than a month of working!
unwired australia has got to be one of the most un ethical companies to work for , deliberately slowing customer bandwidth on certain types of traffic, no oversight into management practices .. but the good thing is hopefully they wont last long …
I work and live in mn Iwas born at the hosptal thatmy dad worked in and my mom. anyways This Methodist hosptal. Stlouis park!Thee Wort Hosptal I have eve wokedi like three wait four postionsIm like What The heck nonprofit my8881 Talk about favortism, neptism and immatutr middle school!yep not Hr for the worker oh no its all about Vips and some DR grant it not all no but come on I left no joke
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Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach. Since the appointment of the new CEO and recently the new CIO, the working conditions have deteriorated. They recently escorted over 30 of the IT staff out the door and are now using Deloit consultants who have no clue as to the systems and processes in place. They don’t care about how long you have worked here or what you have accomplished. Overworked and understaffed. The IT transition is a failure and now they are scrambling to open a new hospital where they can take advantage of those employees too. They will lose more long term employees this year. Union doesnt sound like such a bad word anymore.
Please by all means include neiman marcus they are no.1 company they pay 9.00 hr returned merch. is cleaned with a lent brush a put back out for resale the ins sucks 3 paid days off a year no Holiday bonuses and management is a fuccin joke they steal from the company this company should be shut down the whole railroad company.
Zellers (HBC) store on Topsail Road in St. John’s, NL Canada is the worst employer I worked for. The staff get little hours, the pay is low, the store is very understaffed and very dirty. The lunchroom was unfit to eat in because it was very dirty. I advise potential employees to avoid this store as its a poor place to work and poorly managed.
DATROSE - avoid! - If you ever find yourself working for this company it’s a sign that wherever you are is as high as you will go. Expect all employees to live up to a double standard, horrid pay. Most contract companies take a portion of pay, work for Datrose and you’ll be sure to have nearly half of what you work for each hour going to them. mentality in DATROSE environment “don’t like it leave, we don’t care how educated you may be”
guy you dont know how worst is huawei india, just try it.. then u ll say all others are good.
There you can see
1. work like a slave
2. you can pay fine for your defects and mistakes
3. you can get open scoldings (even in front of other teams)
4. No cubicle set up. U need to work around a table.
5. Morning statndup shart 8.30 am
6. If u fail to attend standup then you ll get scoldings.
7. Dont think u can leave by 5.30. Average working hours in the company is 13.5 hours.
8. most of the days u need to work from 8.30 to 12.
9. the best part is they will call u on Saturday and Sunday.
10. They will plan release just before or after continuous leaves, so that they can stop people form going home. Even if u go home they ll call u. Dont worry.
ant a lot…………….
just ask anybody working at huawei.
The worst project in huawei is iSAP.
add Macys as well. They just laid off half their staff from several stores on Long Island NY. For no apparent reason other than they are thinking about their bottom line not the livelihood of decent hard workers. Shame on Macys and corporate for being so hard nosed.Macys also screwed some employees out of the 401k company match. They cut their hours by half (under 500) thus excluding these employees from getting a company match to their retirement fund based on a technicality! What a sneaky, smary company to work for. Get out while you still can!
K Designer & Dan Drotts (warning for people wanting to work for this company)
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I have been recruited twice by K Designers. The way they reached me, was because I posted a resume on MONSTER.COM, so they contacted me. The first time I turned down the job oppurtunity. Both times that the recruiter contacted me they told me that the position includes full benefits, and is a salary + commision position. This is a lie, it is told because the recruiter gets bonuses on how many people he can get in for an interview.
The job that they hire for is called a “marketing director” which is actually a high pressure sales possition, were you try and sale $25, 000 remodel packages on the spot. Now the manager for the state of Washingtons branch name is Dan Drotts. The truth of this position is that it is 100% commision only job. You are not actually even employeed by K Designers, you are a independent contractor (which means you are a 1099 contractor and you pay all of your own taxes)… Now I dont have a problem with any of that, but I do have a problem with recruiters that call you and lie to you, to get you to go to a interview that is an hour away from my home. Unfortunitly I did not read all of the posts on the internet, but believe me before I work anywhere from now on I will do my homework. They also offer no benefits at all, no retirement, insurance, sick days, or vacationt time. Dan just acted like he didnt know what I was talking about, when I brought up my conversation with the recruiter. Now Dan just assured me that this would not be a problem with all the money that I would be making, so I thought OK I will get my own insurance then because I would be able to afford it. So I accepted the position.
