No - Anonymous employee Ben E. Keith Employee Review

1.0
7 Jan 2015
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Pros

The new office is very nice. I have nothing positive to add other than that.

Cons

I worked in the new Hou location. Drivers and warehouse are worked to the bone while office staff act like immature brats. Mgmt throws weight around, which is one of the biggest indicators to me they feel threatened. Lots of people are hired that are incompetent for their roles, simply b/c they knew someone. It's a "good ol boy" organization. Work life balance is not great - I was made to feel guilty because I could not attend a non-work party at someone's house. I was actually harassed as to why I was not able to attend. It was weird. The vibe is cult-like. Lots of people use others and then don't thank them for helping...they just take all the credit. I was yelled at by my manager but they didn't see there was a witness. They were terrified of that manager after what they saw.I have never been treated so poorly in the workplace. The new office needs lots of guidance.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

There was always food. They catered food in constantly from their customers for different events. Fridays they would have free doughnuts in office. They had great coffee machines, and always gave away free beer. Nice offices downtown and most of the employees are really nice people.

Cons

There was a lack of leadership in the part of the downtown Fort Worth offices in the tech area. A lot of changes and no one seemed to know what they were doing. The leadership at the downtown office did not know much about the technology and was trying to implement a new application that nearly wiped out the entire Fort Worth branch because they chose to pay a third world company millions of dollars to develop something that the employees that they had in office could have completed with half the hassle and most likely half the price. But the leadership team does not know enough about the technology they are trying to implement to know what they have in front of them. I saw many good programmers leave or get forced out by the use of performance plans with unrealistic expectations. We had a guy that could write code in 5 different languages. he learned PHP just for this job, then when upper management decided they were going to use the third world company to write the code for their sales application, they put him on an employee performance plan and kept changing the goals to get off of the plan, which eventually led to his termination. They are also falling behind technologically, still using COBOL and JCL when they should have upgraded systems years ago. All of the programmers are older and have either been there forever or are contractors because they can not keep new employees. As a programmer I would suggest looking elsewhere unless you like COBOL. Then this place may be right for you.

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