unfair place to work, racist and favoritism oriented - Database Administrator Duke Energy Employee Review

1.0
27 Aug 2013
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Pros

if you have the ability to butter your way up, this is a perfect place for you.

Cons

hmm let me see.... all my comments below obviously does not apply to all the people in management. also, it only applied to the IT part of the company. I have heard the other sectors of the company are very good. there are few, very few, actually very very few people in the IT part of duke energy that the below points do not apply to. 1.Racist 2.Unfair 3.Favoritism oriented 4.Just painful office politics. 5.Communist 6.pathetic 7.stupid management 8.stupid management selecting stupid successors for them 9.unequal work distribution 10.incorrect performance appraisal, since performance appraisal depends on how much do you kiss your manager's you know what. it really does not matter how good the quality of your abilities are. your education does not matter. your experience does not matter. your knowledge does not matter. if you dont know how to play the butt kissing game, you will bleed here. actually people of color dont even bother to work in the IT sector headed by AR Mullinax.

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Cons

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