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Granite Telecommunications

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Granite Telecommunications reviews

3.0

45% would recommend to a friend

(1,405 total reviews)
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Rob Hale Jr.

59% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Granite Telecommunications has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,405 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Granite Telecommunications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Oct 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

-Not a catch 22 situation getting hired -Young friendly workers -Looks and feels like a real job -Building (Quincy HQ) is very nice

Cons

Department: Structured Cabling Services "Inside Wire" "IW" -The pay range my recruiter described for post-temp was significantly lower than what I heard from perm employees. My temp pay was $14 (about $28K/year). I heard everyone got $16-$17 ($32-34K) upon becoming permanent. -Three days in I told my supervisor I had a commitment four weeks later and she said OK in front of someone. Then later she pulled me into a empty room and started a conversation she ended with "Temps don't get vacation days" -My training was just watching multiple people in my department do their jobs. They had the same same work load as usual so there was only so much they could do without affecting their daily stats (which are public). -While probing employees through casual conversation everyone used words like "stepping stone" and "first job" indicating that not many people stick around there. No one I talked to had been there for two years. -I looked up some of my co-workers on Facebook to try and gauge if they were living quality lives. Too many people had profile pictures of themselves in the office -My recruiter (Randstad Professionals) was an extremely smooth criminal. Ex - changing salary after I canceled other interviews, saying multiple temps aren't competing for the same job, and etc. So how did it end? Friday third week in, everything seemed to be going well. I was at my own desk with my own work starting to make friends with people in my department. I noticed three new TBA temps on the daily stats email and was actually kind of excited there would be other new people filling out the empty cubicles around me. I took a call at 4:58pm and got caught up in something until 5:20pm. Before going home my supervisor told me "temps don't get overtime" because that 20 minutes would have put me over 40 hours for the week. As I'm walking out the door my iPhone rings and my recruiter tells me "they've decided not to extend your contract" but has no specific reason why. My recruiters been so shady up to this point that I decided to go ask my supervisor if I'm fired because it makes so little sense. She says my stats weren't high enough. I had been saving the stats emails and when I start talking numbers she stutters a little and things start to get weird. She gives me an awkward handshake and says "good luck". Then I walk out more confused and shocked than I've possibly ever been in my life. I still think there was more to my termination than they told me. Like maybe the three new temps on the roster. You can take your chances with this company but at least read every one of these reviews first.

1.0
Apr 18, 2014

Joke! Do not go in! It's a trap! Work if you need quick money...that's it!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free gym. Hour lunch. Nice location

Cons

2 sales reps got into a fist fight...yes a fight at work. It was over one of their girlfriend's that worked in a different dept. They were told by upper management to "cool out" and they were allowed to come back to work because they are "heavy hitters." Upper management threatens and swears at you if you dare leave on your scheduled time of department. The training is the worst I have ever seen. You have to figure everything out for yourself. No wonder the turnover rate is high! Only thing that is free here is water..no coffee, tea, plates...nothing

1.0
Jan 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very charitable company, new gym, young people, good looking guys, free parking

Cons

Work starts at 8am and if you come in at 8:01 that means you are late and looked down upon as if you have just committed a felony. You are allowed two 10 minute breaks, but don't you even think about taking those breaks! Your lunch break is at 12noon and everyone runs down like loose dogs who haven't eaten in days because just like in high school you have to wait for the bell to ring so that you can eat and take your break. Even though you're an adult you still get treated like a child. Monday morning meetings are a time when senior management takes the opportunity to make fun of everyone lower than them and telling people that they will get left behind if they don't work harder for the new LOWERED commission rate. The cafeteria food is expensive and tastes like plastic. Some Premier reps are slow at understanding anything about their accounts and the projects they delegate to Premier support. The training is a joke and many of the account managers don't know how to explain things. Make sure you repeat after them exactly what they say to you and watch them tell you that you are wrong...Highly stressful environment as everyone who works there takes the job a little too seriously even though its a dead end with no opportunities for promotion. If you are hired for Premier all you will do is copy and paste...copy and paste...copy and paste from 8am-5pm. Good luck trying to stay awake and you better do because the COO does his ghostly walks around checking up on everyone making sure people are doing their homework.

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