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BES Design-Build

Is this your company?

Owner forces his assistants to write fake posts. - Construction BES Design-Build Employee Review

1.0
Dec 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Parking is great! There are multiple exits so you can escape from several places. The office is located directly across the street from a psychiatric office so you won't have far to walk to ask a trained professionals,"WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM???? WHAT DRUGS CAN YOU PRESCRIBE TO KEEP ME FROM JUMPING OUT A WINDOW AT THIS JOB????"

Cons

Leaving half a day early one day each week does not provide enough relief from the pure torment you sustained that week. It won't result in you forgetting that you or a coworker was likely cursed out, insulted, belittled, wrongly accused of something, caught the buck that got passed, interrupted and not allowed to defend yourself, forced to do something you felt was unethical, watched a hard working employee get fired, watched a drunk and a junky get a raise, and listen to every other employee tell you their horror stories of dealing with the owner. The majority owner is a good businessman and a smart guy, but the minority owner runs over him like a freight train. His most recent fake post praises the company's one hour lunch policy (which is completely innovative and unheard of...?), claims it's a "great learning experience" and makes silly complaints about parking so it will actually sound like an employee wrote it. No employee in the history of employment has ever used the phrase "great learning experience" to describe a job. No one at that place ever complains about parking. That issue falls about #427 on the things to complain about, right behind wall color and brand of toilet paper. Bolton's efforts to minimize the effect Glassdoor has on potential investors is almost as sad as his highwater pants and wingtip shoes.

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Cons

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Pros

Joe Banach. Half day Friday's. Decent benefits. Huge growth potential.

Cons

Walt Bolton. Rude, unprofessional, believes in the mantra that "The beatings shall continue until morale improves." Does not pay subcontractors or vendors on time. Micromanages everyone to the nth degree. No autonomy to allow anyone to make decisions. Due to high turnover, with Walt being the common denominator, projects are constantly being reassigned, thus causing them to be late and over budget. Huge disconnect between estimating and what it costs to actually perform the project. Personnel get assigned multiple tasks that takes away from their real job. Empathy must be felt for the employees who manage to stay or decide not to resign on their own accord. No appreciation is ever shown for ones efforts. Everything is a priority and it becomes organized chaos.

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