shocking management - Anonymous employee Fredon Employee Review

1.0
30 May 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of my work colleagues were really great people, intelligent, helpful and down to earth. I couldn’t ask for better people to work with and I have a lot of respect for them. The coffee machine was good. That’s about where it stops.

Cons

I have never seen such awful incompetent and inexperienced managers as I have seen here. Some so chokingly traditional that suffocate all good things and ideas that happen here. Eg. one is a complete rude bully living in the un-political correctness of the 1990’s another a young immature military plebe who thinks all money is disposable income regularly showing off weekly expensive purchases has extreme tunnel vision and thinks being a manager is making all men your best friend. Not management material at all and clearly not trained to be in these positions on financial matters, effective communication or anything managerial for that matter, Including job timeframes where management sit on jobs till the last minute then explode it onto staff to do immediately which leads to work being completed in haste and not to the standard it should be. Short cuts have to be taken to finish on time and the end result unprofessional with all standards thrown out the window. There is no communication between the managers and team members at all. Management do not lower themselves to talk to the staff in regards to resourcing, hence have no idea on what the staff is doing or working on at any given time. Staff here have to be self-managing and self-directing and most of the time aren’t doing a great deal and are waiting around for management to allocate work which never comes. Yet management assume everyone is busy, then go and hire contractors to do work. So a complete waste of money, time and un-utilised in-house staff. Staff are never informed of any futures work, contracts or changes and are completely kept in the dark. Even on changes and events that effect employees' directly. People just know when it happens without warning.

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Salary on time You can have your space

Cons

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Cons

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