"Doom Loop" - Procurement Analyst Orica Employee Review

1.0
18 May 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The 'diversity campaign' has brought in much wider variety of incompetents than previous iterations. With no experience you can land a position far, far above your capabilities. You can work in a rural setting with an on-site parking lot radar operator & senior vp. Great co-workers.

Cons

Management at Watkins is spectacularly atrocious. A Nordstrom's suit and pompadour haircut will gets you tree years to vacillate, waffle and fold while impersonating a manager. Nice guy, though. Demonstrate that you can cause yourself grievous bodily harm on a bicycle - more than once - than certainly you're management material! Be a bi-polar micro-manager, that'll do nicely. Harrumph harrumph!!! Safety, quality, and customer service are #1, until it costs money, then well 'there's no budget.' Cube life - The Importants have offices, you get a cube, so they can count your hours and attendance. Also, lurch over on crutches to change directions for the 75th time on 'important initiatives' and berate you for lack of progress. Travel bans every year, annual restructuring, chronic turnover at all points below vp. Good-ol-boy/cult religion cronyism. Inconsistent salary structure, raises, bonuses - jobs that get 'appointments' that never got posted for employees. Embarrassing IT infrastructure, decades behind. Willfully neglected rolling stock, maintenance deferrals and replacement schedule extensions. Bonus - nah, not for you, and percentage lowered by email, with no recourse.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Global leader in segment, safety procedures, and values.

Cons

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