Now the first week of work meant, 9 hours of day of a online class for the first five business days. And no you dont get paid a single dime for the first week, including Saturday where you are required to shadow a fellow MD. After your first week, you get $200 a week, but it is a draw and they take the whole $1200 back on your first commision check, or until you make enough commision to pay you ledger off. I started figuring things out after the first week, and it started to sink in. They interview 5 to 10 people EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS DAY. The turn over ration is 100%. Every week there are new MD’s going through online training. 50% dont make it through the week. 45% quit during the following week. But eventually there is 100% turnover. Except for Dan Drotts, the branch manager, because he is the only one that is actually a K Designers employee that gets benefits, salary, and commision of what everyone sales. When I started there was only 1 employee that was working there for longer then 6 months, and he was the second best salesmen in the branch. Now going back to the interview, when Dan told me not to worry about the benefits because of the money that I would be making, I asked him what the average income was of the MD’s that were currently working there and Dan told me that it was $70k a year. Now back to the part of the only MD working there for over 6 months and is the 2nd best selles men in the branch. I asked him what he is on pace to make this year after the 11 months that he has worked here, he informed me that it was $30, 000. That is when my jaw dropped, immidiatly that evening I decided to come home and google K Designers and bam all the information I wished I would have read before I started. Now the main reason that the turnover is so high is because you always get shorted money on you commision checks. In the sum of thousands of dollars.
In the course of the 3 months that I have worked there I have caught Dan Drotts in 23 lies. I just dont understand this. If you want good people to be apart of your branch why do you fill the need to lie . This cause a big problem, even if this was a lagit company, people still dont want to work under a lier. This man has actually said more lies to me, then just regular truthful statements. Ive never experienced any thing like it.
Now heres the break down of working for this company. All expensed of employment are 100% the MD’s responsibility. You run 2 - 3 leads a day. Now 80% of the appointments are people who are not home, people who deny the appointment because they were pressured so much on the phone they said yes to get off. 20% are legit with people who are interested in a bid for a prodect. Now you are required to sell them a very expensive package on the spot ($10, 000 to $40, 000). Keep in mind that both homeowner(s) have to be at the appointment in order to sign the paperwork to make it a sale. Now most people dont have $20, 000, so we do offer financing this is great except for the fact that the financing fees come straight out of the MD’s commsion. So if you sell a $20, 000 package and you commision is $2000 and it costs 8% to get the financing the charge for that does not come off the price but right off the top of your commision, K Designers doesnt help with any of these costs. And since everything is way over retail K Designers is making thousands off each sell, they still dont give a crap and take it out of the MD’s $2000. So this would make your commision $400. Now the leads are all over the state. So usually you drive on average 200 miles to your lead, and you have 2 - 3 a day. They do attempt to group them up in the same city as your first one. And when you appointments are really far you are required to get a motel room for a couple of nights, sometimes 5 night, and you are not paid back for any of it. Now with the rate of the crappy leads, if you are really really good, you might be able to make between 1 to 3 sales a week but that would be above average. Your out of pocket expeses of working here are about $1500 a month. You also dont get the phone numbers of the leads because they want you to drive all the way over to the home and wait for the people to get there if they are not there when the appointment is scheduled. So you are never able to confirm that your appointment is actually going to happen, or that the lead they set for you is not a 85 year old widow that has a live in hospice nurse. And yes that does happen quite offten. So now you can understand why the second best sales men for K Designers for the whole state of Washington only made $30, 000 for the year. I dont know how he came up with an average MD yearly pay was $70, 000.
I could go on for another 10, 000 words but I wont. If this post just gives 1 person the information they need, before they interview for K Designers and the Washington branch and Dan Drotts, then it was well worth the time of typing all of this. Now K Designer actually has people that do nothing but look for these types of posts online and they will repond to them making it all look like it was all are fault and not theres. This is becase they get so many disgruntled ex employees and frustrated customers, they have to do something. Just try to google them. But that is a whole differnt post and subject. So just a warning they will post something in response to mine. Probably protending to act like they are a current very satisfied employee or really greatful customer. If anybody has any questions, please post a response and I will give you my answer from my experience. Thanks for your time.
+1 for HP as the worst!
