No raises or promotions - Anonymous employee Ascend Performance Materials Employee Review

- 0 bonus for achieving about 50% EBITDA through a pandemic and 600 forced OT outage hours in Q4. Salaried employees were given a cheap plastic frame of a clip art Christmas tree as a thank you. - Senior plant management team promotes kids instead of finding decent candidates - Management does not want to be challenged by employees with technical experience - Vindictive management culture of blaming employees after management fails to do their homework on recommendations