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Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives

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Toxic outdated culture - Graphic Designer Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives Employee Review

1.0
9 Aug 2024
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Pros

Free food, slightly better pay than some other places

Cons

Management and HR style is more reactive than proactive, constantly fighting fires and blaming bottom level employees for them instead of recognizing internal problems and preparing solutions either before or after they occur. This results in situations such as 6 out of 8 positions on a team being replaced within a two year span. Constructive criticism or feedback is responded to with threats or simply getting rid of employees and attempting to cover it up. This is heavily reflected by the annual review packet that is a preemptive PIP to ensure management can do this no matter what, but even if that itself is perfect they will make something up if someone doesnt like you. The pay is slightly more than maybe the next job, but required for them to retain the people that do stay because the toxic work culture is evident almost immediately from the top down. Keep in mind, companies can retract benefits in the future even if they promise them. Also for clarity, they own plants and lobby against green energy, doing the bare minimum requirements enacted by the government.

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5.0
3 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Salary is competitive, benefits are excellent, free parking and even free food! People are all very nice.

Cons

On site work required 4 days a week?

2.0
2 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The mission of co-ops is noble, co-op staffs around the state are great to work with, lineman training school excellent, workforce development offerings plentiful, engineering team, CEO are experts and professional, statewide service teams outside safety are toxic environments leadership refuses to address

Cons

-leaders don’t address favoritism, creates monster employees, narcissistic bullies, who exclude, target new, good people who don’t submit to them and management/HR turn blind eye to it all; causes revolving door; loss of good employees -middle managers not supported -resistant to change needed for future success -not one diversity hire in the place; no black employees is very odd -lots of wolves in sheep’s clothing and HR doesn’t protect the lambs -unwritten policies you’re supposed to follow -male dominant organization, particularly in leadership, female employees disproportionately terminated

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