Appalling lack of ethics .. run away - Corporate Auditor Colgate-Palmolive Employee Review

2.0
1 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Market pay and decent benefits (especially dental) Can purchase discounted products

Cons

- fake reviews (see multiple one or two liners) - promotions are only done through politics. The system creates a network of untalented people helping each other land big roles they are unqualified for - strong leaders and good people have left in droves during the pandemic (huge red flag) - if management doesn’t like you can fire you without reason (or making up reasons). Legal and ethics teams will support these poor decisions regardless of how clear the facts are - tons of restructuring and movements over the last ten years, workforce is skeletal and therefore people have to absorb enormous workloads - too much focus on cost savings and chasing pennies and not on innovation - due to restructuring over last ten years hundreds losing their jobs everyone is worried about themselves and refuse to adopt a team mindset or culture to care about others (especially managers) as fellow human beings - gaslighting managers that convince the employee they are wrong if issues are raised -managers that don’t understand enough to understand they don’t know anything - mgmt has strong culture of finding someone to blame when things go wrong instead of taking responsibility - dead end job, no career development, 90% of people leave the company - managers bully low performing employees (rather than coaching them) to distract from their own incompetence

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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