Terrible District Management, company without direction
Pros
-IF your location can can get to a certain volume level you have the potential to make some money. It’s all based on the volume. -managing your own time -I enjoy many of the workers, but be prepared for the opposite extreme at times. -the majority of the people at the branch level and at corporate are amazing people. -the company was so much better years ago.
Cons
-New district management is terrible, uses fear to attempt to drive behavior, not sales driven, manipulative, seems Like a used car salesman who can’t sell. Very much a “yes sir” person and expects the same from his subordinates, ideas are not welcomed, critiques are punished. I have never seen someone destroy a positive culture in as little time as this person. 4 of the 5 branch managers are actively job searching And most just started within a few months. -At a corporate level they seem lost and unwilling to see it. Marketing (what little there is, produced by a third party company) is not effective and the dollars that are there are mis-allocated by a third party agency. There doesn’t seem to be a priority or initiative toward top line or bottom line growth, and what initiatives are presented are done so short term and with desperation. -Almost zero recruitment tools. In order to bill we have to have to possess workers. Having only three outside venue options to post on (indeed, Facebook, Craigslist) is cutting your nose off to spite your face. We are just opening the doors and hoping people will walk in off the street. -LW has become incredibly unstable over the last year. investments into a long term failing market stunted a focus on top line growth within the rest of the company, And facing a 40%-50% loss over LY on overall revenue company wide is the result. What could have been invested to help the rest of the markets succeed and grow was diverted to a black hole. No investments, no local marketing campaigns, No lower margin approaches to potential high volume clients. Margin expectations are close to double what many of our competitors operate at, makes closing accounts incredibly non-competitive.