Calor Gas reviews about "colleague"

Shambles, calor fails to deliver any sort of care or attention to its colleagues who put in their limited time to improve the terrible mess the management have given to them. Calor never addresses the welfare of its is employees, while promoting a great place to work campaign. Constantly feeding lies regarding work load, management would rather pressure its existing colleague basis to maximise any productivity and act shocked when people are driven out the door. The minimum salary you are presented along with ridiculous expectations of targets make this one of the worst places I have worked. The base pay does not cover enough of what you will be expected to complete. Prepare to be given two full time jobs for one lousy pay packet. Calor fails to show any remorse when challenged on mental health and will never fail to show you an external like to words on paper advice. Your careers move will only be limited to your existing role with no encouragement to be driven further into the brand and to better yourself. If the face fits environment entirely.

Good colleagues, always ready to offer help

I could list more cons than pros, and definitely there are areas that need considerable room for improvement within customer engineering. Management / Team Leaders who haven't a clue how to actually manage therefore set unrealistic expectations for certain tasks for projects to be completed, its honestly laughable, get out of your teams meetings and get stuck in. Short staffed, this results in overall employee stress levels to be very high and has a knock on effect on moral within the department. Pay - another con, but will make you feel like your paid well because your given the title of 'customer engineering coordinator' when in reality the tasks we do are that of project coordinators and we should be paid minimum 30k. Job prospects, there aren't any and I can not wait to move on. When i first started Calor felt like a healthy environment, but in general it is definitely not a progressive forward thinking company that feels youthful, young and sustainable, i think its a matter of time before the whole of customer engineering becomes void. if you want to work somewhere where you will get progression and a feeling of fulfilment in your career , Calor is not the place to be. Picks and choses when they want to focus on health and safety.

Workload and working hours Poor work environment

No strategy/No Accountability Constant Change - no guarantee of building a career All eggs in one basket with digital transformation project Senior management incompetent and behave like they don't want to be there Facilities (terminals and centres) are neglected and some are in appalling condition - lack of investment Lack of resources to get product to market

Lots of restructure and change, wanting to do more with less

No stock, no training, higher management don’t have a clue

An honest impression of my 2.5 years at Calor Gas: Nepotism - At least 5 instances of parent/child preference at the site which only had between 30-50 staff depending on time of year so roughly 25%. This is not including a further 3 instances I was aware of at head office. Nepotism was frowned on for staff but apparently not for managers. Favouritism - Certain colleagues were given favours or preferential treatment for no apparent reason which negatively affected the morale and work quality of many teams. Any query or challenge to this was shut down immediately, including by HR. My attempts to address this and receive a response took over 12 months with no serious formal response by line managers or HR. Bullying - The general atmosphere was tense, antagonistic and overly critical of tiny things when the big picture or day to day tasks were neglected in favour of witch hunts to ensure blame for any problems never went up, only down. Authority - I've never seen a company so obsessed with authority or hierarchy as Calor Gas. There are way to many managers and most are totally clueless. But they are a protected species at Calor Gas so it's heavily implied and even threatened in writing to never question or approach certain people as they are apparently exalted. Management at every level seemed determined to fulfil the following requirements: 1. Resistance to constructive feedback 2. Poor emotional regulation 3. Micromanagement 4. Unhealthy boundaries 5. Unreasonable expectations 6. Intimidation or threatening behaviour 7. Failure to develop team members 8. Unpredictable/inconsistent behaviour 9. Taking credit without recognising the team 10. Lack of empathy As I was a Manging Director for 5 years at a company covering a larger area than Calor Gas, in the time I spent dancing through hoops at Calor Gas, I would have been happy with only 5 of the existing staff members to be within shouting distance of my company. It's my belief that as the company is so small in number of employees, it's very easy for certain people to arrange favours and be in position to affect or block change when it does or doesn't suit them. I can only guess the purpose of this is to climb the ladder but given it's a tiny company, I don't understand the excessive lengths they go to. It's essentially corporate corruption at a tiny scale but still deadly. On that note, while I pride myself on being able to work under difficult, stressful and challenging circumstances, the final straw for me was when the Logistics Manager took a very casual approach to the death of a member of the public caused by a traffic accident with a Calor vehicle. Regardless of how that happened, using one sentence to express remorse in vague corporate language in the middle of an email about how we all needed to forget about it and focus on reaching targets instead is appalling to me. I remain ashamed to have stayed as long as I did.