- Management is disengaged from daily operations, yet explain how their decisions drive the company. They are out of touch and the things that need desperate attention are not addressed because they are less glamorous tasks and it's designated to new hires who are not familiar with the company.
- Ops chief, Kjiel, said in my interview that the most important asset to the company is the "Brand"... you know.... the white boxes that go on porches.... thats the most important asset to this company apparently.
....Needless to say, I was shocked at this answer because he blatantly does not give a care in the world about the people below him and the work they do, the profits they make, their time and lives they sacrifice to make someone money.
I clarified and asked, "what about your labor force? Do they not provide the company with the means of production, and therefore profits and growth?"
He said, "oh, I mean yeah that goes without saying....." but does it? Don't you need to say you value your labor that your exploiting? Or are we just past caring, and we go straight to exploitative white guy behavior? In fact, he was worried that I called him out and then he had the audacity to mansplain how they employ unskilled labor as a large part of their company's model to make sure they have the people they need to get the work accomplished, since, you know, it's not very safe and doesn't pay very well. He does not know what that work is, and when he called it "unskilled labor" I tasted metal. He shows up in flip flops to a location that recycles batteries and lightbulbs, moves pallets of recycled materials, and more.
He is an entitled brat who cost the company a good person, because I was going to work hard for Ridwell; I really, really wanted the job. How bad you ask? I went through 9 interviews in 4 months. I waited patiently as the start up asked me to. I canceled trips for interviews that lasted 9 minutes. They did not give me the time of day and I should have withdrew my interest - but I wanted to work in waste and I thought this model was very interesting and had a lot of potential.
I do not want to work for a man who would have claimed my work as his own, and we all worked/already work for one of these Princes. Well, Ridwell's Prince is Kjiel and this company has gone through more regional and operations managers than it had to. I was there for less than 2 months and I saw 3 regional/ops people leave this job. However, because Kjiel knows someone high up in the company, as the nepotism was physically dripping from his himbo hat (the 2020 equivalent of a trucker hat), this company will not do well in the future and management will continue to drop like flies. This Prince is out for his own gain, Ridwell should, well, get rid of him.
Also, this company does not hire from within. I know many people taht had worked there longer than a year and still do the same thing in the warehouse. They have not been given the opportunity to grow with the company bc the company is after money and they value these people soooo little that they keep them where they are bc their hands moving all day somehow is more important than the knowledge they have gained over the last year. Promote the people that know how your company works. What's so hard about that?
I'm grossed out by this company and you should be too.
