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Racist Company - Anonymous employee Atkins Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay and paid on time.

Cons

The most racist company I have ever come across. Incompetent fools are given higher positions based on only one qualification: being British; being white also helps. Non-engineers are masquerading as senior engineers and being shielded by higher British staff by assigning important projects. Non-British staff is treated as lower class and given mickey mouse projects t make them look irrelevant. Condescending attitude towards non-British staff. British staff when laid off was awarded gratuity illegally even thought they served less than one year but non-British was denied. List goes on. Sad truth is Atkins goes into the colonial mode in the Middle East, where they know they can get away with it, even though they profess racial equality in England where they can't get away with it. Real test is not when law requires you to be fair, real test is practicing that in an environment that does not have nay checks like in the Middle East.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Nov 17, 2016
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Pros

Job and a paycheck but in a house of cards.

Cons

Wow, be careful! Atkins North America was acquired when Atkins in London bought a notorious US engineering based in Florida, PBS&J (Post, Buckley, Shuh and Jernigan). I didn't do enough research when hired and found out too late I was working for a company that has been prosecuted multiple times for serious illegalities, and some of the executives who participated but escaped prosecution are still there! PBS&J has been indicted for bribing government officials, illegal campaign contributions, and was a private company put on the chopping blocks to sell for being so poorly managed when several of the employees embezzled millions upon millions of dollars. As recent as 2016 the company was struggling financially because of legal costs and fines to the extent the focus became finishing out existing contracts rather than procuring new ones...an indicator they do not want new business and are likely to chop off the US engineering wing and spin those employees out to another company. Do your research before accepting a job there, the good old boy network that didn't previously get caught or prosecuted in the illegalities is still working there, and they haven't changed much in being secretive about what they are doing!! Get everything in writing as they are all about the bait and switch.

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