Employees Beware - Anonymous employee First State Orthopaedics Employee Review

1) There is no human resources department and the folks charged with the HR duties are secretaries without degrees in HR administration and therefore make numerous errors/blunders in their attempts to perform a function that they are not, nor should be competent in. 2) There is barley any personal space for your belongings, in fact if you need to leave your personal belongings somewhere, e.g. in a locker, the locker is shared with another staff member and there are no locks or locking mechanisms on said lockers. 3) Until recently, timesheets were done on paper with pencil and turned in on a weekly basis to the "assistant" to the supervisor who calculated the hours and then they would be approved by the supervisor whom submitted the hours to the accountant. Along with that, the vacation hours and sick time were tracked by the supervisor in a personal notebook (also paper and pencil, can we say "the land before time"?) where subtraction of hours used for sick/vacation time was kept and submitted to the accountant for the tracking on the paychecks. Fortunately a "new" system has been adopted and time is now tracked on the computer system, but it is still entered manually by individual employees, time in, time out for lunch, time in from lunch, you get the picture. There is no 'clock-in" procedure either by badge or automated system via logging into the computer. 4) Although there is no HR Department, fortunately, an employee handbook for policy and procedure was drafted, however, the handbook might as well be tossed into the shredder, or fire, take your pick. In contrast to any major corporation that uses a handbook as the governing law of their management of employees and practices per se, this company doesn't seem to see the black and white purpose of a handbook and instead picks and chooses which days of the week or months of the year the policies and procedures that are written apply and when they do not, or when they should be otherwise interpreted into gray areas. 5) Seniority rules. One could be the most brialliant mind this company has seen in 15 years and see things from a new perspective with fresh ideas derived from a well-rounded background of previous professional experience however because he or she is new to the company if one were to suggest the possibility of a different workflow, possibly more efficient, not at all cost prohibitive, in fact likely money saving, that suggestion would be dismissed due to one's lack of time/seniority within the company. It is very much looked down upon to make suggestions, or give ideas to anyone in a "higher" position. There is a definite hierarchy in this company and it is defined by seniority, not necessarily by professional experience or innovative concepts and ideas, those folks need not apply. I could list other cons, but I believe my point has been made.