Great place to work as long as you're one of the Owner's buddies! - Anonymous employee Orr Partners Employee Review

2.0
Aug 21, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits were okay. Summer hours and holiday vacation are great perks when able to take them. Assuming you are one of the Owner's buddies you can expect a long tenure at this firm. Be careful, if you don't buddy up to them and fit into their "jock" crew you wont make it for long.

Cons

Difficult to create work/life balance. Expected to be "available" whenever leadership would correspond night/day/weekend, however this was not part of any particular job description. Was expected to change course to whatever new fad the leadership wanted to chase after which was ever changing. There was rarely any follow through to reach the end goal on the new direction either despite the task being "high priority" when given. Primary leader was a condescending, degrading, in your face bully that would use disrespectful and disgustingly foul language loudly within the office regardless of who was around.

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Orr Partners Response
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I see this review dates back about 5 years ago. The post recession period for our company was a particularly difficult time. As a company we have never defaulted on a loan and we have never not paid our debts. The financial pressures of those times brought out the worst in our industry and in me professionally and for that I am deeply sorry. Adding the pressure of those times was a lawsuit from an unethical engineering firm based in New Jersey who tried to use the court system to extort money they didnt deserve. In the end we prevailed, but it is a very difficult and ugly process for a small business owner to go through. We got it all behind us by treating everyone honestly and ethically and today we enjoy one of the best reputations in our industry because of that integrity. Today we are a very vibrant and nurturing company with an incredible cadre of co-workers who have a profound respect for each other. The fact that so many of our staff stay with us for such a long time ( average time here is over 10 years) is testament to that. Today we are a group of wonderfully diverse and exceptionally talented individuals. And, we have put programs into place where employees can earn ( and do earn) six figure bonuses by earmarking performance based incentives into the project budgets. Thank you to all of our wonderful staff for the value you provide to our customers every day.

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