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5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:54AM
5 worst companies to work for in America
http://money.msn.com/investing/worst-companies-to-work-for-in-2013-1
Issues such as low wages, lousy benefits, job insecurity & crummy management make employees at these places the most miserable, according to reviews.
Based on ratings by their own employees, these 5 companies employ some of most unhappy workers in the United States.
Toil and trouble
Jobs website Glassdoor has a good read on which companies make their employees miserable.
The website hosts employee reviews and uses those opinions to score companies on a scale of one to five, with five representing the best places to work and one the worst.
The average score was 3.2 for the more than 250,000 companies rated this year. Nine publicly traded companies received scores of 2.5 or lower. (Only companies that garnered a minimum of 300 employee reviews were considered for this report).
Not surprisingly, employees most often complained on Glassdoor about low wages and lousy benefits. Among the least happy with their workplace were low-paid workers whose jobs required them to interact with customers -- notably, sales representatives, customer-service agents and technicians.
Hassles with middle management were a constant source of frustration among the workers who posted reviews on Glassdoor. Among the most frequent complaints: managers who micro-manage, treat underlings like children or make extreme demands.
Not that senior management fared much better: The average chief executive at companies scored by Glassdoor received a 69% approval rating. On the low end, Bill Dillard, chief executive at department store chain Dillard's (DDS), has the approval of 23% of company employees, according to Glassdoor, while Sears (SHLD) CEO Eddie Lampert has the approval of just 19% of his company's workers.
Job insecurity is another source of frustration expressed on Glassdoor, as employees fret about management's ability (or willingness) to keep the company competitive.
Click ahead in this slide show, published July 24, for a look at five of the companies with the unhappiest workers. Then head over to 24/7 Wall St. to see four more companies and read the complete report.
http://money.msn.com/investing/worst-companies-to-work-for-in-2013-1
Issues such as low wages, lousy benefits, job insecurity & crummy management make employees at these places the most miserable, according to reviews.
Based on ratings by their own employees, these 5 companies employ some of most unhappy workers in the United States.
Toil and trouble
Jobs website Glassdoor has a good read on which companies make their employees miserable.
The website hosts employee reviews and uses those opinions to score companies on a scale of one to five, with five representing the best places to work and one the worst.
The average score was 3.2 for the more than 250,000 companies rated this year. Nine publicly traded companies received scores of 2.5 or lower. (Only companies that garnered a minimum of 300 employee reviews were considered for this report).
Not surprisingly, employees most often complained on Glassdoor about low wages and lousy benefits. Among the least happy with their workplace were low-paid workers whose jobs required them to interact with customers -- notably, sales representatives, customer-service agents and technicians.
Hassles with middle management were a constant source of frustration among the workers who posted reviews on Glassdoor. Among the most frequent complaints: managers who micro-manage, treat underlings like children or make extreme demands.
Not that senior management fared much better: The average chief executive at companies scored by Glassdoor received a 69% approval rating. On the low end, Bill Dillard, chief executive at department store chain Dillard's (DDS), has the approval of 23% of company employees, according to Glassdoor, while Sears (SHLD) CEO Eddie Lampert has the approval of just 19% of his company's workers.
Job insecurity is another source of frustration expressed on Glassdoor, as employees fret about management's ability (or willingness) to keep the company competitive.
Click ahead in this slide show, published July 24, for a look at five of the companies with the unhappiest workers. Then head over to 24/7 Wall St. to see four more companies and read the complete report.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:54AM
No. 5: RadioShack
Rating: 2.4
Number of reviews: 868
CEO approval rating: 38% (Joseph Magnacca, since February)
Employees: 34,500
RadioShack (RSH) in February brought in its fourth chief executive in three years to try, yet again, to craft a strategy that will work for the beleaguered consumer electronics retailer.
CEO Joseph Magnacca aims to reposition the Fort Worth, Texas, chain's 4,400 company-owned stores as a source of fun and hip technology, not just a place to buy phone accessories, cables and batteries. His goal is to introduce RadioShack to a new generation of technology consumers.
Not all employees are on board with the vision articulated by Magnacca, a former Walgreen (WAG) merchandising and marketing executive.
"Radioshack constantly changes their focus because they are a struggling company," one employee wrote at Glassdoor. "Basically you'll be fighting real hard for one sales aspect and get told a month later that it doesn't matter anymore and that everyone is a failure."
