Disrespectful and ancient - IT Service Desk Analyst Macfarlane Group Employee Review

1.0
Oct 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Generally Nice people Dinosaur IT Retro 1980s Good for understanding how things shouldn't be done Secretive - great if you want to get in to 1960s spy work James Bond style/Bletchley park

Cons

Triplicate paper Lack of training or when training is provided it's interupted No investment in IT everything is done on a shoe string

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Macfarlane Group Response
5y
Many thanks for your review. We're sorry that you experienced some frustrations during your time with us but appreciate you sharing the feedback. Certainly, working with a jolly nice bunch of people is a key benefit of working for our business and something that we have heard people comment time and again over the years. Our business has continued to invest year-on-year to ensure our IT infrastructure ; systems keep pace with an ever changing market. Yes there are always further improvements to make and this is very much ongoing, much as it would be for any business of our size and scale. Again, given the nature of our business, there are admittedly processes which do sometimes require documenting rigorously for audit purposes and we acknowledge that occasionally (for some) this can lead to frustrations. But such processes are in place for good reason and it only usually requires an extra minute or two of someone's time to follow these steps. We're sorry if you feel the training didn't go to plan, we have invested significantly with certain individuals across recent years and again do acknowledge that there were some teething problems with a training provider being used to deliver IT training across 2019-2020. This has however been happily resolved and we are now working with an MS Global training partner to deliver all of our ongoing IT training needs. Thanks again for your comments, we wish you well with your onward career journey.

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Cons

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Macfarlane Group Response
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Thanks for taking the time to leave your review, although it’s tough to read this type of feedback. We note that you're residing in the United States and as we are a UK based business wonder whether you have perhaps posted this review mistakenly to the wrong company (we know from old that others in the past have done so as there is a company by the same name based in the USA).
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