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A business built on a product, not a plan. Lack of: Communication and continuity - vertically and laterally, Middle management - the efficient and trusted type, Employees - and the current ones are overworked and undervalued, Females, Care and consideration - of the workers from "the top", Trust and respect - of "the top" from the workers - stemming from the above, Training - unless a half-hearted, bare-minimum approach is all you need, A genuine feeling of enjoyment, happiness and job satisfaction from a large proportion of the employees. An abundance of: The blame game, Egos, strops and power play - god forbid you step out of line on the wrong day, People leaving, "It's just the Redwood way" and "you get used to it" attitudes, "Put up with it for the money" attitudes. I've never worked somewhere before (and hope to never again) where the only time the MD bothers to meet you, he shakes your hand on the first day, and sends a message down the pipe line to "fire" you on your last. NB - no matter how much you want to, you cannot technically fire someone who quit the day before...

One of the engineering team leaders has about as much technical knowledge as a turnip, and resorts to barking irrelevant factoids then wobbling his head a lot when an issue arises. Example: Engineer: Server name RS00JTG has stopped responding! Manager: Ohhh no! Argh! Grrrr! *head wobble* First thing; why haven't you done your task list yet?? You're meant to waste time first by writing me a daily list of activities you are planning to do today first! I know as well as you do, that you won't actually get around to doing them since they didn't account for this issue today - but this is still of the up most priority! Preposterous, am I the only one with sense around here?! Anyway I'm too busy writing an email about how some engineer has body odor problems (I'm being serious, this was an actual email). Speak to one of the more competent senior engineers in my team instead. They might know their head from their arse. Don't worry though! I'll come and stand behind them in a few minutes and shriek random unrelated statements in an ape like manner to further consolidate the fact that I was dropped on my head as a child. This is everyday working at CG engineering services. If you appreciate your sanity...don't join. I'm getting out ASAP.