Kansas City facility - Very bad company to work for. - Anonymous employee Pentair Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Learn everything on your own.

Cons

Dirty and old building with broken furniture from the 70s. No training, no workable reasonable system in place. Don't value employees. Hard working employees are all over worked and got blamed ion everything. Lazy employees doesn't do anything and remain in the company because they can't leave. Inconsistence on policy execution towards different people. Manager that broke ethic rule doesn't receive any punishment or consequence. All they did was given that person a "talk" Unfair working environment and the company will abuse you of you work hard and do a good job. No communication between management and lower rank employees. No action taken even after employees asked for help multiple times.

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Pentair Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are disappointed to hear your experience as it does not reflect the Win Right values that are the foundation for Pentair and shape how we do business and treat one another. We encourage you to share more about your experience by submitting a report at PentairEthics.com. We appreciate your contributions to Pentair and appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
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