Kind of a Mess - Anonymous employee Gorton's Employee Review

Lack of vision and strategy - there really is not one, and if they ever set one, they change it only months later. Lack of business and marketing know-how or rigor ... leading to excuses about why performance is poor, weak "strategies", and business declines. Employees do not try to improve themselves or the business, the company seems stuck in a rut, people just show up to collect a paycheck. Over time, they have been beaten down by management that new ideas and sticking your neck out are not appreciated and can even backfire. So people end up doing the bare minimum and playing politics instead. Top management is not transparent and does not seem to hold themselves accountable for poor business performance. They also do not communicate well with each other, and often times bad-talk each other at an unprofessional level. Zero training. The only thing you learn on the job is how Gorton's has been doing things forever - if anyone even attempts to try to teach you something - which is usually not the right way or up to par with the rest of the industry. And then management does not give employees job assignments to stretch themselves and learn something new; rather, they put them in their little box of what they came in knowing and are good at doing, and that's it. Lack of upward mobility. They do not like promoting people.