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PLS Financial Services

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Run Forrest Run!!!! - District Manager PLS Financial Services Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They donate a tree for every employee they employ on Arbor Day. We plant trees because we need the paper. Voted "5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America" and "Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to work for".

Cons

PLS Financial received this prestigious award for 2008, 2009 and 2010, HELLO.... THIS IS 2014 what were you doing right four years ago? There is absolutely no respect for the field leadership team regardless of how many hours we put it. The Senior Leadership team does not genuinely have our best interests at heart and it is difficult to trust them. They are not grateful for our performance efforts (especially if EBITDA is not positive) and they always are attempting to squeeze every bit of effort they can out of you, this will cause you to not trust that they have intentions to be more efficient, resourceful and collaborative (poor technology comes to mind). Leadership does not effectively "touch the business" they visit because they have too and when they do, they come with sharp tongues, they don't speak to the DM prior to the store visit, they rely on the ineffective DO's to give them the full picture in a two day span. Talk to your leadership teams who really role up their sleeves and try in earnest to make money for the Company. PLS is not a box of chocolates.

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Cons

The lack of experience and leadership skills at the DO and above levels is apparent from day 1. Most lack the business acumen and knowledge to lead a stressful, fast-paced environment. Most of them have never held a job outside of PLS, which is not a plus. The job isn't hard, but they believe that if you don't have years in their culture, you are a liability. Most of their tenured team gets outperformed by newcomers until they're separated. A toxic culture that the VP sets. You can't get promoted if you question her directions. This particular region gets outperformed by the other regions, and that won't change! An entire group of managers left, and HR never reached out to ask what happened. Why? Because you deserve better!

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