IT'S ALL WHO YOU KNOW - Anonymous employee American Tire Distributors Employee Review

People get promoted based on who they know. It’s ALL politics. Communication doesn’t exist throughout the company, or even in departments. Managers only care about themselves and apparently everybody has a ‘director’s’ title. Some of these titles are made-up and downright laughable. Some managers aren’t even on-site, and hardly know the people they supervise. They give you either vague or no objectives, bury you with other people’s work (due to layoffs) and then tell you during your evaluation that those ‘objectives’ aren’t being met and that you aren’t measuring up when you can barely keep your head above water from juggling so many projects. What’s interesting is that management won’t tell you any of these problems during the various meetings you have with them over the course of the year, however at evaluation time, suddenly there’s a problem. Of course the real reason for downgrading people’s performance is so they can justify not giving raises. I don’t understand why management feels the need to crap on the same people that are basically keeping the lights on. But they continue to overlook good/smart people, burn them out and eventually rehire. It’s a revolving door and management is too clueless/arrogant to see the problem.