Run the other way! - Anonymous employee Synergy BIS Employee Review

1.0
Dec 4, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It’s a paycheck which is more than some can say after this company’s biggest “win” to date. Synergy BIS offers insurance albeit at a higher cost from employees while they are taking a 20% pay cut when this company took over the contract. Another pro is you too can drive an extensive car to your new contract win if you morally accept a role of henchmen to the management which is openly rude, condescending and extremely chaotic and misleading during the interview process. The pro is everyone created a new resume for this process - now all those resumes will be flooding the market even by those employees currently at the “win” facility.

Cons

After a “win” treat people with respect. Don’t announce interview time & place on the facility’s bathroom doors as the sole form of communication. Also, do not note interviews are open to the public on the same announcement so panic is not created from the start of your fiasco. Take off your blinders from your preconceived notions of the work. If employees that do the work are repeatedly trying to explain don’t be condescending. How could you possibly know the work other than what you derived from a source (who wrote the contract) that isn’t doing the work? Employees on this contract work quietly and diligently, they are on call giving up their weekends and evenings without compensation and now they are cut to 2 weeks PTO, no 9/5/4 schedule opportunity, more expensive insurance and overloaded with daily tasks. The contract was changed in scope but the customer still wants the original product done by considerably less personnel. Why would you want to come to work every day?

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Synergy BIS Response
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We apologize that you have had this experience. We understand that the transition from the incumbent company to our company as the prime contractor was a stressful time for all parties involved. Our objective was to reach out to as many people as possible using flyers, sending emails to current employees, etc. We had a very short time to prepare and though we tried our best to provide attention to every candidate, sometimes we were stressed for time, which might have made us appear impolite. This was certainly not our intention. As you are a current employee, you must have been observing how the Synergy team and management are engaging in the work. Our CEO, CTO, and other senior staff are very involved, and they meet the employees and the customers regularly. In fact, some of the employees gave us positive feedback on how much attention the corporate management gives to this project. We are aware that the team does a phenomenal job and we appreciate that very much. True – it’s difficult to get a complete understanding of all your tasks at the transition time of the contract, but we are learning more every day. We would like to meet with you and know more about your work, as well as get your advice on how we can do better. Our company offers 2 health care plans for our employees to choose from. One is a high deductible health care plan with an HSA. To offset the cost of the high deductible, our company contributes 50% of the deductible annually. We also offer a traditional EPO plan without an HSA. These types of plans are becoming very popular, as the unused HSA dollars belong to you, which can be used for any future healthcare needs. We are open to suggestions for alternative medical plans, and suggestions can be submitted to the Human Resources department. All employees received at least 3 weeks (15 days) of paid time off, and we encourage employees to use their earned PTO to promote a healthy work/life balance. We take employee satisfaction very seriously and realize that taking a pay cut is extremely difficult for anyone. During the transition, most of our employees got their current salary or a higher pay. We have looked at the salaries again last quarter and made some adjustments. As a general practice, we look at everyone’s compensation every quarter and adjust whenever we can. If you still have a lower than before compensation, please approach your manager if you have concern and we guarantee to take that into serious consideration.

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