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Garrets International

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A good company with some very bad apples tainting the cider supply. - Systems Administrator Garrets International Employee Review

3.0
24 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Close to the station & lots of local services. Modern office and facilities. Double screen computer setups. Competitive salaries and contract benefits, including pension, overtime and health. Free food: fruit and breakfast. Free parking paid for by company. Professional development & great experience within the various job roles of the company. Several make your day members of staff within the company & many lovely individuals who deserve recognition for being blazing pillars of morality & empathy within the company. People with best qualities are promoted and find positions outside of the operations department within the company.

Cons

If you’re a basic societal conformist with a lacking moral set and complete lack of any fundamental values, then there’s a group of people in the operations department for you, similar issues with specific members of staff elsewhere in the company. Supervisors who verbally abuse senior members of staff get promoted and face virtually no repercussions for behaviour they’d be terminated for on the spot in other companies as well as carrying on affairs with other members of their department and other supervisors in other departments, 2 such incidents, one causing massive issues with the company function with no repercussions for either supervisor. Members of staff who blame others for their mistakes and loudly talk about them within earshot and engage in everything from departmental bullying to throwing people under the bus despite being responsible for said mistakes and behaviour. Supervisors actively encourage this sort of behaviour and regularly take sides as well as engaging in, covering up and providing excuses for people in the company who have been there for years who behave atrociously and lose the company tens of thousands of pounds from not doing their jobs properly. Another situation where a large proportion of the operations department were complicit in the bullying of a new member of staff, which the supervisors moved rapidly to cover up. Behaviour on all sides of the company that is undesirable fostering a spirit of non cooperation between departments and even members of teams within departments. Seems to be a rampant sexualised environment that you do not expect in a corporate environment, multiple affairs and new intakes being spoken about in derogatory manners by people old enough to know better, some with young children and partners or both. One of the rudest and most difficult members of staff in the operations department was chosen to present company training on empathy and respect to the rest of the company despite being part of the problem with the department exhibiting such moral qualities within the workplace. Huge conflict between the proposed company values and actual practicality of what goes on in the company. CEO who won’t even look you in the eye let alone your general direction when you’re talking to him in his office, so a complete lack of basic respect at times from upper management structure. Commercial department didn’t sell the new system upgrade to the clients properly which ended in severe issues with the rollout, fleets leaving because of it and months of work done and undone two or three times over because things had not been thought about and explained properly prior to implementing, basic level staff clean this mess up and deal with the complexities of the situation whilst rarely receiving acknowledgment or rewards for facing such adversity, caused by situations completely out of their hands, but then face the blame for it. Upper management retaining huge bonuses and mod con benefits whilst the workforce who are the company break their backs bending over double to have kpis set that are unobtainable and have to wait months for the board to decide how much money to strip from their bonuses, that are so low that when paid it’s all taken in tax which makes the whole premise of bonuses for basic level workers redundant. Breeding ground for mental health and general health issues if you’re there for too long and succumb to the stress of the job and the degenerates you’re made to work with whom you’d avoid completely in day to day life through choice.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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