Recent reviewers have pointed out that management is placing intense pressure on employees to sell mobile phones. An assistant manager noted that this results in employees like him "having to foist services onto customers that realistically would not benefit from them."
Some reviewers noted that district and regional managers come up with sales quotas that seem arbitrary. Another frequent complaint was that managers play favorites among associates and store managers. Still others complained about the strenuous and irregular hours that employees are required to put in.
Rating: 2.4
Number of reviews: 868
CEO approval rating: 38% (Joseph Magnacca, since February)
Employees: 34,500
RadioShack (RSH) in February brought in its fourth chief executive in three years to try, yet again, to craft a strategy that will work for the beleaguered consumer electronics retailer.
CEO Joseph Magnacca aims to reposition the Fort Worth, Texas, chain's 4,400 company-owned stores as a source of fun and hip technology, not just a place to buy phone accessories, cables and batteries. His goal is to introduce RadioShack to a new generation of technology consumers.
Not all employees are on board with the vision articulated by Magnacca, a former Walgreen (WAG) merchandising and marketing executive.
"Radioshack constantly changes their focus because they are a struggling company," one employee wrote at Glassdoor. "Basically you'll be fighting real hard for one sales aspect and get told a month later that it doesn't matter anymore and that everyone is a failure."
Recent reviewers have pointed out that management is placing intense pressure on employees to sell mobile phones. An assistant manager noted that this results in employees like him "having to foist services onto customers that realistically would not benefit from them."
Some reviewers noted that district and regional managers come up with sales quotas that seem arbitrary. Another frequent complaint was that managers play favorites among associates and store managers. Still others complained about the strenuous and irregular hours that employees are required to put in.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:54AM
No. 4: Dollar General
Rating: 2.4
Number of reviews: 375
CEO approval rating: 43% (Rick Dreiling)
Employees: 90,500
Dollar General (DG) calls itself the nation's "largest small-box retailer" with more than 10,000 stores.
Employees at the Goodlettsville, Tenn., company often complained at Glassdoor that they were unable to work the hours they desired, and that employer demands were unfairly limiting workers' free time. As one former company employee wrote, workers were "expected to have full availability, even out of season, meaning NO second jobs."
Some reviewers complained about theft of merchandise from the company's stores -- by employees and customers. One sales associate complained on Glassdoor that while it was apparent that thieves were targeting Dollar General stores, management attributed the bulk of the "shrink" to theft by employees.
Rating: 2.4
Number of reviews: 375
CEO approval rating: 43% (Rick Dreiling)
Employees: 90,500
Dollar General (DG) calls itself the nation's "largest small-box retailer" with more than 10,000 stores.
Employees at the Goodlettsville, Tenn., company often complained at Glassdoor that they were unable to work the hours they desired, and that employer demands were unfairly limiting workers' free time. As one former company employee wrote, workers were "expected to have full availability, even out of season, meaning NO second jobs."
Some reviewers complained about theft of merchandise from the company's stores -- by employees and customers. One sales associate complained on Glassdoor that while it was apparent that thieves were targeting Dollar General stores, management attributed the bulk of the "shrink" to theft by employees.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:55AM
No. 3: Dillard's
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 560
CEO approval rating: 23% (Bill Dillard II)
Employees: 27,740
Dillard's (DDS) has about 330 department stores in 29 states, often competing against the likes of Kohl's (KSS), Macy's (M), Target (TGT), Amazon.com (AMZN) and J.C. Penney (JCP).
Several executives and directors of the Little Rock, Ark., company are members of the founding Dillard family, and the discrepancy between the salaries paid to Dillards and the take-home pay for rank-and-file workers was a sore spot for some employees.
Others complained about sales-per-hour targets, which some found to be unreasonable. Such targets contributed to intense competition among co-workers, according to some employees writing at Glassdoor.
"Lower level employees are faceless numbers to many members of upper management and are treated like pawns in a chess game," one commenter wrote.
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 560
CEO approval rating: 23% (Bill Dillard II)
Employees: 27,740
Dillard's (DDS) has about 330 department stores in 29 states, often competing against the likes of Kohl's (KSS), Macy's (M), Target (TGT), Amazon.com (AMZN) and J.C. Penney (JCP).
