Greenwashed toxicity - Anonymous employee Harvie Employee Review

Previously known as Small Farm Central, Harvie began by providing good and inexpensive software solutions for small farmers to run their businesses and CSAs. For some reason, ownership decided instead to leverage the technical dependence and customer data against the farms against them "for their own good" by inserting Harvie as the provider to the end consumer rather than the software vendor of the farm. Thus, every stated purpose of a successful 8-10 year run of a well-loved company was thrown out the window for gouging the very people they purport to be helping. Employees are treated no better: a crushing workload where unpaid overtime is essential and an abusive and hostile environment for people suckered in to thinking they are doing good in the world. Business models and major decisions are in a constant state of flux to reach unrealistic goals. Their middle-man approach forces higher prices to consumers, smaller return to producers who must now compete directly against one another in the same Harvie marketplace, or in the case of prepared foods, compete against Harvie itself. It's a heartbreaking drain-circling race to the bottom where it seems the inevitable conclusion is selling the customer data out to a larger provider, again easily stepping away from any purported company mission other than enriching owner-management.