Poor management, lack of follow through, lack of leadership at the department level. They have policies for everything but only follow them when it is convenient. Management gives you tasks to perform then actively blocks you from being able to perform them. Nepotism is rampant in this company. There is no work life balance. There were many days when I worked a full shift, got a call about an outage and spent another 10 hours on a bridge call I really did not need to be on, slept for an hour or two then had to go back to work.
They will not lay anyone off. My position was eliminated but rather than offering me another position of simply laying me off I was fired for a first offense of putting the wrong date on a document which was only seen by my direct supervisor. I put the 14th on a memo I sent my manager but it was actually the 15th. Apparently, it looked like I was trying to backdate the document which translated to "dishonesty in my paperwork". After firing me, my position was advertised on one job search site for 7 days than the posting was quietly taken down and the position was never filled. I saw several "unpopular" employees purposely setup for failure to give managers a reason to fire them in the year I worked for this company. My manager actually bragged about how he had planted evidence to get a network Ops technician he did not like fired.
