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
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I will absolutely agree about Best Buy. I had to work there twice, the second time being worse than before.
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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.
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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.
pirelli winter tires…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!!!
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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!
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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!!!
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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