A great concept with poor management is not the best grounds of success. The traveling consultants are easily the greatest assets of the company. There have been many successful projects and it is due mainly to the consultants. The CEO micromanages everything and uses negative reinforcement to motivate employees. This creates a really low morale on project teams and its hard to be productive as the CEO who has no clue on what's going on the project tries to force tasks that don't have any bearing on the project. These tasks are time wasting and adds additional stress as the team must complete them or be insulted for not trying hard enough. The employees of this company are excellent, intelligent, and great engineers. However, they are all treated like dirt and as expendable resources and there are no true opportunities to move up as the company is just too small.
Failed promises. The CEO never delivers on promises. Whether its to the clients or to the employees. The central mantra of any consulting company is to under-promise and over-deliver. For MPC its always over-promise and under-deliver. In conversations with the employee, CEO keeps promising new projects, huge opportunities, the end of lack of projects every single year. And never has those promises come true. Business is stagnant and projects trickle in once every in a while. Simple things like payments and reimbursements are also delayed because of the lack of projects and its hard to work for a company when simple promises are not being fulfilled.
Travel is not for everyone. The travel schedule for MPC is too much. There is just not enough rest to be gained from week to week. Its hard to spend quality time with loved ones and the tolls of travel does eventually weigh people down.
