Poor management - Anonymous employee Ecolab Employee Review

1.0
Jun 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I believe Doug Baker made a tremendous move acquiring Nalco. Nalco is reputable but the old Ecolab is a complete mess

Cons

Pest division is in chaos and would not recommend joining that division. They are looking back to 15 years ago when they grew and did not have same situations as today. Competitors have far superior knowledge. Ecolab believes that spending money on training to performing same overpriced service will make things great. They have multiple states that are a complete mess and it will be a matter of time before many more customers cancel service because the knowledge and experience are leaving the company as soon as they can. They created a segment to audit large food plants . Good idea but their software is outdated by ten years. Not to mention that the employees are burnt out. Too bad that they have good people but treat them poorly

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

The pros are four day work week 10 hour days, with many Fridays volunteer overtime They try to make a friendly environment

Cons

The pay is not as good as the other places around the area – odd for a fortune 200 company Daily quotas on work – some of them are unrealistic Many department supervisors – a.k.a. “coaches “ are pretty good – one or two are not. Typically these are the ones that have been there for 25 years plus. 20 minute break in the morning, 20 minute break for lunch 10 minute break in the afternoon You are truly on your feet for majority of the 10 hour day The corporation tries to make a friendly environment, but very few employees involve themselves in it. Much backstabbing among line workforce, not a healthy environment. Line workforce runs to supervisors constantly about other people when they should be concerned about their own work. Management has their favorites and you could see that by who who they talk to, and who Brown noses them

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