Nepotism - Instrumentation Technician Transmission Dynamics Employee Review

Willing to hire a graduate.

The owner and their beliefs.

- Interesting projects to work on. - Good group of people to work with. - Company social events organised on a regular basis. - Not expected to do overtime except on rare occasions. - Good in house facilities for PCB assembly and mechanical component manufacture.

- CEO gets overly involved in all aspects of the business and doesn't trust his staff to do their jobs. No decisions are made without his involvement. - Management are either related to, or close family friends with the CEO and will not look out for their staff. They even criticise your work directly to the CEO without giving you a chance to defend yourself. - Unprofessional environment where CEO will humiliate staff in front of the rest of the company. - Management expect you to undertake tasks which you have no experience of with minimal training and do it perfectly. If you make any mistakes you are crucified in front of the CEO. - CEO will not respect you until you have learnt to do things in a way that he finds acceptable. His way is the only way and he will not entertain the opinions of others. - Inflexible working environment with fixed hours. - Health and safety not a primary concern. Non-electrically qualified staff carry out electrical work. CEO advises staff to tackle fires themselves. Improper safety precautions around the use of hazardous chemicals. - Job benefits are very basic, for example legal minimum pension contributions and holiday entitlement. - Company heavily reliant on knowledge stored in people rather than documentation and project management is poor/non-existent. - For approximately 70% of staff, TD is their first real job so they do not know any better from the above. - High staff turnover for such a small company. Yet no feedback is gathered from those who leave to improve the company for those who stay. - No formal Human Resources and no way to raise concerns anonymously without fear of retribution from senior management.