VBA Reviews

Two mass layoffs in six months and zero acknowledgment or remorse from leadership for this past one. Our CEO openly laughed and joked around in the meeting addressing the “new opportunities”… which is insane by the way. These were our colleagues and our friends, have some class. Then instead of being adults and communicating the path forward, the new “leadership” pushed forward unsustainable and costly unresearched options in a quest to automate our roles in ways that are sure to cause a slew of issues going forward. Despite being so strapped for cash, however, they did manage to hire on a bunch of Spectrum cronies and get a new office - good luck and enjoy your empty space where you can ask yourselves why the rest of your employees who kept this ship afloat left. I honestly am so disappointed in the selfish egotistical incompetence I’ve witnessed in the past few weeks and I hope no one touches this product ever again.

3 months ago I wouldn’t have any cons but this serves as your warning. After the Private Equity “majority transaction” the morals have changed SO much. They have begun mass terminations (considering the employee count it is a large amount) and have “eliminated positions” even though the responsibilities and projects are still active. This isn’t exact language but the investors have boasted about how they will cut costs by laying off employees so they can just hire staff that they can pay lower wages to and then exploit the lower paid staff by demanding they meet whatever quotas set or face being fired. (This was actually stated to employees) Leadership also bragged to employees about how much they were getting from the buyout (payouts with 6-7 zeros). Despite how much money the company AND leadership personally received, the company decided to withhold <$2,000 in earned commissions even though earned commissions are WAGES. After a ton of back and forth with emails that detail how they don’t value employees anymore, they said they would pay the sum of the earned wages - but they would only do so as severance. That would require I sign a severance agreement which would also release them from all sorts of liability and it would sign off on a nondisparagement clause. Eventually I did receive my full pay but only when I said “I wanna give a heads up that I am going to file my complaint since I am sure you will receive something in the mail regarding that. Just want to make sure I alert you so you aren’t surprised”. Once I left that message I was able to receive my commissions. I don’t fault HR at all, BTW. This is 100% coming from certain leadership and HR and other departmental heads involved in payroll are stuck in the middle and try to do everything they can to be fair to staff.