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Toxic CEO and Culture - Manager Portland General Electric Employee Review

1.0
Jul 4, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are good. Focus on green energy seems quite solid. Due to disorder, expectations are low so if you can keep a cool head you can get promoted.

Cons

Sexism, Racism, and people constantly melting down. The stress is so high even good people are cracking. CEO focuses on fires, fancy technology spend and cost cutting. Long term objectives are talked about but not implemented. Now hopelessness is our plague. Our employee survey results are depressing. Everyone is so afraid of being attacked that people will not work together. Leadership team needs to be strategic and tactful. We have challenging times due to changes, but we need to step it up and resolve the root issues.. People are dropping like flies. Every week someone else is quitting no matter if they have been here 20 or 30 years. This should be a wakeup call but is not because upper management owns the toxic work environment. I hope we can serve Portland and our employees, but this is not possible with our current leadership. The CEO needs to go.

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Pros

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Cons

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Cons

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