What Happened WellDyne? - Anonymous employee WellDyne Employee Review

Like I said before, at this point in the company's life, the cons outweigh the pros so much that my best advice to prospective employees is just to avoid this place like the plague. This is very unfortunate because when I first started working it was actually not bad. Morale was pretty good, everyone seemed happy, the office was busy and people generally wanted to be here. Nowadays if you take a look at it, it is a conpletely different scene. Morale is so bad at this point. A lot of people hate being here and hate working for a company that they feel is not treating them right. But how did WellDyne get like this? Like most cases, there isn't really one defineable reason. It's just a lot of little things. I'll detail some little things that generally seems to be dragging this place down. 1. Attendance policy. What a dumb policy. For real. I get the intention, everyone gets the intention of an attendance policy, but how are you going to give employees the defined benefit of sicks time that they can use when they are sick, but then punish them whenever they use it? "Oh, but it's not going to affect anyone that's not trying to abuse it". That's not true, I'll get written up if I use all of the sick time that has been given to me during the year. The kicker is that of you opt to use your vacation time in lieu of sick, you won't get dinged for taking that time off. Why is that? Because your vacation time gets paid out to you when your employment ends. That is so shady I don't even know how it got implemented. 2. Layoffs. People understand, layoffs are a part of business. They happen. It's not fun for anyone involved, but they are a business necessity. That being said, there are right ways and wrong ways of handling them. WellDyne chooses to handle them the wrong way. It is such a slap in the face to have some random executive officer fumble over some words about how great the company is doing in front of a crowd of employees that included people that were just told their last day would be in a week or two. And then of course they send out emails reminding everyone to make sure they attend the holiday party that's coming up! I'm sure all the top execs that made this decision all pat themselves on the back for saving the company whole bunches of money, but nobody ever stopped to think about offering any of them tranisitonal assistance on their way out the door or maybe even thank them for all of their effort while working here, or maybe even reassure those that were still left that everything was ok and doing a great job but nope all we got was "Yep, uh... company's doing good... Carry on". We have had quite a few people quit, some of them really good top quality employees, since these layoffs just because of the message that sent. 3. Goal setting. So every year companies typically set their goals and try to make plans on how to achieve them. At the beginning of this year they decided to bring everyone in to try and generate some ideas on how to accomplish these goals. Hands down the number one reaponse was to increase inter-departmental communication. Sr. Leadership told everyone they would stand behind that idea, they would send out frequent newsletters updating us on how close we are to our goals, how they were going to increase training, and so on. None of that happened. Literally none of it. We had maybe one or two newletters that came from marketing that lightly touch on the subject of the goals, but that's it. Nothing changed. 4. Strife within the company. There is a culture of "us vs. them" at WellDyne. It is at every level of the company, from the very bottom to the top. Unfortunately, it is not a healthy WellDyne vs. Competitor thing, it is a very unhealthy WellDyne vs. Another part of WellDyne thing. I have seen it between teams within a department, between two different departments, between two different business units, but the biggest by far is between the two locations. Colorado employees vs. Florida employees is the very foundation of necrotic thinking that is rotting this company, and it is very much supported by those at the top. The idea is that every CO employee is some whining, entitled country club member that has nothing better to do than complain about things rather than shutting up and coloring. On the flip side, every FL employee is either some uneducated person that doesn't know how to do their job, or is some backwards thinking top exec good old boy that doesn't do anything but socialize in their special breakroom. It's very unfortunate, but that is the kind of attitude that has been fostered for a really long time. 5. General stuff. The CEO used to do quarterly townhalls where he would talk about the business, where we were, where we are, and ideas for the future. We don't get that in the CO office anymore. They do in FL, but for some reason the only time we have seen him in about a year was at the holiday party where all he did was pull names out of a box for a gift drawing. He didn't address the layoffs, he didn't talk about the business, he didn't mention how hard we were all working or how much we were appreciated. It's pretty dissapointing, too because most everyone really looks up to him. We want and like to hear him speak. Having him around and engaging with employees is a morale booster. I think by now it's pretty apparent to the people in this office that both he and most the executive staff just don't care about this location anymore. There is also a revolving door at some departments, especially in the client servcies area. It's a bummer to see a new face come in, try and establish a working relationship with them, and then see them go within a matter of months. Every time. Yet somehow the leader over the department can hire their close friends into positions and keep them around for a very long time with no problems. Very strange, indeed. Similar with our member services department. We established the department in this location a few months ago and staffed it with about 10 or so employees. A few weeks ago the entire department just disappeared overnight. No explanation from anyone. Some of the execs in the CO office, the good ones that would always say hello in the hall or stop by your cube and ask you how your day was going, seemed to be voted off of executive island and "moved into a consulting role" with the company. Their offices were moved to the very back of the office where they can't be seen or heard from or "disturb the peace". Meanwhile the rest of the execs here are either constantly holed up in their offices where they won't be bothered or they are in FL and rarely come out this way because they don't "like" the Colorado employees. There are also some serious management issues going on throughout the company. Lower level managers are rarely trained on how to effectively handle issues so when something happens they start asking for support from the higher ups. Unfortunately it's pretty obvious they don't know how to effectively manage either, so we end up with broken systems, broken processes, miscommunications, and managers of all level pushing the blame downwards so that they can wash their hands clean. Oh, and I should also mention that the vast majority of positive reviews on this website for WellDyne are fake and placed there from the HR and the Marketing departments. This list, although lengthy and hopefully detailed enough to paint an accurate picture of the company, is definitely not exhaustive. There are many other issues that are hurting this company, some I am probably not even aware of.