Alpha Natural Resources Reviews

All the Alpha management that made the company great before the Massey acquisition have retired or been pushed out by Massey people, with the exception of Crutchfield, who seems to be clueless. Now they are laying off all the people that do the actual work, but not trimming middle management. They have VPs and directors making big-city money with managers that manage no one reporting to them. The managers that do have people reporting to them are puppets, with no input to the directors on who is useful and who isn't, and the directors do not concern themselves with who or how the work is done, and there is no review process in place to justify your value to the company.

If you accept a position at Alpha Natural Resources in the current environment you must realize that it is only a temporary position. This is because about every 2-3 quarters for the past couple of years there have been layoffs and reorganizations/restructuring occurring. The culture is completely broken. The PR campaign about "Running Right" talks about always doing the right thing morally and ethically and "treating others the way you want to be treated" is not even the tiniest bit truthful about the reality of the atmosphere. Entrenched company politics make it near impossible to experience any kind of career growth unless you are in the good social graces of specific members of management.