Run, Don't Walk - Anonymous employee Wilson Tool International Employee Review

Almost no one hired at the manager (and above) level from outside the company sticks around for long, especially if they have the misfortune of reporting to the President, who has extraordinarily poor management and social skills. (The high level of management turnover should be a red flag, but the CEO doesn’t deal with it, so the President keeps his job.) The President’s bullying, rude, weird, vindictive, and often irrational behavior makes him highly disliked. He is also unable to delegate to let qualified professionals do the jobs they were hired to do. After they get fed up with his terrible management and leave, senior roles go unfilled or are eventually “filled” by lower-level employees without the skills for the job, but who fall in line with whatever the President wants. The cult(ure) is myopic, paternalistic, and unprofessional. They are living in the past and afraid of change. New ideas are unwelcome and considered threatening, and those who dare to introduce them are punished accordingly. Employees are treated like children, and the infantile behavior exhibited by some is not only tolerated but rewarded by senior leaders. The dysfunction starts at the top and trickles down. Neither the CEO nor the President (as well as several other employees) have ever worked anywhere else, so they have no idea how strange and abnormal the environment is. In their delusional state, they think they are outstanding – they proudly call it “The Wilson Way” (this is not made up). Though they like to tout how much they value employees, when profit margins are even slightly threatened, they are quick to reduce pay and/or lay off employees. Departments other than engineering and manufacturing are not valued, so the only employees with any hope of career growth are engineers (though even their prospects are quite limited). When you look at it, all of this results in a toxic environment with little to no growth or innovation, and no plans to turn it around. If you want to work at a progressive, growing company where your talents and ideas will be valued (and you want to keep your sanity)…run, don’t walk from this backwards place.