Hello everyone. I would like to let everyone know that if you are looking for a position please stay clear of Supreme Global Solutions. Also known as Supreme Foods. They are based in Dubai and have contracts in Afghanistan. They lie about there positions. I was told that after accepting a position with this company i signed a contract for 54 hours a week 6 days a week. Only to fine while working for this company this did not happen. I had to endure working 110 hours a week 7 days a week. Whenever i asked them about this, why i had to do this they stated it was because they were short staff. My answer back to them was you cant be that short staff for 5 months. This was the amount of time i had worked for them and in this period i did not once work 54 hours a week as stated in my contract i always worked 110 hours a week. Not only am i very disappointed in the company but other staff are also especially the Indian and Nepalese workers working for this company. On many occassions while working for Supreme i had my co workers asking me to sort there problems out as some of them had not been paid for 4 and 5 months. These guys were from India Nepal and Sri Lanka. When i had sent emails to senior management within Supreme about when are these guys going to get paid i was told to just shut up and forget about them as they are just from third world countries who complain all the time. Not only were these guys not paid but they had been given illegal visas from the company that if they leave Afghanistan they would be thrown in Jail if caught. I have evidence on this as i have copies of there illegal visas. Also some of the guys who want to go home because they are angry with the company for not supporting them have had there passports confiscated from the company to keep them in Afghanistan to work. This company needs to be investigated as they are nothing but exploiting people for there own financial gain. When i decided to leave the company because i had enough of there lies i was fined from the company for half of my salary as they call it a early termination fee. So for all the dedication i gave the company by doing this overtime unpaid this is the thanks they give.
Stay clear of Supreme Global Solutions aka Supreme Foods as they are not worthy for any hard working people as they treat you like crap.
Have to agree on Verizon. Been called a management employee exempt from overtime my entire career and never had a single person working for me. When it was GTE that wasn’t a big deal because OT was rarely required and when it was our bosses always found some way to compensate us. Since the “merger” the hours and workload have gone up and non-salary compensation way down. Some work 70 hour weeks every week.
Add Gray Research of Huntsville Alabama to your list. They were caught for falsifying themselves as a woman owned company to exploit a legal loop hole to obtain government contracts. Very underhanded group of hook and crook company. Will bully their employees to lower self esteem, short paychecks, distrusts people not from alabama.
How can you have a crappy job list and NOT include WalMart?? One of the absolute worst when it comes to employee abuse and miserable wages/benefits. If there is a hell, then I am positive that it is molded after WalMart!
Gallo wine is the worst company, next to dictatorship…
HP all the way …. the most shitty company I have ever worked for … HP all the way …NO ONE CAN BEAT THIS SUCKAA
Aeropostale is the absolute worst company to work for
Management screwed up and now everyone is going to loose their jobs.
Thank you greedy MFs!
Please tell me how I’m going to feed my kids..
GoodBye VM Comsource !!!
You guys suck! You ran the company into the ground took all of our money and lied!
I hope the management burns.. See you in court when WE show the labor board all of our documents.
do not waste your time - Avoid this Company: Silicon Mechanics. Very poor decision making and even worse upper level management.
I work for American Medical response this is by far the worst company I have ever worked for…Sexual harassment part of the everyday environment by the supervisors. Medicare fraud on a daily basis they force us to submit billable paper work whether or not it’s legit, there benefits and upper management are virtually non existant and if you complain they threaten to blackball you with all ambulance comapnies
Please add Service Access and Management Inc. (SAM Inc) based in Huntingdon/Mifflin/Juniata County, Pennsylvania to this list. This employer just incorporated a rule that they will never be closed, so that employees can jeopardize their lives to make it to work during inclimate weather. They also changed their rules so that no employees may complete work at any time. If there is a snow storm and you can’t make it to work, use your vacation time….and then when it’s time for you to use your vacation time, just go to work instead of taking a vacation. Your family will understand! Oh this is an agency in the social services fields that provides services to families or individuals with Mental Health/Mental retardation. Great work SAM Inc!!
major typos…..SAM inc changed the rules so that employees may never work from home, forcing them to either use vacation or go unpaid when unable to make it to work due to inclimate weather. SAM inc is striving to be one of the 100 best places to work in Pennsylvania. I’m pretty sure that the way they should go about doing so is by respecting their employees, after all it is the employees that earn the money for the company
WORST PLACE EVER OPERATION MANAGER TELLS LIES ABOUT EMPLOYEES AND HAS THEM FIRED. SHE HAS RUN WHAT ONCE WAS A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK FOR SO FAR INTO THE GROUND THEY ARE NOW AT HER LEVEL AS EARTH WORMS. OWNERS ARE IDIOTS FOR LETTING HER SLOWLY PUTTING THIS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS BUT THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE IT. GUESS THEY WILL WHEN THEY ARE IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE AND FILING BANCRUPTCY. I’M OUT OF HERE AS SOON AS I FIND A REAL JOB.
