Penn Power Group Reviews

2.2

27% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)

Justin Jacobi

46% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Penn Power Group has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Penn Power Group employee rating is 40% below average for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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64 reviews
1.0
5 Apr 2023

New Corporate Management Destroying the Company & Treats Employees Poorly

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Unfortunately, there aren't any pros left to working for this company.

Cons

New Corporate Management has destroyed a once solid and decent company to work for. There was a more recent merger with the Fleet Services side of the business and we've had something like 8 new CEO's in the past 10 years. The newest upper management (apparently here to stay) has attempted to re-structure the company and has badly dropped the ball on ALL leadership aspects. They have pushed out all of the loyal, long-term, tenured employees. There currently is and will continue to be a high turnover rate of new employees until upper management can learn to stop putting profits before people. There have been many changes over the past couple years, including a catastrophic level failure to launch a new software platform. Frankly, management has their heads up their as*es too much to see the forest through the trees or recognize how badly they're actually destroying the company. And i don't think that they care, either.... just as long as they're managing to line their own pockets. There will continue to be high employee turnover, and due to that, there will be an inability to manage and keep most of our long-term customers and our biggest key accounts will also quickly wise up and leave. We're already watching it happen in real time. The entirety of the sales team quit within the past 6 months and any new hires in every department are not receiving adequate training. The only person left who knows the ins and outs of the company and software (which is extremely antiquated/ prehistoric ICS/ IBM software from the 80's) is basically the person who helped to build this company from the ground up nearly 30 years ago. This somebody is mainly the only resource that management has for everything to do with training and how the company works, yet they threaten his livelihood and step on him, don't give him the credit, recognition or respect that he deserves for his hard work and loyalty, and irreplaceable value he adds to the company. If this guy leaves, the company will definitely tank. There's no saving it. Yet, he is not being treated fairly or with any respect just like everyone below a certain title/ pay grade. Upper management uses him to their advantage and he is not being respected for his value. They've basically chewed him up and spat him out. This type of treatment is across the board for all employees - treating everyone like they're disposable and not actually listening to them, stripping away any positive aspects of work at all. They forced all administrative/ clerical staff to go back to work in the office for no good reason, even though we haven't received adequate pay, nor any adequate increases to account for the inflation and cost of living...and we've communicated this to them, that it's ruining us financially (on top of the toxic work environment). They have made it clear that they don't care about us. Over and over and over. Some of the hardest working, smartest, best employees and assets to the company have already quit and the rest of us that are left are on our way out.

1.0
14 Nov 2018

Worst Of the Worst!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Managed some good Techs that truly cared!

Cons

Penn’s HR is the worst I have ever worked with in 30 years! HR management is part of Penn’s issue. Penn Power has VPs that have NOT a clue how to manage remote service locations. No direction what so ever! No SOP in place! Totally shoot from the hip management! Penn Generator makes the money. The on Highway division needs to shut the doors and re-group with all new upper management. Never knew Penn’s reputation was that bad when I accepted the position. Glad to have moved on…

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Penn Power Group Response
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First, I would like to apologize for our tardy response. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the comments above and respond in the most sincere manner. Thank you for taking the time to write this review and we are sorry that your career plans didn't work out here at Penn. We do wish you the best of luck in finding the environment that you are looking for in a company. We are working hard to maintain a culture where employees feel empowered and valued. We believe that all feedback, good and bad, is valuable and allows us to continue to grow as an organization. As a company that has been operating, profitably, on all sides of the business, for over 50 years, it is important for us to continue to find ways to improve. We sure do have many techs here at Penn that are passionate and truly care about their jobs and we value their worth immensely. Our leadership is comprised of some of the best and the brightest in the industry. They are consistently focused on processes and policies as well as finding ways to improve all the processes and policies we do have in place. Above all, we value our customers first- internal and external. We realize that sometimes the HR team has to tell folks things they don't want to hear. The department combined has 60 years of experience under them and understand that sometimes they won't please everyone, but they sure do their best to invest in relationships and find win-win solutions. Thank you again for speaking up and we wish you the best in your next venture!
1.0
8 Sept 2015

My experience here was awful.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary, shop employees are very nice. Not much else I can say except if you are willing to go through three interviews, a drug screen, physical, and background check, make sure you have savings due to a mercurial workplace.

Cons

Negative corporate culture, unable to accept those with differences, be they physical, cultural, or educational. Management makes decisions on hearsay and not actual events they have observed. Slow to hire, quick to fire. No compassion. Very unprofessional. Poor HR communications, are unwilling to consider two sides of a situation before taking action. Extremely high employee turnover.

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