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The Purple Guys

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The management needs to be dealt with - In Shop Technician The Purple Guys Employee Review

2.0
Sep 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good Work to life balance. They do make sure that employees have food, breaks, and have the ability to handle things in life if need be. There are a few good managers there, but not enough to make a difference.

Cons

They say, "We will teach you" but when they actually have to, you will have to answer for it. They do not make sure that new employees have all of the tools necessary to lead them to a path to succeed. When you bring up that you're having issues, the management aren't very tech understanding people, and will turn the focus on you like you're to blame. There was also an issue with management making unnecessary comments that could be very much misconstrued, and was by several employees in Teams chats. It is very clique like in the office, they either like you and do everything to help, or you're an outsider and will be treated as such. The work load is astronomical for new employees, and new employees inherit tickets that have 2-300 days on time sent in and you as the new employee are looked at like you should have all of the answers, again, with little to no training. If you go to ask questions to some people, they go to management complaining that they cannot answer your questions because they are busy, yet management tells you to ask others and "use resources" yet, if you ask questions, use resources, or teams chats, you will have to answer for it later. They expect you to come in there and know how to do things without being told, trained, or anything even after you specifically tell them that you will need to be trained and they agree to it. There is only 1 manager there that you can rely on, the rest you literally have to go and hunt down all of the time. When you inform management about the issues with your work station, i.e. software/applications that were missing, and inform them that yourself and a few others got them installed, 4 weeks after starting mind you (should have been done during orientation) their response is, "There is no way for us to foresee that you will need those tools." The methods that the upper management and some lower management uses to "progress" is some of the worst management I have ever seen in my life. I will say this, there are a few that truly try and do great, but there has been employees literally just walk out of the door, and I do not blame them 1 bit.

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5.0
Aug 21, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Joined The Purple Guys a little over a year ago. I am constantly impressed by the people I work with and the direction of the organization.

Cons

The company is growing rapidly which may mean a lot of changes this may not be ideal for folks who don't shift quickly.

2.0
May 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Getting paid for time outside of shift, friendly colleagues for the most part If you work overtime your time you get paid automatically. You do learn alot working in an MSP.

Cons

Highly deceptive management tells you your performance is good then blindsides you by telling falsified information to higher management. Also, manager was still expecting me to work during my PTO which was extremely unprofessional. TPG was recently brought out by a larger MSP and pays lower salaries. The company is definitely moving into a different company and let's just say that this company is good for building experience and moving into a better company role with a different company. Also TPG has a high turnover and they is nepotism/favoritism. There are very little people of color and if you are a person of color you will have to deal with racist mircro agressions. I largely think that they have a race quota and only hire to fire in a short period of time. TO ANYONE WHO MAY FEEL SINGLE OUT... IF U GET GOOD PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS INITIALLY SAVE ALL OF THEM AND FORWARD TO PERSONAL E-MAIL. THE MANAGERS delete e-mails out of your tpg mailbox so be careful! Also, the system that they provide the techs with is low quality and was not always reliable.Alot of what the previous reviewers mentioned is very much still accurate currently. High turnover as well.

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