Several executives and directors of the Little Rock, Ark., company are members of the founding Dillard family, and the discrepancy between the salaries paid to Dillards and the take-home pay for rank-and-file workers was a sore spot for some employees.
Others complained about sales-per-hour targets, which some found to be unreasonable. Such targets contributed to intense competition among co-workers, according to some employees writing at Glassdoor.
"Lower level employees are faceless numbers to many members of upper management and are treated like pawns in a chess game," one commenter wrote.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:55AM
No. 2: Express Scripts
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 312
CEO approval rating: 36% (George Paz)
Employees: 30,215
Express Scripts (ESRX) administers the prescription drug benefits for millions of health plan members in North America. With the acquisition of Medco Health Solutions last year, the company now fills more than 1.4 billion prescriptions annually. Since closing that deal, the St. Louis company has begun a major workforce consolidation.
Employees complained at Glassdoor about being pressured to reach key metrics and wrote that hitting the targets was more important to management than customer service or employee well-being.
One aggrieved employee wrote that the company gives "the appearance of (wanting) a work/life balance . . . but the truth is everyone is overworked."
Customer relations were roiled last year by a contract dispute that prompted Walgreen (WAG) to exit the Express Scripts Network, meaning that patients with Express Scripts plans could not get their prescriptions filled at any of the drugstore chain's stores.
In the most recent JD Power rating of online pharmacies, Express Scripts ranked fifth, behind Kaiser Permanente, Aetna Rx, Caremark, and Cigna Home Delivery, with Medco branded service even further down the list. Both Express Scripts and the Medco brand showed particular weaknesses in prescription delivery and customer service.
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 312
CEO approval rating: 36% (George Paz)
Employees: 30,215
Express Scripts (ESRX) administers the prescription drug benefits for millions of health plan members in North America. With the acquisition of Medco Health Solutions last year, the company now fills more than 1.4 billion prescriptions annually. Since closing that deal, the St. Louis company has begun a major workforce consolidation.
Employees complained at Glassdoor about being pressured to reach key metrics and wrote that hitting the targets was more important to management than customer service or employee well-being.
One aggrieved employee wrote that the company gives "the appearance of (wanting) a work/life balance . . . but the truth is everyone is overworked."
Customer relations were roiled last year by a contract dispute that prompted Walgreen (WAG) to exit the Express Scripts Network, meaning that patients with Express Scripts plans could not get their prescriptions filled at any of the drugstore chain's stores.
In the most recent JD Power rating of online pharmacies, Express Scripts ranked fifth, behind Kaiser Permanente, Aetna Rx, Caremark, and Cigna Home Delivery, with Medco branded service even further down the list. Both Express Scripts and the Medco brand showed particular weaknesses in prescription delivery and customer service.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:56AM
No. 1: Dish Network
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 831
CEO approval rating: 40% (Joseph Clayton)
Employees: 35,000
Dish Network (DISH) tops the list for the second year in a row.
In reviews at Glassdoor, employees regularly complained about inadequate pay for difficult work in unpleasant conditions. Many writers also complained about a paucity of benefits.
"The benefits are pitiful and the salaries are not current with industry -- I should know, as I work in a (department) that sees the salaries," one company manager wrote on Glassdoor.
The Englewood, Colo., company also has appeared near the bottom of recent customer-satisfaction surveys.
Management is inconsiderate to employees, customers and shareholders, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, which recently called Dish Network the "meanest company in America" and identified co-founder and current Chairman Charlie Ergen as the primary culprit.
Rating: 2.3
Number of reviews: 831
CEO approval rating: 40% (Joseph Clayton)
Employees: 35,000
Dish Network (DISH) tops the list for the second year in a row.
In reviews at Glassdoor, employees regularly complained about inadequate pay for difficult work in unpleasant conditions. Many writers also complained about a paucity of benefits.
"The benefits are pitiful and the salaries are not current with industry -- I should know, as I work in a (department) that sees the salaries," one company manager wrote on Glassdoor.
The Englewood, Colo., company also has appeared near the bottom of recent customer-satisfaction surveys.
