Hopefully Glassdoor lets me write them all out. First off the upper management doesn’t know how to manage its employees, the company or its direction. They are over obsessed with Ai relying on it to do everything from employee reviews to completely closing up its communications team. The management has implemented a tracking software as well as a new “initiative” that requires every employee to manually document what they are doing and how it aligns with the companies goals in 15 minute increments every day every 15 minutes. Let’s hope it fails before it comes to my department. The entire company is talking about it behind upper managements back and the company is failing because of it. Production is down and people are just upset. Time to name names. Joe Vega thinks he’s a visionary. His only vision is tunnel. He looks inward at his employees as untrustworthy unloyal servants who need to be micromanaged in order to suck every last cent out of them until they quit or his company is bleeding so much money that they have to do another round of layoffs where they let go of 30% of the company. Chris Pels came into this company where we were having great numbers, morale was high and the company provided a wonderful environment for passion and openness. He has turned it into a “don’t trust Hr”, big brother is watching you environment where it’s the employees against the management. He seems to have stepped into the COO position which is strange from someone with a background in non profit HR. He’s unable to grasp what a for profit company HR is supposed to look like and it clearly shows as the company has fallen apart on his watch. Ken Garland If he’s around still the employees don’t see it. Let’s get back to the obsession with tracking and micromanagement. It started with the tracking software which tracks your every move , every click and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s taking images of you and your computer. At first it was labeled as a self tool to better yourself and your work. It quickly turned into a tool for Joe and Chris to sit there and spend all day panning over minute details and asking every employee why they went to a certain site or why they spent so much time on a certain application. The latest and greatest Lovingly initiative is the 15 min manual tracker. As if tracking our actual work wasn’t enough they now require each employee to Manually go into a google doc and every 15 mins put in what exactly they are doing, what project it relates to, what company initiative it aligns with (not sure we have company initiatives since they have canceled the last 4 all staff meetings… last thing you want to do in a prison is get all the inmates together in one room), how hard it was for you, did you work with other people,how much of the task you completed and additional notes. And you have to do this for every 15 mins of work. I have seen a screen shot of it and it looks ridiculous. Hearing from other employee it’s taking HOURS a day to complete to upper management’s satisfaction The company is failing and Ken and Joe along side Chris don’t know how to correct course. They are blaming their employees, blaming their work ethic and their efficiency. They have done nothing to expand the business to new markets, grow its user base, or even keep current shops satisfied.
