Top leadership hurting organization - District Manager Aramark Employee Review

1.0
May 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Local team and what we collectively achieve together. Without our local teams, there would be no core Aramark.

Cons

Senior leadership is a complete mess, providing useless, unworkable tools and dated programs and initiatives that fail to help clients or workers or drive their initiaitives. Greed by senior leadership has stripped value and assets at the expensive of employees and long term company viability. Borderline and questionable tactics towards clients and employees by upper management result in lost opportunities and contracts. Ethically questionable senior leadership. Executive leade ship from region heads on up filled with persons not qualified for role based on prior experience or successes, creating a talent and business vacuum, hence continued gaps between our organization and competitors. Senior leadership repeatedly lies or plays shell games regarding bonuses and retirement plans. Separate sets of business practices and demands for various clients, if it means propping up Aramark finances. Charlatain leadership from top down. Regional level management (Vice Presidents and finctinal roles) unresponsive to needs of clients and teams, all just trying to stretch the charade they are perpetrating one day longer. So much is put on low level managers by Operations Excellence teams who usually are unqualified for their roles, that customer and client needs cannot be served, all at the expense of the contract.Failed to pay bi yes per employee employment contracts in 2018.

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5.0
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Pros

great culture, room for growth

Cons

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2.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Travel opportunities. Former corporate management was extremely supportive and good to work with. Free food. Free drama.

Cons

Work life balance. Don’t be a mother to young children if you want to work here. Verbal communication vs. what you get in an email will be contradictory….the gaslighting was unbelievable. Digital metric systems put in place by new corporate management has taken all the creativity and actual management out of the job. Will be mad at you if you don’t make the numbers they want to see, but will provide zero guidance on how best to do so. Hours were extremely long in order to complete all job responsibilities. New upper management is inflexible to specific account needs. Each account is different. HR does not help you - they protect the company. If you need to terminate an employee - they make it impossible.

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