Owner Micromanages Everything & Doesn't Keep His Word - Anonymous employee Comm/Net Employee Review

1.0
Sep 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay was decent and the coworkers (not counting the owner of the company) were nice people that were enjoyable to be around.

Cons

Owner of the company was a micromanager, but also was never around. Worse, you could not take his word on anything, big or small. He would schedule a meeting, then not show up and not bother to tell anyone. He would say a department could be autonomous, hiring and firing on their own, and the very next week fire someone then hire someone else without consulting anyone else. The owner brought in a consultant under contract who (I later learned) was basically intended to reinforce his belief that his employees were all incompetent and he should fire most of them. Instead the consultant learned that the owner was the biggest problem, but of course when he tried to tell this to the owner with suggestions for improvement, he was shut down and neutered for the remainder of his contract. Oh and the facility had mice and mold.

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Pros

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Cons

Where to start? Absolutely nobody is happy there. They hire very talented people but don't pay them enough. They aim to hire new graduates or people with little experience but large amounts of talent in order to get away with underpaying them. Morale is ridiculously low. Owner travels constantly but micromanages everything. He's impossible to reach out to, does not handle any sort of criticism, and never makes time to talk with employees. Whenever he holds meetings, it's to lecture the staff, not to hear feedback. Everyone there is afraid of him. Whenever he enters a room, the place quiets down and everyone sweats bullets. He commands respect but offers none in return. Business decisions are never made without his approval, which means that anything not proposed by him ever gets approval or even consideration. Getting feedback is almost impossible from anyone in management. Meetings are constantly rescheduled, cancelled or forgotten entirely. Senior department workers are overworked and spread thin. If you work salary, you are expected to work more than 40 hours a week, though this is never explicitly stated. They are spread so very thin and refuse to hire extra help. The place is incredibly small and not well maintained. Mold and grime everywhere, mouse problems, too few restrooms.

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