Supportive team with a great culture - Anonymous employee Unicard Employee Review

I've just read a load of reviews on here. If the wording doesn't totally give away the blatantly obvious fact that the only positive comments are made by the CEO and his sycophants, then I don't know what would! The staff at this company are truly great. Hard-working and conscientious. Unfortunately the vast majority are also suffering from stress, stress-related illness and being enormously overworked.

.... What keeps them going? Threats from the ceo - you'll be fired, you'll go on a performance review, I'llget rid of 50% of you. Crazed threats thrown around, in place of support. You name it, he's got it all. Toxic is not the word. It's a thoroughly abusive 'relationship '. Despite his best efforts at division, the staff form strong bonds. That's what happens when you treat everyone so poorly. Everyone is in fear each day.. 8 security cameras in the (not that big) office, he monitors the times when you access the building. ..God help you if you work from home on a Monday or Friday! Ceo definitely doesn't know the boundary between work and personal time. He genuinely couldn't give a sh*t. Even customers don't like him. The company 's reputation is increasingly poor within the industry . Such a shame. I feel sorry for the people left there.

Any pro's once enjoyed are long gone

Where to even begin? Since Unicard acquired the Ecebs business, they have rather quickly dismantled the great talent within the organisation and drove them off to much better opportunities. When all of your benefits are stripped away and working hours increased at no extra pay - is a new coffee machine in the kitchen really the answer? Pretty sure that was just for the CEO's benefit anyways, for the odd time he might pop in and actually communicate to his newly acquired staff (if they're lucky). Employees might be more understanding of difficult times for the business if you actually fostered an environment of collaboration and good morale. Instead the CEO's management solution was to tell us we're the problem, to question anything is viewed as out of line and arrogant - expect some form of repercussion from the CEO for this, until he's told by HR he's not actually allowed to hand out warnings on a whim. He'll have no problem ridiculing you openly in meetings though, as seen during an all hands when a senior member of staff's presentation seemed to waste his time - that time was better used to play YouTube clips of old presidential speeches (we all cringed). Employees are not valued at this company - the East Kilbride office dropping from almost 50 employees to less than 10 in the space of a year should be warning enough. Experience, talent or a love for what you do is irrelevant - it will not be rewarded at this company, so if you do choose to work here, don't bother bringing any of that. This is all without mentioning the reckless nature with which the company began handing out redundancies, very little justification or thought process to the roles they targeted. Consultation meetings were meaningless, when the HR staff member conducting your consultations meetings has actually handed in their notice - you kind of have to laugh. The CEO decided a holiday was much needed during this stressful time - so any questions you might have about the future of your career is just directed to the managers, who themselves are at risk, or the new area manager who hasn't been provided with any meaningful information. I enjoyed many years at the East Kilbride office before Unicard acquired it, my colleagues were brilliant and very rarely did anyone leave the business - until Unicard took over. It was a relief to hand my notice in. Abysmal employee retention, an arrogant manchild CEO (who seems to have made a couple of fake GlassDoor accounts to try and bring the star rating up). No direction, communication or basic respect with staff - why would you want to work here?