WORST PLACE EVER OPERATION MANAGER TELLS LIES ABOUT EMPLOYEES AND HAS THEM FIRED. SHE HAS RUN WHAT ONCE WAS A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK FOR SO FAR INTO THE GROUND THEY ARE NOW AT HER LEVEL AS EARTH WORMS. HIRES ONLY LOSERS WHICH KISS HER REAR. OWNERS ARE IDIOTS FOR LETTING HER SLOWLY PUTTING THIS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS BUT THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE IT. GUESS THEY WILL WHEN THEY ARE IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE AND FILING BANCRUPTCY. I’M OUT OF HERE AS SOON AS I FIND A REAL JOB
WORST PLACE EVER TO WORK FOR SO CALLED OPERATIONS MANAGER TELLS LIES ABOUT EMPLOYEES AND MAKES THEIR LIVES MISERABLE AND THEN HAS THEM FIRED. SHE HAS RUN WHAT ONCE WAS A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK FOR SO FAR INTO THE GROUND THEY ARE NOW AT HER LEVEL AS GRUB WORMS. HIRES ONLY LOSERS WHICH KISS HER BIG WHITE ASS CAUSE IT CANT LOOK AS BAD AS HER SHAR PEI WRINKLED FACE. OWNERS ARE IDIOTS FOR LETTING HER SLOWLY PUTTING THIS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS BUT THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE IT. GUESS THEY WILL WHEN THEY ARE IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE AND FILING BANCRUPTCY. I’M OUT OF HERE AS SOON AS I FIND A REAL JOB
MCDONALDS WOULD BE A IMPROVEMENT FROM WORKING HERE. SHE WILL ROT IN HELL BUT ITS HER OWN DOING.
Please add Ogilvy Healthworld in London UK. Their medical education discipline is an unethical place of work, with no values. They disregard client funds and treat employees with disrespect. Ogilvy Healthworld- Medical education is one of the worst places to work for.
Washburn Communication lied to employees about the company’s health, laying off new hires that had been working there for 3-4 months. I’ve also been told that they would conveniently forget promises made to employees.
High employee turnover rate, a stifling culture, inconsistent management practices, frightened employees, and a wicked, manipulative, gossiping witch.
Transworld Systems is yet the worst Company to work for. Your so called manager steals leads from her team she is rude,nasty,insulting and a big liar. Don’t ever work for this Company they will steal you blind and promise you the road to riches with hardwork and your own money they fill their pockets with your money.
I also worked there and it wasn’t long before I figured out the same thing. The manager takes leads off your voicemail and portrays that she is the person to talk to. She is insulting,nasty,liar and a thief. A real witch. Don’t ever accept a position with the Company especially in Las Vegas.
If you have ever worked in IT for a healthcare company you’ll know that this can be the absolute worst job. Executive management lies to avoid conflict, middle-management simply pushes it down. There is no love in healthcare!
DO NOT work for Vitas Healthcare! A poor IT department to work for. You will work with the least talented people. The company hires for mediocrity, offering under-market pay, no perks and the basics in benefits. Sadly, as an innovator in it’s field, it is no pioneer in it’s IT department or how it treats its people. It has even less invested into keeping people as retention is a buzzword not a mentality. Constant exhibitions of the lack of care and support it has for its employees are demonstrated daily.
Steer clear!
Flightstar Aircraft services in Jacksonville florida is the worst company around. TOOOOO many Chiefs and not enough Indians.TOOO many layers of useless management. TOOO much top down management. TOOOOOOOOOO bureaucratic. Get it?
Front line department leaders in this compnay are the lazyest pieces of crap that walk the face of this earth and do absolutly nothing at work except trying to show off how good they can yell and manipulate each other.
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Everyone should really take a hard look a Hannaford Bros. in the state of Maine. in the 80’s 90’s it was a company that cared about there employees. Now that they are owned by a forigen company they are trying to push out all there full time employees. this really needs to stop and they really need to have a union come in there and help the employees.