My biggest two gripes during my tenure with Veolia are, first, as a project manager I was not able to hire my own staff. This caused issues down the line, as I was responsible for the program at our customer site, but was unable to choose who my staff would be. To be fair, my management, mostly hired and sent great people to our site, which I had the honor of managing, but there was a tense situation created due to a staffing problem. I wish I had the trust/flexibility to make my own hiring decisions.
Second, I wish the training opportunities were a bit more robust. I do not mean the actual hazardous waste/OSHA trainings that were provided by the company-- the safety culture at Veolia is excellent and they spend a lot of time/resources on making sure their employees are trained in safe in this regard. I mean other trainings. For example, as a project manager I would have loved to receive project management trainings, a pathway to a PMP certification, or training on the use of PM software. I asked about this pretty often and it never materialized. I probably should have been a squeakier wheel, but I wish these trainings were more widely offered in a career development aspect.
