Controller - Controller Aelux Employee Review

Good work environment and friendly co-workers. Large investment in process improvement. Large growth in the lighting and retrofit divisions of WESCO in 2019 and beyond. No slow season. Pizza Fridays.

No slow season. Ping pong competition can be lacking.

They have a pretty good open door policy; and, the owners are willing to donate to philanthropic causes. You also get a free lunch everyday. The work environment can be enjoyable at times-especially when you are drinking together on Fri afternoons at the job.

At times management can be disorganized, misogynist, and use nepotism as a way of promotion; and, because of this it can be difficult to have business background appreciated. It is also difficult to work in a sales position, where one does not control the sale-you queue up the client, hope the appointment is conducted by an auditor, and then it is given to an Account Manager where the hopes is they submit a proposal and then close the sale. I was only paid on final proposals submitted to a client, and 1% of the final sale. While the Account Managers are great, they have their own sales agendas, so whatever was queued did not always match my priority with [their] priority. Because of the relatively meager base salary, one would hope that the commissions would be higher and more frequent. After formally giving my 3 week notice with the owner, the VP Sales and my former supervisor, I was subsequently fired-while home sick with the flu- the following day without notice. The way they fired me-and how I discovered I was fired-was my Google work password had been changed. I had to text and call my supervisor to find out what happened. The following Monday, I was instructed to come back to the office to collect my belongs-but wait outside, so they could be brought to me-and return the keys to the office. I did end up going in to speak to the controller about what steps I should take next. Other people who had left the company, prior to me, where able to stay out the full 2-3 weeks, and were paid their commissions. All the commissions I was promised to be paid for the month of January, I did not receive, and in fact when I e-mailed about that, my e-mail, phone calls and text messages were ignored.