StarTech.com Reviews

Recent layoffs have really put things in a new perspective. Understandable that things had to change, but most other companies try to weather the storm by either looking for government assistance for wages, or taking a 10% wage cut across the company with a 30% wage cut for Executives, but that wasn't done here. Putting 20% of your company on "temporary layoff" for up to 35 weeks after a month of above average sales revenue and a couple of weeks of below average sales is a pretty quick and rash decision. To see the number of employees that have 5-15 years of tenure at the organization just put out of a job with no payout of vacation or severance is horrible. It really looks like a lot of these employees were laid off due to their long term employment and the fact that they would be up for a large severance package, so the decision was made to remove them by "temporarily" laying them off. Nobody will be able to weather a 35 week layoff with no pay and only getting CERB or EI to compensate. This looks like letting people go hoping that they will find another job and just go away so that there is no payout of severance which would save the company thousands of dollars. No loyalty to those that stuck with the company over the tough years and spoke so highly of the company over those times. It's doubtful that any of the tenured employees would be comfortable in returning to a company that so quickly discarded them when times got difficult. At least pay them out!

- since the arrival of the new president there is a decidedly anti-worker approach from upper management (some form of time-tracking for all employees) - unethical management (there have been cases where they hire two people for the same job, unbeknownst to those employees, and the 'lesser' of the two is fired after a short time) - micro-management is rampant throughout the company (good people who have brought the company to where it is have severe restrictions on their roles) - too many mid-level managers who bring nothing to the table (this ties in with the point above) - a severe lack of expertise in some areas (particularly in IT and Marketing) - have a clear preference for outside hires - outsourcing is commonplace - title upgrades are withheld for deserving employees out of fear it might give them an advantage when job hunting - strict department dividing lines, this breeds politics, finger-pointing, and breakdowns in communication - very stressful, with little work to show for it - everything is just unnecessarily chaotic