Pros
1. hourly pay means OT opportunities, can work weekends for extra pay or vacation time if you want 2. opportunity to travel 3. diversity hiring better than some. 4. advancement opportunities are there due to small size of company and high turnover. 5. benefits are comprehensive and pretty generous 6. weekend work is minimized
Cons
1. extremely understaffed 2. poor pay - not scaled and pay rises are very small or not at all. not scaled to area either. openly hiring people at higher pay while refusing bonus to staff currently working. 3. high staff turnover. 4. poor culture, passive aggressive style, large focus on negatives. 5. low morale, including managers 6. hiring processes slow and seems to favor fact they are paying out less for a few months while they look for someone 7. very old fashioned, slow to change attitudes and process, everything on paper. 8. managers micromanage and not allowed to improve staff, often involved in day to day too much as understaffed. 9. advancement very linear, set up is so lean that opportunities are not varied. 10. OT not optional and is really frequent- 8:30 (very strict start) - 6;30pm or later is usual. Too much OT and you are seen as not being efficient, plus costing company more. 11. cannot take vacation if someone else in team is out. this is strictly enforced and includes when managers and drivers are off. 12. little to no training. no planning around this at all, no check in with managers to see how it’s going. 13. knowledge is all remembered / learnt, apart from 1 typed manual. meaning a)hard to learn, b)non standard process c)when busy, things get missed and then it takes more time to get ahead of. 14. zero data capture of metrics- means make the same mistakes over and over, and have no ability to back up any sort of company direction, or pinpoint areas of improvement, or catch pending fires. 15. No personal phone lines: phone rings constantly and inefficient hand overs from whoever picks up the phone first.