Management is inconsiderate to employees, customers and shareholders, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, which recently called Dish Network the "meanest company in America" and identified co-founder and current Chairman Charlie Ergen as the primary culprit.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
The Boss
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Date: July 30, 2013 04:56AM
Go to 24/7 Wall St. to see four more companies and read the complete report.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/19/americas-worst-companies-to-work-for-2/
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/07/19/americas-worst-companies-to-work-for-2/
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Shac Cooper
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Date: September 10, 2013 01:00PM
Anonymously rate your current and former supervisors. Simply search takethisjoborshoveit.com for your company's profile page, and then click "Add Your Supervisor/Coworker," and then review them. This is the best company review site because the reviews are company specific and the users can add any of their current or former supervisors to the page in order to review. This paint a more accurate picture of the company's work environment.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Bailout of America
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Date: September 10, 2013 01:06PM
The worst company in America, the Bank of America (and, for a bit longer, the preferred bank of Fairfax County) is on the list as well.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Tough One
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Date: September 10, 2013 01:15PM
Bailout of America Wrote:
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> The worst company in America, the Bank of America
> (and, for a bit longer, the preferred bank of
> Fairfax County) is on the list as well.
Bank of America does suck. Interesting how if you have even just one account with them, you get loads of phone calls from "affiliates" of this company, for every type of service under the sun.
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> The worst company in America, the Bank of America
> (and, for a bit longer, the preferred bank of
> Fairfax County) is on the list as well.
Bank of America does suck. Interesting how if you have even just one account with them, you get loads of phone calls from "affiliates" of this company, for every type of service under the sun.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
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Add Ocwen to the List
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Date: September 10, 2013 01:18PM
Ocwen has that sort of thing with insurance companies. And, some of the insurance companies assume you want the insurance if you don't send a negative reply. The Virginia Insurance Commission has had words with both Ocwen and Intersections Insurance (in Chantilly) about this.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
kasjdlkjdlkjdlkajsdsd
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Date: September 10, 2013 01:40PM
What a horribly formatted article- what ever happened to just providing a 'list' versuse a non-intuitive sideways scrolling slide show of spam?!
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Chicken Out
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Date: September 11, 2013 12:48PM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Because they will soon be out of operation.
Because they will soon be out of operation.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Gordoski
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Date: September 11, 2013 01:54PM
Mine because they bother you about health problems
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
TPS
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Date: September 11, 2013 02:30PM
MWAA
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Tray von Martin
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Date: September 11, 2013 05:41PM
Tough One Wrote:
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> Bailout of America Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The worst company in America, the Bank of
> America
> > (and, for a bit longer, the preferred bank of
> > Fairfax County) is on the list as well.
>
>
> Bank of America does suck. Interesting how if you
> have even just one account with them, you get
> loads of phone calls from "affiliates" of this
> company, for every type of service under the sun.
You need to get on a do not call list or something. I've had a credit card with them for over 25 years and have never been harassed by them. Log on to their website and see if you can administer your marketing settings.
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> Bailout of America Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The worst company in America, the Bank of
> America
> > (and, for a bit longer, the preferred bank of
> > Fairfax County) is on the list as well.
>
>
> Bank of America does suck. Interesting how if you
> have even just one account with them, you get
> loads of phone calls from "affiliates" of this
> company, for every type of service under the sun.
You need to get on a do not call list or something. I've had a credit card with them for over 25 years and have never been harassed by them. Log on to their website and see if you can administer your marketing settings.
Re: 5 worst companies to work for in America
Posted by:
Tray von Martin
()
Date: September 11, 2013 05:43PM
kasjdlkjdlkjdlkajsdsd Wrote:
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> What a horribly formatted article- what ever
> happened to just providing a 'list' versuse a
> non-intuitive sideways scrolling slide show of
> spam?!
That's the way a lot of websites are doing it these days. It gives them more page views (important for Nielsen and other ratings) and more opportunities to serve up ads (important for delivering on inventory).
I'm not defending it--I hate it too--just explaining why they do it.
And MSN Money is probably one of the worst offenders.
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> What a horribly formatted article- what ever
> happened to just providing a 'list' versuse a
> non-intuitive sideways scrolling slide show of
> spam?!
That's the way a lot of websites are doing it these days. It gives them more page views (important for Nielsen and other ratings) and more opportunities to serve up ads (important for delivering on inventory).
I'm not defending it--I hate it too--just explaining why they do it.
And MSN Money is probably one of the worst offenders.