-Chaotic and disorganized work environment with a leadership team that relies heavily on micromanagement and scapegoating to get "results": Supervisors constantly treat you like a child with no sense of time management and want to monitor your productivity while failing to lead by example themselves. You will be blamed for their shortcomings and will be expected to work harder to make up for something that isn't your problem. There is no standardized training in effect either, which means product and job knowledge isn't retained or passed on well for new hires once someone with experience leaves their position. Any changes or proposals to your established duties are always ordered without your input taken into consideration. -Low pay and bare minimum benefits: Unless you work in a sales or supervisory role the most you'll make is maybe $23-24 an hour, which is well below the cost of living in the Bay Area and hardly a competitive wage when adjusted for inflation. Benefits are also very poor with high premiums that will reduce your paycheck considerably even if you are only signing up just for the bare minimum of having medical coverage. -High turnover rate: Few staff stay in the same department let alone the company as a whole for very long. We lost two sales managers back to back on very short notice and had at least 10+ people leave voluntarily or involuntarily in less than a year. At one point we lost our entire scheduling department due to some of the reasons I highlighted above. -Cheap "incentives": The company held a morale meeting after having everyone complete an anonymous survey about what could be improved. Many of us agreed that the wages were simply not high enough for us to feel motivated to work harder than we already were so the company proposed giving us performance-based incentive bonuses in the amount of $300 if we met our monthly ordering goal. In practice this became almost unobtainable due to how many obstacles management threw in our way of achieving this, from raising the monthly goal to unreasonable amounts to literally preventing us from ordering due to conflicting priorities and needing to "share the love" if we were deemed to be over performing with our ordering. -Toxic work environment: Management will resort to gaslighting their own employees if they are not performing well financially. This happened on numerous occasions and has worked to the company's own detriment by eating its own. If customers were cancelling sales or the company's manufacturers were constantly dropping the ball on project timelines, management would consistently criticize the project coordinators and put pressure on everyone to pick up the slack. This undue stress would manifest across the company with at least two incidents where staff would conduct themselves unprofessionally and cuss in front of everyone else (one of these almost resulted in a fistfight). -Nepotism and a failing business model: Although this is a family-owned company it is no different than the cold corporations it tries to favorably stand out from. Greed, incompetence and favoritism exist here just as much as any corporate workplace. The current CEO and his sons are not as respected here as they may think they are. Many of the glowing reviews you'll find online about this company are from pissed off customers who the CEO personally contacted in order to persuade them to give the company a higher rating.
