Two words to describe working at Edco: soul sucking. This company is wrought with horrible management practices, as well as unqualified leaders. The few that know what they are doing, try to do the best they can for the employees they supervise, but they are fighting an uphill battle. I was privileged to be a “favorite” of my supervisors, so my experience wasn’t nearly as harrowing as a lot of my fellow employees. I left the company in good standing after over 2 years, so this is not a retaliatory review. That being said, I had a severe amount of anxiety working in such an unbalanced environment. I watched rampant favoritism, willful ignorance, and just plain stupidity run the review floor. Upper management is so far removed from what their reviewers are doing, that any time they decide to implement a new rule or practice, it’s a nightmare for the review floor. They are out of touch with what is going on, trusting that the people they have running the floor have things under control. Unfortunately, if you’re not friends with a supervisor you run the risk of being treated as a second class citizen. Painfully obvious breaking of rules and regulations get ignored as long as they like you, and if they don’t—watch out. Any perceived slight against one of them is enough for them to find a way to fire you, be it suddenly raising metrics, changing corrective action practices, or just saying you’re “too difficult to work with”. There is always a feeling of helplessness since things don’t seem to ever change for the better. While the work itself is challenging and fun, the job is almost unbearable because of the leaders they have put in place. They have very bad judgement in the people they promote; the less you do, the more they seem to like you. They bring on new hires at higher rates than people that have worked there for YEARS. They trust that they have everyone so afraid to talk about what they make, no one will notice the fact that their pay scale is severely skewed to new employees. They don’t give enough merit based raises (they hardly give any at all), and they seem to only give you a raise if you fight with HR that someone who has a lower status than you gets paid more. There are so many issues, I could write pages. But I will stop my rant here. I will miss some of my fellow employees, and a couple of supervisors, but I hope I never have to darken that door ever again.
