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Electric Utility Consultants

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Electric Utility Consultants Reviews

2.2

26% would recommend to a friend

(129 total reviews)

Laxmi Mrig

26% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Electric Utility Consultants has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 129 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Electric Utility Consultants employee rating is 41% below average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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129 reviews
1.0
7 Feb 2014

Degrading, deflating, frustrating.

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Pros

You can make good contacts in the power industry. Covered parking. (Which they take out of your paycheck even if you choose to ride public transportation)

Cons

The mission statement at the front door should read "Beatings will continue until morale improves." It appears the few people who have lasted more than a couple years have been verbally and mentally abused into submission. The turnover rate is unlike anything I have ever seen. Ever. It truly is a revolving door. They are only looking for warm bodies that can make them money. There is no future outlook other than how much can you make me today, tomorrow and next week. They have burned many bridges in the industry with speakers and hotels and have a very poor reputation among their peers. I have never experienced such horrible micro-management. There have been occasions when they will corner you in the kitchen, hallway, and bathroom asking for event updates. You will also need to report your progress on a word document, then upload and repeat your update on the company server and then sit through painful, degrading weekly/daily meetings to repeat it all again. You will do this several times a week because you answer to the husband, the wife and occasionally the daughter (aka the CONo). Unfortunately, it will never be enough for them. Everything is reactive and suggestions for improvement are not welcome. I have witnessed someone being asked to make certain calls which they did, and then they were reprimanded for doing so in the middle of the kitchen. They talk out both sides of their mouth. They say you can go to outside conferences for professional development and then they will turn nasty when you ask to do so. They will nickel and dime you at every turn. You are expected to fly on your own time such as weekends, work long hours and will constantly be told that is the position and there is no flex time policy to make up for all your time away from your family. They have flown multiple producers back into DIA in the middle of the night in a Blizzard in order to avoid paying for one extra night at the conference hotel. They would never do this themselves or force their daughter to this. But as an employee your only value is being their cash cow. The daughter is rude, aloof, and impossible to work with. Her title is COO and she forgot to turn in payroll. She doesn’t answer your emails and is exceptionally unprofessional. The good news is she leaves early every day. On the occasion the parents were out of the country and sent an email that she was in charge, she didn’t even show up for two days. Watch your profit share and PTO. They will adjust it themselves. The environment is horrible and every person there walks on egg shells around the three family members. Not one person is truly happy and they discuss it daily among themselves. It became so clear after numerous years that they do not care about their employees.

2.0
12 Aug 2014

A sinking ship

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Pros

I really enjoyed working with the majority of the staff. They were easy to talk to and work with. I also liked the opportunity to travel for work as well.

Cons

There is a clear Orwellian element at EUCI. Second, the higher ups are not willing to listen to the rest of the staff. In their minds, they believe "This is how we do things and we do not want you messing it up with your ideas/questions/grievances." Third, the Conference Directors are pressured to churn out a large amount of events. As a result, there have been multiple sub-par events that are sparsely attended or had to cancel.

2.0
10 Apr 2014
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Pros

Coworkers are all really great to work with. If salaried, the PTO is decent and not hard to use if you need to. Great way to build contacts in the industry.

Cons

Revolving door. Except for a few die-hards (and not including the family), I watched most of the company turn over. Employees discuss how unhappy they are behind the backs of management. From what I've heard 10 people have left over the past few months. One person relayed to me that the CEO has asked staff on more than one occasion to justify their continued employment. Innovation is actively discouraged (very much a mentality of "this is the way we've always done things, why would we do it differently?"-even if the staff has demonstrated on multiple occasions that it doesn't work). No advancement possible and no active concern for things that will make your job easier and you more productive. You'll constantly have to do things that are outside of your job description and make your bottom line responsibility of bringing in revenue to the company more of a challenge. Then they will question why you didn't meet those goals. There is no room for renegotiating them based on current factors. There is no HR person/department. God forbid you have a personal issue or perhaps an issue with a colleague - it will not be kept private, the entire family will be informed. If you have an issue with management, you're completely SOL. Thank you's are rare and even more rarely sincere. I was told on more than one occasion to do something and then when I completed the task, asked why I did it as they had said not to. Constant clarification is in order. People also aren't trusted to do their jobs. Long term employees (several years) still have to send in a daily accomplishment log and will be questioned if it's deemed "not enough" (there are only 20-25 employees and multiple automatic reporting tools that report similar information).

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