Toxic Politics and Unfair Treatment to Staff - Manager Colgate-Palmolive Employee Review

2.0
1 July 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits and interesting industry

Cons

Toxic management in Asian team continuously playing politics and putting employees jobs at risk to gain their own agenda. Colgate favours internal employees who have stayed with company for years opposed to bringing fresh talent but this only leads to managers with lack of leadership experience and who micromanage. Unfair treatment of employees as lack of credit given where it is due and management claiming credit for themselves. Internally structure is so bad and slow with a lot of unwillingness to change but yet will blame new employees for not fitting in or understanding the business. Horrible and worse experience ever exacerbated by the most inexperienced manager who never listened to the team, continuously gaslighting and with absolutely no social skills and protected by HR. Forget career growth as there is little to none. Practices diversity in US but diversity is lacking in Asia.

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Cons

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Pros

Good fringe benefits. Above average insurance.

Cons

Very toxic work environment. Company promotes work life balance however meetings are scheduled during lunch and at 5:00pm. People are made to stand in daily plant meetings, no chairs in the rooms. Particularly hard on shop floor staff who work 12hr shifts. I NEVER had time to take a lunch hour the entire time I worked there. Phone calls at home daily/nightly(middle of the night) and almost every day every weekend as OTLs are poorly trained. Company promotes inclusion however Americans are bullied particularly by hispanics within the company. Company touts multiculturalism but does no training on dealing with other cultures. Entire plant Planning staff turned over in less than 2 years. Very stressful work environment cause by high-school like drama by LT. Managers are routinely put in PEP for issues months after they occur. No support whatsoever from Planning manager, HR or Leadership Team. Training is ALL online, when asked LT for help with SAP questions...response was to GOOGLE it. Direct manager was initially a STA with major inflated sense of self. Final manager was novice at managing people and very childish. Again, very toxic work environment overall.

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