Kiewit came in to buy our employer around 2021, maybe 2022? A lot of of us knew this was bad news for us in the back offices. However, Kiewit told us that we “had nothing to worry about“, and our “…jobs aren’t going anywhere.”. Fast forward almost 2 years after the financial acquisition, there were mass firings since they had used us up and no longer needed our insight. During this time, they did fire a Finance employee who apparently, according to the employee, was not meeting weekly standards – however, we were working on a brand new ERP platform and were ensured we would be given some time to get up to speed and learn the layout of the land. This promised, brief patience was not provided, and that employee was fired, to suffer with no job as they were the sole income of their household. Kiewit and the finance managers who came in from Omaha treated us like cattle. I’m disappointed in the previous owners for how they handled the last 2 years of ownership, and how they just lied to their workforce.., some who had been with the company working diligently for them for decades. Kiewit stripped any character, personality, and enjoyability from the workplace. These days, I hear that if you act like a robot, you will keep your job at Kiewit. It’s sad, that is what the workplace has devolved to. Kiewit also worked some employees to the bone, without fair compensation so they could get their ducks in a row before firing said employees.
Oh, and during HR training about Kiewits “culture”, and to “teach” us about them, the trainer told us there’s a long history of “hook-ups” Kiewit. He even showed us a blurred out inappropriate text that one coworker sent another, and the coworker was sitting on company owned equipment. The trainer did not express that the hookup culture and colleague relations was inappropriate. It was pretty gross.
