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Canadian Direct Insurance

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Bipolar Workplace, No Kudos, Constant Pressure to do more and more with less. - Insurance Advisor Canadian Direct Insurance Employee Review

1.0
2 Dec 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefit Package. Nice physical office space. Nice downtown location.

Cons

Senior Manager completely opposite in personality at interview and when working. No care about how a person may be doing if ill, experiencing a diffculty. Micromanaged to the point that they watch the expressions on employees faces during meetings and will call you into a private meeting if they don't like what they perceive. Several months of delay in informing about certain errors and in the time period from the first of such errors to when you are notified, more of the same errors have occurred and then you are called into a meeting and berated. One of the assistant managers is extremely moody. All smiles and happiness one day and snapping at people the next for no discernible reason. Managers at all levels play favorites. Suddenly a person that was below you in the workplace hierarchy is a supervisor and your superior. Meetings scheduled during the workday for all staff and breaks are taken away because of them. Meetings scheduled during lunch breaks, with lunch provided, but the time for the working lunch is unpaid because they scheduled it during lunch times. Feedback that is not 100% positve is not tolerated. A lot of pop-culture bandwagonning: uses "colors" to slot workers into personality types.

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2.0
27 Jan 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

An opportunity to work, learn, receive your license accreditation.

Cons

Management just doesn't seem to listen to their "top talent" in the industry, that's why there's a huge turn-over of good employees. The pay isn't good and it should keep up to par with the rest of the companies out there! Benefits package is a good deal but people need more...

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2.0
17 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It was a great company to work for, team was great and lots of good benefits. Not too many pros after the change over to Intact.

Cons

Was purchased by Intact corp. and benefits suck and it's very corporate and large so not my type of place. If you are the corporate drone type have fun there. They seem to thrive in swallowing smaller companies and metabolizing them and assimilating sometimes great places and making them average to below average. Corporatism at it's worst.

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