Major Management Shortcomings - Buyer Western Paper Distributors Employee Review

Most senior management has been there 10+ years and is complacent in what it requires to make a position attractive and viable long-term to the up and coming work force. Most of the people who stay are older, the under 40 crowd has high turn over because the uppers withhold basic work place benefits that are common in todays Covid world. Unhealthy and unhelpful communication between managers, seniors and junior staff is common place. Most positions are completely remote friendly and yet flexibility of schedule and permission to work remote is all left up to department managers. If you’re unlucky enough to be in fulfillment you will be denied remote work despite 3 other people in that department working remote and the daily job being entirely suited for remote. This is all left up to the department managers because their managers don’t want to be bothered with the actual people management part of the business so a lot of great workers filter through and don’t stay because of arbitrary rules such as this. They are not transparent about salary on all job postings so they offer each applicant a different amount. I was offered almost 10k more than the next hire in my department with similar experience level and at the end of the day we are all doing the same job. Open communication between management and underlings is not open and encouraged and in my case I was punished for speaking out. My senior buyer shunned me for my last 2 weeks at this company because I spoke up about issues I was having and ask to work remote. I would not recommend this work place in its current “culture”.