Nepotism and lack of professionalism - Anonymous employee Cowan Systems Employee Review

2.0
1 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good company to gain experience on how a company should not be run. A chance to learn about process failures, management shortcomings, and favoritism, and use this to compare with future employers.

Cons

If you're related to senior management, you have a career for life. If you're related to senior management, you're allowed to be unprofessional, condescending, arrogant and bombastic. HR is a paper dept that holds no water. You can't fault them, because there's a lot of integrity there, however, when issues are brought up to VPs, it falls on deaf ears. The humiliation of employees (belittling and yelling on the floor), the unprofessionalism of management (displaying badges of fired employees like a trophy case), and the total blindness and disregard of senior management to allow, promote, and reward these actions are an HR nightmare.

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Cowan Systems Response
7y
Dear Anonymous, My name is Dan Evans, I like to start there because everyone has a name and everyone should feel comfortable expressing his/her beliefs and feelings. I write this message to anyone that has an issue or problem at Cowan as someone that can and will enact change when necessary. Our people made us one of the most successful Transportation and Logistics companies in the world and our people will continue to drive our success. I have recently taken over the HR responsibilities in the organization and offer anyone that has a question or complaint about Cowan my name and my word that they have a voice and place to air any grievance. Cowan is a place where we hold each other accountable and I welcome any opportunity to improve our organization.

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Cowan Systems Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. Comments like yours enable us to continue to improve, so we appreciate your honest feedback. Please reach out to HR@cowansystems.com if there is anything we could do to assist.
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