Toxic Environment - Finance Clean Harbors Employee Review

1.0
12 Jan 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There are really good people who care about the job they do and are doing the best they can with what they are given.

Cons

This truly is the most toxic and dysfunctional environment I've ever worked. It's an environment that stifles creativity and does not foster innovation or new ideas. As a result, they are constantly reacting and not being proactive. You have various departments trying to cover themselves and blaming other departments when something goes wrong rather than accepting responsibility and working towards a solution. This all trickles from the top down. Leadership only wants to be told what they want to hear and as a result things keep running the same way despite serious red flags on compliance, health and safety & human resource issues. Employees are seen as a means to an end rather than valuable resources. This is shown in the cutting of 401K match, lack of raises and constant increase of health benefit costs.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
19 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

Terrible compensation policies. On a national scale the pay is well below average. Worked there for 15 years and received just two 6 % raises. Received a ‘retainment raise’ of 6%. This rendered me not eligible for the across the board executive 6% raises 6 months later. Had an HR approved goal for a nice bonus. Met it. HR approves 50%. The goal they approved was ‘not a big enough goal.’ Terrible work environment. Horrible really. Your productivity is based on your ‘active’ computer stroke time. No care to what you accomplish. If you fall below their ‘expected’ 90 % productivity you are on the chopping block. Yes..,, 2 very competent employees were let go for that in my tenure. Never mind that their job responsibilities included visiting job sites and monitoring compliance. Another coworker was let go due to a survey HR conducted. This employee was a compliance monitor and the survey was done with employees who were the subjects of the tallying of their compliance. I could go on for pages and pages…bottom line clean harbors cares nothing about their employees nothing about the environment and will bend any rule for profit. And if you are in a compliance role and your work to keep the company in compliance costs the company money you’re fired.

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