Niagara Bottling reviews

The work environment felt highly competitive and political, more dog-eat-dog. The Kool Aid was strong. There were team members who moved up fast not entirely on merit or skills. Office politics and favoritism were prevalent. Morale was low with direct manager who encouraged minimal collaboration. Leadership was mostly reactive and could’ve done a better job with project planning. They often shared important details last minute but still expected perfect results. Executive Leadership didn't seem to have the best interest of the team members, spending on unnecessary expenses like sponsoring a non-student athlete, hosting an expensive leadership summit and hiring top artists Snoop Dog and Diplo for an extravagant holiday party, right after a major layoff in HQ. This sent the wrong message like cutting costs wasn’t really the priority, except when it came to cutting team members. If other billion-dollar companies found creative ways to retain the teams members without resorting to layoffs, why couldn’t Executive Leadership at Niagara do the same by leading this "Next 24 Cents" initiative?

- Rampant Nepotism - Double Standards to the MAX! - hiring the wrong talent and paying them over market. the Solution when they can't do their job, is to spread the work/responsibilities to other TM's (and not increase those manager's comp to take on the other TM's shortcomings). TM = Team member - Gender and workload inequeties within the same team and job leveling across the org (I was HQ based, not as sure on the MFG side) - Toxic team environments or "kool-aide" teams (the teams that are drinking the NIA kool-aide) - micro managing and Clueless leadership - hiring too many very junior people - senior leadership blocking team members from making a job change