Extremely Toxic - Distribution Makita Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Well known power tools mainly

Cons

Makita USA no doubt is the pinnacle of corrupt and toxic corporate environment. The company has one major account, without this account Makita USA will fold. The upper management is totally out of touch, manage by intimidations, cussing and yelling., “ too weak and childish” narrow visions as they make decisions based on gossips, and he said/ she said, way too emotional and irrational. Employees are overworked and the stress is extremely high, therefore the staff turnover is so high, and the company’s door is a revolving door, entry level employees will leave as soon as they get some experience to add to their resumes. When you walk into any office or DC then you can see from employees face expressions how miserable and unhappy they are, the company doesn’t care about employees at all, they think that they are doing employees a favor by giving them work. All general managers are coming from Japan, and Makita Japan changes them every few years, they are very inefficient when it comes to establishing work process and accomplishing tasks as they try to compensate by working six days a week and 18 hours a day.

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Cons

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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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