Concentration Camp - Manager Makita Employee Review

2.0
Feb 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good product and product training

Cons

Upper management could care less about sales staff! All they care about is their personal agenda. They just pile it on and expect you to go the extra mile for the company and does nothing to make sure employees are taken care of. Constantly looking over your shoulder to see if you’re getting stabbed in the back. Again upper management goes out their way to prove how you aren’t doing your job so they can get rid of you instead of training staff to succeed. The region I’m in needs some serious adjustments to the 2 main guys running the region. Turnover has been unreal and there’s more to come!

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Pros

- Great work/life balance. - Great teammembers (outside of IT management) - Near market pay. - Good health coverage. - Annual Christmas tool raffle/prizes. - Professional development/e-learning materials are provided. - Working in a beautiful and modern facility (clean and well-kept)

Cons

- Toxic motivation practices by IT management (threats of termination, frequent negative reinforcement, calling out a mistake in a large email group with the intent to embarass the employee rather than addressing it one-on-one, asking other employees their opinion about another employee that is late once what they think about the tardy), - Misleading employees about new opportunities that don't materialize. - Micromanagement practices (reviewing every support incident, reprimanding after a single Teams message sent during a lunch break), - No performance-based raises. - No bonuses (except an $85 gift card annually). - Little-to-no advancement opportunities (layoffs to reduce headcounts were performed in 2023). - Very minimal (almost non-existent) training and sparse knowledge base documentation for new hires. It is mostly sink or swim. - No performance metrics or SLA to determine employee performance. Performance is often measured by emotions and the personal relationship with management.

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