A Cult of Confirmation Bias - Corporate Team Lead Uline Employee Review

I will avoid saying names directly for the sake of the privacy of the individuals and myself. The only exclusion will be Liz Uihlein, the nearly 80-year-old company president, and authoritarian matriarch. Her husband Richard will also be mentioned, although his health has prevented him from participating in company affairs for some time now. - Liz and her c-suite minions have actively forced employers who hire multiple Uline employees to stop considering Uline applications under threat of stopping business. This point alone makes me ashamed to say I work here. - No remote options. The company would rather lose a great employee than allow them to go remote (some major exceptions being granted when the individuals have been deemed too important to lose). - No hybrid options. Despite maintaining the IT infrastructure and capabilities to allow remote work, you need an approved excuse to remain in the comfort of your own home while working. - No sick days. If you're sick, you use your PTO (most people choose to just come in anyway). No exceptions. - 'Mandatory' 5 hours of weekly unpaid overtime. I say mandatory because legally they cannot force this on salary employees. However, if you fail to maintain a 45-hour weekly average you will be reprimanded come time for your performance review. - Maintaining this average becomes difficult if you take PTO because you are only allowed to take 8 hours of PTO a day despite the 9 they mandate you spend in the office. - Salary workers must clock in and out every day despite not being awarded overtime pay. They do this solely to micromanage you. - You are not just micromanaged by the time clock, but also by a daily tasking system you MUST input details about your current work into. This must be done by 9:30 AM every morning. - 1980s business professional dress code, passed off as "company culture". This is not what culture is. Nobody likes it. This fact alone prevents me from recommending any women work here. - Maximum 5 personal desk items, with strict restrictions on what they can be. I've actually yet to find an item our facilities team won't report me for. The employee handbook does not distinctly make all conditions evident, and therefore some senior facilities members will make up rules on the spot. - No plants in the building. - Blindingly bright fluorescent lights everywhere. - Bad toilet paper despite the company selling better toilet paper. - Uncomfortable desk chairs despite the company selling better desk chairs. - Random drug testing corporate employees, and a hair test upon hiring. This is because of Liz's ancient stance on recreational cannabis use. - Overall, extreme cult-like behavior about Liz and her "vision". She is not a genius. Her husband inherited what's estimated to be 100 million dollars of the Schlitz brewing fortune. I can't say I'd be as successful as Uline if I had that opportunity, but man, my company would at least do something interesting... - The corporate buildings all display Liz and Richard's personal art collection. Upon seeing them you may wonder, why are the paintings mounted at such unappealing heights on the walls? The reason for this is Liz specifically instructs our facilities team to hang them at her eye level. This is real. - Elizabeth and Richard Uihelin are the number 2 individual political donors in the country, right under George Soros. Liz's political interest takes priority over everything, including employee wellness. Her self-assuredness in her beliefs, although common in women of her antiquity, is disturbing for someone of such power. - A certain male Uihlein family member currently homes, and pays hush money to a previous female employee of Uline. You can guess the details - Another certain Uihlein family member is said to be the "Hunter Biden" of Uline. Yes, all implications here apply. No, company rules and policies do not apply to the family.