High turnover rate. Normally people quit within a few months of working here. However, today at least 5 people's positions were "terminated" because of a "restructuring of the company." So I suppose people didn't quit fast enough this time, and they were forced to take over-staffing (which was entirely the company's own fault) into their own hands and "relieve" numerous senior employees of their duties, many of whom met the fairly arbitrary numbers set for the department, and actually got more work done on a day-to-day basis than employees who were kept.
Additionally, pay is an incredibly measly $12.00/hr. For a long time there were no opportunities for a raise, but now there is a "merit pay" system. Those who are eligible for a pay raise have "had their names put in," but have absolutely no concrete answer on whether or not they will receive a raise, or for how much. $12 is not enough to live off of in Orlando without overtime pay (more on that later).
Furthermore, those who are fired are not given notice (they are typically told in the middle of the day).
Massive amounts of overtime are instituted during the summer months. As in, working 50+ hours a week. This year, we were in overtime from May until November. The pay is not worth the time you spend away from home, especially if you have a long commute. After working 40 hours a week, you make time-and-a-half, which is $18.00/hr. However, if you have any paid holidays off, those days do not count toward the requirement. So, for instance, if you have a paid Monday off for July 4th, and work is busy and requires overtime, you may end up working an additional 8 hours of overtime during the week (10 hours per day), but NONE of that counts for the time-and-a-half rate. And believe me, EVERY opportunity this company has to pull that garbage, they absolutely will.
Absolutely no one who has been working here for longer than three months likes it. Everyone dreams of leaving this place for something better. It's just barely good enough to pay the bills and scrape by, but that's it. Communication is non-existent between management and departments. As an example, the CEO told the company that anyone can speak to anyone else when needed, but then certain managers insist that you speak only to them as a buffer, rather than speaking directly to who you need to speak to. Obviously this inhibits conflict resolution.
I cannot properly explain how much I hate this place. Today I watched six kind, hard-working people get fired for completely arbitrary reasons, entirely because upper management hired too many people. Rather than relieve people who legitimately got less work done, they chose to get rid of the veteran workers who carried the company on their backs when it mattered most.
I can't wait to leave this horrid place.
