Out with the old and in with the new - Office Related NZXT Employee Review

I would like to address the other review left yesterday (10/31/19) saying “employees still hold on to the past”. Most of my cons will give context on why we “hold on to the past”. I’m going to say “new upper management” a lot. This refers to senior level managers who have been with the company less than 1.5 years. I am calling them “new” because they were not really here to experience “the past”. - In the past, there was a low level manager that made a stupid mistake and upper management wanted to fire him. The CEO fought his hardest to keep them but ended up helping him find new work. Compare that to new upper management who decide to make a lower manager fire his entire department for “restructuring” purposes but will reassign him to spearhead the transition. The lower manager agrees and fires his department. A few weeks later they let go of that manager for no apparent reason in the middle of the transition, with no replacement. That really set the tone for us. Employees used to be valued, and now we’re treated as expendable. When they say “at will employment” it really is “at will”. - In the past, employees were rewarded for demonstrating our core values. We received gift cards if nominated by our peers. We did this for two years or so. In comes new upper management and we haven’t run this program again. There is no motivation for us to live the core values as our CEO wanted. - In the past we used to receive a lot more benefits. We would get snacks two to three times a week and have a lot of events. Since new upper management stepped in, snacks have been cut completely. There is maybe one event per month if we’re lucky, while we used to get two or three. While these benefits were small, they made employees happy. Cutting them dropped morale and was noticed by a lot of people. It’s pretty clear that whoever wrote that review is in “new upper management”. CEO brings up our low glassdoor ratings and we just so happen to receive a highly positive one on the same day, that low-key bashes the lower level employees complaining? Sorry, but that’s too big of a coincidence. Forgive us for holding onto the past – we were happier back then, had less drama, were valued, and worked harder to help the company however we could. Now most of us are just here to collect a paycheck. I suppose this is typical for the companies you worked in.