Over promise and under deliver. When I started my interview process I gave them my salary requirements and throughout the whole process said that it was not an issue, after 5 interviews they offered me $10,000 less then the minimum I told them, then told me not to worry about it because they would make me hourly and I could get as much overtime as I wanted...I was super uncomfortable with the whole situation, but decided to give it a try. After about 5 weeks of employment I was brought into my bosses office and told that I was not allowed to get any overtime...so now not only was I an unwilling hourly employee, I couldn't supplement my low income with the overtime they promised.
If you like printing 1000's of sheets of paper a day, working via fax machine, the US mail and communicating mostly over the phone you will enjoy BSE. You will be the personal secretary to all the men in the office if you are a women and they will introduce you to customers as "my gal" or "my girl". My boss was making 3 times my salary and I had to show him how to add a column to a spreadsheet and was his personal "go-to" on giving him advice on how to be a boss. Quintessential 1950's offices with men making big bucks doing little to no work, except smooshing their customers and treating the women employees like housewives. No laptops, no working from home, no digital tools, just basis phone and pen and paper work. I was actually surprised that they did not have a switchboard operator answering the phones and we didn't have rotary telephones at our desk with a pad of paper and a pencil. Also could not figure out how a women was running the company, without every having met her, I can say she did seem like a bright woman trying to make improvements to the growth of the company.
None of the employees know how to use technology and they are totally okay with it. My team was working in an excel sheet that took about 15 minutes to open and save, I asked them if they tried to fix it and they said that they had had the corporate IT team look at it multiple times. I opened the sheet and saw they had the margins set out to column XXY and row 86,999, I reset the margins and the document was fine.
No one wants to change or improve anything, they like to come to work, do their minimum job and leave. Tried to offer a ton of improvements/ideas and implement new technologies and no one was interested or followed them, their way of business as worked for the past 50 years so that is how they will continue to do it.
