Great People; Terrible Management/Communication skills - Anonymous employee Airgas Employee Review

2.0
7 Oct 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people. The people are great. Decent Benefits. Airgas isn't know for how well it pays it's people, but overall compensation is fair.

Cons

Like I said, the people are great until you start getting into Management. Upper management is too concerned with covering their butts (or kissing the right ones) to care/listen about/to their employees. One Area VP in particular doesn't know crap about management and rules by imitating those below him. The rotating presidents was a joke. The longest tenured of the 3 was by far the worst; but at least he didn't care. The next one, cared, but he didn't understand what he was doing. I think that's actually a much scarier combination. The current Pres. is pretty good; but like the culture dictates, if you're not "in", then your out (and will be treated accordingly.)

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