Beware of Toxic Workplace! - Customer Service Manager Semacon Business Machines Employee Review

Everything upstairs in the office revolves around intimidation, toxicity, manipulation, and fraud. He will steal from you, and he can look you straight in the face while he’s doing it too. He will do absolutely anything possible to try and screw everyone around him over when it comes to their pay, it doesn’t really matter. If he can get ahead, then he’s going to do it. And he’s really good at getting away with it unfortunately. He lies to the people that work there about what kind of pay structure they actually have, I was told for years that I was salary, and I never was. He just didn’t want to pay me overtime. I’m pretty sure that the same goes for the rest of the people who have worked there or do you work there. I know he’s currently being sued by at least one or two former employees, and thank god he’s finally going to reap some consequences. You just cannot run a business like that. Especially one that you try and call the family… Usually when a business is real big on calling themselves a family, it’s because they want you to feel obligated to work more than they’re going to pay you for. While I was there I saw so many things that were illegal, firing people for being pregnant, all sorts of things, but somehow he just got away with it for so long. Seriously, if you value your sanity, your time, your worth, your well being day to day… JUST STAY AWAY!! Trust me, it’s not worth the emotional turmoil of working there. I always felt like they were doing things just to make things harder for others. I was gone for one day and they fired my assistant… This was someone who I actually hadn’t wanted to hire, but they forced me to, so then I spent weeks busting it and got her all up to speed and perfect… I leave for one day and she’s gone., it was just little things like that all the time. Just toxicity. And so many lies. Oh, and also, you will continue to be given more jobs, more job titles, but you don’t get paid anymore for it, and you don’t really have any more time to do it. I ended up as the HR person the insurance person I was a customer service manager, the tech support manager, interviewing and hiring, graphic artist, social media consultant, distributor liaison, event planner, and EMOTIONAL PUNCHING BAG. Fun times. When I went on maternity leave, I ended up just never going back. Because when I thought about going back after I got physically ill, and then decided that I was going to choose me, and that I was done with that place. I have a chronic illness that causes me constant severe pain, as well as a ton of other really not fun symptoms. I almost ran myself into the ground at that place, I could’ve really killed myself. It was not worth it, they would just guilt me over being sick when I couldn’t do anything about it and I worked so hard and did everything that I possibly could. I never stopped getting shamed for what actually was done to me by a doctor he made a mistake, so it’s not even my fault that I have this. I’ve been in pain my entire adult life, give me a little bit of a break. I’m not staying home and having a party, I am in bed crying. But when I’m able to get up and put myself together, then I work twice as hard and I make up the time. Now I realize how discriminatory it was, and how much they took advantage of me because of the fact that I was sick. And that is absolutely disgusting and pretty damn reprehensible. Oh and they also like to talk a lot of crap about people, specially when they do things like dare have a baby and take some time off to push a human out of them. They don’t pay well enough to also constantly abuse you. And how can anyone ever possibly catch up if they have the job of six people at a time? Overworked, abused, shamed, and underpaid. That’s how everyone ends up. Better to just avoid this place all together, anywhere else is better.