Don't Wish Working There on Anyone - Anonymous employee Laidlaw Group Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Best reason to work at Laidlaw is probably the location. It's in the south end. Nice building, cool neighborhood. Good coffee shop across the parking lot. The coworkers you have there are awesome (even though there is only a few people), and help to ease your pains working there. The office is also decorated with a bunch of cool stuff.

Cons

You will be lied to the whole time about your potential. Laidlaw has no central structure, no HR, no marketing, really no organization whatsoever. Management is very small, and they are hardly experts at what they do. Management spends most of the time on the phone trying to get new clients...but there is never enough time to do all the work and never any bonuses or extra pay for staying late (which you will be yelled at repeatedly for if you don't do). Every single thing that gets accomplished at Laidlaw is a fight. Conflict is life at this place. The only viable skill management has is recognizing "color palettes". Management doesn't actually do any work. The worst part about working there is that all you hear is management lie and stall their clients. Laidlaw does not hire enough people for the workload on purpose. Promotions are non-existant. There is no offer of healthcare. No offer of vacation. You are supposed to get one vacation day a month but that is just not possible. Management doesn't come in until 10:00am and stays until 6, but if you aren't there from 8:30 to 6:30 there will be hell to pay.

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